Choosing a nickname for a tabby cat

No one in life wants to be lonely, so people love, create families, make friends, and also have pets. The variety of our smaller brothers is very huge, but today we will talk about cats, or rather, tabby seals.

The main question is, of course, what to call the little fluffy miracle, because as you name the ship, so it will float. Several factors influence the choice of a nickname: do you want a simple name or a more creative one, or maybe a noble one, to emphasize the dignity of your pet, or perhaps an unusual one. Maybe you will be the first to call a cat by such a name that cats, in principle, have not been called before, or your imagination will be able to make something new from an ordinary name, by adding words, changing letters or abbreviations.

Usually a name comes to mind immediately when you see who it is for. Let's look at the nicknames for tabby cats.

• By associations into strips... Of course, the first thing that comes to mind is to indicate that the cat has a special color - Zebra, Pedestrian, Gaets, Sergeant, Ribbon, Polosatik, Tiger, Matroskin, Junga, Tigran.
• In appearance. If the kitten is snow-white - Snowball; if the lump is rather shaggy - Fluff, Fluff; if, on the contrary, without wool - Sphinx, Shrek; red color - Ogonyok, Ryzhik; dark color - Chernysh, Ugolyok; gray color - Smoke; if there are several colors and it is rather difficult to distinguish which ones are present to a greater extent - Rainbow, Tsvetik.
• By the name. Murka, Simon, Dina, Bill, Pippi, Emma, ​​Barsik, Barboskin, Valentin, Zhuzha, Miroslav, Vaska, Manya, Marseille, Maximilian, Marquis.
• By the features of behavior. If your cat is always cheating or rubbing into trust - Stirlitz; if the kitten is very affectionate and loves to bask in the arms - Kid; for an important cat, nicknames such as Count, Boss, Emperor, Lord are suitable; for a fast cat - Lightning, Thunder; for a quiet, calm cat - Mir, Magician, Valerian, Kuzya; for an ever-finding adventure - Avatar, Albus, Zhivchik; for the unapproachable and eternally dissatisfied - Hedgehog, Thorn.
• According to the features of the appearance. At first glance, we always notice some bright moments or individuality of cats and cats: Cutie, Knop, Inch, Bison, Multicolored, Blue-eyed, Fighter.
• Idol. Each of us has a person who we really like and whom we look up to: we like creativity, or maybe a look at life, or maybe this is a fictional creature. Also, we can consider our parents or relatives, people close to us to be an idol, in any case, we can build on the name of your idols, reduce, alter a little - Jackson, Jean, Bonya, Bond, Rambo, Goofy, Ricky.
• In honor of someone. If you want to name someone close or dear to you after, remember that people don't always like to hear their names in animals. Even call such super-favorites only if you are fully confident that it will not offend a person, but, on the contrary, will delight and touch.
• In honor of something. If you are a fan of musicals or simply works - Vaudeville, Behemoth (character from the novel "The Master and Margarita"); if he loves food - Peach, Orange, Gingerbread; if you like certain countries, then you can take more or less sounding cities of this country - Los, York, Birmingham, Cologne, Leeds, Essen.
• Foreign. When choosing a name, you need to remember the pedigree of the four-legged friend. Therefore, starting from his country, they most often give such nicknames as Max, Jack, Rocky, Teggie, Thatcher, Tucker.
  1. Egyptian - Apis, Anubis, Jafari.
  2. English - Griffin, Garfield, Douglas.
  3. British - Benjamin, Beverly.
  4. Greek - Prometheus, Pegasus, Zeus, Ramses, Apollo.
  5. Eastern - Aland, Balkhan, Jag.
  6. Japanese - Yori, Kei-ko, Tomiko.
• Abbreviations... Sometimes there are such long nicknames that it is not always convenient to pronounce, therefore, in order to simplify your life, most often real names are shortened: Julian - Julia, Julia, Crook; Zalgiris - Jag, Rice, Gear; Mikado - Mika, Miki; Frantik - Frant, Fran.

When choosing a kitten, all aspects are taken into account: color, breed, eye color, gender, pedigree, and most importantly - to whom the soul lies, if it is mutual. And now a cute creature is already at your home, and a difficult choice of a nickname begins. If the color of your new friend is in a gray strip, then you can call him Smoke, it's like jerky smoke, like stripes, or start from the weather conditions - Thunderstorm, Tumanchik. You can start from the gray color and just call it Gray, you can resort to a foreign language - Gray, you can also start from positions that are consonant with the word gray, for example, Cardinal.

Of course, there is a rating of popular nicknames for cats, and we repeatedly hear these names, there can be an infinite number of them. Below is a ranking of the most popular:

• Barsik;
• Murzik;
• Cake;
• Alex;
• Tishka;
• Felix;
• Timofey;
• Yashka;
• Volume;
• Simon;
• Oscar;
• Masik;
• Fluffy;
• Syoma;
• Vaska.

No matter how you name your pet, additional nicknames will definitely appear, not always good ones. For example, Fluffy bastard, Such a fool, Hey. But when choosing a name, do not forget that not only a person's name can shape character, but the name of your pet too. You can alter names, associate with different themes, fantasize or not bother at all.Coming up with new non-existent names or, on the contrary, taking old ones and not improving them in any way.

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