Names for my polydactyl

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23 November, 2013 at 2:57 pm #795244

Spoofy
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I have a new male polydactyl kitten, he has 7 toes on the front feet, and 6 on the back. He’s black and white. I would love to give him a clever name that has to do with his feet, ex: tony (toe-ny) or zu( Chinese for foot) catch my drift? I already have a polydactyl named tony so I don’t want any names too close to his.

23 November, 2013 at 4:19 pm #795248

JerseyJoan
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Hmmm, I like Toeny! I had a cat named Shaddo – just to be different!
Nothing springs to mind but if I think of something, I’ll stop back.

23 November, 2013 at 4:34 pm #795250

ailuromaniac
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Since you have a little boy, I suggest Hemmingway.

23 November, 2013 at 5:54 pm #795256

Renee in Arkansas
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How about a royal name such as Count de Toes Courtney for short

23 November, 2013 at 6:03 pm #795258

Renee in Arkansas
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Then again you could go for more of a technical name like “Digits”

23 November, 2013 at 6:09 pm #795260

Spoofy
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Ya I thought about hemi for short, n I didn’t want anything like mitten, or fingers or Tom Thumb, I just thought they were weird

23 November, 2013 at 6:09 pm #795261

Renee in Arkansas
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How about Zac from the Zac Brown Band ,they wrote a song called Toes
I got my toes in the water, a$$ in the sand Not a worry in the world, a cold beer in my hand Life is good today, life is good today

23 November, 2013 at 6:16 pm #795263

Renee in Arkansas
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•Da Jiao- means Big Foot in Chinese

23 November, 2013 at 6:17 pm #795264

Renee in Arkansas
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•Da Jiao- means Big Foot in Chinese I don’t know how to prononce it

23 November, 2013 at 11:31 pm #795281

katzenjammer
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Taking off from the Hemingway theme what about choosing the name of one of his main male characters?

Santiago (The Old Man and The Sea)
Jake (The Sum Also Rises)
Frederic Henry (but he was mostly known as Henry) (A Farewell to Arms)

Purrhaps a bit of a stretch, but Hemingway was the ultimate “poly” lover – and his characters are “real masculine men” LOL. And IMHO it would be fun to explain how kit got his name.

24 November, 2013 at 12:19 am #795294

Kittyzee
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Toe-bee is cute, but it sounds a lot like Tony. I tried to submit much earlier, but it’s usually hit or miss, the website is up but not responding to connection attempts. My daughter has an orangey polydactyl that looks like he is wearing catcher’s mitts, his feet are so big!

24 November, 2013 at 1:19 am #795301

prairiecat
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Snowshoe?
Sasquatch?

24 November, 2013 at 4:05 am #795321

snowkitten
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This may not be original enough, but…

How about Polly? (I took it from the beginning of Polydactyl) When I googled the actual meaning of the name “Polly” it said “star of the sea”. To give it a more masculine spelling, you could spell it “Paulie” if you want. “Paul” name meaning is “humble”.

Or just Polys, which means “many”

Adhik (pronounced Ah*Deek) – means “more” or “greater” and is sanskrit

24 November, 2013 at 4:14 am #795323

Spoofy
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Oo I kind of like paulie. The names I’m considering is, zac, zu, lotto, moto, pinto, hemi, Achilles, and Pluto. But I’m definately open to more names

24 November, 2013 at 4:50 am #795331

katzenjammer
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OK this is my final contribution – Hemingway’s poly was called “Snowball” and Teddy Roosevelt had a poly called “Slippers”. Is that your kitty on your avatar? Would love to see pic! Here’s some poly fun!

http://i1347.photobucket.com/albums/p711/katzjpickz/Picture1_zpsaeb9c09a.jpg

24 November, 2013 at 4:54 am #795332

Spoofy
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Ya that’s him, I don’t know how to make the picture smaller and I don’t know how to upload it threw here :/

24 November, 2013 at 5:00 am #795333

katzenjammer
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I use Photobucket for uploading pics, their site explains all the how-tos. In any case from what I can see he’s adorable!

25 November, 2013 at 8:16 am #795432

Renee in Arkansas
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How about Dac, The stressed and unstressed part of the meaning fits most cats

dactyl dactyl , a metrical unit ( foot ) of verse, having one stressed syllable followed by two unstressed syllables, as in the word carefully (or, in

3 December, 2013 at 5:38 am #796169

Spoofy
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So I decided on hemi. As in Hemingway. He and my other cat are now use to each other and are having a blast chasing each other around. Took him to the vet, he was a big star and is healthy. He is a huge snuggler and loves people.
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