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...
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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.
The 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.)
I 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.
Our 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!
Trying 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?
Thanks for the poem. It’s a goodie!
As for downsizing, I don’t know that word. 😉
Indeg is a Welsh name..so not far off!
We have all sorts of conversations on there..not just serious ones!!
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