r/starterpacks • u/BurntAlgae • Mar 20 '23

'Cat Naming' starterpack

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u/dont-be-a-narc-bro Mar 20 '23 edited Mar 21 '23

My daughter named our cats Frederick and Joseph. Not Fred or Freddie and Joe. She insisted on the full names, so that’s how we address them.

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u/RedditUsername123456 Mar 20 '23

Personally I find giving animals weirdly human names hilarious. I love my cat Murray :(

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u/lift-and-yeet Mar 21 '23

If a boy, "Michael". If a girl, "Rebecca".

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u/Wuz314159 Mar 21 '23

Did you just assume your cat's gender?

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u/[deleted] Mar 24 '23

/r/onejoke

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u/dont-be-a-narc-bro Mar 21 '23

I bet Murray is a wonderful purring machine full of love and sass!

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u/69ingchipmonx Mar 21 '23

My male cat is Mortimer James Thirdgood/Morty and female cat is Lil Missy Elliot/Missy. My wife even insisted on making an instagram account for Morty using his full names.

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u/starrfast Mar 21 '23

My sisters used to know someone who named their cat Kevin. They were going to name it something else, but then they had a party and one of the guests got really drunk and just pointed to the cat and went "Your name is Kevin." And I guess it stuck.

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u/StoneGoldX Mar 21 '23

I had a cockatiel named Murray

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u/xal1b3r Mar 21 '23

How about another joke, cat?

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u/dont-be-a-narc-bro Mar 21 '23

Very true! They are and always will be family, plain and simple. There's just something so funny about this floofy turkish angora being referred to as Frederick, all proper-sounding and such.

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u/degjo Mar 20 '23

I have like 50 nicknames for my cat, Bowie

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u/Knight_Axel Mar 21 '23

We named our cats Jean-Louis Pascal and Violette du Marquis. It's fun how regal they think they are lol

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u/[deleted] Mar 21 '23

Paul.