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I am pretty dramatic and like unusual names so there is usually a story behind my pets names unless I adopted them already named.

My oldest cat is 7 and I named him Romeo mainly because I was sick of the dating world at the time and said he would be my "Romeo". My youngest cat I adopted as a very tiny kitten in 2010 and wanted a name compatible with Romeo so I went into Shakespeares play and read all the male names and they were just not appropriate and too long like Mercutio and Tybalt, when I remembered that "West Side Story" one of my favorite musicals is the musical version of Romeo and Juliet with Tony being the equivilent of Romeo.

Well Tony's best friend is Riff and that is my other cats name. He had a name when I adopted him of "Smoky" so because there is a musical connection with a "smoky Riff" meaning a run of music by guitar or sax that is bluesy....I guess his longish name is Smoky Riff.