Why on earth would anyone call a cat....

Rose Our milk was delivered straight from the farm, into the jug that was left out on the doorstep, sometimes by the farmer's son called Walter. He had a tendency to underfill it, and whenever the measure was short, Mum would exclaim "It's that Walter again!" At that time I didn't know his name was Walter, and I thought she meant that he had topped it up with water!

I wouldn't have put it past him.

My DD has two cats named Milo and Moudy (diminutive of Mouse). Why she named her Mouse I've never known. Milo is a splendid hunter, he's been seen watching a neighbour's lawn intently, pouncing and coming up with a mole. As a child I had a cat called Tinker.

phoenix I quite like sprout the more I think about it,it's addictive isn't it.
One of DS1s stray cat friends was christened Vienna after Rigby's cat in Rising Damp years ago and when we had old family house with a large amount of land at the rear same DS called his pot bellied pig Juicey Lucy.This was a boy who used to bring home animals as "strays" sometimes before they where lost,bit of a Dr. Dolittle really.

My DD has a cat named Sprout, and one named Chewbacca and one named Rhubarb. I think they're lovely names for cats. We once had a dog named Spud.

I like Sprout as a name for a cat (or even a child as a nickname). I'm not telling you what we called Minibags until she was five and a half. It has connections to potatoes. No, it wasn't Chips or Mash or Baked or Gnocchi or those sausage shaped things... oh, croquettes, is it?

But the potato connection wasn't why we called her it.

"sometimes before they were lost"

Glamma

Our cat is called Smoochie a name which he had already been given when we got him. Silly name especially when you are calling him late at night but the rest of the family like it.
Our previous cat was called Hudson because he was black with a white bib and was named after the butler in Upstairs, Downstairs.
DD calls her black cat Salem. He is rather evil !

My last cat had spent her earliest years in a student house and was named Comealong. She certainly knew her name and so we never changed it.

LOL does it matter?

The great thing about adopting adults cats- is that you can choose names that suit. Both our current cats were found in a taped cardoard box by the M69/M1 junction- one was very large with a floppy belly- so we called her Pudding, often shortened to Pudster or Pudpud. the other was small and very very soft to the touch, so we called her Silky. Now, why 'sprout'? As said though it doesn't matter, lol.

Our eldest son was working in Dubai and rescued a kitten from certain death in a supermarket car park. He named her Lulu after the supermarket and after vast expenditure (his) on rabies injections and air ticket, she now lives with us. Lulu is spotted, very intelligent and dog like in her devotion to DH. I suppose we could change her name to Waitrose, but she is used to Lulu now.

Many years ago my aunt had a black cat which would always be sick if anyone picked him up. The story was that he was getting his own back because they had called him Geraldine! When they realised he wasn't a girl at all they tried changing it to Gerry, but he wasn't having any of it

Surely the cat was called sprout because it was a fartypuss

When I was a child my friends grandmother had a white cat called Blackie and a black rabbit called Snowy at the time I thought she was a crazy old lady but now I appreciate the humour.
We've had a cat called Sam one called Kizzy and our current rescue cat was called Skye when we got her but we just call her puss or DH will sometimes call her Madam.
My friend's cat is a huge black long haired moggie called Maude. I think that's a great name for a cat.

But in the photos, he doesn't look like a "Sprout" at all, althought I'm not entirely sure what he does look like.

Will try to find a link.....

Here you go!

www.cats.org.uk/launceston/adopt-a-cat/?cid=89542

Aww! He looks just like a Sprout! Gorgeous

Nina I had a Sam - lovely sleek black cat with immaculate which shirt and socks; the other cat was Sandy. We had chosen him at a local farm and arranged to pick him up after we'd been away for a weekend. Nobody could agree on a name until I had a dream about a ginger cat called Sandy and so he was!

Ana are you sure?I think he looks more like a Sid!

My son had a cat called Piggy, it was originally named Miss Piggy until they found out she was a he. For quite some time my little grandson thought all cats were piggy's. Very confusing!

Oh no! Sid's far to plebian for that lovely cat - he deserves a quirky name.

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When I was a child we had a cat called Sooty. Unfortunately he was Sooty by name and Sooty by nature as he managed to get on to the roof (no idea how) came down the chimney bringing the contents with him all over Mum's new rug. Poor Sooty was swiftly re-homed after that, much to Mum's relief as she wasn't really a cat lover.

Sprout is a very handsome cat and I think I could live with the name.

Oh I want him. Just looked at his photo. Never mind his name, I could live with him!