Testimonies: How my cats got their names - Memoirs

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by Emily Falshaw

I was four - nearly five - when my mom found her dream house and we moved into it. Several things were different about this house. It was in the country. There was a barn and some horses. The yard was a lot bigger. And, since
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by Gemma Barrett

There used to be a lady down my street when I was a little girl who had lots of cats and she pushed them around in a rusty, mangled old buggy. She was a proper 'cat lady' who just seemed to collect cats. She had more and more
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by Tessa Marie

I have decided that cats have ethnicities. No, not breeds...ethnicities, and they should be named accordingly. For instance, Ishtar, the rotund Siamese mix who shared my life for 13 years, was Middle Eastern, by way of England.
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by Jude Frost

The tale of a few tails. In my nineteen years of living, a day hasn't gone by where there wasn't a cat in my day.
First came my beautiful, shiny black cat. He came home one day with my mother, I must have been about two or three.
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by Jennifer Shell

I've had several cats during my 34 years, but when I moved to Virginia in 1996, I left my two babies with my mother. I knew that my mother would take great care of my fuzzy white felines, so off I went.
The male half of my two
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by Michele Van Pelt

"What's in a name? That which we call a rose
By any other name would smell as sweet."
What a wonderful quote by William Shakespeare. Did I have such eloquent thoughts when naming my cats? Probably most would say "no" but if you
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by Brenda Morris

I do not believe in naming a cat before getting to know him/her. I like to see its personality and then name it appropriately. There are just too many cats names Fluffy, Cuddles, Tiger and Precious in the world.Until I name a
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by Marea E. Johnson

Big Guy was this big fat baby whose behavior was that of just about every other animal you could think of, EXCEPT for, of course, a cat!
At his last weigh-in at the vet's, he came in at a hefty 15 pounds. The vet wasn't concerned
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by Jenay Torres

Ten years ago, in December 1998,I got a kitten for Christmas. He was one of three that mom brought home from a neighbor that was breeding her cat. He stole my breath the first time I saw him, he was too cute to describe, with
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by Shovawn Smith

I have two very gorgeous and loving cats, who both came to live with us after spending time in the wild. The first is our often moody, and loving when she wants to be, Burmese. She spends most of her time sleeping or cuddling
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by Ted Sherman

Our kids were out playing, and left the kitchen screen door slightly ajar. It was a holiday, so there was no school nor work to worry about. I was lolling on the rec room sofa, while my wife was preparing lunch in the kitchen.
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by Grace

I have had many cats over the years. Bumper bumped into everything. Panda looked like a miniature panda bear with her black and white coat. Shadow was all black and looked like a shadow. Frisky had a frisky personality. Playful
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by Amanda Blank

I was never really a cat person. To me, they were little evil fur balls that liked to hiss and scratch. Just looking at them made me get the chills.
Little did I know I would end up owning one. Actually, eventually, I would end
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by Dolphyn Wisdom

As I age, I am quickly growing into that 'crazy' cat lady that you always hear about ... you know, eccentric, forty cats following behind her, the scent of kitty perfume preceding her in every direction. Oh Lawd! Spare me from
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by Cynthia Wall

We have six cats, all strays who recognized an easy mark in us. I've always wondered what it would be like to actually go out and buy a cat. When you live in a rural area you don't have to; the real question is how many you can
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by Mya Ran

Buddha Bella
Have you even promised yourself never to become the cat lady? I don't mean Batman's twisted nemesis, Cat-woman. I mean like the lady next door who began with one kitty after a lonely shopping fix didn't perform its
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by Ladymermaid

I can't even recall what her given name was when we acquired her, I just remember that she was about six or seven months old, and in danger of losing her little kitty life because her current owner considered her to be untrainable.
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by Erin Ahmed

What's in a name? Everything. A name says who you are to the world, and in many cases an instant impression of the kind of person you are is made simply from the name you carry. Compare for example, the name John or Michael
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by Emit Chand

It was a bright weekend morning when I heard my wife letting me know that she is going downstairs to check on a cat she had heard meowing since early morning. A few minutes later she called my name from the back lawn of the apartment
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by Willow Jackson

Cats and their names
Every cat I have ever had but one got its name by accident. I got my first cat when I was six or seven. This cat was as black as the night sky and my favorite color was midnight so I named her Midnight. The
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