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.

No Lunch

 I wasted spent a lot of time this afternoon updating the vollie's name tags. The wee box that they live in has become very tight and most of the names in it are of vollies who have "retired". So I asked Rosanna for an updated list of vollies names and went through the box pulling out the uncurrent names and writing the new current names. It is amazing what a difference that has made to the number of cards that are current. But, if you can't find your name in the alphabetical sorting, go through the stack of cards at the back of the box. You may well still be there!

One adoption today to the woman who confessed to having visited 10 times before deciding whom she wanted to take home with her. David did the deed. They all went home happy. . . . see multiple social media posts. 

Pippa adopted

 Another visitor couple were looking for a kitten even though they are older. He is mostly in a wheelchair and she is lively. They liked Phoebe (Valentina's last wobbly kitten). Unfortunately they have a scheduled "away" time until Wednesday. But the probability of Phoebe still being available when they return is 95%.

Irene anticipates that 5 kittens will be adopted tomorrow. (Not including Phoebe.)

Georgie, the female G, went to be desexed today but did not survive the anaesthetic.  . . . something congenital. Rather like Grayson's missing back leg. The rest of the family is getting more relaxed and friendlier by the day.

Gideon (tabby with white on face), Gaia (Black & White), Gruff (brown tabby)

Including Grayson who can be picked up and cuddled medicated. 

 While on G kittens: I tried to clean up Gary who gets drops put into his ear twice a day. Of course, he shakes them out onto his divine ginger coat. I gave that coat a good wipe with damp paper towel this afternoon. It didn't do much good.

Gary

 Late this afternoon (when I checked that everybody had enough water to drink overnight) Lilli came out of her bed box. She is such a pretty cat with GREEN eyes.

Lilli

 And the new kittens who arrived on Wednesday are Caramel: tabby & white paws, Cheetah: tabby with white nose, Fluffy: DMH and, our named, Panther: black.

I have made two more hammocks to replace the ones that were thrown out from Nutmeg's enclosure.

 Bright enough?

 

No touch

 No sign of the lizard today. The junk room was piled with boxes which Sue wrestled open. They contained one cat carrier each. So much packing!

I was on condo sterilizing first thing this morning because it has been discovered that some of the Spice Girls have ring worm lesions. They have gone together in the up and down condo pair in Isolation and their mum is under Australis and co. Bugger. No more playing with kittens in Welfare.

And Rory is back on a special diet so no more giving him lots of treats in exchange for love. 

Rory

Peaches has settled down into her foster home very well, according to her new mum. And I moved Freya into her condo below Rory because Freya's condo in Incoming was needed for four kittens who arrived this afternoon. That condo was signposted for Mike who is gorgeous enough for folk to go to the end of the row to meet him. Freya is very pretty too so as soon as her collar is off she will be adopted. 

And the kittens who arrived are pretty tame and quite big enough to be desexed. They are Panther (the black one who we named) and Fluffy, Cheeta and ? 

Savannah's collar is off and the lump on her right cheek has gone. The whiskers on that side are growing back as well. 

Savannah

 One of Valentina's kitten was adopted. . . the boy. Her girl is desperate for attention/affection.

Another who also wants attention is Wolfgang. He still pongs a bit but has got his loving ways back.

Wolfgang

 Thanks for the photos Joy.

Suspect discovered

 This afternoon Irene mentioned that the rather chewed scratchy poles in the entry that I had thought were for sale on Wednesday, were in fact, for our cats. So I moved them out the back. And discovered a large lizard sheltering behind them. Lola was sitting on her favoured "for sale" scratchy pole a little further down the entry. She didn't move when the lizard wiggled. While I went for a box to catch it in to move it downstairs (I was worried that "lizard meat" might not be on her dietary approved list) it scurried into the Conference/Junk room. I would have Buckley's of catching it there. So if you notice her watching somewhere "catchable" do take the lizard down to the garden. Whatever does it have to eat in a cattery?

On Wednesday I moved Garry into Lola's old small stand alone. He has been moved back to Incoming because he is on meds. Silly me.  

Garry's one day of freedom

And today I took pity on Grayson, the three legged kitten of the "five kittens" now in Enclosure 2. He is always on the floor and his siblings hang out on the upper shelves and the hammocks. I decided to install a hammock at floor level for him. This freeked him out so much that he climbed, with 3 legs only, up to the top shelf. 

Grayson is the grey blob on the right

 I just hope that he can get down to the litter tray, water bowl and his low slung hammock.

Please remember to put the litter trays at the front of the enclosures. Otherwise the litter gets dug out at the back of the enclosures and can't be cleaned easily.

David brought a friend with him this afternoon who played with the kittens. Valentina's Danny was worn out. They had a lovely time.

Danny

And Mouse's Gerry (was Jerry until we discovered that she is short for Geraldine not Jerald) has amazing whiskers and furnishings (ear hairs.)

 

Something suspicious in the kitchen

Lola has her eye on it. 

Lola

 When I arrived I noticed that Ravyn's play place door was open. But she was curled up in her small box. When I turned to the feeding area, I found a bag of crunchies that had been chewed open. Ravyn was not as hungry today as usual. It was a good thing, perhaps, that she chose a bag of "light crunchies" (for fat cats) to overindulge in.

A little later I must have not closed the G kitten's enclosure door after giving them their breakfast. Because all, bar Grayson (the grey, three legged kitten), were running around in Welfare. I caught three of them but couldn't see the fourth one anywhere. I searched in Incoming, Isolation and the Junk room. No sign of the kitten. So I continued feeding breakfasts and soon out she came from under the food shelves beside me. Easy to pick up and carry back home. Thank goodness.

Mumma and Freya are to be desexed tomorrow as well as two of Nutmegs daughters. 

Mumma

Freya

Muffin was in a very friendly mood this afternoon. Pity the woman who rather fancied Paige didn't choose her. (Paige was adopted over the weekend, And so was Minnie). She will be back when one of Nutmeg's girls is desexed. But which one to choose?!

Muffin

It is Minty's birthday on Saturday. 

Minty

Diet time

 This morning I fed Aslan slightly less than usual (about 12 crunchies less) then put my breakfast bread into the cold toaster before going for an early walk. This is what greeted me on the kitchen bench when I got returned.

Not bad for a cat with no teeth

He was curled up on his morning sofa either playing the innocent bystander or ashamed of his cubby self.

Chubby Aslan

I would love to get PC to that degree of chubby-ness.

We had a couple of visitor pairs this afternoon. One mother and daughter who fell in love with multiple, not yet available kittens. They will return. And a pair of scantily clad girls (on their way home from the beach) who did the same. They will come back with mum to make the final decision. 

 Mike still is not feeling very well. He might have a gigantic fur ball in his tummy as he is a hairy fellow and perhaps in his former life he got brushed regularly.

Mike

 

I had to take Svarte to the Collaroy Vets (as arranged last night during dinner but delayed due to dual organizations). She has a swollen hysterectomy site. The vet (who did the op) prescribed antibiotics. Svarte didn't make a peep on the way, in the clinic or on the way home. 

Valentina has settled well into a stand alone all by herself. Her wobbly kittens seem to be coping well without her.

 

Grayson, one of the G kittens on Better Row went to the vet today. And came back whole and hearty but without one back leg. . . . just the same as when he went. It seems to be a congenital fault. Our first three-legged kitten.

 Perhaps we should change his name to Jake. And change the rest of the G names we made up on Wednesday to J names.