Sugartoes is having her kittens!

Sure, she loves the chin scritches. She is doing a great job with the fantastic four. I'll keep crating her at night. And I put a pet heating pad in there, under the nest, because it is to get kinda cold tonight. And now I'm a little paranoid about the kits. Each one is so precious and sweet.

I'll post more pics tomorrow, for some reason photobucket is very slow!

Thank you for telling the story of sugartoes and her babies She looks like a very proud mummy in that pic!

RIP the little black boy.

The kids and I have just finalized the kittens names.

Momma is Sugartoes, because although she is a dark tortie, all of her feet are buff, the color of light brown sugar. So the babies have "sweet" names. The orange swirl cat is Twinkie, the tortie baby is Smartie, the tiger stripe is Hershey Kiss, and the gray one is Zero. Zero is both a candy bar and a very cool anime character.

Baby Black will now be known as B.B., for the B.B. Bat suckers. We tossed around calling him Black Licorice, but he is now the eternal baby, so B.B. fits better.

(Above cross posted from the Bridge thread.)

The other "sweeties" are doing fine. For some reason, when I let Sugartoes out of the cage this morning, she took out two babies, and put them in different places on the floor! So I kept her in the cage all morning, and came home at lunch time to let her out. Otherwise, she is the perfect Mommy, nursing them, cleaning them. I will feel a lot better once they are two weeks old, and a little stronger!

Thank you all for your thoughts and prayers. Although little B.B. is sadly missed, the other kits continue to be a source of joy. Thank you for listening to our saga!

LOVE the names! How cute.

We tried to have all our names start with D, since the first two were Dora and Dante. (Dora the Explorer, and Dante because he has 2 little black goat horns on his head.)

...but YOU try finding 8 "D" kitten names!

Have you tried the cat names site:

www.kessels.com/catnames/index.html

That may be the site where the kids found Sugartoes name! It can help give new name ideas.

Thanks for sharing the pictures.

It's tough naming kittens isn't it. I still have one six week old girl without a name!

Her siblings are named Wicket, Bubbles & Alf.

Well, it helps that they are fosters, so hopefully once they are old enough, they will be adopted out and get new names from their new families.

Of course, sometimes they stay around and become full grown Festus and Garfield!

Those are cute names. And I like the new pic in your signature, Sam. Is that one of your new babies?

I posted pics on the fur pictures thread!
http://www.thecatsite.com/forums/showthread.php?t=53898

Awww, you are so lucky Becki!! I am hoping to have mum and kittens again this year, dont think i will be getting a pregnant mum with working full time though Poor little BB

Yes, I am lucky. I had been wanting kittens for years, and this is my second litter. I work full time, too, but Sugartoes is doing all the work! I just feed and water her, and keep her litter box clean. She does all the kitten care!

But it would be nice to have more time to spend with them. Maybe you can get some older kittens to take care of until they get adopted, they are lots of fun, too.