Kitten Interview Day!, Hoping for a new Special Friend. Options

[Jon730]

Today was the day. The local kittens are six weeks old, and I was finally invited to interview them.
As I had hoped, one chose me. He left the pile of kittens in the basket, ran up my leg and sat on my shoulder, when I said, "OK! Who wants to win the lottery? I have an opening for a CAT!"
He will remain with his mother for a couple of weeks more, yet, then right to the Vet, and home.



Names, names. Because he is a Tuxedo Cat, I wanted to name him "Linux", as in , but this was vetoed by my niece, who said, "If you name him after some Geek Operating System, I'll never talk to you again!".OK.
His father is a HUGE cat, so maybe:
Dreadnaught?
Catapotamus?
Magnus?
A friend suggested "Hiram". I made a wisecrack about him teaching the cat a certain Handshake, and we left it at that.

This requires more thought. I am grateful for the two weeks.

Because for the last few decades I have always rescued "Used Cats", I had not seen kittens for a long time. I must have laughed nonstop for fiteen minutes! I needed it, because of course there will always be an empty place from Miles.
A whole basket full of clowns who have had WAY too much coffee!
This is his proud godmother, the Employee of the Mother Cat..(Who will be spayed thereafter! A limited time litter offer!!)

[goliath]

Jon you are cracking me up with all this excitement of yours. The name will come to you when you least expect it to. Just reading your lists gets me so excited I probably will have difficulty in sleeping again tonight. LOL one of these days I am going to learn not to come here at night before I go to bed.

I remember when my sister gave birth to her 5th babygirl (The last one. Thank God!) She had picked her name out before she was born and decided on Tillie. The entire family tried to get her to consider other names, but she was very adamant about it. So, we shut up and respected her choice of names. After all, it was her baby. Well, lo and behold, that name grew on all of us. When I look at her today so grown up, I can't even imagine a more perfect name for her.

On the other hand, before I brought my newest puppy home this last weekend, I had decided between 2 names for him.(Or so I thought) As it turned out we did not wind up choosing either of those names. We brought him home on Saturday and did not name him until Sunday. Then suddenly it hit us that Browser was the perfect name for him.........even though I call him lots of other names like, Lil Dickens, ShortStuff, PeeWee etc. etc. etc.

Show me another list please LOL. It sounds like the names are what is keeping your mind busy while you sit on pins and needles. Just wait til he's home with you.........the excitement really heightens then. I am anxious myself to hear about the stories you will tell us about this little kitty who wears a fur tuxedo.

Enjoy!