speaking of pet names, as sprig5 has been, ...

[fflo]

I've decided Humphrey's full name is Chester Humphrey K. Gallumphry. And the first name of all my cats, henceforth, shall be "Chester."

I could even abbreviate it "Ch.", as the dog-breedy types do for "Champion."

Haven't decided yet if I'm retrofitting Chet with a pre-"Chester" "Chester."

Orville Orville Orville.

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Re: The Naming of Cats

[fflo.livejournal.com]

One of the most touching cat-name-related stories I know is of friends who were observing/mourning the passing of one of their most dear-heart feline domestic partners by recalling and speaking aloud, at turns as they lay in bed, nicknames they'd used with the creature. You can imagine: there were many, and they came quickly, and less quickly, and some near-forgotten & long dormant. The scene could be a grand one in a movie, I'm thinking now, as long as the film handled its context with the lightest of touches.

Why it is that cats get so many more nicknames than dogs must have something to do with that inscrutability, leading to that ineffability. Dogs, sure, get nicknames, but they're like more like us that way. Scrutable. No need, it seems, for dozens of alternative names to suit the way the being seems at the moment, and the way we're feeling for & about it. It'd even be odd, somehow, to do that with the dog, you know?

Thanks for the poem, btw.