August: one per day

 Really, one adoption for each day of August. 31 in total. Some days there were more than one. Other days there were none. But on average, one per day is fabulous.

Today's adoption was Raven. A man came in and wanted him. So Kath did the deed. Poor Rogue will have to come out of his shell now that he is alone in it. 

A woman came in to try to decide which cat she wanted. She loved Peaches who was in a "I need cuddles" mood today. Her Biscuit didn't get back from the vet until after 5pm. She might not be in such a smoochy mood tomorrow. She still has wet patches on her flanks but the hair is growing back on the spots that she used to lick relentlessly.

Peaches

This lady also liked Turtle and Fox who are in the stand alone beside Autumn and Pishi. They were in a riotous mood while she was there. So seemed a bit too much for her.

Turtle and Fox (below)

Even Pishi was too lively for this older lady.

Pishi

I took Persephone for a walk. She had a lovely time launching herself up the stairs, over the desk, up to the window, and back again. 

Persephone

 

Chook for cats

 Thought I would blog my recipe for chicken for cats. I give each cat a small bit of chicken every Friday. . . . . to prepare them for the weekend adopters!

Get a big chicken.

Put it chest down in a heavy casserole dish with a tight lid.

Cook in a hot oven for about an hour.

Leave it to cool in the turned off oven. Usually quite a bit of juice comes out of the chook. Leave it with the chicken. 

Remove all bones. Cut the meat and skin into small pieces.

Put into 4 plastic bags. That should give you enough for one small piece of meat per cat.

Freeze until needed.

Today, Toby got to lick the dish.

 

 

Cotton's Tale

 Is almost over. He has been adopted and will be picked up tomorrow.

Cotton: does he look smug!

And today, amid the Friday chaos, Howie was adopted by a young couple. She was coo-ey but he was capable. Howie will have a wonderful life.

Howie

The chaos was added to by a couple of cat collectors who spent the day with us. They are very experienced with feral cats. So when Opie needed to be put into a carrier to go to be vaccinated at the vets, they stepped forward with aplomb and popped him into their carrier without any struggle. Opie behaved himself beautifully. The vet even said that he was a lovely cat.

Back at the cattery, we took advantage of his absence to clean his condo and change the covering sheets which reeked of urine. 

He is now available for adoption. And the visitors well and truely earned their day's experience with us.

 A tearful woman arrived early in the morning with a mother cat with her three kittens. (She and her daughter are allergic to cats and she needs to have an operation). She passed the mother from her arms to mine. The three kittens were in a washing basked. The mum's name is Snowy. The kittens have been given S names. This afternoon, Snowy was lying outside the bed box on the upper ledge hissing at the kittens inside the bed box. I think she was saying "That is enough sucking. Eat your people food. Leave me alone."

I think that Bella's kittens who were born in her litter box should be given names that are pet names for toilets, eg Toots, Dunny, Bog, Lew, Throne, etc, etc. But probably nobody else will think so. 

Cotton's Tail

 He is a much happier cat without his tangled locks.

He is also happier without a modesty cloth covering the front of his stand alone. He is no longer just another fluffy cat because the other two, Pickles and the black one (forgotten his name) have been adopted. He has a new neighbour who is a very friendly tortie named Flower whom Vivienne delivered today.

Flower

In the Transit Lane, Topaz is still hugely pregnant.

Topaz

 

And Bella has had her kittens, . . . . in her litter tray. Can't see how many she has had and I was not prepared to move her, or them.

Bella + ?

 She has a new neighbour too. Named Sam who seems to be a lovely cat with green eyes.

Sam

Peaches had some "ME" time today because Biscuit went to the vet for a vaccination. She allowed us to comb her coat and to remove some of the crusty bits on her skin that we have been treating. 

Biscuit has been kept overnight at the vets to have a dental treatment tomorrow. So she will get a good night's sleep as well as a full dinner!
 

The other Lola

 My friend Gina adopted Lola back in 2020. They lived together in perfect harmony that was a balance of two strong personalities. 

Lola

A few months ago Lola died quietly. Gina is very sad. She has worked through her grief by embroidering an image of Lola. The original is around a meter square. That is a lot of stitches. 

It is still to be stretched and framed.

Bath time

 Cotton went to Collaroy Vet to be shaved this morning. Missed his breakfast.

Added to that insult, he had to have a bath when he got home.

"You are going to do what?!"

 

"Not only wet but soapy all over"

"Why put the soap on if you are just going to hose it off!"

"Now you are wiping off all the water!"

He was moved into Gracie's stand alone that I moved to be beside Monty's. The fluffy cats (real and potential) will be all adjacent until Monty gets picked up on Sunday. Cotton might have recovered from his Friday from Hell by then.

Persephone enjoyed a couple of walks. She doesn't like other cats but does like people cuddles and chasing a long wand.

Persephone with David

 Thanks for the photos Robyn.  

And Toby came to my end of his couch for a pat last night. This morning he enjoyed his view.

Cotton felted

 You cannot felt cotton. But Cotton, the cat who has just arrived, has a felted coat. It is so severely felted that Lani's professional grooming tool could not cut through the tangles. She had me help her because Cotton has been hiding in his bed box all day so she didn't know how friendly he'd be. He started to purr within seconds of me giving him love to his front end while she buzzed his back end. 

That's good because it means that he won't have to be sedated to be groomed. But not good, because it means that Lani needs a new head for her trimmer in order to cut through the felt. They cost $50!

I will try to get a "before" photo on Friday.

Joy got a photo of our Bonnie who is in for boarding. She has grown up lots and is now called Biscuit.

Bonnie/Biscuit

 Our other Biscuit's mum Peaches keeps on licking her side. So we put a cone on her today. That may let the itch subside. Or may drive them both crazy.

Peaches

 Spirit and her siblings are the only cats in Iso. The other two went to be desexed today (Foxy and Turtle) I drove them along with Shiloh from the stand alone in Transit Lounge. His sister has already been desexed.

all black Isolation

 

Shiloh's sister

Charley visited and spent time with lots of her best friends.

Charley and Sparrow

Just one adoption today. Gracie.

I found out how she had been getting out of her stand alone. The tray on the bottom of the stand alone has a portion of its lip missing. She could squeeze through that gap and through the wider bars at the bottom of the stand alone. I fixed it by rotating the tray so that the damaged part is at the back which is pressed up against the stand alone behind it.