The name of my cattery is Swift Abyssinians. First of all because cats are swift (swift: 1.Moving or capable of moving with great speed; fast. 2. Quick to act or react; prompt: swift to take steps.)
some synonyms: abrupt, alacritous, barrelling, double-quick, expeditious, express, fleet, fleet-footed, flying, harefooted, hasty, prompt, pronto, quick, rapid, ready, snappy, speedball, speedy, sudden, supersonic, unexpected, winged
Secondly, because I'm a student of English Literature, and this enables me to combine my passions.
Jonathan Swift: famous for :Gulliver's Travels and A Modest Proposal.
Retiens les griffes de ta patte,
Et laisse moi plonger dans tes beaux yeux,
M?l?s de m?tal et d'agate.
Lorsque mes doigts caressent ? loisir
Ta t?te et ton dos ?lastique,
Et que ma main s'enivre du plaisir
De palper ton corps ?lectrique,
Je vois ma femme en esprit. Son regard,
Comme le tien, aimable b?te,
Profond et froid, coupe et fend comme un dard
Et, des pieds jusques ? la t?te,
Un air subtil, un dangereux parfum,
Nagent autour de son corps brun.
Charles Baudelaire
Sheathe your sharp claws, and settle.
And let my eyes into your pupils dart
Where agate sparks with metal.
Now while my fingertips caress at leisure
Your head and wiry curves,
And that my hand's elated with the pleasure
Of your electric nerves,
I think about my woman ? how her glances
Like yours, dear beast, deep-down
And cold, can cut and wound one as with lances,
Then, too, she has that vagrant
And subtle air of danger that makes fragrant
Her body, lithe and brown.
? Roy Campbell, Poems of Baudelaire (New York: Pantheon Books, 1952)
It isn't just one of your holiday games;
You may think at first I'm as mad as a hatter
When I tell you, a cat must have THREE DIFFERENT NAMES.
First of all, there's the name that the family use daily,
Such as Peter, Augustus, Alonzo or James,
Such as Victor or Jonathan, or George or Bill Bailey -
All of them sensible everyday names.
There are fancier names if you think they sound sweeter,
Some for the gentlemen, some for the dames:
Such as Plato, Admetus, Electra, Demeter -
But all of them sensible everyday names.
But I tell you, a cat needs a name that's particular,
A name that's peculiar, and more dignified,
Else how can he keep up his tail perpendicular,
Or spread out his whiskers, or cherish his pride?
Of names of this kind, I can give you a quorum,
Such as Munkustrap, Quaxo, or Coricopat,
Such as Bombalurina, or else Jellylorum -
Names that never belong to more than one cat.
But above and beyond there's still one name left over,
And that is the name that you never will guess;
The name that no human research can discover -
But THE CAT HIMSELF KNOWS, and will never confess.
When you notice a cat in profound meditation,
The reason, I tell you, is always the same:
His mind is engaged in a rapt contemplation
Of the thought, of the thought, of the thought of his name:
His ineffable effable
Effanineffable
Deep and inscrutable singular Name.
T S Eliot