New hammocks

 Last week Katrina brought in her mum's old quilt for me to make into hammocks. I did that over the weekend because Katrina intended to come back in today to pick up the painting of cats she bought from us last year some time. And she was going to bring her mum. So I put up some of the hammocks downstairs in the hope that the cats would smile at the visitors. 

Only Katrina came. And she was delighted. Roxie posed so beguilingly on her new hammock thata Katrina may just adopt her. 

 She also fancied Cindy. Who liked her back and performed very well despite not having any hammocks in her condo. Katrina will return.

Salt and Pepper got one of the new hammocks as well. (They have been using theirs since we moved to Mona Vale and they were dirty.)

Salt and Pepper

 

Truffles and Oreo love their hammocks.

Truffles and Oreo

 

As does Oreo next door

Oreo

Bree, not so much.

Bree

 

I found time to brush Teddy. For a very black cat, it is surprising how grey the brushings are from him.

 Teddy has been moved downstairs into Bassuria's enclosure. Bass has been fostered-to-adopt. Hurrah!

 

See Feb 6, 2026

 I didn't expect Toby to stalk my kitchen benches to the extent that Aslan did. But today I left a frozen nan on the toaster to thaw while I was off playing tennis.

When I got home I found it moved, and nibbled a little bit. 

He Is currently sitting under the dining room table waiting for me to fix my dinner and sit down there. I share a tiny bit of whatever meat I have prepared with him. He is very polite about taking it from my fingers.

He still does not want me to pat him but he chooses to sleep where I sit on the couch now that his electric blanket has been turned off. 

He is a very satisfactory, no-touch cat to have around the house.

Snow's kittens

Early this morning the fosterer of Snow's kittens brought them in. She had fattened them up so that they can be quickly desexed and then be available for adoption within a fortnight! We popped them into the green stand alone in the Transit Lounge.

Then they were looked at and a ring shaped lesion appeared in the fluorescent torch light in the bathroom. So they have been transferred to Isolation with suspect ringworm. The one with the ring is by herself.

Sad S kitten

 The trash can kittens have settled in. I put in another hammock so the one (B & W) that gets sucked on can get away from the other three!

 Bassuria is going to get publicity because he has been with us for 4 years. (Feels longer to me!)

Bassuria

 

Bon Voyage

 I managed to get this photo of Teddy to Sue before she took of this morning. 

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Teddy

He enjoyed having his tail, tummy and back feet combed clean and brushed. (He had a slight accident on the way to Safe yesterday). 

We got some more small kittens today. A man found them in a bag in a trash can and took them home. But can't keep them. He was in tears. The kittens had been given names: Tiny (the smallest), Tiger (the tortie!), Blacky (the back one, of course) and Bodik which is possibly the only name that we will keep. The man and his lady friend were very grateful that we accepted them. 

Bodik and co.

 Mochi came back from the vet having been desexed. She must have been given extra relaxants!

Mochi asleep on her waterbowl

The two ragdolls are getting used to us. But they prefer each other.

Beia and Serafina (or vice versa)

And Pablo and Kenny have been moved upstairs and separated. One is in Bree's old enclosure and the other is beside Peaches.

New Background for Bree

She had such a wonderful time this morning out of her condo, running after a toy on a stick. The game lasted for 15 minutes before she was carted off to the vets. Now she is checked and can be put up for adoption she has moved downstairs to next door to Oreo. That might be an interesting combination!

Bree

 Across the way in a stand alone are the two shaved rag dolls, Serafina and Beia. (Don't know which is whom). The one on the bottom went to the vet today.

Serafina & Beia

There is a new kitten in the Transit Lounge called Mochi. She arrived this afternoon.

Mochi

 Soon she will look as confident as Cleo.

Cleo

PS: Bella's three kittens survived being bathed on Wednesday. 

Bella + 3

 

A bath

 Bella's surviving 3 kittens got a bath this afternoon. They had been moved out of the littertray where they has been since their birth ?3 weeks ago. And put into a towel lined littertray with their mum. All was going well except on Monday they stank from being in with poo. Hence the bath.

First they were weighed.

 Then washed in shampoo bubbles and rinsed and blown dry/blow dried.

Then popped onto a hottie in an upstairs bedroom (with the door stuffed closed just in case mum came to visit before we had finished.

When they were all clean we chased Bella out of the lower room and quickly put them, in their clean, cloth lined bed litter tray back to where they were. Within a short, Bella was back in there with them. She didn't seem to mind their new smell. But it is still hard to see them behind her scowl.

Bella plus 3

 

I moved Priya to where Fox and Turtle were before they were adopted. There were 9 adoptions since last Wednesday. She adjusted quite well.

Priya

I rearranged those three, central stand alones. It makes for more space for the vollies to move around. But, of course, it may not last.

Lou (back from the vet at last) is in Pishi's old stand alone and Cindy is below Shamus in the AWL condos. 

Lou

Or she was until this afternoon when Catsie came and adopted her!

A woman came in (from a smokey pub) to adopt a kitten for her 9 year old son late this afternoon. She wanted Maggie but somebody is coming on Friday to adopt her. Then she wanted Apollo or Adonis. But they didn't want her. Then she though she would like one of the Supermarket kittens who have moved into the "green" stand alone. But it all took too long and we ran out of time. She may, or may not, be back.

Apollo and Adonis or a two headed cat.

And Oreo took his afternoon walk. Catsie had brought some cat mint that he liked and that Roxy LOVED.

Oreo says "Let me OUT"

 

At last

 

Those bumps below the quilt are my feet. Toby invited himself onto my bed for a after lunch nap!