New Kitten Mews...The Tortie Queen had a Tortie Princess!

Well, Kiki made me hold her paw and murmur encouraging words to her from about noontime Tuesday...Not really, but I had her at work with me and every time she meowed, the staff asked 'Anything yet?'.

I then had to leave work for my therapy appointment and thought about taking Kiki with me (my therapist used to bring her poodle to work before she passed away earlier this year) and know she would have understood (as I have birthed more babies than my vet, hahameow).

But I left her at work and got back 2 hours later, nothing new! Then I went and had my hair cut and came back in an hour, nothing new...so I made the 45 minute drive home...nothing new (Thank goodness, I have birthed kittens in the car on the drive home before...but that's when Mike was alive and he was driving!).

I got her settled into the tent at home, or tried to...she was sticking to me like velcro! I heated up some leftovers and popped a movie in the dvd player but finally gave up trying to watch it as Kiki wouldn't settle down.

About 10pm, her contractions started and I was a bit worried as this one baby looked so large on xray, but she had a short, 30 minute labor and gave birth to cutest, kinkiest furred little tortoiseshell girl kitten ever! She weighed in at 99 grams (about 3 ounces) which is perfect! She nursed within 30 minutes and while Kiki was restless all night, her kitten was happy and contented in the morning, so she must have nursed enough inbetween Kiki's moving about!


It's always fun to see what colors mother nature picked! I think I would find it kinda boring to breed something like Russian Blues, where all the kittens were blue...

The daddy, Sammy, is black and white and Kiki is a tortie and so the color possibilities are almost endless: black, blue, orange, cream (and all those colors plus with white), calico, blue cream, dilute calico, tortie. About the only colors I can't get are colorpoints or brown tabby variations.

Now, I have to think up a 'call name' for this little girl. Nothing pops right out at me. I keep thinking of 'summery' names, maybe a flower? Maybe I should have a contest to name her?

Update: It came to me...Firefly or FiFi for short. What do you think? I love fireflies! They don't have them in Oregon, where I came from, and the say 'Summer' to me, for sure! And they look black til they light up and glow...kinda like a tortie!