动物收容所的工作人员给救援猫起了最具史诗色彩的名字

有人注意到这家动物收容所的工作人员给救援猫起了最具史诗色彩的名字

Atomic Toaster! Chicken Noodle! Tofu! Ketchup! You might think I’m listing random food items, kitchen appliances or outlandish band names, but things aren’t what they seem. These are actually [drumroll] cat names. Yup, you heard me(ow) correctly.

原子烤面包机!鸡肉面条!豆腐!番茄酱!你可能认为我列出的食物、厨房用具或古怪的乐队名称都是随机的，但事实并非如此。这些实际上是猫的名字。是的，你没听错。

An animal shelter called Austin Pets Alive! (yes, with an exclamation point! because we love those!) gives cats very eccentric names. They made us laugh so hard, our sides started hurting. And now it also hurts to smile. Since we enjoyed these unusual catto monikers so much, we thought you’d like to savor them as well.

一个叫做Austin Pets Alive的动物收容所!(是的，用感叹号!因为我们喜欢这些!)给猫起了非常古怪的名字。他们让我们笑得很开心，我们的身体开始疼痛。现在微笑也很伤人。既然我们很喜欢这些不寻常的猫名，我们想你也会喜欢它们的。

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Bored Panda talked to Katera Berent from Austin Pets Alive! to get a better understanding of the animal shelter and their interesting tradition of naming cats. “Austin Pets Alive! opened its doors as an animal shelter in 2008. We believe in the ‘No Kill’ mission — that every pet deserves a chance at life. We created seven lifesaving programs to target those demographics of animals that were disproportionately killed in traditional shelter settings, and because of that and our work with our city's municipal shelter, the city of Austin is at a 98% save rate.”

Bored Panda网站和奥斯汀宠物公司的Katera Berent聊天!为了更好地了解动物收容所和他们给猫起名的有趣传统。“奥斯丁宠物公司2008年作为动物收容所开业。我们相信“不杀”的使命——每一只宠物都应该有生存的机会。我们创建了7个拯救生命的项目，目标是那些在传统收容所中不成比例死亡的动物。正因为如此，加上我们与市收容所的合作，奥斯汀市的动物救助率达到了98%。”

When asked which unique cat names were her favorites, Katera had this to say: “That's a tough one, because there are so many great cat names here! My current favorite is Nude Molerat, but Asparagus 25 and Baguette are close seconds.”

当被问及她最喜欢哪些独特的猫名时，卡蒂拉说:“这很难，因为这里有这么多很棒的猫名!我目前最喜欢的是裸Molerat，不过芦笋和长棍面包也差不多。”

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Austin Pets Alive! also had some advice for those of you looking to adopt an animal from their shelter. “Work with our matchmakers and adoption counselors on what you are looking for in a pet! We have so many deserving animals here at Austin Pets Alive!, so our teams are excited and ready to find your purrfect match,” Katera said.

奥斯汀宠物公司对于那些想从收容所领养动物的人，也有一些建议。“与我们的介绍人和收养顾问一起工作，看看你想从宠物身上得到什么!”我们奥斯汀宠物店有这么多值得拥有的动物!所以我们的团队都很兴奋，准备好迎接你完美的匹配。”

Furthermore, she mentioned that after getting media attention due to the unusual way the shelter names cats, “people are more attuned to how we name our cats, but we haven't seen an uptick in adoption.”

此外，她还提到，由于收容所给猫起名的方式不同寻常而受到媒体关注后，“人们更习惯我们给猫起名的方式，但我们还没有看到领养人数的上升。”

“It's great to see more people aware of how accessible it is to adopt cats and kittens, though, and to see our pets get the attention we think they deserve! The kittens that people have been noticing (like Glycolysis 6) are named that way because of our Neonatal Nursery,” Katera explained. “We save the most vulnerable lives in Central Texas — neonatal kittens — where most shelters euthanize them due to a lack of resources. Litters of kittens are named in alphabetical order, with the number attributed based on how many times we've been through the alphabet that year. As of this morning, we're up to H 24!”

“很高兴看到越来越多的人意识到收养猫是多么容易，看到我们的宠物得到了我们认为它们应得的关注!”人们一直注意到的小猫(比如糖酵解)之所以这样命名，是因为我们的新生儿托儿所。”“我们拯救了德克萨斯州中部最脆弱的生命——新生小猫——由于缺乏资源，大多数收容所对它们实施安乐死。一窝小猫的名字是按字母顺序命名的，数字是根据这一年我们用字母命名的次数来确定的。今天早上，我们已经达到了24小时!”

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On its website, Austin Pets Alive! describes itself as “not your average animal shelter”, and states that it pioneers “innovative lifesaving programs designed to save the animals most at risk of euthanasia.” Now that’s a mission statement a lot of us can get behind. The shelter is popular, with over 146,500 followers on Facebook, 67,300 fans on Instagram and 28,600 devotees on Twitter.

在其网站上，奥斯汀宠物店公司自称“不是一般的动物收容所”，并表示它开创了“旨在拯救最有可能安乐死的动物的创新救生项目”。“这是一个我们很多人都能支持的使命宣言。这个庇护所很受欢迎，在Facebook上有超过14.65万名粉丝，在Instagram上有6.73万名粉丝，在Twitter上有2.86万名粉丝。

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More info: austinpetsalive.org | Facebook | Instagram | Twitter

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