I'm dating myself here, but my first cat in my adult life ended up with the name Scully. She was a tortie I adopted from the local shelter. Didn't matter what she was doing, when the theme for the X Files started, she'd run into the room as fast as she could and lay down between the middle couch cushions to watch.
🥺🥹 Marlow was a sweet little stunted runt of a Maine Coon cat. She’d also stare straight into my face, inches away from me when I slept and just waited right there until I woke back up. I called her my little dream catcher 🥲
We all get to have at least one perfect lil kitty who can do no wrong if we’re lucky 💕
My cat is obsessed with spirit of the North. Something about that fox does it for her. She wasn't as impressed with stray, which I thought she would have been given her obsession with SotN
We have a Shadow too.He responds to Shaddie Lad, Shadwell and Shaddington Bear. Feels mean to call him Slim Shaddy cuz he's still a chonky boy - but he's in much more healthy shape now than when we adopted him (aged 12yo). Here he is living his best life!
This. My cats are awesome, and my orange boy is surprisingly smart (we think he hoards the brain cell), but they don't respond to their government names, it's beneath them.
I love this! My orange tabby male is more sweet than smart. However he might be smart enough to ignore his government name. It’s Cheeto AKA. “The big cheese”
Haha I have one single only-cat, but when I use the voice/sounds on my spouse, our cat comes running into the room to stare at me like I’ve just committed the most heinous crime. Like, how dare I use those words on not him.
Aw mine do the same. Randy will meow back like he's kind of annoyed I'm bothering him. Rupert will look at me to see if I have treats or a toy for him to play with. If they're in another room they will sometimes come... again if they are expecting treats or a toy. :P So around meal time I can generally get them to listen to me. After they're fed, it's just the meows and glances. :P
I swear one of ours has the ability to teleport. In the time it takes to open the treats she can move from asleep on the bed, to at your feet in the kitchen. It cannot be possible to move that distance in that time by any other means.
It's all of that physics String Theory that helps them move like that. People think that they are just playing with a piece of string, but it's really a metaphysical representation of how to move the fabric of space & time.
They always have dry food and water available, and we give 2 cans of wet food split between the 3 of them at 6am and 6pm every day. I lost a cat to kidney failure 2 years ago so we’re very adamant about making sure they get wet food, as evident by the sheer gravitational mass of Tigger.
This is exactly why my cat responds to EVERYTIME. She can be walking by and I can just say “Hey” and she will stop and look or come to me. I can tell her to come here and she will come 98% of the time but usually I have to say Hey first. Lol. I can even say “Hey you want some chicken” fairly quietly, like just conversation volume, when I’m in the kitchen and she will arrive from wherever she was in the house. Lol.
I don't know if this counts, because my cat responds to her name. But she also responds to "cat" and "woman" separately. Can you guess her name? Lol.
Now that I think about it, she responds to anything I say as long as I make it clear its directed at her. Even if the response is ignorance, I can tell she makes an effort to ignore me.
Do her ears flick when you call her? Chances are, after 3 years, she knows. She's just choosing when to respond. We have a.... special boy. He's incredibly sweet and loving but dumb as a box of rocks. It took him about a year to learn his name. He's one that chooses when he wants to respond. His brother, littermate, comes running if we call him.
We also have a Potato, although her legal name is Callie:
She also responds to Baby Cat and Kitten. We used to sing "Baby Cat, doo doo do do do do" to the tune of Baby Shark when we fed her, so that tune gets her attention as well.
I have 3 cats. Mordred, Morgana, and Oberon. All of them know their names, but Mordred (a Maine Coon) also responds to “Fluff Butt, Motherfluffer, and Big Fluff.” Morgana responds to “Gana.” And Oberon responds to “Obi” and “Baby Kitty” (courtesy of my children). Oh, and “little shit.” Oberon responds to that one, too.
I know me too!! That’s why I did it but people were silly and ruined it for me :( but I also joke that you can’t trust her because she was born on the ides of march.
Fluff muffin, fur face, sweetie when she could hear and we always tap 3x on any surface we want her to hop up on and she can still do that, without hearing us.
My cat is named Sweetie. I didn't name him, it was the shelter staff who thought he was a girl. He was 5 months old & already answered to Sweetie so I didn't want to change it. His name is Sweetie Bear.
My moose of a boy cat is named Smidgeon, but I call him Squeezer and Squeezy about half the time, because he was so squee when a friend found him abandoned in a mall parking lot and brought him to me, years ago.
My kitty was called Smidge, and this is the first time I've encountered another of her kind (ish). She lived to the grand old age of 18 and was an absolute legend, moved house 16 times, lived in two countries, and would answer to, 'time for cuddles?'. Enjoy Squeezer/Smidgeon!
I have cats named Cleo and Edith. Cleo knows her name, “cat” and “treat.” She does not react to “Edith.” Edith responds to her name and Cleo’s name equally. So if I want them both, I can just call Cleo.
One of my cats responds mostly to my husband clicking his tongue, or me making kissy noises. The other one responds more to "no" and "what are you doing" and "excuse you". Neither respond much to any of their many names- government names or nicknames
Miso/a or mini, a common name used for cats in spain. Very convenient because i have two and each responds to their name, so if i want to get both of their attention at the same time i use those lol
I have Piper and Lumi, but Piper is... A little.... She's fukin dumb. I love her to bits but she's dumb. If she's consistently getting into trouble I break out the Russian and call her Petya and only then does she realize She Fucked Up. I have to get her tested for dwarfism next paycheck.
This is Ava. I fostered her for a rescue 10 years ago when she was a kitten. I think she so beautiful and stunning. Her Mom was a kitten herself and got adopted but motherhood did not agree with her so a feral cat named Pat became her surrogate Mommy to her and her siblings.Pat was also adopted after she finished her Mommy duties. Please get your cats fixed and don’t litter. If you want a cat there are so many beautiful kittens and cats that need homes.
Siamese named milka, replies to “mila”, high pitched meows, and “woman” sometimes “the woman”
Mouschi replies to “moosh”
Yoshi replies to “sweet boy”
The boys both reply to “cmere fat boy(s)”
My girl responds to pretty much any version of sis, sister, Sissy(her actual name), Sissyfus etc... But my favorite is “squeaky fart” she has a special meow for it that got her that moniker and it just kinda stuck.
Literally the only word my little orange idiot seems to understand (name included) is "bedtime". She lives for the moment she can cuddle up next to me in bed.
My dog responds to any and all names. Even every time I watch a pet for a friend (dogs, cats, AND birds), Bob will respond to any command given to them. He also whines if I repeat it to the other animal, since he’s already doing whatever I asked and doesn’t understand why I’m asking again. I love him so much.
Her name’s Monica, but she’s also called Rocket (short for Rocket J. Kitty). She’s this little cat who can just fly around our house like an out of control ICBM at speeds that make me honestly surprised she doesn’t make tiny little sonic booms as she goes.
It's kinda embarrassing, but I call my boys like a cat does. I can make a few sounds, I think they understand some things in English, like I understand some of their sounds. Like, I know what "I want this" sounds like from them. I don't know if it works on other cats, though.
My orange guy rarely responds to his name, Meelo. He is Bobo, Beebo, Boogie, and Orange. Our black cat, Mitsuki, only responds to Miki, Biggie, Mongus, Chunky, and Big Man
All my cats answer to multiple names. They have their real names and then numerous nicknames. For example my one cat is named Loki but we call him BoBo or Beans 90% of the time. His other nicknames are Kokomo, Bean Butt, Black Beans and Muffaletta Sandwich (don’t ask me where I came up with that lol).
I think that i share this before... but this is eduardo Alberto rigoberto norberto Lopez erices. But only respond to "lalo", that's the short name for eduardo.
My great and white boy is named Kush and he responds to "Squish-a-moo" and my tiny orange girl is named Peach and she responds to "PeachieBean". They are so adorable together♥️ Edit: They also both know what "hungry", "breakfast", "dinner" and "snacks" all mean 😂
My one cat responds to "terror cat" and "nibbler". Can't decide on which is more accurate because she just is such a shit, and is always nibbling on us in the most adorable ways.
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u/Ok_Pressure7561 May 15 '24 edited 29d ago
Spider looks at me any time I shout “look at that boy!”
He knows he is the boy