Silly Phobia I
Cockroaches.
Disgusting, filthy things - the only animal on God's green earth I think He may have mad a slight error of judgement with (as in, why make the beasties in the first place?)

I have been known to recoil in horror, dance around the kitchen and scream for Legless when I see one.

I don't like squashing them (not too keen to see cockroach guts on my floor), and makes my skin crawl to think where they get to at night, when I can't see them (on my clothes, bedding, plates - arrrggggghhhh!!!)

Until recently, we had a rent-a-cat stay with us for a fortnight (wandered in one night and parked on the couch) - the cockroaches knew their time was up and they packed their bags - but he's gone now (?lost) and the little bastards are back . . .

However, I now have a secret weapon . . .








On Wednesday, I'm picking up the latest in cockroach-fighting technology:











6 months old, abandoned. She has no name as yet - any suggestions?
( Mrs Legless . . . belongs to, well, you know . . . :), Sun 13 Apr 2008, 4:55, 19 replies)

don't squash them
if they're females, they carry their eggs under their bodies (sort of) and when you squish them this disperses the eggs all over the squishing area, including your shoe, which then travels round your house...

*shudders*
(pounana Slept well, and dreamed of large women, on, Sun 13 Apr 2008, 7:30, closed)

How about
Tony Montana?

"Fuck 'em all! I bury those cockroaches!"

;)
( thiswasmyclone, Sun 13 Apr 2008, 8:04, closed)

any suggestions?
Phobia, of course.
( enoughblueskyforsailorstrousers, Sun 13 Apr 2008, 8:10, closed)

call her
CUNTFUCK
(little lord muthafuckin fauntleroy, Sun 13 Apr 2008, 9:57, closed)

Shiva
destroyer of ... creepy crawlies
(minjita, Sun 13 Apr 2008, 10:43, closed)

My house is crawling
with giant roaches at the moment (need more bait). There was one last night which twice came to sit on me and my blanket on the beanbag and was flung across the room and sprayed. Then I went to bed and could hear one scratching around inside a bag, got up, sprayed it then squashed it (it was 2 inches long- I swear!!). Found another dead one on my kitchen floor this AM YUCK!
(starial, Sun 13 Apr 2008, 11:08, closed)

She's beautiful....
I've just been sat here for 30 minutes trying to think of a good name for your cat.......I've got housework to do for God's sake.
( girlinthehole, Sun 13 Apr 2008, 11:19, closed)

awwww
naughty torties are ace...

U will prob name her shitbag, or DONT U DARE DO THAT after getting to know her. :D

Minnie the Minx? is that an appropriate name? All the cats I have ever had end up with a multitude of names anyway.

Have fun with you new fluff ball......awww I want another now....

Cats xxx (the cats mother)
( catswhiskers the cats mother, Sun 13 Apr 2008, 12:16, closed)

How about...
47 for she is bred to kill!
(chrisdood Why yes, I am the shizzle, Sun 13 Apr 2008, 14:11, closed)

Aaaaaaaw, she's a cracker
.
I'd call her Molly - I think she looks like a Molly
(TheWeeWitch hasn't been here much recently .., Sun 13 Apr 2008, 14:21, closed)

"Killer"
Or is that too obvious?
I would call her Dolophonos (Assasin to non Greek speakers) shortened to Phonos. My *special* logic being that it's an apt name for one who will dispense with the katsarides AND if you remove the "hon" from the name, and replace the "o" with a "u" it says pus.....

*edit* or should that be dolophoni because she's a girl? Which, technically blows all of my above waffle to shit.....
( Tourette's ( . )( . ) has a monkey hair in her fried egg, Sun 13 Apr 2008, 14:44, closed)

she looks
exactly like the cat we had when i was a tiny rswipe, called pippa. so cute!
( rachelswipe with a fork, Sun 13 Apr 2008, 16:47, closed)

Call her Alyx
Something about her reminds me of Alyx Vance from Half-life 2

www.daxiongames.com/half_life/characters/images/index_alyx.jpg
( Extinct Jesus Dossier "...I think it counteracts Hitler's magic...", Sun 13 Apr 2008, 17:01, closed)

Sorta the same shade of eyes...
I'd go with Pixel because i'm rereading a few Heinlein books for the n'th time and i'm as impressionable as wet clay.
(Sundayturkey has the biggest mug of tea, Sun 13 Apr 2008, 19:15, closed)

Cat-naming advice
Unless you like sarcasm, don't name a kitten or young cat according to it's behaviour.
( mistaspakkaman and the inedible shifting caterpillars, Sun 13 Apr 2008, 20:00, closed)

Call her
B3ta;

B3tan;

B3tard?
(kitescreech still here, Sun 13 Apr 2008, 20:06, closed)

Rayd.
'coz Rayd kills bugs dead.

Beautiful kitty.
( The Resident Loon Not a demographic. Do not measure., Sun 13 Apr 2008, 22:39, closed)

only one...
suggestion, Just make sure the cockroachs are smaller then her.
(Leoninus "Never lick a fresh turd on a hot day.", Mon 14 Apr 2008, 1:31, closed)

Cat Name
How about cfor as is c for cat ?
(Scoobiedoo79, Tue 15 Apr 2008, 14:52, closed)