Help Name A Kitten

[Drusilla]

My girls are getting a ginger kitten for Christmas (I've seen her and she's adorable) and I would like some ideas for a name. My elder daughter is crazy about Boudicca and the Iceni and there is no way I intend standing at my kitchen door, screaming,
'Boudicca! Here, Boudicca!'
I'd be strait jacketed before I could paint myself in woad. Please help because I need to be armed with great alternatives.
One last point. I'd always assumed it was genetically impossible for a ginger cat to be female. Where did that myth come from??

[smudge]

Marmalade?

[!]

Garfield?

You might have thought that as tortoiseshell cats, (from ginger and black cats), can only be female as the colour gene is carried on the X chromosome!

[Drusilla]

I think I actually prefer Smudge to Marmalade, especially as this kitten has colouring on its lip that looks like smudged lippie.
No offence Smudge!! :-)

[smudge]

Thank you Drusilla - My username is after our beloved cat Smudge who we had for 13 wonderful years! She was a beautiful Russian Blue & we still miss her very much.

[bubblebubble]

my mate had a cat called "Dave"

[Kingaroo]

Zingiber is the latin name for the ginger-root plant

Jaune is yellow in french - if you anglicize the ZH sound into a J it could be Joan... or Joan Dark (Jeanne d'Arc) if you daughter wants another heroine

Amarillo (double L = Y) is yellow in spanish, orange is Anaranjada (j = H)

But remember, whatever you name it, you need only call Here Kitty Kitty, and it will come... or not, same as if you call its name.

[copippin]

Ginny Dundee.Ginny for short!!Ginny,a vatiation on ginger, and Dundee for make of marmalade!

Let us know what you finally decide on as an alternative to Boudicca!! and have a very happy christmas too.

[copippin]

Sorry, for vatiation,read variation!!

[gingerflaps]

how about the name 'Amber'?

[B00]

Cfer?

(C for cat!)

[mycatis]

My mum had a cat called Chairman Meow lol

[josaphine32]

chloe , fizz, bella, sadie, tigger, miffy, cookie, simba....i can think of loads, we not long named a ginger kitten....he was a boy though.. scooby and the girl was scrappy

[Drusilla]

Hi, In A Pickle. She is very light ginger in most places with quite a bit of white, particularly on her tummy. Her ears are a darker ginger, as is the marking around her mouth and she has slightly darker ginger striping interspersed with the larger areas of light ginger. I would have thought she was a tortoiseshell, if she wasn't just ginger and white. Maybe, she is still a tortioiseshell?
I always had dogs as a youngster and don't really know much about cat varieties. I'm just glad I won't get lumbered with walkies!
Have a lovely Christmas In a Pickle and thank you for always being so sweet to me on AB. I appreciate your kindness.

[lankeela]

Spice (Ginger Spice!)

[gingerflaps]

hey mycats, chairman meow is the name of frank skinner's pet cat too!

[amron]

Hi Drusilla...We have two lovely tortoise shell kittens...one called Smudge(thanks Smudge) and on called fluffy t-shirt (named by my 4 yr old).

But the best name for a cat I've every heard was on one of the kids TV programmes...It was called Mousey Tounge..lol

[Hippy]

In A Pickle wrote: "... a ginger/Tortie, which can of course be both male and female."

Acrobatic pussy or or muddled human?

[mycatis]

gingerflaps - Is it?? pmsl cool i'll tell my mum.
I got a stuffed tiger yesterday and I called him Tybalt (as in Prince of Cats) I think thats a great name for a cat! lol