momma cat's name is tahini.

BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | At play with firm's clone kittens: "At play with firm's clone kittens

A US company offering a pet cloning service has successfully cloned two cats: Tabouli and Baba Ganoush. BBC News Online's Maggie Shiels is the first British journalist to see them. Here, she tells of meeting the copy cats.

The cats were born through the technique of chromatin transfer
To most people, the two kittens running around the top floor of a San Francisco mansion might not seem like anything special. But to Lou Hawthorne, the owner of this house, Tabouli and Baba Ganoush represent a major scientific breakthrough.