All I know is, when I call 'Samwise', Boris doesn't come running. Neither does Haggis, or any of our dogs. Truthfully, Sam doesn't come running either, but he does give me a disdainful glare, so I know he knows I'm talking to him.




Boy, is he gonna be pissed when I take down the tree tomorrow.:rolleyes:

Boris knows when I'm talking about him. He also knows when I'm talking about Sasha, which annoys him, because I should be talking about him. Sasha is about as sharp as a bag of wet mice, so she just hears the blah blah blah ginger. Her name you could easily change. Boris - maybe not. He's had that name for his whole life, since I named him before he was born and his first set of caretakers always called him that for me.

Oh, and I tried it yesterday! When I was putting out the cats, rather than "OUT!", and demanded "IN!" and they still went out! It's not what you say, necessarily, it's how you say it.....

In which case, they follow a tonal language - perhaps we should be speaking Chinese to our cats?

Cat Stevens changed his name, so I suppose that settles it :)

Didn't Huey Lewis do a song about that?

I'm thinking it doesn't matter if you rename a cat. They will ignore you regardless of what yoiu call them.

Damn: I can't mojo you for this and it definitely deserves it!

We did...kind of. And, I can thank my niece for his name change.

Okay...here's the story. Our cat came prowling around our back porch one crisp day in November 1998. He essentially adopted us, and years later, he's still with us.

After trying to come up with a name, we settled on the highly original "Tom". And, when we introduced my niece (who was 2 years old at the time) to him, she kept calling him "Ol' Thum". The reason why is that she knocked out her front teeth a couple of weeks earlier in a playground accident, and until her permanents came in, she talked with a lisp.

The name stuck, and Tom became "Ol' Thum".