Quick post

 This will have to be quick because I have a committee meeting by Zoom in 15 minutes.

 We had a donation this afternoon from a deceased estate. Luckily it included a bag of pine litter because we are down to our last bag.

 The daughter is visiting from the UK. If she was living here she would have taken the O boy who with his 2 sisters has been moved to the stand alone beside the door. That is a popular spot at the moment for adoptions!

Odysseus is all by himself on Better Row.

But that is the exciting place to be. One of Salt and Pepper escaped from the condo below and took off over the balcony. Last seen running across the drive and up the passageway behind Building 1. Tim has set up a trap just across from the garage below us. The food in is has disappeared but nothing has been trapped. I left the remains of the chicken that was bought last week for Lilly the tiny kitten who would only eat chicken. There is plenty more in the freezer.

And there is Ruby and her kittens who will be moved into PC's space because PC has found another foster home. Let's hope they can put some weight on him. Ruby's lot will go to be desexed tomorrow. They were having a final suckle this afternoon.

Ruby et al

We have another Jerry. This one came in from foster with a Ben. Told you we should have spelled Mouse's Jerry with a G for Geraldine.

Jerry

Ben

There are only 2 H kittens and 1 G kitten left.

Harlow and Hudson

 

Late day

Poor Aslan didn't get dinner until 7pm tonight. And I am eating my lunch as I type this. This morning there were only 5 vollies who worked hard and long. And I had 3 adoptions. 

1. A young woman came in with her friend who adopted from us before. She had looked at the website and rather fancied Harry. But she loved every cat that she met including Mimi, both G boys, the Japanese boy and all the H kittens. But eventually she spotted Kitty. Fell in love. And adopted her!

Kitty

(Sorry about the repeat photos. I didn't have time to take photos today).

Thanks to the lovely Friday vollie who has spent time with her after his shift for the past 2/3 months, Kitty was willing, and eager, to meet a new person who thought she looked perfect.

She was even easy to put into a carrier!

Then a mother and daughter came in to get a cat to go with their female cat as their old man cat had died. The daughter wanted a fluffy. Harry was it. Although Rory had a chance when I told them that he had had the entropian operation (? spelling of the condition in which the eyelid rolls in so that the eyelashes scratch the cornea). Seems that the daughter has had the same operation! 

Harry and bro

There will be a disappointed visitor tomorrow. One of Harry's brothers will be just as nice. Or one of the remaining G boys.

After they left, a woman arrived looking for a replacement for her beloved 20year old cat. We went around everybody but she kept coming back to Mimi who happily got out of her box and came for pats every time her door was opened. She took Mimi home. And as she works from home, I think Mimi will believe that she has gone to heaven.

Sorry Saturday folk for adopting out all the nicest cats in the place. 

Goosey is really friendly.

Got to go. Aslan wants to play.
 

More kittens on Better Row

 Mimi has been moved to where Wolfgang was (ie from Prue and Trude's enclosure). She is a very friendly cat but retires to her hidey hole when nobody is visiting. Open her door and she comes out. Her condo on Better Row is occupied by Ruby and her four kittens. Ruby looks like a kitten herself. (I did take some photo with my camera and was delighted that it decided to work. But when I try to download the photos. . . . no go. I will have to get some cluey vollie to teach me how to "airdrop" from my phone to my computer.)

The O kittens are just next door to Ruby. They are full of zest.

Odysseus

Othello and the girls. Octavia is the one with the ginger nose (?)

And at the very end (above Dinesh) is a cat called Peanut. She has come with a fancy bed with a red bobble toy . . . . and an attitude that says. . . I belong somewhere better than here.,  Won't take her long to fit into Better Row!

Peanut

Gingin and Oreo have moved into the stand alone in Welfare where Crumpet and Marmalade were before moving into Isolation. (I think they rather like their larger stand alone there better).

Gingin and Oreo

Bubble and Squeek have been moved out of Isolation back to Welfare. Are they pleased about it? 

Bubble and Squeek

I think so.

This afternoon, Roxy started to make "Yoohoo" noises. To any available male. . . . 

I had wondered why she was not available. She must not have been desexed yet.

Her neighbours were not interested. The 2 remaining G boys didn't know what  she was talking about. And Bassuria as only ever had eyes for Julie.

Gruff says "What?"

 Where Penelope and Paulina were is a new kitten who is to be really friendly in his foster home. His name is Eric. He is so different to the P girls!

Eric

 

Wolfgang gone

 He left yesterday with a delighted looking lady. He left enough hair on his hammock to make a kitten! I hope his new owner is not a wearer of black clothes.

And today the little H girl,

Hazel

Hazel was adopted. She and her person seem perfectly matched. 

It was a quiet afternoon, again, so I worked on PC's knots. This comb seem to be effective. It has a razor blade inside it but I don't use that side. His hair clumps are diminishing. Probably only 80% left now! He is not enjoying the process but doesn't complain with his claws.

PC

The O kittens came back from being desexed. One has a clot on his sliced scrotum. Be gentle with him. They are Ophelia, Odysseus, Othello and Octavia. The ginger boys purr as soon as you look at them.

Octavia

O boy (!)

 Hoshi and Tsuki were moved from Incoming to Welfare this afternoon. David loves both of them even though only one of them loves to be cuddled. (The shy guy will come around to the feeders).

?H or T?

Last thing today I set up the stand alone in Isolation because Cookie and Marmalade have been confirmed ring worm positive. Earlier in the afternoon I spotted a vollie happily cuddling one of them in Welfare. I mentioned that the "under observation" sign meant that they shouldn't be cuddled. She put the kitten back into the condo and, at my suggestion, left (with her apron which she will wash.)

The fungus that causes ringworm in cats also infects humans. If you find you have an extremely itchy spot somewhere on your body, smother it with Vasoline. That forms an oily film that excludes oxygen from getting to the fungus and slows down its growth. Chemist sell Lamisil which is a cream that kills fungus (athlete's foot fungus, ringworm fungus, whatever fungus.)

 

Dream Team today

 Everybody worked so well together that the work was done in record time. There were enough bodies to hold an H kitten each so their condo could be cleaned.

Later when a couple arrived looking for a kitten, the H's were looking spruce and were relaxed enough to enjoy strangers' cuddles. The couple will be back with small son tomorrow afternoon perhaps. On their way out Minette distracted them and purred like an engine in their arms.

The woman who chose Oreo came in to do the paperwork. She will pick him up on March 14 from his foster home. And Freya has been adopted. Don't know when she is to be picked up

 

Freya

Willow is back from the vets. She is on soft food only so must have had some teeth removed. I think she likes her new digs. It is quieter than being opposite the food desk and she can watch Marmalade and Cookie if she wants to be entertained. (They don't have any sign of the leg lesion that a vollie noticed a couple of weeks ago. But are still "under observation")

Willow

 

Bare balcony

 Again today! But, of course it was pouring down rain. So I put the second drying rack that never gets used underneath the usual clothes drying rack to try to keep the towels from trailing in the puddles on the surface of the balcony.

It might work   . . . . if the rain doesn't pour out of the sky as it did this afternoon. While I was out on the balcony I heard lots of noise from below. A large truck was parked outside the garage and a man was throwing bits of engines into the truck. He gave each bit a good look before tossing it in. 

Two cats were adopted. One from foster. And Valentina's Phoebe! The nice older couple from last week returned. She did the paperwork. He waited in the car downstairs because they didn't have the right wheelchair for him to come up. (He is a patient man. It takes ages to adopt from us). I carried Phoebe in her carrier (bought from us along with lots of toys and extras) and held her up to his window. Phoebe started talking to him. He answered her. I think they are going to be very happy together.

PC got another grooming session from me before that adoption. He didn't really enjoy it but he is a very tolerant cat.

A large pile of cotted tags.

At the end of the day David "socialized" the G kittens. If you remember what fraidy cats they were when they first arrived on Better Row, this is a huge improvement.

Gruff, Gideon, David

And Grayson climbs as well as a 4 legged cat. . . . .  when he is awake.

Grayson

Kitty let me pat her this afternoon. (Thanks to the efforts put in by a Friday vollie who stays back to socialize the more difficult cats.)

Kitty and me

And Miley shows her face more in the afternoon (when any visitor has left Safe.)

Miley

Check out the kitchen. There are fruity goodies. (Minus the mango that came home with me today.)

 Now, there's a good name for a cat!

 

 

No poo bags!

We have cleared the backlog. There is space in one Willoughby bin and one empty Willoughby bin in the basement! And there are no boarders to add to the poo pile. Plus lots of cats were adopted over the weekend including Minty, the birthday girl who must have been with us for more than 2 years. Her sister Rascal is still with us. And Rosie was adopted. Roxie, her mum, doesn't seem perturbed. 

I moved Wolfgang into Enclosure 1. It smelled just fine before I did. But it smelled of entire male soon after he moved in. Let's hope that odour does not persist. He got used to more space, slowly,

Wolfgang

There is a new cat in Better Row called Mimi. Kath introduced herself to Mimi and had a friend for life within seconds.

Mimi

This was after she assembled over a dozen new folders for more adoptions this week, please.

 There are four lovely H kittens who are ready to go (as soon as the paperwork is uploaded). They are in the corner condo under where Tilly was.

Harry and Harvey

Harlow and Hazel

The highlight of a slow afternoon was that PC claimed his chair and was pestered by folk trying to help him clean himself up.

PC before

 

PC after with a pile of tags.