Excellent Reasons to give Cats Boring Human Names: 1. To see how long it takes co-workers realize you're talking about a pet and not significant other ("Dave I were watching movie in bed the nite") 1b. or kid ("Maria's allowed eat raisins, she's allergic") 2. You can use them as an excuse ("Taylor when get home late") 3. Eventually you say things like "Jennifer got stuck between wall refrigerator again