Sorry ... cats/felines are a family of many species. Lefty is a nickname. He was adopted as Shaggy, which out of ignorance, I did not know was a specific kind of Maine Coon. I didn't even know these would turn out so Maine Coon like, being rescues out of a drain pipe and just kittens. So I re-named him Garland. My wife noticed he liked names with hard consonants, like pretty kitty, and then she noticed he was primarily left pawed, so he got the nickname Lefty, and he responded, so it stuck. At the vet, he's still Garland. I'm an involuntary cat guy. At a friends house for a dinner party recently, the more feisty of their cats, the female, jumped in my lap, kissed me on the mouth, nibbled my ear, and licked my hair. Everyone stopped to watch, and the host couple stood amazed. I'm introverted, so I don't assert myself with cats, and they like that. A little embarrassing but my stock with the group seemed to go way up. No one realized I was so attractive.