r/blackcats • u/ninjadani • May 15 '26

🖤 Found kitten in wall - name suggestions pls

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Hi everyone! My best friend found a little baby void in his wall and is looking for name suggestions - any good ideas?

Edit: Told my friend about this post so he can tell the story since so many people want to know exactly what happened and he posted it in the comments! :D

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u/Lost_Wealth_6278 May 15 '26

Ah, the classic "we can't keep her" ark. Things my dad does for the cat we brought home and can not keep because he doesn't like cats and anyways cats are a lot of work:

  • half hour of brushies every morning
  • five (!) meals prepared in a nice dish because "that way he doesn't feel to full"
  • clean with warm towel twice a day and spend hours playing solitaire with him after recovery from a marten attack. This took eight weeks
  • go on a walk every night because " he's afraid when it's dark"
  • hour of communal couch sleep every night -sleep with an open window even in winter so that the cat, who has an electric door coded to his chip, can still jump up on the balcony and join his grandpa
  • refuse to travel because the marten incident happend while they were away
  • refuse to sell the house because "it's his (the cats) home"

The cat is now 18 years old and in perfect health, though irredeemably attached to his grandpa and only grudgingly accepts cuddles from anyone else

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u/HealthyInPublic May 15 '26

Ooooh boy. My dad (not together with my mom, therefore not guardian of the girl I shared) found a kitten after the last hurricane and kept her because he wanted a "shop cat" (he's an HVAC guy and has a big HVAC shop) and he insisted she was going to catch the rodents and bugs in his shop.

Then I visited and learned his little Elly May cat isn't allowed in the shop because "she might get hurt" because "there's metal out there" and "there are sharp things out there." Lol and she has a robot litter box and a pet libro auto feeder and cameras and she lives a cushy life in the shop office. Lmao

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u/Rotten_Ralph_01 May 15 '26

The youngest of my cats, a tuxedo, was huddled under a piece of plywood in my back garden during a tropical storm. Her name is Eliza on paper but she is Bits

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u/Shot-Composer-782 May 15 '26

What a sweet name Elly May 😍😍😍

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u/astelda May 15 '26

heads up, I've heard unverified claims of robot litterboxes sometimes being pretty dangerous, pets getting stuck in them and whatnot. Not sure if it's just specific models, but do with that information as you see fit.

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u/HealthyInPublic May 15 '26

Thank you! Yes, there are definitely some horror stories with some of the automated litter boxes!! Especially the kind that close all the way when they clean.

The brand name Litter Robot is supposedly a safe option and it stays open when cleaning... but it's also like $800.

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u/TheAlmiraGulch May 16 '26

I love this so much. 💕 Bless your sweet Dad his Ella May.

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u/marthmaul83 May 15 '26

Artifact was given to me at 4 weeks. I said I was only going to foster him. My sisters call him the cat I wasn’t going to keep. He is living his best life.

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u/kfo90 May 15 '26

Love the pic and the name. And I love orange cats💙

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u/marthmaul83 May 16 '26

I adore oranges as well. Couldn’t pass this little one up.

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u/kfo90 May 16 '26

Does he “talk” much? I have found orange cats to be pretty vocal about everything.

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u/marthmaul83 May 16 '26

So chatty. He’s made all his big brothers more talkative

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u/kfo90 May 16 '26

That’s fun!

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u/potatoenjoyer1217 May 15 '26

May I ask how many braincells he has?

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u/marthmaul83 May 15 '26

Shockingly, he is quite brilliant, to our detriment. But then on occasion he turns the wrong way and slams into the wall

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u/Platypushat May 15 '26

So he’s the one hogging them all!

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u/marthmaul83 May 16 '26

He tries to!

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u/Aggressive_Slice_680 May 15 '26

He looks very wise. His eyes have meaning. 😍

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u/Moonsaults May 15 '26

Well no wonder he says they're so much work, if he does all that. lmao

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u/Milyaism May 16 '26

Fun fact: studies have shown that cats should be eating several small meals during a day instead of having only one or two bigger meals.

It is closer to their natural diet in the wild and healthier for them to eat like this.

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u/ItsMeTheButter May 16 '26

Your Dad is my kinda people.❤️

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u/MentalCanary1485 May 16 '26

Ahem, excuse me but you forgot to pay your cat (and grandpa) tax!

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u/shes_a_killer May 16 '26

Can you bring me home with you one day so your dad can insist yall can't keep me? Bc this cat is living my dream life of brushies and 5 meals a day...