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On 06/02/2016 5:17 PM, Janet wrote:
> In article >, says...
>>
>> On 2/6/2016 2:00 PM, Janet wrote:
>>> Some years later our next door neighbour produced a ginger-haired baby
>>> girl and named her Wendy. Then they asked us to change our cat's name
>>> "to avoid embarrassment" in case other neighbours thought they had named
>>> baby after our cat. I explained that we were not at all embarrassed so
>>> we were sticking with the cat's name.
>>>
>>> They got over it.
>>>
>>> Janet UK
>>>
>> Why on earth would the neighbors care what your cat was named?! That is
>> just this side of stupid. Don't name your cat the same thing as ours.
>> Um, why?
>
> It was their baby who had the same name as our cat.
>
> Except in city apartments, in UK most pet cats have free access to
> outside and wander freely round the neighbourhood.

A neighbour of ours in the Suffolk village where I was brought up, had a
remedy for those cats: a .410 shotgun! Nobody complained!
Graham