25 Names for Southern Cats
By Zoe Gowen
Black and White Cat Lounging Outside
Credit: Robbie Caponetto
In the South, the house cats purr a little bit slower and answer to charming Southern names. Life in the South is far better for Southern house cats than for Northern felines. If you think that Southern belles live pampered lives filled with limitless shopping, frequent beauty salon visits, fancy iced teas, and catered dinners, have you ever given much thought to how they treat their kitty cats? The answer? Even better than they treat themselves. The time has come to ponder the precious existence of Southern house cats. They are bred in columned sorority houses. After kittenhood, they are free to prowl the tops of lacy iron gates and mossy brick garden walls. When the sun and humidity become too much for them, they shade themselves beneath the canopies of Live Oak groves. Inside, they lounge on crisp chintz covered love seats by day and cozy velvet covered chaise lounges at night. If the urge to scratch overtakes them, they head to the pecky cypress clad walls in the library, but it's paws off on the leather books! Time to play hide and seek, they perch upon a custom chintz curtain pelmet. Their catnip comes served on a fine china salad plate in Mottahedeh's Tobacco Leaf pattern. They lap their organic milk from a matching saucer. Both rest upon a monogrammed Leontine Linens place mat This is the Gone with the Wind fantasy version of a Southern house cat's life. In truth, a house cat from Jackson, Mississippi lives a similar life to a house cat in Topeka, Kansas only with less corn in their diets and more humidity in the air. But, you can latch on to these bygone Southern days with any one of these precious Southern cat names. It just wouldn't be good Southern manners to name a cat Alessandra or Bob.
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Beignet
Tabby Cat in Courtyard
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Bowood
Black and White Cat Sleeping on Couch
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Buster
Gray Kitten
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Calpurnia
Gray and White Cat Walking Outside
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Capote
Blacka and White Cat with Tongue
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Chow-Chow
Orange Cat
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Cleo
Gray and White Cat
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Dahlia
Gray Cat with Yellow Eyes
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Eudora
Gray Cat Staring
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Jasper
Orange and White Cat Sitting
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Julep
Orange Cat Drinking from Glass
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Ketchup
Gray Fat Cat on Rug
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Kudzu
Gray and White Cat Outside
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Mr. Whiskers
Light Gray Cat Outside
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Mrs. Kitty
Black and White Cat Lounging Outside
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Nola
Orange and White Cat in Chair
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Pickles
Gray Cat Perched
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Precious
Gray and White Cat Sitting
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Scarlett
Orange Cat Looking in Mirror
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Shrimpy
White Cat Laying Outside
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Tallulah
Gray Cat Lounging in Chair
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Tuna
Orange and White Cat Outside
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Turnip
Sleeping Gray Cat
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Zelda
Gray Cat with Toys
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By Zoe Gowen