My cat needs a new name.

[hickman1937]

My daughter brought him home 3 years ago and said his name was Crazy. He doesn't respond to that name, I don't think he likes it. When I call him baby he stops for a minute, then runs off. I think he knows his name, we just haven't guessed it yet. He's coal black, no other color on him, with amber eyes. I'm open to suggestions.

[Crazy Guggenheim]

1. How about Mr. Whiskers? Fluffy?

[hickman1937]

5. I don't think so.

He's sweet but not silly.

[lostpuppy]

2. How about Bowling ball...lol.

[Crazy Guggenheim]

3. Welcome to DU.

[amitten]

4. Twipkins.

Twipkins.

[hickman1937]

7. Nope.

Sorry. Did I mention that he's got a wierd sense of humor? Loves to curl up in dark corners of the house, then just touch you when you go by. Scared shit out of me more than once.

[amitten]

8. Pipkins.

Pipkins.

[radfringe]

17. then how about

BOO?

[wackadoo wabbit]

18. Bete Noire

A black cat that does stuff like this is definitely a Bete Noire.

[hickman1937]

26. Nope, I really like this cat. Thanks anyway. n/t

[wackadoo wabbit]

40. I didn't mean that negatively

Although I know that the term "bete noire" idiomatically means something (or someone) that's disliked, literally it just means "black beast."

The old comic strip Gordo had this mischievous black kitten named Bete Noire, and I always thought it was a great name for a playful sprite of a black cat.

I certainly didn't mean to imply that you don't like your cat!

[MrScorpio]

44. Zhambonee?

Squeeze play?

(Hey, I had a puppy named "Bunt" once. So sue me)

[Crazy Guggenheim]

6. Precious.

[hickman1937]

9. I just yelled "hey Precious, come on Precious",

nope. Thanks anyway.

[Crazy Guggenheim]

10. Foo Foo?

[hickman1937]

12. I refuse to even try that one.

If his name is FooFoo he'd better keep it to himself, or I'll start using colloquialisms like "swing a cat" in front of him.

[amitten]

11. Nip...kins.

Nipkins.

[Jamastiene]

13. Yoshi

In honor of a littermate of two of my cats. The mother was a stray. She had only one eye so we called her "Willie". She had the litter right before she died. There were 4 in the litter. One disappeared. One was named Yoshi. Yogi and Domino were into everything, so the mother cat would drop them off with my aunt and me while she rested. One day she died, and the next day Yoshi was killed, so we took Yogi and Domino in to live inside and to protect them.

[hickman1937]

14. How sad. I like the name though.

I'll try it on him tomorrow. He's stomped of for the night. Got pissed when I called tried to call him Precious.

[Rhiannon12866]

15. I've had two black cats, but they were both female.

Sometimes you just have to keep on trying until you hit von the right name. My dog is Sara, and was found as a stray in Ohio. She escaped a death sentence by being transported, with 19 other dogs, via the underground railroad, to rescue organizations in NY and Vt., where we have tougher animal protection laws. My Sara had been scheduled to be gassed...;(

And the name on her paperwork said "Cindy," but that was obviously not her name, since she didn't pay the least bit of attention to it. So I just kept trying names until I hit on "Sara," another Stevie Nicks song, like the name of my remarkable cat, Rhiannon. And, as soon as I called "Sara!" she ran across the room, jumped up into my lap and licked my face. So I found her real name, one that she responds to, and you will too if you just keep trying...:D

[hickman1937]

23. Of course. See Rhia, they know their names,

I'm hitting and missing here. He will respond to Crazy but only when he's hungry. I really need to find his name.
edit for I forgot a word

[snooper2]

16. how about scrappy?

NT

[hickman1937]

25. Thanks snoop, but he's not.

He's shy and gentle. The only time he's scrappy is when another cat tries to bully him. Then he's always turned into a screaming demon. The bully died and he's left with the Original Cat. Old cranky, and lonely since his brother died. Little guy only makes OC bleed when the jerk gets too cranky and attacks him.

[Tallison]

19. Would any of these fit?

Nathan
Ya-ya (after the live Stones album :thumbsup:)
Bob
Cosmo
Beast
Hoover
Angus
Yogi
Archibald
Awol
Cupcake x(
Bacardi;)
Wallis
Balthazar
Hamster
Starbuck
Hugo
Darius
Spartacus
Beansy
Dudley
Huck
Ziggy
Bruiser
Dexter
Sullivan
Uno
Herb
Ben
Zack :thumbsup:
Hodge
Moose
Bruce
Dooey
Tabasco
Winston
Drik
Blobcat
Dempsey
Spider
Bruce
Zazou
Darius
Woody
Bruno
Yogi
Bubba
Earl
Gavin
Dupka (Czech for "rear")
Flapjack
Gilbert
Spanky
Ralph
Taz
Dumpk
Zorro
Camus
Doughnut
Oreo/Hydrox (if he were black/white)
Victor
Fez
Crisco
Deuce
Hank
Rocky
Splash
Fuji
Chubbs
Elvis
Claude
Squiggy
Gadget
Seymore
Walt
Tonka
Garrison
Pancho
Rover
Fracas
Dumpkin
Roscoe
Coppertone
Wookie
Elliot
Gizmo
Flea
Duncan
Sushi
Cricket
Hannibal
Gilligan
Skunk
Wigwam
Crockett
Swizel
Tippy
Bogart
Hector

[hickman1937]

27. I'm laughing my ass off.

Thank you for your efforts. Kind of like Angus and Earl, but he doesn't.

[KitchenWitch]

20. Boo Radley

[Throckmorton]

21. Andrew,

Thats what my son named my all black cat.

I like him to most, not nearly as much of a love pig as his brother Bob.

[hickman1937]

29. What the hell is a love pig?

I think I know, but please enlighten me.:rofl: :popcorn:

[AtomicKitten]

22. Trigger.

[ZombieNixon]

24. Call him "Yoda."

My cat's named Yoda, and I must do all I can to help him in his quest for world domination. The day will come when all cats are named Yoda and George Lucas will bow before my cat!

[Patiod]

46. Our friends' Alpha Cat is named Yoda.

He's grey, with chewed-up ears (he used to be a city feral). He greets all visitors, even at noisy parties, and goes for head-scratches, and then will bite whatever hand pets him.

He often sits on the counter, surveying the party, and looking old and wise (while the other cats scurry around or hide). Absolutely perfect name for this cat.

[ZombieNixon]

59. That is so close to my Yoda!

Grey tabby, chunk taken out of one ear, used to be a desert feral (my parents live in a rural area). Very friendly, goes for pets, will then grab the hand and bite it good-naturedly. He's not the alpha, though. Our old, crochety female is the alpha.

[CC]

28. Try Coal or

We had a black show up and it only answered to Coal. We also had blacks named Midnight (we were little). Lowrider and Tanther. Tanther came from the stripes that were there in bright sunlight though he was all black.

[miss_kitty]

30. jeff

that might work.

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

31. Ulthar - in keeping with the Halloween season

for any H.P. Lovecraft fans out there.

[obxhead]

32. Onyx

[Fridays Child]

33. If you get a response from "baby," try other names with...

...a long "A," followed by a long "E" or ending in "Y." Dogs and cats tend to respond to the vowel sounds in names. He may be insulted by "Crazy," though, because cats are smart.

Davy
Gabie
Bailey

[hickman1937]

34. I'm thinking of trying Stevie.

He likes the hissing sounds, but he also comes when I do the tic tic tic sound. We'll see. He's still pissed that I tried to call him Precious. Only comes out at feeding times.

[Kenneth ken]

45. Sisyphus

since he likes hissing sounds.

[Patiod]

47. Or Ticktock

Since he comes to the tic tic sound

[Buddyblazon]

35. My cat, Coltrane, his dearly deceased grandfather was....

all black. He was named Panther. The absolutely coolest cat. The cat that all the others would follow around. He was a great grandpa to all the kittens. The would just follow him around the house. And he never once swatted at them.

He was one of those great animals. Gentle. Friendly. Well disciplined.

[Shine]

36. How about "Onyx"?

It just came to me...I had a good feeling about it.
Whadya think?

[NoSheep]

37. Flip Flop or Puddy-kins.

:+

[Dover]

38. Felix

Cole

Munk

[GoddessOfGuinness]

39. Grady

No reason. Just popped into my head.

[Dover]

41. Guido

Hamlet

Gobi

Zane

[fleabert]

42. tinker...

grew up with a cat named Tinker (named tinkerbell by my then 5 year old aunt when she got him, she thought he was a girl for about a week)

your cat sounds a lot like tinker. I held Tink in my arms the day we let him go, my aunt couldn't bear the loss. He was an extremely special cat, really special and funny.

other cats in my life have been named

Polo
Ralph
Patrick
Lauren
BB
Oliver
Sylvester
Buddy
Boo
Cracker
Cotton
LBK (little black kitty)
Squeak
Olivia
Irie
Audrey

[Dover]

43. I KNOW!...............How about FITZ ?

Any resemblance?




Demmy

Harper

Ozzie

Iggy

[MissMillie]

48. How about Gilligan?

You could always call him "little buddy"

[wildhorses]

49. I am thinking that his name might be

Shadow

[Kire]

50. Raisin

My cat "raced in" to my garage this morning, and it was sunny, and she is kind of purple and I thought that "Raisin" would be a good name for her if she didn't already have one. How about that?

[toey]

51. i'm gonna go with the obvious here...

toey!

[Tikki]

52. His name is Marshall.....affectionately known as...

...Mars.



Tikki

[ThingsGottaChange]

53. In honor of my beloved black cat

that passed many years ago.

Bosco. Also in honor of the chocolate syrup!

[ThatsMyBarack]

54. Lido

I think Lido is a cool name for a cat (after the song "Lido Shuffle" by Boz Skaggs). :hi:

[Kashka-Kat]

55. Pyewacket

Love those classic cat names. Besides Pye (black) I had a Grimalkin (all gray), and now a Kashka (calico)

MIDNIGHT is the classic black cat name of course.

[NV Whino]

56. I have a black cat I named Boston

But you have to be of a certain age to pick up the reference.

[Rob H.]

61. Hey! We had a cat named Boston when I was a kid

After Boston Blackie, of course. ;)

"Enemy to those who make him an enemy. Friend to those who have no friend."

[NV Whino]

63. You got it in one!

[Rob H.]

66. Yay! What do I win?

Nothing? Oh, well. I still got it! :woohoo:

;)

[NV Whino]

68. A virtual black cat?

Boston at his best.

[Rob H.]

69. Great photo

One of my parents' cats does almost exactly the same thing. She likes to curl up near (well, mostly on) all the computer equipment in my dad's home office to keep warm--and to hang out with him and keep an eye on what he's workin' on.

[Blue-Jay]

57. How about "Dave"?

Dave the cat. Say it aloud. Sounds good, eh?

[Mizmoon]

58. Ozone

are you hippy enough for that name?

[dback]

60. When in doubt, go to Shakespeare or the Bible

Tons of great names in both.

The first ones I thought of were Ezekial--or Zeke--and Laertes.

[Shakespeare]

65. Shakespeare says "Jinx" is a great name for a black cat.

So sayeth Shakespeare. :P

[Robert Cooper]

77. and whenever you see it you say "Hi Jinx" ;-)

[Kashka-Kat]

62. Skeezix

One of the alternate names for my cat-- a cat has many, many names you know. Never just one.

[ThingsGottaChange]

64. For some reason

my cats' names always end with -butt! Stink-butt, lazy-butt, trouble-butt, Touky-butt and Mica-butt. :shrug:

[Lilith Velkor]

67. Slim Shady

If you peruse the works of Eminem, you will also find many things that rhyme with Crazy and Baby.

Don't call him Cheney, though, that's fucked up.

[nashbridges]

70. How about Pullus?

It's a latin word that means "dark colored" but it also means "young animal."

[schmuls]

71. My pick is...

Spooky

[Metta]

72. Is there anything he does respond to?

That would be a starting point for me.

[Lethe]

73. Bitsey ?

?

[Divameow77]

74. My black cat "Joey"

doesn't know his name either. My son named him that and won't let me change it.

[SOteric]

75. Try Shadow.

[Tony_Illinois]

76. Clarence Thomas

--black with yellow eyes, right?

[Sanity Claws]

78. Please pick a name and tell us what it is

There are so many to choose from here. The waiting is too much for me. Please, please pick a name and tell us it.

[DS1]

79. Buddy - close to baby - could be it

[Taverner]

80. How about 'Noir'?