New to kitten fostering

Hi,
I'm new on rpch+b but I'm an old timer on the dog newsgroups. I'm married,
have a 5 year old son, two collies and I've volunteered to foster orphan
kittens for our local SPCA. Last week, the volunteer did the home visit and
spent an hour going over the fostering program.

I was approved and later today I will be picking up three 5 week old
kittens. They will stay until they are 8 weeks and 2 lbs. I have a dog crate
set up in my studio (a bedroom) with sleeping area, food and litter box.

My collies are very mellow and gentle. One is a very dignified 13 year old
lady, named Zeffie. My other collie is Pablo, a sweet 6 year old. When
Pablo was born, his breeder had a cat ("Aunt Kitty") who was very maternal
and would sleep with the puppies and even clean them. Because of his Aunt
Kitty, Pablo has warm feelings towards cats and I think he'll be a good
"Uncle Pabby" to these new arrivals. I fully expect Zeffie to be appalled by
the kitten's antics (how undignified!) and will probably come to me or my DH
to tattle and scold. :-)

I'm excited to have some kittens visit us. It's been a long time since I've
taken care of such young ones. I worked for a humane society way back in '78
to 82 in Iowa. Back then we would sadly get young kittens all the time but
unfortunately we didn't have a fostering program. This is a much happier
situation.

I'll probably have questions in the future about kitten development and
fostering. Wish us luck with our first group of babies!

Chris and her smoothies,
Zeffie and Pablo