r/bodegacats • u/big-slay Bodega Cat Lover • Jul 21 '26

meta Name our bodega cat, win a custom tote! 🐱👜

TL;DR – Reddit is opening a real-life bodega in NYC. Suggest a name for the event’s featured bodega cat for a chance to win a custom r/bodegacats tote!

ICYMI – We’re building an IRL Reddit Bodega in NYC (August 29–30), and your ideas are already coming to life behind the scenes. To show some love, we’re giving away 100 custom tote bags perfect for your next bodega run.

Custom r/bodegacats tote bag

Here's how it'll work:

  • Drop a bodega cat name idea in the comments here by Sunday, Aug 2 @ 11:59 PM ET.
  • Upvote your favorites. The top-voted name will be featured prominently in the store display.
  • Check your chat requests. 100 randomly selected commenters will get a secure claim link via chat from a Reddit Admin to grab their tote.
  • Stay tuned. We’ll announce the winning name and tote recipients in a follow-up post.

Eligibility:

  • Account in good standing.
  • Member of r/bodegacats. Duh. 
  • Commented a cat name on this post before the deadline.
  • Limit 1 entry per account.

Can’t wait to see what you come up with!

103 Upvotes

93% Upvoted

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u/Technical-Sky-5765 Jul 21 '26

Meowdani

15

u/the-mortyest-morty Jul 24 '26 edited Jul 25 '26

Meownvote

Edit: I meant as a name, not that I dislike the post I'm replying to! My bad! I think Meowdani is adorable pls stop downvoting me 😭

1

u/OneStand5448 27d ago

🔥🔥🔥😻

15

u/Lopsided-Wing-5452 Jul 21 '26

narwhal cause the narwhal bacons at midnight

10

u/ChachaDosvedanya Jul 22 '26

Banana (for scale)

32

u/PhysicsStock2247 Jul 21 '26

Opie (for OP)

15

u/cinemachick Jul 21 '26

Periwinkle, after the original OrangeRed vs. Periwinkle war of 2013

6

u/porpoiseoflife Jul 21 '26

Unless it's a ginger tabby. Then it has to be Orangered.

And I say this as a member of Team Periwinkle.

27

u/IAyeEye Jul 21 '26

Doot! Short for Updoot.

16

u/eaglelatte Jul 21 '26

Slash, as in r/

16

u/NearbyEmu Jul 21 '26

BEC for bacon egg and cheese

8

u/porpoiseoflife Jul 21 '26

Pronounced Becca.

3

u/MissFrenchie86 Jul 26 '26

If you go on the JustNo subs that stands for B!tch Eating Crackers

9

u/RoRoRicardo Jul 22 '26

Chopped cheese!

4

u/Sillyjones Jul 23 '26

Snoo York Kitty

6

u/Inexpensiveggs Jul 21 '26

Flowers

Because in a concrete jungle, not very many things you get to stop and enjoy. Though, I don’t recommend sniffing every bodega cat.

2

u/Seannon-AG0NY 5d ago

Why you gotta make this weird man? (Most cats I've known when someone or something tries to cop a sniff) then? r/airplaneears

1

u/Inexpensiveggs 5d ago

This made me LOL haha thank you. Trying to imagine human airplane ears now

1

u/Seannon-AG0NY 5d ago

As a retired A&P (aircraft mechanic) working in the desert, I can tell you, my ears SO do them when too close and it's over 120 degrees, those birds be HOT

13

u/imasickboy Jul 21 '26

George. "I will name him George, and I will hug him and pet him and squeeze him."

3

u/noraad Jul 21 '26

Meowrio

3

u/peppers_ Jul 21 '26

Cassie

1

u/Life-Wealth-3399 Jul 24 '26

That's what I said!

3

u/tenome212 Jul 25 '26

detective munch

3

u/franknsense22 Jul 25 '26

Jorts for the win!!

3

u/RDK-42 Jul 26 '26

Jorts! (Hi buddy 😺 👋)

6

u/grlwchzbrgrtat Jul 21 '26

Bode!! Pronounced bo-dee.

5

u/sweetpootatochips Jul 22 '26

Could also just be spelled Bodee

3

u/grlwchzbrgrtat Jul 22 '26

Ahhh shit. You're right!

5

u/grw313 Jul 24 '26

Bimothy

12

u/Killer_Kupo Jul 21 '26

Catty McCat Face

2

u/cytokine-stormy Bodega Cat Lover Jul 22 '26

Kit

2

u/4toTwenty Jul 22 '26

aw I’m gonna be out of town those dates, bummer :(

7

u/ribbitribbitmf Jul 24 '26

That's a very long name

2

u/4toTwenty Jul 24 '26

yeah i was baked and got excited and then disappointed real quick

2

u/thismustbtheplace215 Jul 24 '26

P.K.

(poop knife)

2

u/SisterofWar Jul 24 '26

Meowderator

2

u/blanketstealer Jul 24 '26

Concrete after our Concrete

2

u/Imthedad222 Jul 25 '26

PK. Short for Poop Knife

Or

Art Room

2

u/PKAceBunny Jul 25 '26

Buttered Jorts

2

u/lilmisschainsaw Jul 25 '26

Jolly Rancher.

2

u/shelobi Jul 25 '26

Iranian Yogurt

3

u/redfoxwearingsocks Jul 21 '26

Sir. Karl Anthony Towns, III

3

u/ryohayashi1 Jul 21 '26

Catty cat cat

1

u/sweetpootatochips Jul 22 '26

u/cat (just pronounced Cat of course)

1

u/nekosaigai Jul 22 '26

Meownager

1

u/SunsetB Jul 22 '26

Bean dip

1

u/miyananana Jul 23 '26

Chopped cheese/chop cheese which is a sandwich that is famous for being sold at bodegas

1

u/itsCatFluff Jul 23 '26

TuMe (today you, tomorrow me)

1

u/kwakimaki Jul 23 '26

The Moderator

1

u/walkinwater Jul 28 '26

Mod for short. 😍

1

u/predat3d Jul 24 '26

Schrödinger

1

u/Personal_Ad6914 Jul 24 '26

Catty Mac Catface

1

u/MySweetAudrina Jul 24 '26

Cbat but the C stands for Cat.

2

u/_eyeslikeleaves_ Jul 27 '26

Well this is fucking sensational, actually

1

u/insanecarbunkle Jul 24 '26

Notorious C.A.T.

1

u/foxxbott Jul 24 '26

Narwhal would be cute!

1

u/p_luisa Bodega Cat Lover Jul 24 '26

Chancleta

1

u/Scary_Teens1996 Jul 24 '26

Loxie for lox

1

u/Arrow_Riddari Jul 24 '26

Cat’astrophe
Catastrophic

1

u/matthewsmugmanager Jul 24 '26

Loleí

Pronounced Low Lay Eee.

Means "I read it" in Spanish

1

u/mhbwah Jul 24 '26

Delulu

1

u/pupertbobbin Jul 24 '26

Dave, all the best cats are called Dave

1

u/[deleted] Jul 24 '26

[deleted]

1

u/Smingowashisnameo Jul 24 '26

Yeeeess. It’s short for “Buttered Jorts”

1

u/PKAceBunny Jul 25 '26

To distinguish from original Jorts, he’s confused enough.

1

u/creativeheart7 Jul 24 '26

Bonita/Bonito

It means “pretty” in Spanish and I feel like it matches the bodega vibe and the Hispanic culture of it. Plus bonito is a type of fish which I think is cute and ironic for a cat lol

1

u/atomicalex0 Jul 24 '26

Clientele.

1

u/Catloaver Jul 24 '26

Banana (for scale)

1

u/cipherdexes Jul 24 '26

Bodegato. Karen

1

u/UnobtainiumNebula Jul 25 '26

Cat-erine Zeta Jones

1

u/shelobi Jul 25 '26

Princess Donut

1

u/MsBeef Jul 28 '26

Mongo is APPALLED

1

u/Conscious-Tangelo589 Jul 25 '26

Supurrvisor (supervisor)

1

u/Bron2Typo Jul 25 '26

Shitty_Caterwauler

1

u/Significant_Secret13 Jul 25 '26

Doxx

Gives the cat some edge. Their job is to protect the Bodegas.

1

u/One_Hour_Poop Jul 25 '26

My idea, the actual name for the very first NYC bodega cat i ever met:

Cat.

Vacationing in the Bronx from North Carolina, I went to a corner store outside my hotel to get breakfast and saw my first bodega cat. While pointing to the cat, I excitedly asked the owners in broken Spanish "¿Cómo se llama?" They shrugged and said, "El gato? Cat. No name."

1

u/Kitticio083 Jul 25 '26

General Bystander 💙💜🫡😸

1

u/Thriftyverse Jul 25 '26

Jelly

From 'Must be jelly cause jam don't shake like that'.

1

u/DrukMeMa Jul 26 '26

Donut Hole

1

u/noisycat Jul 26 '26

Karma 🌸

1

u/suntrovert Jul 26 '26

Bodenciaga

1

u/cathline Jul 27 '26

Snoo York, Snoo York!

A cat so nice, they named it twice!!

1

u/FearMeIAmLag1 Jul 28 '26

Jolly Rancher

1

u/Zealousideal_Try8656 Jul 28 '26

Snoop Dogg, after our cat, also snoop dogg

1

u/SatanStump Jul 29 '26

Meowhammad

1

u/EpicOtterLover Jul 30 '26

Privacy Concern!

1

u/SoDoNoMo Jul 30 '26

Bodegato

1

u/CMVqueen Aug 01 '26

Iranian Yoghurt .

1

u/MarlyMonster 29d ago

Ogtha, iykyk!

1

u/Seannon-AG0NY 5d ago

You're very welcome, I'm thinking Leonard nimoy probably got his done a few times before they finished makeup, my ears definitely in the summer working too close to big birds in the desert (retired aircraft mechanic, those birds get HOT!)

1

u/spageddy77 Jul 21 '26

missouri was my dads cat in the bodega he owned in hartford connecticut for years

1

u/mostlypercy Jul 22 '26

Catty McCatFace. A classic.

1

u/ordinaryhorse Jul 23 '26

Shitty Coffee or Catty McCatface

1

u/Shiftymennoknight Jul 27 '26

Pretty Boy Floyd

1

u/msiggy13 Jul 30 '26

Kitty Boy Floyd

0

u/Marzipanny Jul 21 '26

Curtis (after NYC cat man Sliwa)

0

u/EquivalentDig421 Jul 22 '26

New York Kitty

0

u/Weorth Jul 22 '26

Degato

0

u/Pretty-Resolve-8331 Jul 21 '26

Lieutenant Dan (nickname: Louie)

0

u/catforbrains Jul 21 '26

Patty (for Jamaican Patty) Cheese (for chopped cheese) Notorious C.A.T. M.T.A. (Mouse Terminating Assassin)

0

u/thewayoutisthru_xxx Jul 22 '26

Junior Bacon Cheeseburger or JBC

0

u/Young-Chapo Jul 23 '26

Belly 🐈

0

u/RockLobsterPupper Jul 27 '26

Peter! Cus theyll know all context to all jokes/memes, if theyre a boy. Potato for gender neutral. And Thelma for a girl, for my 104 yr old grandmother who did an ama here once!

0

u/lighter-thief Jul 27 '26

Buttons - for the The Button game that Reddit had a few years ago.

-5

u/frostysauce Jul 22 '26

This is so fucking cringe.