Also known as Boots.
It doesn’t take many people to have conflict as to what to call a cat. There were two votes for Shadow, a neato-cool name for a mostly black cat, one for Boots in the tradition of naming cats for their different-colored paws, and two parental abstentions. The first time this type of conflict came around, there were sufficient kittens to take up both Brand X and Mitten as names. This time there was only one kitten.
We’re not a middle-name sort of family.
Only one name per mammal, please.
And there was only one. What it was depended on who was talking. I don’t think the cat ever cared.
It doesn’t take many people to have conflict as to what to call a cat. There were two votes for Shadow, a neato-cool name for a mostly black cat, one for Boots in the tradition of naming cats for their different-colored paws, and two parental abstentions. The first time this type of conflict came around, there were sufficient kittens to take up both Brand X and Mitten as names. This time there was only one kitten.
We’re not a middle-name sort of family.
Only one name per mammal, please.
And there was only one. What it was depended on who was talking. I don’t think the cat ever cared.
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And thus, Cat of the Month comes to the end of the San Diego Cats. Next month there will be a change of everything. A move from the sunny California coast to the frozen flatlands of Minnesota. Not a cat was left, every one having disappeared forever into the chaparral or succombed to illness. A new start, new schools, new friends, new pets are on the horizon.
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2 comments:
The name game is great fun Nancy. Our one and only cat, Lindsay's predecessor, was named Punky Buster after a TV show that was popular at the time.
Naming cats is important. Sometimes I go for personality (Natalie, Walter), sometimes for fun (Pandemonium, Yersinia), sometimes a name is thrust upon us (Bunny). Only once have I changed one (Bing to Man-O-War, but you could tell he remained a Bing at heart).
Punky Buster is a good one.
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