Hey all,

I have never thought about doing this (until last night). I usually leave it up to the new owners to choose their name. It does delay paperwork quite a bit.

My daughter and I brainstormed and came up with many great themed names.

My question is: how do the new owners feel about their kitten already having a name? Has anyone ever had a problem with this?

If someone asks before I send off the paperwork I will try to give them their name but have never had a problem with them having a cat I have named, most of them just change them or shorten them.

I always have a theme for each litter and so the kittens are always given a name that I choose but I make it very clear to the new owners that it is entirely up to them what the kitten's pet name will be

I do themes and all the kittens are named with them from birth, I like coming up with them, have a A4 pad full of names lol

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I've bought named pedigree pups and dogs, never bothered me as not interested in showing or breeding, usually names were pretty "naff"

Never kept or been influenced by any existing names of my dogs, would be the same with kittens, so I would not be bothered either way. Not that I would buy a pedigree cat through preference

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Fairy smiling, smokes cheroot ...
Simply doesn't give a hoot.

I have themes for my kittens and no one has said anything. I think people expect pedigree names to be different and they then choose a 'pet' name. Two of mine from the litter before last ended up with the same pet name and when I hear from the owners I have to think back to which kitten it was
Mai Tai's breeder let me choose part of her name but because she is registered with an admin prefix we had to do several variations on it. Her full name is Adateam Meilingmaitai.

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I agree with lymorelynn. I like to decide my pedigree names but than obviously new families can decide their pet name and at home I also use "family" names.
My male Brown Sugar is Bruno (the name of my ex beloved bf), Agent 007 is Nano (=dwarf as he was the smallest of his litter), American Gigolò for the opposite reason is Ciccio (chubby) and for the new family will be Raul..)

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I don't breed cats but do breed dogs and I do all registrations before the puppy is even old enough to be viewed. I also like themes

Just as Amethyst has mentioned that she's had some 'naff' names with dogs in the past, I'd be worried that if I let new owners choose the name that it might be naff too. Spose it works both ways as not everyone has same taste

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ShazaLhasa
My fabulous furry friends

Why would it worry you what name new owner chose, you are selling the puppy to them, not keeping it

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Fairy smiling, smokes cheroot ...
Simply doesn't give a hoot.

I was merely pointing out that what's naff to one person might not be naff to another.

At the end of the day, this is a pedigree name not a pet name. The new owner will only ever use a pet name for their new puppy or kitten so why would it matter to them what the pedigree name is ?

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ShazaLhasa
My fabulous furry friends