'She told me she’s calling animal control about it': 60-year-old neighbor throws a tantrum because a family named their newly adopted female street cat, who just gave birth to 6 adorable kittens, a 'male' name

Mariel Ruvinsky • Writer and Editor

Jul 15, 2025 11:00 AM EDT

Over our time here at ICHC, writing about cats day in and day out, we have noticed something. We have noticed that the names people give their cats get divided into a couple categories. It's either cats have completely absurd names that are just hilarious and ridiculous, or people give their cats very human names, which is also hilarious in other ways.

The latter is what happened in this situation. The family who adopted this kitty named it Dave. The only problem is that, with human names, come human connotations. And the name Dave, generally, is given to males in the human kingdom. The family didn't know, when they named it, that this kitty was not only not male but also very, very pregnant, but the name stuck. And although we don't have a problem with her being called Dave and the family doesn't have a problem with her being called Dave… their neighbor apparently thinks it's worth calling animal control over.

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"My neighbor SCREAMED at me because of our new cats name"

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This… might be the funniest thing that we have read in a whole minute. Goodness, we love old people sometimes. They make us laugh. Let her call animal control, and please, oh please, let us be a fly on the wall for that conversation. We would bet real money on it being absolutely hissterical.
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And unrelated to the hilarious drama, we would like to say thank you to you guys for taking Dave in. We're sure that, no matter which name she has, she is going to be much, much happier in your hands than outside.
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'She told me she’s calling animal control about it': 60-year-old neighbor throws a tantrum because a family named their newly adopted female street cat, who just gave birth to 6 adorable kittens, a 'male' name

"My neighbor SCREAMED at me because of our new cats name"

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