Name that kitten

[Heidilady]

A kitty followed me home last night and he's obviously just some kitten who's been weaned from his stray mama. I'm checking lose/found ads just in case. My family caved when I begged cuz he was so scrawny and mewing all night on the porch so he's got food and a blanket outside. If he stays around (we confirmed gender this morning) we'll get shots and neutering done and I think he will cuz all he does is purr and sit on my feet. He's orange, has white socks (notice I don't say legs cuz I've got horses on the brain lol) and a white tummy, neck and chin. Blue eyes too and I think he's past the point of them turning green or brown.

Anyways I'm emotionally attached now cuz I'm a great big sap and I was hoping to give a name that works for a normal cat but is horsey in nature like it's horse related or is a racehorse's name that I'd appreciate but nobody else would think was weird cuz it sounds ok for a cat...that kind of thing. Any suggestions? (Smarty Jones is cute for a horse but sounds silly when you explain you named your cat Smarty). I'm thinking when I get a barn built he can be my first barn kitty.

[summerhorse]

Sounds more like he's LUCKY...

[Bondama]

The barn cat in the Black Stallion book was named Grimalkin, I believe. And if it isn't Black Stallion, it's some other horse book! There was a companion pony named Merrylegs, too, if that helps to identify the right one.

In any event, my hat is off to you for taking him in. I rescued a baby male tabby downtown one morning. He was out back of my office in an alley, under a trash can, in the rain <insert violin music here>, crying pitifully. He was so small, he had to be bottle fed for a few weeks - when we weaned him from that, he used any available earlobe as a pacifier. Now, 4 years later, he's a gigantic monster who still loves to be held like a baby and will still nurse an earlobe if allowed! Oh....we named him Tiger.

Blessings,

[Nancy T]

I think the book was King of The Wind

[Roguelet]

There was a Merrylegs in Black Beauty...

[Sam]

Any suggestions? (Smarty Jones is cute for a horse but sounds silly when you explain you named your cat Smarty). I'm thinking when I get a barn built he can be my first barn kitty.

You could just call him "Jones" or "Jonesey" ... which was the name of the cat in the Alien movies

Call him "Tat"... short for Taterdemalion which means a "ragged or unkept person, especially a child."

[BJ]

A kitty followed me home last night and he's obviously just some kitten who's been weaned from his stray mama. I'm checking lose/found ads just in case. My family caved when I begged cuz he was so scrawny and mewing all night on the porch so he's got food and a blanket outside. If he stays around (we confirmed gender this morning) we'll get shots and neutering done and I think he will cuz all he does is purr and sit on my feet. He's orange, has white socks (notice I don't say legs cuz I've got horses on the brain lol) and a white tummy, neck and chin. Blue eyes too and I think he's past the point of them turning green or brown.

Anyways I'm emotionally attached now cuz I'm a great big sap and I was hoping to give a name that works for a normal cat but is horsey in nature like it's horse related or is a racehorse's name that I'd appreciate but nobody else would think was weird cuz it sounds ok for a cat...that kind of thing. Any suggestions? (Smarty Jones is cute for a horse but sounds silly when you explain you named your cat Smarty). I'm thinking when I get a barn built he can be my first barn kitty.

Orange Tabby's are old souls! Fortunate for both cat and human

[madelyn]

Hmmm orange and blue? GATOR COLORS! How about Gator? There was a pretty good horse named Green Alligator.....

[Pan Zareta]

Grimalkin was also the name of The Godolphin's cat - the cat that's in the barn door in the painting done from life by Morier.

[Heidilady]

Hmmm orange and blue? GATOR COLORS! How about Gator? There was a pretty good horse named Green Alligator.....

Haha I have a relative going to Miami so if I named it Gator they'd hurt me. Oh and I feel slightly ashamed but apparently what I saw this morning was an illusion and it appears that it's now a girl. Either I have a very strange cat or I just can't properly examine feline genitalia and hey, no shame in that.

My mom wanted to think of a Harry Potter name but figured we didn't wanna name it after someone who might die in Book 7 and obviously kitty can't wait til next year or so for a name. So I guess Hermione's out plus my dad figures it's too hard to explain spelling and pronunciation to people who aren't familiar.

Azeri's a tad too unusual and doesn't fit "her" or I'd do that.

[tammysinnett]

Storm Cat is the name of a Daddy of many race horses.....he has so many children,grandchildren with the name of cat.. maybe one of those would interest you???Sure I have many people thinking right now ...Bluegrass Cat, Notable Cat, Awesome Cat, etc......

[clh]

Can't think of a purrfect name yet, but we used to have a cat named Ozzie (not after Osborne but after Ozzie Newsome of the Cleveland Browns) and we have dog named Kosar (yep, after Bernie Kosar - my husband's a freak). Anyhow, back to the present, we have a black cat that adopted us and since we didn't want to get attached (yeh right) we named him BC (folks first thought it was for black cat but it is for Barn Cat). Anyhow, got a yellow tiger that started hanging around and we started calling him OC (no, not for orange cat but for Other Cat). OC left but BC still rules the barn and sleeps with the mares. Good luck. Tough to name them something that will follow them forever - kinda like naming your real-life kids.....

[Lei Owen]

Since she's orange and I like orange marmalade, name her Marmalade.

I have no imagination when it come's to names. I have two Siamese-Manx girl's. Kitty and KittyKitty. A seal point Siamese who goes by the name of Flynn cause that was the name on the carrier I took him to the vet in. So the vet tech named him Flynn. A gray kitten with white and pink on her, Booger. Cause she's a little booger.

[geowarrior]

I got my cat as a kitten and she was very very small. I called her Toty (spoken toe tay phonetically). It's a Scottish dialect word meaning very small. Unfortunately she grew big and the name didn't fit.

I was on a site - I think it was Bris.com, and they have biographies of famous horses. One of those horses was Roamer - a colorful history he had, and a very good horse, and apparently they used to have a stakes named after him, but now they don't because it's probably called the Yum Yum Brand chocopops stakes or the Hewlett Packard Really Realistic PhotoPrinter handicap. So it would be nice to call your cat Roamer to remember a great horse, and because that is how you found him, roaming.

[BJ]

Since she's orange and I like orange marmalade, name her Marmalade.

I have no imagination when it come's to names. I have two Siamese-Manx girl's. Kitty and KittyKitty. A seal point Siamese who goes by the name of Flynn cause that was the name on the carrier I took him to the vet in. So the vet tech named him Flynn. A gray kitten with white and pink on her, Booger. Cause she's a little booger.

I'll bet the animal psychiatry bills in your house are ENORMOUS