Here are some ‘peculiar cat names’. Well, I’ve called them peculiar but perhaps they are not. They are just different and imaginative; non-standard, and I am thankful for it. It’s what you expect from the cat caregivers who created them. Mark Twain is a classic. He loved cats and was great with words. TS Elliot, …
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The choice of “Archie” is interesting because it involves a cat. Before Meghan Markle became world famous after marrying Prince Harry she had a cat in America whose name was Archie and she named her cat after a well-known comic called, you guessed it, Archie
It is interesting to dip into the medieval world (500-1500 AD) and see how they interacted with their domestic cats. We have an image, or I do, of domestic cat persecution because of the papal bull of Pope Gregory IX which denounced them as the devil personified. Many domestic cats were brutally killed for no …
Rover.com are able to draw upon millions of user-submitted pet names over the past 10 years to tell us about the most popular cat and dog names of 2022. And it appears that people often take inspiration from popular films to find a good name for their cat or dog. When a person adopts a …
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Pamela Merritt in her book The Way of Cats would agree with Mark Twain in how to name your cat companion. She says that the naming of your cat is an important decision because it has a lifetime influence on the relationship. Cats need something special and cat owners should show imagination partly because they …
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The question is really asking whether your cat will recognise his name if you change it. You are naturally concerned that your cat has got used to his name, perhaps given to him by a cat rescue centre or a previous owner, and if you change it he won’t respond to his new name. Two …
Judging by research carried out by pet insurers Animal Friends (a UK company it seems) cat owners tend to choose conventional and unadventurous names for their cats. Here is the top 20 list: A lot of the names double up as human names. Perhaps all of them do. Although there must be a pile of …
