Help Name the Cat

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Hi. Tonight, I found a kitten in a parking lot where my mother lives. It walked right up to me and started purring and asking for love. I'm a sucker for animals, especially the loving variety. No one reported it missing, and it was clearly starving. It's very cold out, and had I not taken it inside, it would have become coyote fodder in short shrift, and I would never be able to live with myself.

Tonight it is at my mom's house, well fed, warm and safe. She cannot keep it, though. To be quite honest, I was not looking to get another cat but if The Flying Spaghetti Monster decided to put one in my life, well, who am I to thumb my nose at His Noodlyness?

But until this kitten gets a clean bill of health from the vet tomorrow, I won't risk exposing my two senior cats--both of whom are on chemotherapy--to anything that might further jeopardize their well being. But assuming the best scenario, I'll be bringing him, her or it home tomorrow.

That brings us to the current topic: Naming the cat. My current two cats are Mitzvah (means "a good deed" or a blessing in Hebrew) and Mazel (means "luck" in Hebrew). But this all black kitten was found on CHRISTMAS DAY. I certainly cannot name a soon-to-be-Jewish cat with a Xtian name.

Some suggestions so far have included naming it Yontiff (means "holiday" in Hebrew) and call it Yanni for short. Another friend suggested that since I found the cat this evening, I name the cat Merry, but spell it M-e-r-i instead.

So, Dwellars, I'm taking suggestions. Here's a lousy picture or two of the kitteh in question. All black, relatively short hair. Gold eyes. Long tail. Still don't know the sex. Quite talkative and full of purrs.


Suggestions?