For two or three days, we called him Charlie or Simon as his given name, Onyx felt awkward to us because even though we knew certain things about him, we didn't really know him. Like every cat lover on the face of the planet, we called upon our cat friends to check him out and to suggest names. While all of that was going on, Charlie/Simon/Onyx collected a couple of nicknames: Ignatz and Rugrat being the two that stuck. My niece liked Charlie and for a while we thought that might be it ... … [Read more...]