'The Naming of Cats' is a curious poem by the late T. S. Eliot. He states 'a cat must have THREE DIFFERENT NAMES' : 1) a 'sensible everyday name', 2) a 'peculiar' 'more dignified' name 'that never belong[s] to more than one cat', and 3) 'the name no human research can discover - but THE CAT HIMSELF KNOWS, and will never confess.'
Having called a very dear cat 'oreo felius cattus number 9', I get where Mr. Eliot was coming from.
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