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!

Goodbye Pishi

 She was adopted today . . . . at long last.

Pishi

So was one of the D kittens, Dougie. He has gone to be a young playmate for two female, 2 year old cats.

 And Peaches went to a foster home. So Biscuit has moved downstairs into her stand alone. (One less to clean was a win!)

Which means that upstairs is looking very light on cats. Only Cathy and Fifi (whose stay was extended) are boarding. 

Our Cathy

Fifi (who is a boy) 

Lou has come back from the vets. She didn't have ringworm.

Lou

 That leaves Bree and Raphaella and Albert who has moved into Gideon's enclosure. But as he is all black and hiding you can't see him.

Bree

 

Raphaella

no see Albert

And Lola. Who was lying on her back on a bit of electrical equipment on the windowsill this morning.

Down stairs we have a new Truffle and Oreo. They are next to the old Oreo.

Oreo

On the other side from the old Truffle. 

Truffle

I don't know if this is the new Truffle or Oreo. One of them is very, very shy. The other one is the front man.

Truffle or Oreo

Our Turtle bumped his nose today.

Turtle's nose

Maybe Fox did it.

 

Busy weekend

 Persephone was adopted as well as others either adopted or gone to foster homes. All very exciting (not to mention confusing!) Mouse has gone (? to a fosterer). So have others.

Priya is new in the Transit Lounge.

Priya

 A woman and her husband came in this afternoon to do the paperwork to convert their foster cat to their own cat. And to pick up Nedjem and her 4 kittens. We weighted and pilled them just before they went off. So if they have worms, they will come out at the foster home. They will also name the kittens despite all our suggested names.

Nedjem plus four

 The S kittens below them (Snowy's kittens) seem to be recovering from their poo festival.

Siren, Sapphire and Saxon (L to R)

The D kittens have been moved, in their stand alone, onto the adoption floor and have blue labels. So they may all get adopted this weekend (if not before.) 

The other stand alone in the Transit Lounge is occupied by a very black cat named Albert. He is a bit wary of people but loves treats.

Albert

 Another who will do anything for a treat is Oreo. We need a harness big enough for him. He was so delighted to be out and about that his tail was three times its usual diameter.

Bella has four kittens still in her litter box. Guess we will have to wait until they are big enough to walk to clean out that litter box.

Bella plus 4

Warming up

 Lani's back. Hurrah. Makes more work, of course, but zestfully.

Lani

And we had lots of vollies including some first timers. They were super efficient so had time to spend with the cats.

Bassuria is getting the Treatment from our prime cat tamer. He will soon be climbing onto the vollie's shoulder.

 Coco and Chanel were picked up. (One had been previously been adopted but the two small kids talked their parents into getting them both, probably. Their names have been changed, unfortunately). So the stand alone was cleaned and the D kittens were moved into it. They are still in the transit lounge so are not to be handled. They are distinguished by their moustaches. One points up. Another goes straight across. And the last has a white smudge on his forehead. I read their microchip numbers to Lani so that she could work out who is whom.

D's with mo's.

Apricot took time out from her kittens this afternoon. It was rather warm.

Apricot

Her babies snoozed.

Apricot's 4

There is a lovely new female in the T Lounge named Priya.

Pryia

And Holly is back from the vet, at last.

Holly

 

 

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.