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[Maia]

This is my parents' cat. He has a funny, croaky little meow, and to compensate has an extremely loud purr.

Can anyone guess his name?

[attofishpi]

Satan.

[Maia]

Satan.

Nope.

[attofishpi]

Satan.

Nope.

Bond. James Bond, he's shaken but not stirred.

[Maia]

Satan.

Nope.

Bond. James Bond, he's shaken but not stirred.

He may, indeed, be a Russian Blue, which is a bit James Bondy, but he could equally be a British Shorthair, which sound like they should be totally different breeds, to me. No one's really sure because he just turned up one day, out of the, well, blue, I suppose.

[accelafine]

Gordon Blue

[Gary Childress]

This is my parents' cat. He has a funny, croaky little meow, and to compensate has an extremely loud purr.

Can anyone guess his name?

Rumpelstiltskin?

[attofishpi]

Nope.

Bond. James Bond, he's shaken but not stirred.

He may, indeed, be a Russian Blue, which is a bit James Bondy, but he could equally be a British Shorthair, which sound like they should be totally different breeds, to me. No one's really sure because he just turned up one day, out of the, well, blue, I suppose.

Wow, I've got a story about Russian Blue (though I thought it was a Prussian Blue - same difference I spose)..

So that blows my idea that the cat's name is Roy Orbison, the puuurrr he does in Pretty Woman...

Electricity is considered blue, Nikola Tesla!!

[FlashDangerpants]

He has a funny, croaky little meow, and to compensate has an extremely loud purr.

Harley

[Gary Childress]

He has a funny, croaky little meow, and to compensate has an extremely loud purr.

Harley

Good guess. I didn't think of it that way. I'll be interested if you guessed correctly.

[Maia]

Some good ideas, but none are right, so far.

Everything you need to know for the answer is already in my first post about him.

[promethean75]

The best guess possible without having any additional information about the cat would be Winston.

Raise your hand if you can tell me why.

[promethean75]

Very good!

With all things being the same, there is a very good chance an older middle-aged British male cat owner would name his cat Winston (Churchill). A better chance than naming him Tom or Blue or Enrique or Cornelius or Muffins or anything else you can think of, certainly.

"Everything you need to know for the answer is already in my first post about him."

Then we're looking for a notable literary animal personality that has a funny little meow and a loud purr. Your folks would have named him after this character.

When considering their age, we can eliminate the more recent animal personalites in literature and the movies since your folks wouldn't be exposed to it. So, we're looking for animals from book and movie classics of the mid-20th century.

[Maia]

Very good!

With all things being the same, there is a very good chance an older middle-aged British male cat owner would name his cat Winston (Churchill). A better chance than naming him Tom or Blue or Enrique or Cornelius or Muffins or anything else you can think of, certainly.

"Everything you need to know for the answer is already in my first post about him."

Then we're looking for a notable literary animal personality that has a funny little meow and a loud purr. Your folks would have named him after this character.

When considering their age, we can eliminate the more recent animal personalites in literature and the movies since your folks wouldn't be exposed to it. So, we're looking for animals from book and movie classics of the mid-20th century.

A creditable chain of reasoning. The bit about his funny little meow and loud purr, while certainly true, indeed, his purr can be a bit deafening when he's lying right next to your head, may well be a distraction from the true answer.

So here's a clue, then. There's nothing subtle about the answer. In fact, naming him required literally no thought at all from either my parents or brother, though I'm not sure which of them first came up with it.

[accelafine]

97 percent of people call their cat fluffy, mittens, smokey, felix, blackie, tiddles or kitty so if someone is going with odds then I suppose any will do.
Or perhaps 'pussy', an opportunity to get the mature likes of prom and fish into a sexual lather (it certainly doesn't take much).