Meaning & Story
Named after the tall, slender vegetable — a whimsical, unexpected plant-inspired name for a uniquely tall or slender pet.
Asparagus joins the proud tradition of vegetable pet names, and it does so with particular elegance — because the asparagus spear is itself a rather elegant vegetable, slender and sophisticated. The name was immortalized in the original staging of Andrew Lloyd Webber's Cats musical, where it's the full name of the elderly cat Gus. It suits a tall, willowy greyhound perfectly, or any cat who carries themselves with an air of faded grandeur.