This is Indeg, the cat who owns my daughter and family..named after one of their friends.
I've just been reading a thread on the
Downsizer forum...a conversation between New Jersey, Sussex,Tasmania,Huntingdon and Mid-Wales, mainly,with occasional additions from Yorkshire and Scotland....
One subject was in passing,
the naming of cats...
I rescued my current cat as a 4 week old kitten in a parking lot in a neighboring state. He still had no name when my sister took him to the vet, so she named him Toby, for the record. I generally call him Mr. Cat, or Lucky.
ReplyDeleteThe old timers in North Carolina would call a mountain lion, a.k.a. couger, a Painter...which was their slang for Panther. Panthers also would call making a sound like a crying baby. My cat was inherited, having been first feral, then slowly domesticated by a friend who died. Her name is Panther...and I think she was also called Painter, as she looks like she fell in a paint can perhaps...being splotches of calico. So my vet now lists her as Panther/feline. Just to make sure they aren't treating a real panther (which is apparently extinct now.)
ReplyDeleteI had Thelma and Louise (aka, Weezer), two calicos. Thelma, who was nasty, passed away from diabetes, but we still have Weezer and now a Daisy.
ReplyDeleteOur present cats are named by our sons but prior to these two, all our cats have had 'human names' - Polly, Annie, Alice - on a sort of old fashioned maiden aunt theme. The boys called their cats - Panzakampftank and Pepperoni pizza pie - Pan and Pepper sigh - life was less complicated pre-kids!
ReplyDeleteTrying to figure out how downsizing relates to naming cats - giving them a shorter name perhaps? Indeg is a very unusual name, or seems so to me, since i have never heard it before, but I'm guessing it's Gaelic?
ReplyDeleteThanks for the poem. It’s a goodie!
ReplyDeleteAs for downsizing, I don’t know that word. 😉
Indeg is a Welsh name..so not far off!
ReplyDeleteWe have all sorts of conversations on there..not just serious ones!!