“It took about three weeks of living with our kitten for him to tell us his name,” says Sara R., Sir Woodrow Agustus Scuttlebooty the Third, Esquire’s cat mom.
“It all started with his habit of scuttling about sideways like a crab,” she remembers. “I called him a ‘little scuttlebutt’ as a place holder. My 8-year-old son was scandalized by the inclusion of a ‘bad word’ in the name, even after I explained it was a real word meant for gossip … so we settled on a more kid-approved ‘Scuttlebooty’ to describe his actions.”
From there, Sara decided to include some references that connected with her family and their favorite things. “We considered Woodrow, our grandfather’s middle name … and Agust, based on our favorite fast-talking South Korean rapper (because he’s a chattery cat),” she says. Add a “third” and “esquire” to elevate the name to “extra fancy” status, and a delightfully wacky name was created. “His personality is very present in every part of his name,” she adds.
When he’s not sleeping, Sir Woodrow is usually bounding off the walls—often literally. “He’s our parkour kitty,” Sara says. “He loves to run across the house, push off the wall and leap onto door frames, then try to shimmy to the top like a lumberjack on a tree trunk.” Because of these, uh, hobbies, it’s only natural that Sara would want pet insurance—and her company made getting Nationwide pet insurance easy and affordable: “The process of enrolling was very easy, and I’m happy to know it’s there when I need it.”
Sara R. Nationwide member since 2022
