Reply #22: I kept the name the shelter gave her

[pink-o]

...I got my Bombay kitty just about 4 years ago, and on her shelter cage, they labeled her as "Patty". Since she's all black, I was gonna change it to Isis or Circe or something more mythological. But she's a total proletarian, kinda fat and not at all mysterious. (You can read this cat like a book, I'm serious! I knew nothing about felines till I took this one home, and she makes her needs obvious to a tyro like me!) Anyway, I now call her "Miss Patty" as a gesture of respect.

But honestly, she doesn't know her name. I call her "Little Girl", "Little One", sometimes just "Little" or "Miss Kitty". She'll answer to all of 'em--but only if it suits her!!!!!