Hey, just thought of something. It's a rather silly idea, but...
Our little white fluffy dog was extremely cute when he was little, so cute that *I* was actually the one who took my dad to see him in the store. So cute that my dad had to buy him even though we already had a dog. VERY VERY CUTE, in other words. He was pure brilliant white with perfectly round black eyes...a Maltese. (He might have something else in him but I think he's all Maltese.) He looked like a confection.
Anyway, my sister decided to name him Loki, as he looked like an impish little mischief. Dad and his brother, however, insisted that he looked like a 'Bill'. (Ridiculous. A dog that looks like candy-fluff can't possibly appear to be a Bill!)
Long story short, he wound up with the name Loki William George Winchester the Third. He really does get called Bill and Loki equally, and often Loki Bill. It's a dumb name. However, it did stick.
You can always give kitty multiple names and just primarily use the one you like best. Like...name him Arthur Von Kumo. Sounds a bit like a vampire, but hey! Cats can pull of a vampire name :)
That's not nutty at all! In fact, that may be the perfect compromise. Charlotte & I both love Kumo but Greg refuses to call the cat anything but Arthur. I believe it was T.S. Elliott that said a cat has several names (including the secret one that only the cat knows)...so perhaps you have the answer. :-)
Hee. I was just about to make a similar suggestion. We couldn't agree on what name to call the cat that my parents got after Arthur. She ended up being officially named Madam Curie Muffin Roswell. :)
Seconded, or thirded, or whatever -- a double-barrelled cat name is always amusing and lets everybody have a say in what name kitty will cheerfully ignore.
Although I do like "Kumo" best, as it's nicely short and snappy, suits his coloring and arking so well, and is just generally pretty. It doesn't seem particularly strange or exotic to me, but I do realize growing up in Hawai'i has pretty much warped my standards on that front! :)
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Our little white fluffy dog was extremely cute when he was little, so cute that *I* was actually the one who took my dad to see him in the store. So cute that my dad had to buy him even though we already had a dog. VERY VERY CUTE, in other words. He was pure brilliant white with perfectly round black eyes...a Maltese. (He might have something else in him but I think he's all Maltese.) He looked like a confection.
Anyway, my sister decided to name him Loki, as he looked like an impish little mischief. Dad and his brother, however, insisted that he looked like a 'Bill'. (Ridiculous. A dog that looks like candy-fluff can't possibly appear to be a Bill!)
Long story short, he wound up with the name Loki William George Winchester the Third. He really does get called Bill and Loki equally, and often Loki Bill. It's a dumb name. However, it did stick.
You can always give kitty multiple names and just primarily use the one you like best. Like...name him Arthur Von Kumo. Sounds a bit like a vampire, but hey! Cats can pull of a vampire name :)
Ok, I know it's nutty.
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Although I do like "Kumo" best, as it's nicely short and snappy, suits his coloring and arking so well, and is just generally pretty. It doesn't seem particularly strange or exotic to me, but I do realize growing up in Hawai'i has pretty much warped my standards on that front! :)