little sausage?
As some of you know, I’ve been having some trouble with the name Smudge and I’ve been wondering if it’s really just a milk name, to use until her real name comes to me. Also, “Smudge” just doesn’t come out naturally when I call her and feels more like it will be just one of the many nicknames that’ll come up over the years. But the obvious problem is… what to call her?
photo courtesy of La Morcilla de Burgos
And so I am now trying out the name Morcilla (mor-thee-ya) because, well, she actually looks like a morcilla. And not just any morcilla but a Morcilla de Burgos, the best there is. For those who don’t know, morcilla is the Spanish word for black pudding, or blood sausage, something I grew up hating with a passion. My father was from Newfoundland and had all these weird food habits, one of them being that he loved to do a Sunday morning fry-up that featured black pudding. Bleh. Many years later when I moved to England I discovered that I hated the black pudding there as much as I did when I was a kid in Canada.
But then I moved to Spain and was introduced to the splendid morcilla de Burgos. It’s made with the usual blood and porky bits, but this particular sausage is also filled with rice, onions and spices and the result is both rich and flavourful. And honestly, isn’t her colouring just like a morcilla de Burgos? What do you think?
casa azahar 
I can’t look at her without a pinch in my heart — she looks just like Cassiopée did.
Morcilla sounds sweet ^^ And Morcilla de Burgos has a classy ring, too (and, now, an appetizing one as well)
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I know! On the one hand it’s like calling her my little sausage, but it also sounds a bit like an aristocratic title.
La Morcilla de Burgos. 🙂
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Curiously, my sister had a cat for many years named Smudge. Similar colouration too. Morcilla de Burgos is a name with a lot more character, though, at least to my little brain.
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It’s a big name for such a tiny cat, but I’m sure she’ll grow into it.
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Love the name morcilla de Burgos. Go for it.
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Hola Flor y bienvenida!!! Yes, I’ve been trying out the name all day and I think it works.
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I like it!
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Me too!
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It sounds a little like a Poe heroine… I don’t want her to be something a person would eat!!! But I think I’m out-voted.
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Ha, and if I was going to call her Tofu…? 😉
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It might bother me a little less because anyone knows you can’t make tofu out of a cat… I’ve just gotten used to Smudge.
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I don’t know why but the name Morcilla combined with the look on her face in that picture makes me think Morticia (as in Adamms). Having mulled it over. I think it suits her.
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Haha, that’s funny because the new name also reminds me of Lucrezia Borgia. I could be asking for trouble…
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Morticia Borgia?
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I like it! Hello and welcome, Croesus!
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A room-mate had a cat named Pepper who resembled this little gal.
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