Name my cat
Today I've adopted a new cat - PJM and I picked him up from the local sanctuary this morning.

He's a lovely cat, very large and very vocal. Sadly he's very, very thin and had been abandoned before finding his way to the sanctuary. The staff had called him Jimmy but it doesn't really suit him but at the moment we can't seem to come up with any really good names.

We've been through

Arthur
Errol
Oscar
Ian
Brian
Eric
Stephen
Albert
Malcolm

And each one has been rejected for various reasons.

So suggest a name for this cat please.

I'll post a pic here once he smells a bit sweeter - he's very bedraggled and dirty - he'd only been at the sanctuary for a day or so.

Added bonus points for names with literary references!
( chickenlady b3ta's very own Elizabeth Taylor, Sat 11 Oct 2008, 17:20, 36 replies, latest was 16 years ago)

Well...
Dexter for a nice kitty name, or Shrodinger.
Or Mungojerrie.
Or Rumpleteazer.
( Madam Marlboro wonders if you've found her yet, Sat 11 Oct 2008, 17:27, Reply)

Well
Scribbles is a good cat name
(Fredz A graveyard of hopes, a dump of ambition, Sat 11 Oct 2008, 17:33, Reply)

PJM has just suggested
Jacques Tatti

As he is a bit.
( chickenlady b3ta's very own Elizabeth Taylor, Sat 11 Oct 2008, 17:36, Reply)

My cat when I was little
was called Eric.

I loved her very much.
( Mrs Entity is in hiding., Sat 11 Oct 2008, 17:47, Reply)

Megatron
I knew a girl who had a cat called Spatula, and another called Atari

a friend of my brother has two cats called John and Cheese...
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Sat 11 Oct 2008, 17:47, Reply)

Clint
is a fine name for a cat
( Mrs Entity is in hiding., Sat 11 Oct 2008, 17:52, Reply)

We've just given him a wash
He didn't like it much but the poor little chap stinks to high heaven and doesn't have any fight in him anyway.

:(

He still smells.

We've fed him and he's purring away and trying out everyone's lap...even though he smells like a tramp's pocket.

Photos to follow soon!
( chickenlady b3ta's very own Elizabeth Taylor, Sat 11 Oct 2008, 17:57, Reply)

SPARCATUS

( mike woz ere 7442200 & 7696970 getter, Sat 11 Oct 2008, 18:05, Reply)

well...
How about Montague? It's a literary reference, he sounds like a smelly Montague (so sue me for backing the Capulets!), and it can be shortened to Monty which sounds like a proper cat name. Plus you can "dumb down" if you ever need to and claim you named him after the Full Monty :)
( SeasonTicketless is too often the statue, and rarely the pigeon., Sat 11 Oct 2008, 18:10, Reply)

Maybe not a great cat name
but Grenouille seems appropriate.
( Moey, Sat 11 Oct 2008, 18:17, Reply)

I'm sorry but the correct answer is Sparcatus.

( mike woz ere 7442200 & 7696970 getter, Sat 11 Oct 2008, 18:20, Reply)

How about
Mr. Mistofolies (sp?)
( Batshitmentalist is sane for once, Sat 11 Oct 2008, 18:26, Reply)

I AM SPARCATUS

( mike woz ere 7442200 & 7696970 getter, Sat 11 Oct 2008, 18:30, Reply)

GODZILLA

( Gilgamesh gazed in wonder as Frampton came alive, Sat 11 Oct 2008, 18:31, Reply)

how about
our Lady of the Flowers, that's a boy's name, and a literary reference, and it suits a tall thin attractive stray...
( Grrrmachine the indifference engine, Sat 11 Oct 2008, 18:33, Reply)

SPIDERMAN

( mike woz ere 7442200 & 7696970 getter, Sat 11 Oct 2008, 18:36, Reply)

call it Alyson Hannigan
and shag it senseless
( Gilgamesh gazed in wonder as Frampton came alive, Sat 11 Oct 2008, 18:38, Reply)

go cat
GO with Marley
(ppd, Sat 11 Oct 2008, 18:39, Reply)

CATMAN

( mike woz ere 7442200 & 7696970 getter, Sat 11 Oct 2008, 18:40, Reply)

PANTHRO

( Gilgamesh gazed in wonder as Frampton came alive, Sat 11 Oct 2008, 18:43, Reply)

I AM SPARCATUS

( mike woz ere 7442200 & 7696970 getter, Sat 11 Oct 2008, 18:43, Reply)

How about Fuckpig.
Or Shitpaws.
( stuj (^(^;;^)^) GO TEAM SPIDERS!(^(^;;^)^), Sat 11 Oct 2008, 18:45, Reply)

SHITCAT

( Gilgamesh gazed in wonder as Frampton came alive, Sat 11 Oct 2008, 18:45, Reply)

What about Catty the Fuck-Faced Cattacus?

( mike woz ere 7442200 & 7696970 getter, Sat 11 Oct 2008, 18:48, Reply)

Hermann Purring
Kiti Amin
Douglas Purred
Kiti Jong Il
PooPaws (they don't half hum)
Kitzak Rabin
Norman Tabby

Or

Humphrey
(Bicycle Repairman "you're also a bit of a wanker", Sat 11 Oct 2008, 19:24, Reply)

hmm
there are some good names suggested, but I just cant see puss spelling some of them.
( enoughblueskyforsailorstrousers, Sat 11 Oct 2008, 19:47, Reply)

I vote for
Leonides
Herman
Dave
Slartibartfast
Carter
(SpunkyMcSpunkbubble Diddled your nubbin on, Sat 11 Oct 2008, 19:49, Reply)

I for one think giving animals human names is a bit daft
So here's the names of familial cats:

Ozwas
Ewok
Blick
J.J.
Mrs Ploppy
Fluffy Bum
Scully
Dave (the exception, just so we could go 'ello Dave' when he came in the house)

My favouritest ever name for a cat is that mouse-like noise you make when you're trying to attract their attention, sucking air through your pursed lips. It always raised a smile when someone asked what the cat's name was and we'd go 'squeak'
( Noeli overtheshoulderboulderholderthingstraplatchboobs, Sat 11 Oct 2008, 21:46, Reply)

C'thullu
As in H.P. Lovecraft's mythical God.

Cats always lie sleeping...
(terryeden, Sat 11 Oct 2008, 23:35, Reply)

Spartapus
Oedipus Rex
Dave
or Paul

Comic sans?

Seefer? Seefer cat
( sandettie light vessel automatic New Twitter - @bollocksreally, Sat 11 Oct 2008, 23:46, Reply)

As a geek
I was going to suggest Schrodinger, but I have a few others.

Stella (so you can do your Brando imitation when you call him in for the night)

Poot (for his smell)

Louis (for Louis Prima, a cool cat if ever there was one)

Heisenberg (for the Uncertainty Principle- you can know his mass or his location, but never both)

Tupac (You're real tough hanging with that cat-dick motherfucker.)
( The Resident Loon Not a demographic. Do not measure., Sun 12 Oct 2008, 1:54, Reply)

Poe
Beast
( fuck shit up the best you never had, Sun 12 Oct 2008, 17:17, Reply)

Uriah Heep
AICMFP
(happylittletulip helpless and delicious, Sun 12 Oct 2008, 17:20, Reply)

Vienna FTW

( Madam Marlboro wonders if you've found her yet, Sun 12 Oct 2008, 17:29, Reply)