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| Mr. Tibert |
In animal fables, the beasts usually had no proper names, and so in Aesop’s fables they are referred to as “the cat,” “the fox,” “the mouse” and so on. But occasionally the cat in a fable did have a name, often Tibert (just as the fox, who appeared in many fables, was sometimes called Reynard).
Exactly why and how Tibert came to be the stereotypical name for a cat is not known. The name Tibert is probably the source of the name Tiddles, a common name for cats in Britain.
