We had a cat with only 3 legs that adopted us once. She was a tiny thing. We named her TLC (three legged cat) and she lived to be a rip old age.

Had a Siamese when I was a wee lad. We drew names from a hat to decide its moniker. I had put Corvette in the hat. I won. Seemed to fit her…she got hit by a Mustang once but recovered nicely.

Another cat we had was named Tuppence by its prior owner. We left it at that. But it didn’t roll off the tongue so we ended up calling her kitty…we had little kids at the time so that probably encouraged the transition.

Come to think of it, all other cats that have been ours or sorta ours we always called ‘cat’ or ‘kitty’. Guess we didn’t take the time to hang a better handle on them.

Another name we liked: our son’s GF named her Chihuahua George Michael. I liked that name a lot. Fit the dog pretty well. He wanted to get custody of the dog after they broke up. Didn’t end up that way though.