1) Cats are con artists - they sucker most people into attending their needs. Some of us have more sense "see the door? It's all yours. Call if you are going to be late"

2) there's a reason cats are equated with woman (get your mind out of the gutter!) It's always a case of "I'm following you ahead of you" . Plus, they both love to pay with things before they kill them.

And I hate naming critters after TV/movies - that's for computers (my Office mac, for instance, is Slappy)

If you want to go with "famous" people, how about Moon Unit and Zoe Bowie Dweezle?

Dweezil is male, though, and these are both female.

CJSF

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Birds and bee's? What that got to to with cats and people?

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I had two kittens when I was a kid. I promptly named them "Whackjob" and "Suckerpunch", much to my parents chagrin. Whackjob would chase and attack anything, even the reflection on wall from something shiney, and would even slam headfirst into the wall so his "prey" wouldn't be able to escape. Suckerpunch like to ambush. He'd sit on your lap, being petted, purring the whole time... and the very second you weren't paying attention, you'd catch a batting in the face or worse. They didn't slow down as they got older... just more and more psychotic. I loved it! Then my parents had the cats neutered. Being a kid, I thought the original cats had died and my parents had tried to replace them. They weren't the same. They were CALM. There were no fun anymore.

Akbar & Jeff. Great characters. I think they were moles, and each wore a fez. They were the entreprenuerial team from the comic strip Life in Hell.

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I agree with calling cats by their personalities. My first cat ended up being named "Pc" (For pussy cat) after many name changes (and much to my embaressment, after a visit to the vet to get her/him spayed) a sex change.

When we got a second cat I wanted to call it "Upgrade" (I thought it worked well with the "Pc" bit) and the missus wanted to call it "Fluffy"

However when the cat arrived it chewed on everything in its new home so we both agreed on Gnasher (For non-brits Gnasher was a cartoon dog in every childs fav comic "The Beano")

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Been there. My wife got a kitten from the pound and named him Oliver because he was kind of olive-colored.

After a visit to the vet, the name was changed to Olive because she was kind of olive-colored.

I wonder what the people at the pound thought they saw that made them identify the kitten as a boy?

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I was under the impression that sexing kittens was rather difficult for the first few months. Does anyone know if that's true?

We named our cat when she was a kitten, but she got her OTHER names based on her personality.

So she is now Lucy Amber Cleopatra - we only chose the first one ahead of time.

CJSF

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by They Might Be Giants

How about v2.0 or Beta? Or you could do like MS and the automakers do, and just name it by the year. "Here, Cat2007, come here Cat2007, dinner time"

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That's my understanding, yes. Certainly I've had difficulties at it in the past.

We had a kitten named "Velvet" once. We'd been at a friend's house getting some sewing done, and the mother cat felt she was not having her, you know, giving birth given sufficient attention, so she gave birth on the fabric one of my other friends was cutting. That got her attention real fast.

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"You can't erase icing."

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Yup. It was indeed. We're pretty sure Zoe and Kaylee are female (at least they were two we were pretty sure about), but...

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aw, so what if Dweezle (the human) is male? The name itself is not gender indicative as .. say.. Lucy.

Oh, another thing one should NEVER do is re-use a name. So for me, names like "Sir Edmund Hillary", "Mike Nelson" (a she, but she didn't mind the name), "Katzenjammer", "Missy", "Gremlin" (BEFORE the stupid movie, thank you very much), "Satan", "Spooky", "Squirrel", and "Boofah" are all scratched off the "what shall we name this thing" list.

I've done it, rather shamelessly, too. No fewer than four times. Yup, my first four cats were named Tinker, Tinker, Tinker, and Tinker. I'm pretty sure only the first was a Tom. The others were all female.

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I can only imagine the difficulties inherent in sexing a kitten, or any other small animal.

But while I wouldn't have been surprised at all by a "what we thought was a female turned out to be male," I was surprised by the "what we thought was a male turned out to be female."

If they sexed it as "male," they saw (or thought they saw) it, right? And since she was actually female, it wasn't there, right? Or do female kittens (maybe animals in general) have something there that can look like it?

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AAAAAHHHHHHHH! My ears! Stop! Don't say that word again!!!!

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You'd think, wouldn't you? But it (sorry Don) is so small when they're kittens they sort of look alike unless you're really paying attention. Particularly when buried in fur.

It's also quite possible, unless you're very methodical, to mistake two very similar kittens in the litter (they do move around a lot) and end up sexing the same kitten twice. I can't say for 100% certain this didn't happen with Kaylee amid the chaos on saturday. (We're certain about Zoë, her coat being utterly unique in both litters.)

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OOOOOHHHHHHHHH! OOOOOOOWWWWWWW! Now you've said it too! AAAAHHHHHHHH! Now I've said it! EEEEEEEEEEEEKKKKKKK!

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Name one Kit and the other Kaboodle.

*I tried this suggestion on my sister a few years ago. She did use Kaboodle, but didn't go for Kit. Go figure.

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Speaking of which (or should it be witch), how about Zoot and Dingo?

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