One third gone

 It started out as a normal day except for the instruction to not add any litter to any litter tray because cats will be moved and their litter discarded. Then mid morning volunteer drivers started arriving and Irene's Peter came in with Terry to coral cats into carriers.

Then I had a thought. Why not put the cat's litter into the plastic food bags that have been saved for lo these many years in the bin under the feeding table. It worked: that bin is almost empty now, the rubbish bins are full and there are no bags on the balcony and the cats have a familiar smell of self in their new home.

Thanks Kath for photos taken while the first arrivals were settled into Mona Vale. Bonnie is in a corner by herself (because of her ring worm). She had to be collected especially because she was forgotten in a carrier in Isolation. In her new naughty corner she was having a lovely time and tore her name tag off her stand alone.

Bonnie

Chalk seems to have settled in right away. I will try to get the cats more cuddled in with sheet covers tomorrow.
 

Salt and Pepper are back together in an enclosure. Salt is NOT HAPPY. She looks as though she will rip the arm off anybody who tries to open the door in her rush to get away.  (Again.)

I think this is Umi. Because I had to tie up her hammocks this evening. 

What is left at Roseville? I counted 55 cats. There were 86 on Wednesday. 

And there is a bit of washing up. (One of the lovely transporters washed all the dishes while waiting for Peter to catch her car load of cats.)

Going, going

 The conference room (aka the junk room) is half empty.  The shelves on the right hand side have all gone (along with the boxes of gloves. But I am assured that there is a box of gloves somewhere). I couldn't find Lola this morning. She wasn't waiting for me at the front door. But when it was her turn to be fed, she appeared like magic.

There were only a few vollies but they did a splendid job and even though the mop is broken the place sparkled at the end of the day.

We had one customer. . . a young couple. He said that she had promised him they would have a cat before kids five years ago when they got married. They went around everybody. Every cat loved them. Including Peanut.

Peanut

They took photos. I sent them to the cafe next door to decide. The came back and adopted Bruce and Ruby. They will be very happy.

Kath did the adoption which went well until it came to printing out the Adoption Contract. Because Ruby has just turned 1 year old, the system has a hissy fit and doesn't process it to the end. It has happened before. (But not to Kath or me). But Kath worked around it and they took the cats off. 

On my way home I dropped by the new premises which look much better in real life than in photos. Geoff was there working away with Tim and Sue. Most of the new enclosures are erected so I was able to install one hammock in each. When they are all there, I will add extras because there are no shelves yet. 

Some of Joy's photos from last week: 

 

Piglet having time out

 Dory will now happily take treats from everybody.

Dory

 

And you have to put Gary's medicine into his left ear. He is such a sweetie he has forgiven those who put it into his other ear.

Gary

 

Chalk likes chicken

 Or he thought he did when I gave him a small bit. But when I gave him the dish to lick out, he was a bit confused. I moved the meat to his dish and he ate a bit. But then he settled down in his hammock looking much more relaxed.

Chalk (pity the phone focussed on the bars not on the cat)

 

Jasmine brought in her two foster cats. .. . the family is travelling so there won't be enough folk left at home to look after Pebbles and Tilly. They did, eventually, come out of their carry case.

Pebbles and Tilly

Borealis was adopted this afternoon. Her tummy is looking better than it did on Wednesday. Her new people were thrilled. (There is a photo on the Safe phone.)

I counted cats before she went and got to 86 in Safe Haven. Don't know how many carriers we have.

 The Voonies are much more lively. Very interested in their food. And mum is not a shy.

Voonies at play

Piglet down below them can run really fast. She took off out of her condo. Did a dash under the desks and circled back to her condo in a twinkling.

Chloe still has mucky eyes. She is being treated. And one of the other C kittens she came in with has it too. She is doing a great job in frilling the edge of her box.

Chloe

Tyler's foggy eye looks better.

Tyler

And I gave Ruby and Bruce a larger hammock because their second one lost a tie. They love having a bigger bed to snuggle in. Kind of hard to tell where each cat stops and starts. . . they just flow together.

Bruce and Ruby

 

 

Better Row

 The Willoughby bin trucks were late this morning so I got 20 bags of rubbish off the balcony before they arrived. We still only have one Willoughby bin and it is 2/3 full already. We do not want to take any bags of rubbish with us to Mona Vale.

Progress is being made there. We will have lots more enclosures (10 of each size) so I am frantically making hammocks for them.

Today I noticed that Cheeto's stratchy box was hairy. He must loose hair continuously . . whatever breed of cat that he is. That is a very condensed ball of his fur from the  box.

Cheeto and his hair

 His neighbours, Cosmo and Coco just want to eat.

Cosmo and Coco

  There is a new cat on Better Row, Enzo who would dispute the name.

Enzo

 And a couple of kittens below Cheeto don't seem to spend time together in their condo. Always one above and the other trying to get to whoever opens his door.

Daisy (I just vant to be alone)

and 

Milo (Let me show you this trick)

 I moved Chalk from Incoming to where Oreo and Gingie were. . . they were adopted.

Dinesh is back from the vet and is transitioning away from the ZD diet. Hope this makes him happier.  

He is not happy. And not eating. Not even special treats of baby food.

Chalk

Nutmeg, on the other hand is full of beans and happy to be where Cookie and Marmalade were. . . they were adopted.

Dory spoke

 He greeted his favourite Friday vollie with a kitten sized meow!

Dory

And, there is no dirty laundry at Safe Haven! We have finally caught up. (It has taken 5 years!)

Of course, the rubbish is another story with only one Willoughby bin still. But visitors took off several bags, as did I. So the balcony is not too bad. But anything but empty of bags is bad.

Bruce was blue today because his mum was at the vets. He stole Mickeys toy but still missed his mum/pillow.

Bruce

 Peter, Patch and Phoenix have been moved to Welfare. It is nice to have some tiny tabbies there.

P's

Faith and Flora were desexed. They came back with plastic cones but I changed them to cloth ones which are more comfortable.  They don't seem to get on all that well. But it might just have been the post op!

Flora and Faith

Chloe who was moved to Welfare some days ago, seems to have developed a mucky eye. She will get the dreaded ointment which is a shame because she has become much friendlier since being moved.

Chloe

Australis has been moved back to Incoming. Borealis left in Welfare all by herself is now enjoying visitors.

Borealis

In Isolation the four champagne, identical kittens suddenly have a champagne mum! She escaped while they were catching the family but has since been brought in. She seems a calm, sweet cat (who luckily remembered her kittens).

There is another kitten in Isolation called Bonnie. She was adopted from a breeder of British Short Hairs but developed ringworm and giardia. Both of these are infectious to people as well as to animals. So she was surrendered to us with a bag of food and meds and cash! I wasn't going close enough to get a good photo because both of those parasites infect people as well as felines. But she is cute enough to wait for.

Gary back

 He is back from foster and just as cuddle-able as when he went. Others came back from Kym's as well. She has been a huge help with shuttling cats from the shelter to and from vets and has had many of our cats living at her house. Many thanks Kym.

Aslan has declared it to be winter and has taken to sleeping all day on my doona.

Aslan

 Geoff visited today and showed up photos of the new shelter and talked of all the plans he has offered to help with. Thank you Geoff. The move will start on May 7 and be finalized on May 17. It will be an interesting 10 days.

 The only photo I took today was as I was checking waters at the very end of the day. Eleanor, in Incoming, was calmly stirring her water bowl on the shelf below with her tail.

 

She has three kittens, Ebony (the black one) and the tabbies Erica and Evie.

There are four identical champagne kittens in Isolation. They seem to be very well. . . so far. 

And I have been saving this photo of Autumn. She is still on wet only food. . . . hence the lean and hungry look. But the leaves on the Liquidamber along our driveway are turning so it is appropriate to include her.

 

Jerry gone

 There were lots of vollies this morning so the work got done early and very well. And the vollies got to spend extra time with the cats. Which paid off:

Dory accepted a pat

 A couple of visitors arrived to replace their elderly, unwell cat with a kitten. . . . culture shock ahead. She had done her homework on our blog and he had chosen the last cat they had so it was her turn to pick. So she fancied Sumi but Jerry fancied his beard. It is a long, multi-coloured beard. Jerry and he played and smooched. Sumi and she cuddled calmly. 

I took them out back to meet Mouse who looked calm and unconcerned (thank goodness her breast feeding hormones have gone!)

Mouse

 He won. They took home Jerry. (Let's hope they change her name to Gerry.  . short for Geraldine.)

 Irene gave Nutmeg's kittens an anti fungal bath and checked them all over for lesions. None were found. So they have been moved into the Palace. I suspect they will discuss a plot with Ravyn overnight. So be warned for tomorrow morning!

And there was discussion about putting Salt and Pepper back together again. But I think they are better apart.

Pepper