Pippin kitten now has his very OWN kitten! (dialup warning)

[Lorien]

So, my VERY energetic and naughty Pip has been driving Oberon and Puck NUTS with his incessant demands for play. Poor Puck has come to the end of her rope with him and throws a literal hissy fit every time he comes near her (I don't blame her; he gets so much enjoyment out of getting a rise out of her). So, it was time for a trip to the SPCA to find him a willing playmate.



The first kitten I found was EXTREMELY playful, but he looked exactly like a miniature version of my late kitty Miro, so I got a lump in my throat while I played with him and had to move on to others. there were plenty of little black kitties there. Having done pet rescue, I know that black dogs and cats get euthanized more than any other color, so I passed up the adorable silver tabbies, blues, orange kitties and bi colors and focused on all the little black kittens. A fluffy medium haired kitten pawed at me as I walk by his cage. I knew instantly that he was "the one"!

(It's really hard to photograph black cats)!





His expression when he first sees Oberon:



He loves a good belly rub!



When I got him home I discovered that he's really a "black smoke"; black on top, but silver on his undersides. He's three months old, soft as a bunny and a very cheerful. He LOVES to play, so it has only been two days and Pip and he are now inseparable!



Pip wears him out while showing him the joys of playing with a toy in the bath tub:



Just as he used to play, all by his lonesomes:




Now the little guy just needs a name! He's cuter than his photos. He sort of looks like a little fox or teddy bear with lanky legs.I think he'll be a very handsome (and big!) boy when he grows up. I like to go with literary or artist's names. All I've come up with so far are Atticus, Spartacus, Meriodoc, Cicero, Cervantes, Ansel, Matisse, Lucius, and Zephyr. Any other ideas?

[lukasahero]

1. I can't possibly be the first one to find a kitten thread!

What a sweetie pie you have there. For a "shelter" cat, he looks pretty comfortable and relaxed in his new home. I like Atticus myself - something just seems right about that. :)

[TZ]

2. So cute..

What about Frodo as a name? (I think I recall you are a LOTR fan)...

[Lorien]

3. Funny, but my friend Audrey has a big black cat named Frodo!

I thought about LotR names (Pippin's friend in that series is named Merry, but Merry doesn't suit him. Meriodoc, maybe...). I was trying to come up with another magical reference from Brit lit. Sirius Black came to mind, but he's a bit goofy, so he may never pull that one off, lol!

[Love Bug]

4. How cute!

I didn't know black critters got euthanized more often! Is that because of superstition?

Since his best buddy is Pippin, you really must name him Merry (Meriodic Brandybuck)! If you do, be prepared for more mischief because they are sure to live up to their names!

[demnan]

5. How about Othello!

He sure is cute. You'll have fun with those two young troublemakers running around! And now Oberion and Puck can have a little "Mommy" time while you watch the young ones.

[stuntcat]

6. HAHAH the belly rub photo!!

Iz too cute!! :loveya: I like Ansel.. or Lucius.. or Zephyr.. or Matisse. Oh I don't know!

Pip playing in the tub is adorable too, all these pictures are!

[Tikki]

7. If I ever get a cat...

Mr. Tikki is not a cat guy....I am going to get a black cat
just like the one you have there..and I am going to name her Marsha
and call her Mars.

That is all....
Tikki

[stuntcat]

16. black cats..

I inherited a black cat from my dad, she's the first one I ever had. Now I decided I always want to keep a black cat :headbang:

[ceile]

8. So cute!

I like Spartacus.

[Lorien]

9. He's a pretty self confient little guy

so that was one of the first names that came to mind. He almost looks like he'd jump up on a table and squeak out "I AM SPARTACUS"! in his little kitten voice, lol!

[schmuls]

10. Your new kitty looks just like my little girl Lucy when she was a

kitten! She has that silver belly as well. Your other cat is just gorgeous. Thanks for sharing.

[Lorien]

11. Did she get more silver as she got older?

many smoke kittens do. Just wondering.

[schmuls]

12. yes, as a matter of fact she did. We didn't see any when we first

adopted her.

[demnan]

15. Is he going to be a long-hair?

Maybe he'll look a lot like Scorpio (except the eye color)

[Lorien]

19. Oh my, Scorpio is just gorgeous!

My little kitty looks like a medium hair-like my Turks. But who knows, his hair might get longer...just hard to tell at three months. His eyes could turn amber too-but they're green right now. Scorpio's hair was much shorter as a kitten too, though, wasn't it?

[demnan]

21. I don't think he was a kitten when I first got him though

and its hard to tell. He was so malnourished. It seems to me that seeing him before he was abandoned through the window he wasn't as long haired as he became later. And I certainly don't remember seeing the smokey fur.

My 86 year old mother brushes him every day to keep him pretty!

[BrklynLiberal]

41. Scorpio is magnificent...

[Beaverhausen]

13. I love black kitties. He's a great addition to the family. I vote Matisse for his name!

I take black kitty photos in daylight - that works best.

[MissHoneychurch]

14. OMG

he is gorgeous!!!!

How about calling him Shakespeare?

I had a black cat myself. She was a little devil. I loved her a lot. I still miss her.

[Throckmorton]

17. Sporkweasel

Every household needs a kitty named Sprokweasel!!!!

I hath, Kitty, Sporkweasel, and Basket,

But the spork is my favorite

[Throckmorton]

69. The Spork will be brokenhearted that no one likes his name.

I bet of FR he would be the life of the party.

[Sabriel]

18. I vote for Severus (Sev, for short)

It's what I wanted for our new black kitten, but the kids outvoted us with "Pepper." Yawn.

[Lorien]

23. I really thought about Servius

but Snape was such a mixed bag; ultimately good, but he could be pretty awful at times! This little guy doesn't have a mean bone in his body (so far), but we'll see...I'll add it to the list of possibilities!

[bertha katzenengel]

20. Your scheme seems to have worked - congrats!

I think Atticus is a great name. I don't know who Atticus Finch was named for -- some Roman god or legend? -- but it's a noble name and Atticus Finch is a noble character.

[Lorien]

60. I've decided to go with "Atticus Pyewacket"

which sounds like a nutty George Lucas name, but it suits his oddly contrasting features; having a serious little face and a goofball personality!

Oh, the original Atticus was the best friend of the Roman orator and philosopher Cicero, who dedicated some of his works to him.

[Arugula Latte]

22. AHHHHHHHH!

The cuteness ... It buuuuuuurns!

:loveya: :loveya: :loveya:

Congratulations on that gorgeous hunk of a kitten!

On edit: Name suggestion: "Onyx"

[Jamastiene]

24. I always make extra effort to make friends with the black kittens and cats.

So that during Halloween I can keep them safe from neighborhood Republicans. I shit you not. Cats are not safe in red America, much less the poor cats with black hair. You'd think people would have evolved by now, but no. There are still hateful assed people who hate black cats and kittens. Glad you saved one. It always makes my heart lift to know there is real true decent humanity left in this God forsaken world where we live.

Ok, on to the ooooohhhing and aaaaaahiiing.

Aawwwwwwww, both your kitties are so cute. I love cats. I also collect baseballs from children in the neighborhood who are too afraid of me and my black hair to come in the yard and get them...I'm well on my way.

[Arugula Latte]

26. Thanks for helping the kitties.

Some friends of ours just adopted an all-black kitten from a shelter, which made me happy.

BTW, it's weird that kids are afraid of your black hair!

[Jamastiene]

29. Yes, that is strange.

The area where we live is rather rural and the people still hold a lot of strange superstitions. One day at my first job out of high school, I overheard the boss' mother in law say I was untrustworthy because of the black hair and brown eyes. Most people in this area have brown or red hair. Those of us with the black hair are automatically outsiders. It's weird.

[pink-o]

33. Yeah, I adopted a Bombay about 7 years ago....

...it was just before Thanksgiving, and there were so many black cats in the shelter, I really had a hard time deciding. I naively asked why, and was given the whole story about how bastard sociopaths adopt and torture them during Halloween, so there's a moritorium on black cat adoption for months before. After that, I had to take one home and give it nothing but love.

So her name is Miss Patty, because that's what she was called in the shelter. But the next black cat who comes into my life I'm thinking of calling Rory--for a Rorsharck ink blot pattern!

I call my cat the Black Hole, Auntie Matter, and Negative Space.

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[Lorien]

38. Yeah, our rescue group wouldn't adopt them out near Halloween either

there sure are a a lot of sick fucks in the world. It's sometimes hard to stomach our species. :cry:

[Rob H.]

25. No names come to mind

but I have to say he's a handsome little devil. (Pip, too--those eyes!) I'm also glad to see I'm not the only person whose cat can't resist making itself comfortable on denim clothes. :)

[SOteric]

27. Caliban. "This thing of darkness" which Prospero acknowledged his own.

And truly, Caliban is fairly likeable as demi-devils go.

[yellowdogintexas]

28. he is gorgeous. I love the black kitties too, have one currently. they are so

sleek and shiny.

He appears to be very calm and self possessed, doesn't he?

your cats are great

[ChickMagic]

30. I once had a black kitty named Voodoo

I like the name Ansel because of his photos.

[REP]

31. He looks like Stewart!!

He's ADORABLE!!

Here's Stewart as a baby (he's a black smoke, too)



I like Maxfield (for Parrish) or Vladimir (for Nabokov, plus 'Vlad' is sinister enough sounding for a fierce black kitten).

Stewart is named for both Jon Stewart and Stewie Griffin, which pretty much fits his personality!

[Lorien]

36. Wow, he DOES look like Stewart!

I think Stewart may be a little fluffier, but they're virtually twins! :loveya:

[Arugula Latte]

47. I've always wanted to name a kitty "Stewart" or "Stuart"

I don't know why, that just tickles me as a kitty name.

BEAUTIFUL kitties!!!!! (Not that there are any kitties that are not beautiful :) )

[lildreamer316]

32. Cicero.

It jumped out at me.

Beautiful kitties!!

[WinkyDink]

34. Looks like a Romeo to me!

[LiberalHeart]

35. That first pic is now my wallpaper. Gorgeous cat.

[Lorien]

37. Aww, thanks

Little Pip often gets overlooked by my friends because my other two are pretty darn photogenic, but I think that Pippin is too!

[Hawkeye-X]

39. So you're going to have another cat pic to add to your sig!

Can't wait!

[Lorien]

50. Two more; I guess I'm becoming another nutty cat lady!

But really, four is as many as I can handle! I had four once before, but one of them was so old and under active that he was nearly a plant, lol!

[Kat45]

40. Awww! What cuties!

I love to see everybody's kitties.

[BrklynLiberal]

42. He is just adorable. A worthy addition to your family fo exquisite kitties.

I love the name Atticus...I also think of Atticus Finch..
but the name in and of itself has a quality that I like..

http://www.epicurus.net/en/atticus.html

but...one of the few black characters that Shakespeare created...
Caliban the slave whose mother, the witch Sycorax, is from Algiers in The Tempest

[regnaD kciN]

43. OMG! It's a Matagot!!!

In the Basque region between France and Spain, black cats are considered good luck, and the luckiest of them all are "Matagots" (magic cats), who move in with you. Thirty years ago this fall, my ex and I had a grown-up version of your little one (except with yellow eyes) show up in the middle of a storm, meowing pitifully. (He was very sick, and the vet later said he wouldn't have survived much longer if we had turned him away.) Of course, we took him in and nursed him back to health, and, of course, we had to name him Matagot ("Matty," or "Mat-Cat" for short). He lived with me for another eight years, and became one of those legendary cats people still tell stories about decades later. Very sweet, calm, and dignified, but with a practical-joker streak a mile wide. May you be as lucky with your new arrival!

[Lorien]

49. That's a cool story! Yep, so far he has been a "Matagot"

I used to hear hissing and growling outside my bedroom door every morning as Pippin relentlessly pounced on Oberon and Puck. Now all I hear is an occasional "urrrr,uurrrr, UUURRRR"! as the two kittens call to one another during their play. It's a MUCH more peaceful home now! I don't know how I'm going to afford all the food, litter, and flea treatments, but I'll manage somehow! I really don't know how DUer Tencats does it!

[meow2u3]

44. Name him Barack

after the next Purr-esident of the United States. :patriot:

[I Have A Dream]

51. I like this!

:)

[Lorien]

59. Oh, I considered "Barack"

but if they steal it again the name could make me :cry:

[spooky3]

45. So cute! And I'm crazy about Pippin!

[kedrys]

46. I made the same face the first time *I* saw Oberon

:rofl:

What a cutie! Our dearly departed Imhotep was black. Your little guy looks more like Immie's daughter Evie, though, or Quark's brother Tachyon, just more fluffy.

Tell 'em I said maow. :hi:

[Lavender Brown]

48. Merry! Merry and Pippin go together...

What great kitties. :loveya:

[Tuesday Afternoon]

52. cute --

what about Pepper? :shrug: Since he is black. Pip and Pepper go together, don't they?

Thanks for the pics and story.

[Sy Kopath]

53. DUers Sure Love Cats

I think I like looking at the cat pictures here more than talking politics.

[Lorien]

54. Well, it's a lot less stressful!

Oberon sez "Looook onto my eyes and reeelllaaaax..."

(Actually, he's asleep in that pic)!

[Sy Kopath]

56. I Could Look at Cat Pictures All Day Long

Not generic cat pictures. Pictures of cats who are happy with happy owners. My cat Gabby is 14 and still going strong. She's the alpha kitty in the family and would be in charge of the humans if she could.

[Lorien]

57. Have you put Gabby on Catster?

There's a lot of happy kitties on that site! http://www.catster.com/cats/100240

[Sy Kopath]

61. Thanks for the Link

I will put both of my cats there. Now I'm not going to get anything else done the rest of the day!

[Sy Kopath]

62. Thanks for the Link - I Made a Page for Both of my cats

<http://www.catster.com/cats/885753>
<http://www.catster.com/cats/885773>

[Lorien]

63. What gorgeous kitties!

Gabby looks a lot like Sterling, a Persian that a DUer adopted from one of the rescue groups I worked with (he was one of my fosters), though Gabby has more silver in her coat. And that sure is a sweet photo of Lucy taking a nap! :loveya:

[Sy Kopath]

66. Catster is Awesome!

I'd have a houseful of cats if I could. Catster is really neat. They already have friends!

[Haole Girl]

55. How cute!!

Your little guy reminds me so much of "Bear" as a kitten!



And your older one is just gorgeous!

:loveya:

[Lorien]

58. That's a great photo!

Bear is one handsome little guy. So glossy! He looks like he grew up into a pretty large kitty.

[boilerbabe]

64. Beebie!

You can call that kitty a more formal name but they only seem to answer to an easy-to hear one! So--Beeebie! then you can formally name that kitty like Bee-elzebub or whatever...

All of my kitties answer to a shortened name, like Bone (for Bonjour,), Lampy (for Larry), Stella (the same), etc...they all answer to "stinky kitty"

[Lorien]

65. Lol! I do that too

Puck remains Puck, but it's "Pip" for Pippin, "Obie" for Oberon, and now "Pye" for Atticus Pyewacket (what I've decided to call the kitten) or sometimes "smudge", because he's so darned hard to see! I also go the opposite way with names; Puck becomes "Puckus Minimus" (her Gladiator name) or "Puckus the Ruckus", a friend calls Oberon "Obi Ron Bon Jovi", and I call him "Sofa Lynx". Pippin also goes by "Peregrin Took" or "Peregrin Underfoot". So I started out with a long name for Atticus Pyewacket. I'm sure it will have MANY variations!

:hi:

[crim son]

67. Black cats are the BEST!

I've never had a smarter, more sensible, cuddly and beautiful cat than our black baby, Maximouse. Good luck to you!

[riverdeep]

68. Beautiful black cat just in time for halloween.

And he's got gorgeous chocolate jelly beans (toe pads).

[applegrove]

70. How about "Love Bug". That's is my new favourite nickname for my cat.

[unpossibles]

71. my next cat will be named Chairman Meow.

you're welcome to use it though.