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I thought it would be fun to share how our cats got their names...

Bentley--my husband and son are very into cars...and appropos of his namesake our Bentley is beautiful and was expensive...also my husband used to like watching MTV Cribs where the celebs show off their homes and exotic cars...so he gets to say to his friends when they come over..."and here is my Bentley"...

Aston--full name Aston Martin--following in the car theme, more specifically the high end British car theme...Funny story...we took my in-laws to the car show last year when my son brought my mother in-law over to the Aston Martins and told her that was my favorite car...then she looked at me and said..."I thought Aston Martin was just a cat!"

Alastair--we ran out of British car names that sounded like cool cat names...so I just ran with a regular British name I always liked...

Finster--full name Finster Baby--from Bugs Bunny...the character who looks like a baby but is an escaped convict...Bugs thinks he's cute and innocent but he is trouble...the minute the breeder send me this pic of my cat...I knew the name fit...and he has lived up to it ever since...

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Lisa, owned by Bentley,Alastair, Finster, & Trysta (greyhound)

LOVE that baby picture!
What a little rascal!!

Carol, Emily, & Eddie

>>I thought it would be fun to share how our cats got their names...
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>>Bentley--my husband and son are very into cars...and appropos of his namesake our Bentley is beautiful and was expensive...also my husband used to like watching MTV Cribs where the celebs show off their homes and exotic cars...so he gets to say to his friends when they come over..."and here is my Bentley"...
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>>Aston--full name Aston Martin--following in the car theme, more specifically the high end British car theme...Funny story...we took my in-laws to the car show last year when my son brought my mother in-law over to the Aston Martins and told her that was my favorite car...then she looked at me and said..."I thought Aston Martin was just a cat!"
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>>Alastair--we ran out of British car names that sounded like cool cat names...so I just ran with a regular British name I always liked...
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>>Finster--full name Finster Baby--from Bugs Bunny...the character who looks like a baby but is an escaped convict...Bugs thinks he's cute and innocent but he is trouble...the minute the breeder send me this pic of my cat...I knew the name fit...and he has lived up to it ever since...
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>>Lisa, owned by Bentley,Alastair, Finster, & Trysta (greyhound)

Thanks Carol...

but, what I meant was...I thought it would be fun if all of us...shared...how our cats got their names...sorry...

your turns...
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Lisa, owned by Bentley,Alastair, Finster, & Trysta (greyhound)

No special stories here.
Emily got her name because she seemed like an Emily to me.
Same for Eddie (except I knew I wanted another "E" name, so that narrowed the possibilities down quite a bit).

>>Thanks Carol...
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>>but, what I meant was...I thought it would be fun if all of us...shared...how our cats got their names...sorry...
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>>your turns...
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>>Lisa, owned by Bentley,Alastair, Finster, & Trysta (greyhound)

The abys that we bred all received Egyptian names - mostly gods or goddesses. However, a breeder we were working with had a litter with her queen (our stud) and she named them: Rolls Royce, Bentley and Mercedes. Little Roy didn't make it, and the breeder was having problems, so we took Ben and Sadie...

Sina's name came from a baby book. It did take me something along the lines of four different books to pick the right one though! And I called her Andy for 2 days, before I decided it didn't fit.

Her nickname is slightly more interesting. I often call her "Bunny." When I got my kitten (Charlie, not Sina) I was home from college for the summer and not really supposed to get a kitten. When Sina was little and I was home for spring break my mom was telling me about the flemish giant rabbit (they get like 20 pounds) that my second cousin had just bought. Being me, I said, "I want a giant bunny." I immediately got a lecture- I absolutely could not get a rabbit, not when I still spent summers at home. And further more, this wasn't the same as I 'couldn't' get a kitten but did it anyway- seriously NO BUNNY! So I call Sina my Bunny.

I went with the royalty theme. First cat, Queen Kleopatra (before I had her they called her queenie). Her nick name was "Kat" b/c my friend always called her that, and we decided to make her more Greek, and offically made her middle name Katalonia...
And i used to live on Montague St., and since Rigby is my first pure bred, i wanted to register him with a really awesome name...
Sir Rigby Royce of Montague....
and then my lady needed a good name..
Lady Isabella (b/c bella means beautiful) Catalina (so my friend could also call her "cat" of Montague.

i know, very extensive... and only call them by nicknames - Izzy and Rigoletto....

My first Tonk was Liat. It comes from the musical"South Pacific" She was the native girl the American fell in love with was was described as Tonkinese. It came to me out of the blue and just sounded right. Just exotic enough to be interesting without being considered goofy.

Dulcinea stays in the Broadway theme, coming from "Man of La Mancha" Again a little exotic without being overly strange. She immediately became Dulcie. Except when she gets in trouble, then the full name comes out.
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Terry, confused human companion of Dulcinea.

I love that everyone has some sort of theme...even you Carol...the "E" theme!!!!

and Stacyann...Alastair's full name is Sir Alastair Blue, so again we have a matching pair of fancypants...although I have morphed his name to Sir Alastair Blueberry Muffin...to acknowledge His Fattness in all his glory...

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Lisa, owned by Bentley,Alastair, Finster, & Trysta (greyhound)

We had been to see our kittens twice and were still having a hard time picking names.
I wanted to go with names from similar origins or backgrounds. Ideas I had were Loki & Freya, Finn & Maeve. All those got nixed by my better half. But she wasn't helping with any suggestions.
I had just recently finished reading a book my friend wrote and loved one of the wizards in it, named Rugby Canaan. Couldn't find a female name in the book that fit our little girl AND that we could agree on. We both just knew that Rugby was the right name for our boy.
My partner is a huge SciFi fan, so by default I watch a lot of it, too. Stargate Atlantis has a strong female warrior named Teyla, who is small in frame but can kick major butt when needed. And that perfectly describes our little Tonk Tank Teyla!
On their papers we just used their first names with our last names but if I had to do it over again I'd make them Love Me Love Me Rugby and Love Me NOW Teyla!

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K&C (proud servants of Teyla & Rugby)
Peace, Purrs & Headbutts!