Mumbai, July 19 :    Mumbai, July 19:  It's a bit catty. Why else should US President George W. Bush name his cat after a country of one billion? BJP leaders asked in righteous indignation, as they staged a protest today at the US consulate against 'India', the Bush pet. They said they were not against the cat as such, but its owner, the most powerful man in the world with a supportive wife, troublesome twin daughters and two dogs and a cat. 'We are hurt,' said Vinod Tawde, Mumbai BJP president, who made the 'discovery' while surfing the Net the other day. He had stumbled upon the White House website. As President Bush's thumbnail bio flashed on his computer screen, Tawde's straining eyes caught the cat's name at the bottom of the webpage. He was outraged. 'The American President knows very well that India is the name of a great country. How could he do this?' Tawde, an engineer by profession, said. This is not the first time that President Bush's cat has made news in the country it is named after. But for a different reason. Reports from Washington after the 55-year-old Texas Governor took over as the 43rd President of the US had described the naming of the cat as Bush's love for the country he has never visited. The BJP does not clearly see the feline that way. 'Mr President, don't make mistake. Indians are lion, not the cat,' read a big banner held aloft by 30 silent demonstrators outside the US consulate in the financial capital. So 'outraged' are the party leaders that former minister Nitin Gadkari, Opposition leader in the Legislative Council, urged people to swamp the White House website with protest emails. 'It's an insult to one billion people in our country. The naming of the cat after India is really in bad taste,' Gadkari said. US consulate officials, who accepted a BJP memorandum demanding an apology from President Bush, said they were not sure why he had named the cat India. A senior consulate official said the cat's name was actually 'India Ink', derived from its jet black fur. Later, it got shortened to India. Bush adopted another cat, a stray, after Spot, one of his dogs, chased it up a tree near the Texas Governor's mansion during the presidential campaign. The US President named it Earnie after Ernest Hemingway, a Bush favourite. Earnie had six toes on each foot like Hemingway's cat. Earnie, now in Los Angeles, was not allowed into the White House because it was considered 'too wild'. Cats, with their nine lives, have an uncanny tendency to land their owners in diplomatic trouble, at times. John Kenneth Galbraith, as US ambassador to India, once faced demonstrations because he had called his cat Ahmed. On a visit to Ahmedabad, Galbraith had been gifted the cat by some residents. He had named it Ahmedabad, but later changed it to Ahmed, sparking protests not just in India, but also Pakistan. He rechristened it again to Gujarat.