Our little girl doesn’t do the stand-upright trick, but she looks like a Meerkat, she eats her food in the same indelicate way Meerkats eat theirs, and she makes little Meerkat-like chirpy vocal sounds.\u00c2\u00a0 So … she is hereby called “Meerkat<\/strong>“!<\/p>\n Next, the silver tabby that looks like our dear beloved Clyde who passed away back in February.\u00c2\u00a0 He came to us with the name “Silver”, which was given to him by the PAWS Foster Mom.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n We briefly thought about following the model of the cat on the cartoon show, “The Simpsons”.\u00c2\u00a0 Lisa’s cat “Snowball” died, so they got a new cat and called it “Snowball II”.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 However, our silver tabby doesn’t really strike us as a “Clyde II”, so we dropped that idea.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n We threw around other ideas … “Buddy”, “Silver”, “Amigo”, and others.\u00c2\u00a0 He’s a bit of a pacifist when teased by the other two cats, so we thought about naming him something on that theme, such as “Quaker”, “Pacem” (Latin for peace, pronounced pahtch-em), and “Pace” (Italian for peace, pronounced pahtch-ay). Luckily he smacked the boy kitten after being ambushed, as if to say to us “Pacem<\/em><\/strong> this!<\/strong><\/em>” So we tried other names. We also thought about something like “Tagalong” because he likes to follow us from room to room.\u00c2\u00a0 But the names didn’t stick.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n We noticed he has a block of white fur on his neck, right under his chin, like a clerical collar.\u00c2\u00a0 (It also looks him look like he’s wearing the “puffy shirt” that Jerry Seinfeld wore in one of the famous Seinfeld episodes.)\u00c2\u00a0 That gave us the idea of naming him “Pastor”, “Reverend”, “Monsignor”, or “Father”.\u00c2\u00a0 All of those sounded funny on him … but the Spanish word for a reverend is “Padre”, and that seemed unique and fitting given our Hispanic surname!\u00c2\u00a0 We also thought that he could be called “Compadre” since he is “friendly” and a “close associate.”\u00c2\u00a0 So, the silver tabby is now “Padre<\/strong>“!<\/p>\n Finally, the hardest one of all … the black and white tuxedo cat.\u00c2\u00a0 He came to us with the name “Wynken” because he only has one eye.\u00c2\u00a0 The other was removed because of an eye infection.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n We didn’t want a name that highlighted his missing eye … so we stayed away from pirate names and such.\u00c2\u00a0 He’s a really affectionate little guy, rambunctious, and definitely vying against Padre (and me) for the role of “dominant male” of the household.\u00c2\u00a0 We thought about naming him “Capital T” because, per “The Music Man”, it stands for TROUBLE!\u00c2\u00a0 But, that didn’t feel right for him.\u00c2\u00a0 Even “Mr. T” didn’t fit him, despite the “tough – T” image he pretends to have.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n We also nixed “Buddy”, “Hobbes”, “Tuxey”, “Romeo”, “Valentino”, “Sherlock”, “MacGyver”, “Pepe” (as in Pepe le Pew, the skunk from Bugs Bunny cartoons), and several others.\u00c2\u00a0 So, we really were racking our brains for a name for him.\u00c2\u00a0 And then suddenly a name began to emerge.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n He’s a little bit rounder in the belly than the other two cats.\u00c2\u00a0 He is mostly black with white markings.\u00c2\u00a0 He’s soft and fuzzy and likes to have his belly rubbed like a playful little bear.\u00c2\u00a0 And, he kind of looks like a small … Panda!\u00c2\u00a0 So, we’ve settled on the name “Panda Bear<\/strong>“!\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n So, please welcome our new kitties to Casa Caban!\u00c2\u00a0 Meerkat<\/strong>, Padre<\/strong>, and Panda Bear<\/strong>!\u00c2\u00a0 As a group, we’ve taken to calling them “The Furry Bambinos.”\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n In fact, they banded together to create their own cat blog<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0at TheFurryBambinos.com<\/a>!\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n “With cats, some say one rule is true You bow, and taking off your hat … And so in time you reach your aim (Lyrics in “The Ad-dressing of the Cats” from the musical “Cats”)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Oh, the fun we’ve had trying to name these three adorable kitties!\u00c2\u00a0 We’ve played rounds and rounds of “how does this sound?” and “How about ….?” to come up with suitable monikers for our new housemates.\u00c2\u00a0 For your enjoyment, we give you some insight into the process.\u00c2\u00a0 First, we thought of the situation:\u00c2\u00a0 two boys […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,5,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-188","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-davids-world","category-sues-world","category-the-furry-bambinos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cabanonline.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cabanonline.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cabanonline.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cabanonline.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cabanonline.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=188"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.cabanonline.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cabanonline.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cabanonline.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cabanonline.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"meerkat.jpg\"](\"http:\/\/www.cabanonline.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/10\/meerkat.jpg\")
<\/p>\nNaming the Silver Tabby<\/h3>\n
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<\/p>\nNaming the Tuxedo Cat<\/h3>\n
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\nDon’t speak ’til you are spoken to
\nMyself I do not hold with that
\nI say you should ad-dress a cat
\nBut always bear in mind that he
\nResents familiarity<\/em><\/p>\n
\nAd-dress him in this form: “O’ cat!”\u00c2\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n
\nAnd call him by his name
\nSo this is this, and that is that
\nAnd there’s how you ad-dress a cat …”<\/em><\/p>\n