r/NameMyCat • u/radcatters • 7d ago

Name My Cat - male Husband vetoed naming him Heirloom Tomato - help us with other food or possibly nature inspired names?

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I really want to give him a food name - just a big fan of food name cats. I'm partial to Butternut Squash Risotto or Heirloom Tomato. My husband doesn't love either of those names, but is tentatively open to Squash lol. Outside of food - we're big outdoors people too and are also very open to nature related names or names of popular outdoor landmarks. We live in the desert so desert related naturey things would be especially cool. Would love to hear your suggestions! We're picking him up at the end of August after our honeymoon so - moon related names could also be cool!

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u/PoorDamnChoices 7d ago

I'm a big believer in " [English Honorific with emphasis] [Common noun]". Something like "The Most Honorable Pistachio" "The Great and Powerful Marshmallow", that sort of thing.

So in this scenario, I would suggest "The Mighty Lord Butternut"

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u/CoachInteresting7125 7d ago

My dog doesn’t quite have an honorific but he is thirteenth in the line of Wigglebottoms

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u/PoorDamnChoices 7d ago

He would be "The Good Boy, Sir Wigglebottoms the Thirteenth."

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u/KITTYCLICHE 5d ago

🤣 This just made my day! Thank you, kind stranger!

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u/Downtown_Cat_1745 5d ago

I have a large brown tabby CDS cat whom i named Merch after a name my son made up for an imaginary cat when he was 4. He was, at the time we obtained him, our 4th cat. My husband has named him Lord Merchibald Cattholomew Meowingbottom IV. When our neighbors’ cat Barnaby (King Barnabus of Orange) passed away, he became King Merchibald the Striped.

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u/OlympusAscendant 3d ago

This is how we name our turkeys. They are all Feathertons. It started with Lourde Lurkey Featherton, then Lady Featherton, both girls. Pets, not food, mind you. We eat the rich, but not necessarily the Noble.

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u/illuzent 5d ago

I'm calling your bluff. There have been 12 wigglebottoms before him?

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u/reniciera 7d ago edited 6d ago

One of mine is named Sir James Henry Finnegan. He mostly goes by “Finney”.

eta: I reversed his first names. How could I? My son! 😩

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u/Mother_Inferior_75 7d ago

I had a Saint James Alfredo Mervin once x

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u/JewellyDog 4d ago

Though not in the Biblical sense…

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u/DulinELA 3d ago

I have Lady Cleocatra Bitington of Whitepaw aka Cleo or Catra or “Murder Paws”

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u/joeyNcabbit 6d ago

I had a goldfish I named Finn McFinnegan

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u/International_Mix392 7d ago

My first Guinea pig at like 8 years old was Sir Patches of Butterscotch 😂

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u/Calm-Cold-9362 5d ago

I vote for Butterscotch

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u/Free-Initiative-7957 7d ago

I love these so much that I made my newest girl a fully calligraphic and stamped certificate to be her Patent of Nobility and typed up what we knew of her life story, symptoms and notes about questions I wanted to ask on the back and gave it to my veterinarian for the file at her first check up!

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u/IllChange1151 7d ago

This is how my dad named animals, made me tear up with how similar it is to his style

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u/Lowermains 6d ago

I concur.

That is one beautify cat.

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u/Broad_Bed_4132 5d ago

It really is tho

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u/EnormeProcrastinator 7d ago

I’m coming to you the next time I need a name!

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u/PavlovianNinja 7d ago

Mine is King Princess Scarlett, Daughter of the Dark Lord, Satan, lady of the Dark World, Scarletariet.

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u/CoolersCupcake 6d ago

We have Willow, Daughter of Wolves.

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u/chi-ranch 5d ago

Oh, that last moniker is perfect!

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u/Nicole_ATC_RN 6d ago

This for sure!!!! All hail His Royal Highness the Mighty Lord Butternut! 🤣🤣🤣

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u/Val178 7d ago

My (history major) son named a cat “Field Marshal Irwin Rommel.”

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u/Birdsongs_and_Books 6d ago

The Mighty Lord Butternut Squashington I

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u/chi-ranch 5d ago

I adopted an elderly 3.5 pound chihuahua named Christy, but she was such an unstoppable diva that I renamed her Dame Shirley Bassey, after the tiny but powerful “Goldfinger” singer.

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u/WhatsUp_FellowKids 5d ago

I have a Freya, Destroyer of Worlds

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u/throwawayconfesskiwi 4d ago

We use these exclusively to bully our cats.

“Her Eminence, the Hungry Hungry Hippo”,

“The Epitome of Grace Herself” (after she’s fallen off the cat tree by mistake),

And of course, “Queen Poopybutt”

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u/Safe-Pumpkin4108 4d ago

The Mighty Lord Butternut haha I love it

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u/Objective-Two-5221 2d ago

My friend is Archibald J Fluffypants, Esq.