the naming of cats is a difficult matter

(ObIrrelevance: Amazon now has the cover art for The Queen in Winter. It's very elegant.)

So athenais asked about naming. This is a subject about which I feel strongly--and, as now a frighteningly large number of people can attest, idiosyncratically--so, um, yeah, I've got Stuff To Say.

First, on the nuts-and bolts front:
( Tools )

( Methodology, if that isn't too charitable a word )