Nine lives Questions

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Okay, I just read The Book of Night With Moon for teh third time and To Visit The Queen for the second. I was noticing some interesting things about feline wizards and cat's nine lives. So first of her are the facts I've gathered:

-Cat's have nine lives, and they can remember important things from their last lives. The tenth life comes if they've done more good than bad in all their lives.
-There is often a time between lives that they stay in limbo.
-Once a cat gets wizardry, they keep it all their lives (unless they mess up).

So here are the questions that have come up in my mind.
-Do cats keep their same gender and coloration all their lives? The only real examble of this we have is Sif/Siffha'h. Arhu said "Sif was my twin, she had my same spots." Sifha'h has Arhu's spots, but inverted (sort of like the ying and the yang). So did her spots cahnge? Arhu might be meaning just the inverted spots. Basicly, we know that she kept her gender and at least the same coloring, if not pattern (though the way black and white cats turn out in terms of spots is determined by variables in the womb... but nevermind). But this could have to do with the fact that Arhu and her are twins.
-Feline wizards keep their powers for all their lives. The Wispering says so to Arhu "You will be strong forever. Strong for all your lives." But then there is also the fact that it is also mentioned at Saash and Rhiow began working together about couple years after both of their ordeals. I don't think that they started working together lives back, and I also don't think that Saash, who was on her ninth live, would have started wizardry then. But you never know. There isn't much detail on Rhiow's Ordeal, and none on the rest of teh team (beside Arhu, duh.) It may have been in a past live, or do you get a sort of 'tester' Ordeal every time to see if you're still up to it, or do you just get a garantee to be asked to be a wizard once agian?
-Do cats keep their names through their lives? Sif kept part of hers, do mothers know about their kittens past lives, if vaugely? Urruah is original, I think, he says his mother liked puns. I also think Sifha'h may have named herself in some way, maybe she lost her mother early.
-Also, this isn't really a question, but I noticed that Ffairh's real life coloring was different from when he was Downside (he turned to brindle). So maybe some cats just don't get their soul's 'true color'.

So, what do you think about all of that? I really want to hear.