We usually go with Simpsons and Disney characters for naming our pets (Snowball, Minnie, Nibbler, Stitch, and Sulley), but as we were driving to the shelter to pick him up, we were talking about names, and, somehow, my wife actually said the same name I had thought of: Inky.

In the game, Inky is also known as Bashful, and this cat really fits that description. We picked a perfect name for him - he likes to hide under the bed a LOT. He'll wander out, but it doesn't take much at all before he scampers off back under the bed. He's a nervous kitty. Over the past five years since we adopted him, he's slowly become more comfortable and we'll see him out and about some during the day, but he's still very nervous and it doesn't take much to trigger his flight reflex. People visiting our house basically never see him; some probably think we're lying about having a third cat.

We often call him Ghost. :)