{"id":187278,"date":"2013-04-22T18:51:00","date_gmt":"2013-04-22T23:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2013\/04\/22\/crowd-sourcing-a-cat-naming\/"},"modified":"2013-04-22T18:51:00","modified_gmt":"2013-04-22T23:51:00","slug":"crowd-sourcing-a-cat-naming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2013\/04\/22\/crowd-sourcing-a-cat-naming\/","title":{"rendered":"Crowd Sourcing a Cat Naming"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Kitteh playing games<\/p>\n

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Kitteh finds this interesting<\/p>\n

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Kitteh in box<\/p>\n

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Another Paparazzi? I vant to be left alone<\/b>.<\/p>\n

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Ready to take a nap anywhere<\/p>\n

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Meatball is unamused by all of this fuss<\/i><\/div>\n

Yes, crowd sourcing.  As my son said, “Crowd sourcing is sooooo<\/b> 2013!”<\/p>\n

In any case, there have been two suggestions made from family members. Sharon*<\/sup>, has taken to calling him (yes, he is a Tom, at least until he is old enough to get neutered) A<\/b><\/u>nnoying K<\/b><\/u>itten, and then started using the initials AK, which I then suggested adding -47 to, in homage of Mikhail Timofeyevich Kalashnikov’s most famous contribution to the world of military arms, so she has taken to calling said cat, “AK-47”.<\/p>\n

I have two problems with this: First, it does not suit the cat. Cats are less assault rifles than they are stilettos. Second it seems that naming a pet after a weapon has a potential for accidental weapons discharge.\u2020<\/sup><\/p>\n

Natalie, on the other hand, has suggested, “Mr. Snugglypuff,” because \u2026\u2026\u2026 well because she is a 15 year old girl who is a theater geek.  (And also, because he looks so cute, but a monster lurks behind the fur, a monster with teeth, and claws, and bent sense of humor.)<\/p>\n

I am a firm believer that one does not name<\/b> a cat.  Instead, one discovers<\/b> the name that a cat already had, and I do not<\/b> believe that either my daughter nor my wife have captured his name.<\/p>\n

So, what do you think that we should call the cat.<\/p>\n

*<\/sup>Love of my life, light of the cosmos, she who must be obeyed<\/b><\/span>, my wife.<\/span>
\u2020<\/sup>I had a discussion with a Vietnam vet, Peter Meeledy, about how a dog named “VC” nearly started a firefight among his unit, because, well, when someone shouts “VC” in 1969, you tend to shoot first, and ask questions later.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Click for full size Kitteh playing games Kitteh finds this interesting Kitteh in box Another Paparazzi? I vant to be left alone. Ready to take a nap anywhere Meatball is unamused by all of this fuss Yes, crowd sourcing.  As my son said, “Crowd sourcing is sooooo 2013!” In any case, there have been two …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[976,1132,1124],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-187278","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-family","category-pets","category-photographs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187278"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=187278"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187278\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=187278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=187278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=187278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}