Cat

Cats are absolute individuals, with their own ideas about everything, including the people they own.

~ John Dingman

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Our cat has several names:

Neko - Japanese for "cat"

Catten - because she's no longer a kitten, but not quite a cat

Miracle Kitten - because of her amazing will to survive.

Catten my Catten - in tribute to Walt Whitman's poem about Abraham Lincoln from Leaves of Grass.

NEEEEE - kola - pronounced as you would say "Ricola" from the commercials.

Neko Badeko - because it rhymes.

I'm not sure if we use these names with different levels of sentimentality or not.

It doesn't matter because she's a cat and she responds to none of them, anyway.