I need Kitty Names (Pics Included)!

Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
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Yeah, but I don’t keep the cat in the litter box! (She was!) This morning as I was getting ready for work, I heard one of the kittens squealing, and glancing over it appeared that mama was moving the kitten some place else. Then I got a better look and discovered that the poor thing was caught in mama’s collar! :eek: Mama seemed to be totally unconcerned with the kitten’s fate and was just calmly wandering around dragging the poor thing with her. I raced over, freed the little bugger (no idea of the genders as of yet) and took the collar off mama so that it wouldn’t happen again.

Tonight when I got home from work, I went to the litter box (where she’d been keeping them, they’re barely 2 weeks old and their eyes aren’t completely open as of yet) so I could give the kittens their antibiotics (they’ve got a resperatory infection) and they were gone! Mama was content to follow me around the house as I looked for them, without ever giving any sign as to where they might be. Eventually, I gave up looking for them and settled down on the couch. Mama curled up on me, seemingly content, and I was beginning to think that perhaps she’d eaten them or something, when she got up and went in the cabinet under the kitchen sink. Lo and behold, nestled amongst the plastic bags were the kittens! I grabbed the medicine and started giving it to one of the kittens. When I was done, I put the kitten on the towel in the cat carrier so I wouldn’t get it mixed up with the other one that looks just like it, and in hopes that mama would realize that was a better place for it. Midway through giving the third one it’s medication, here comes mama with a kitten and immediately opens the cabinet, plunks it down and starts to nurse it, leaving the other one to squall outside the cat carrier. So I finish giving the third one it’s medication, place it with mama, and then go fetch the other one by the cat carrier and bring it to mama. (One of the kitten’s isn’t very responsive, I don’t think that it’s going to make it.)

featherlou, I’ve been thinking of naming her after one of the Egyptian goddesses, since mama looks like a lot of the pictures of Egyptian cat sculptures I’ve seen.

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Isis. Or Cleo.

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Can we get an update on the kitty that’s ailing? :frowning:

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I’ve always heard that cats are great mothers, but maybe this one is too young to be very good at it yet.

Okay, names - looking at Egyptian goddesses, we have Bast/Bastet/Oubastis/Pasht (different forms of the name Bast), Sekhmet, and Tefnut. Here is a list of all kinds of fertility goddesses.

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My parents used to own a cat who they rescued from the local factory (usually if cats are found wandering in the warehouse, some fool kills them, but my father couldn’t stand that and would bring them home, much to my mother’s dismay), and she was, apparently, pregnant, though we did not know that when she first came to us. She didn’t seem to have a clue how to be a momma cat. She obviously loved them fiercely, she just didn’t quite get the swing of being a mother. She’d find a comfy place for them, and leave them the rest of the day. Once in a while you’d catch her carrying one of them, and if you had food in your hand and she’d notice, she’d drop the kitten wherever she was and come dashing for food, instead. Ha! The kittens did turn out fine, since we “taught” momma what to do, but it took some time.

Names? I vote Bast. See, that’s my oldest girl’s name. However, it has “evolved” slowly from Bast to Bastian to Sebastian to, eventually, by my husband, “Sea Bass”. Poor girl. She’s much too regal to be a damn Sea Bass. She answers to it, though. :smack:

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One of the kitten’s name is ‘Boop’. I don’t know which one, but it was the first thing that came to mind when I saw the picture. Reachin’ down and touchin’ one on da nose. Boop! :slight_smile:

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Seems to be much better tonight! He/she didn’t squall quite as much as the others when I gave him/her the medication, but it did make a bit of a fuss and was more animated than last night. All of them were noisier tonight, with their eyes open, so that’s a good sign. Lil’ mama kept a close watch on me while I was dosing her babies, when I put the first one back, it was squealing, so mama promptly jumped under the sink where they are and landed on the other two! :eek:

She’s showed some interest in Heket, so I’ll try that out and see if that works.