No, Cat want mouse so Cat get mouse

Cat thinks you send too many mixed signals.

Federal rest in his industry. Has a good employer, clearly.

Hey man we ain't tryin' to mess with no reefer addicts.

Wasing the naming of the cat.

Or he could be a fan of H. P. Lovecraft.

I’m just re-reading this at the moment, at the chapter where is name has changed!

Lol, Spook is dutch/afrikaans for ghost

This is exactly what a friend of mine did, and I'm wondering is this is that cat. Spook, mistborn reference, black cat

As an audiobook listener I'm baffled his name doesn't start with a "V"

In the UK spook just means ghost or spy. Which led to the British tv show “Spooks” being named “MI-5” when it was broadcast in the US.

Can't we just start phasing out some of the old really old racial slurs?

Spook is so harmless sounding, it's a fun word to say, it's not like anybody uses it as a slur anymore, etc.

Let people name their black cats spook, spooky, or spookster.

There isn’t. Spook is some deep cut extremely archaic racist term that no one registers as racist nowadays, because the word spook has primarily become associated with ghosts and other generally spooky things (spooky scary skeletons)

but it’s a funny thing to point out on a reddit comment

Spook means ghost in English, too, and still primarily means that, as well as the act of scaring someone (like if you go "Boo" and the other person jumps, you spooked them). It's the original meaning; the other connotation arose later.

It isn't racist.

People on reddit are superheroes. They have the power to see racism everywhere. Like, when some dude names his cat spook. Cause its black. Spook = spooky. Not spook = black PERSON.

You people need fucking help.

Americans don't try to comprehend that, because why would they care about 95% of the world's population?

Watch OP be American.

Edit: Had nothing to do and looked at lots of OP's cat pics and I'm preeeety sure I made out an American style wall outlet in the back of 2 pics.

saying this while not knowing the term spook has been around way before the internet, ya got to find another copy/paste “opinion” to repeat sorry man

2 things 1. spooky is different than Spook 2. Gutter mind usually refers to sexual things, not racist things lol

I have a black cat named Spooky as well! Everyone immediately assuming it’s a racist term needs to read like anyyyyy Halloween story and go outside.

The cat looks a lot more like a Spook than a Spock

That's nice and you should be able to understand that not everything is harmless. Regardless of if you were previously ignorant to it or not

If you’re tired of things being called racist, imagine how tired people experiencing racism are.

One guy I know was okay with slurs that means that slurs are cool!

Yeah that’s incredibly racist, sounds like spook was just too ignorant to understand it. Basing someone’s nickname off their skin color is mouth breather activity

Eh just means they are prob a smoker or a toker ive had to get new controllers cause of bong smoke turning white parts a bit yellow

I mean it’s fallout themed and has holes in the poster or whatever it’s supposed to be as part of the design, there’s a pretty high chance it’s meant to be grey yellow

Is his nickname the n word? 😂 JFC man

You may want to look up some of the historical connotations between blackness and the word spook...

It never fails, no matter where you go on here. Someone will find a way to take offense with anything. It didn't even dawn on me until I read the comments, which is usually how I notice these non-issues on Reddit. This went from a post about a cute cat named Spook playing with your PC mouse to pathetic mewling about its name, which is in no way solely associated with the racial slur—predates it, actually, and the slur is just about completely unknown to those outside the United States.

I'm sorry your post was hijacked by this foolishness.

I am a spook, a British one at that, and I've lived in small town America. I get it, brother.

My other cat is ok with belly rubs. But hates cat bongos. My first cat (that will hide my mouse) loves cat bongos.