A lady at my local bank asked if I knew anyone who would like tiger kittens. She had a brother and sister pair and Mark and I took them in. I decided that because I loved Tigger from Winnie the Pooh so much that I would name the girl Tigger and Mark decided that he would name her brother Tony after Tony the Tiger from Frosted Flakes cereal.

Smokey was an easy one....because of his "smoke" color.

Tucker got her name because I was not sure if she was a boy or a girl so Tucker I thought fit for either.

Mystic was supposed to be Merlin but he turned out to be a she so I had to improvise on the name. Because she was almost completely black I wanted to stay with something mystical so Mystic became her name.

Abner.....well Abner was just the name that shouted out to me for him. Thank goodness he turned out to be a boy after all because I don't think I could have come up with a name.

Gracie and Gabriel were special. I saw a post from Queen about 2 little blind babies and I talked Mark into letting me adopt them. Because they were a sibling pair I wanted their names to start with the same first letter....like what we did with Tigger and Tony. I had the girls name Gracie but was undecided for a boys name so I asked the fine people of PT to help with a name.....hence Gabriel.

That's how all of mine got their names.