Almost made it

 I arrived very early at Safe this morning. Before the Willoughby bins had come. I would be able to put a trolley load, or two, of our bags into other peoples bins, I thought gleefully.

Two of the 5 in the stand alone in Incoming who are now loving the Play Place

 

But when I opened the Welfare door, a kitten whisked itself across the floor. Spagetti and co's door wasn't closed and they had spent the night running around. It took me some time to get them all back into their condo. Spagetti was especially difficult. Just like the last piece of spagetti on your plate when you can't use your fingers to scoop it up. 

By the time they were back "home" and I had wheeled a trolly load of bags down to the sidewalk, the truck had come and emptied all the rubbish bins. Sigh. 

But, yesterday Helen tracked down our missing Willoughby bin. Unit 8 had been using it. So I whisked it into the garage and later laminated three hand-drawn "19"s for each side and the front where Willoughby puts the unit labels. Let's hope that will warn unit 8 off!

Kitten in Incoming who only ate crunchies when she arrived but now won't touch them

 

Plump Calli who was recently moved under tough Tilly was adopted over the weekend. And Griffin was adopted this afternoon by a couple who took AGES to make up their minds even though they were only looking at him.

We only had 6 vollies this morning and they worked really hard. Two lots of boarders went home and I got their condo's sterilized while Sue was attending to Griffin's people. We will miss June. But we have Aziza back as a boarder. She is in Tiger's condo, in the gods just adjacent to the Palace where she used to be with her kittens. She is plump and much loved. 

Didn't have time to take any photos except for Julie and Bass who were  posing. Earlier they had been hissing at their noisy neighbours (the kittens from Isolation). There was a gap in the "curtain" between the enclosures. I pushed a bit of cardboard to cover the gap so they can't see what Julie and Bass are up to in their igloo. Those photos seem to have disappeared when I sent them from my phone to my email. So I will just drop in some left-over Joy photos.

Japanese named kittens in Incoming now on Sneeze Watch

 

Storm is back

 It didn't work out for his family. He seems sad.

Storm

He is in Roisin's stand alone. We moved the four skitty kittys from Boarding to where Aziza and co were after the thorough disinfecting on Wednesday. They were not easy to move. Three boxes and a cat carrier were needed. But they settled down well with the help of a modesty sheet over their door.

Greta liked the hammock

Ebony hid on a shelf

Franky was wary

And Flynn wanted to know if he could have some more of that nice tube food. . .  please.

Princess will be glad that the noisy downstairs neighbours have moved. She went for a hormone test today because we do not have any proof that she was desexed.

Princess is too discrete to tell

Shiro and Momo are ready to go. But who is whom and are they bonded? A family came in late this afternoon because their daughter wanted Ava. The son wanted to be a pest and said he preferred Shiro or Momo. We sent them off empty handed to come to a decision at home. The father is a dog person. And Tank didn't like the kids.

Shiro and Momo

They will be back tomorrow, probably early. 

Tank

 It seems that somebody was using the 4% bleach straight instead of diluting it to sterilize washing up and condos. So Sue made some signs.

Aziza says that it wasn't her. Her Adom has been adopted.

Aziza and her girls

They love the Palace. They no longer try to bolt out of it as do Lilly and her kittens from their enclosure. But Lilly's lot will be mostly gone by the end of the week. Ryder was adopted today and Jasper will be picked up tomorrow.

Ryder

Lilly's white girls

But the real news is that Pikachu has been moved:

Pikachu

To Mickey's condo. . . . . 

Mickey has gone to Joan's to foster. Joan says that he is in his own bathroom, where she can watch him with a camera. He hasn't come out of his carrier since he arrived there on Monday. He hasn't eaten the nice new food that she bought for him. So I gave her some of our crunchies that he does eat. . . . eventually. But he will allow her to groom him with a brush. Early days after such a long time with us. (My first blog about him was Oct 20, 2022).

And Minty and Rascal have been moved to boarding. They are not in together. They didn't really like each other when they were together before their brush with ringworm.

Minty

They didn't like the move either.

Rascal

And we were given a group of four big kittens from a colony. They are in boarding and are scared.

Greta (B & W) and Frankie (tabby)

Flynn (ginger) & Ebony

Tommy says"bloody kittens. What about ME?"

Tommy

Moving kittens

 Six kittens arrived this afternoon with black robed girls. One was thought to have possibly had ringworm. It was inspected and passed inspection so all were accepted.

In anticipation white mother (Lily) and her the kittens (3 ginger/whites and two white) had been moved to an enclosure in  Welfare. As soon as they are desexed they will be adopted. The 4 boys will go quickest.

The new kittens need names. They already have much better manners than the previous lot.

 

Cordelia's kittens are out of the sleeping box all the time now. They need names too.

Cordelia's kittens

Cordelia looks a bit sick of being a mum.

Cordelia

While Yahtzee is still looking after most of her kittens with Tim's help with the little tabby. They need names too.

Yahtzee and co

Aziza's Aki was desexed and is in the condo next to Cordelia. Don't know where Panda is.

Aki

I moved Tank to where Alaska was, he has been adopted. Irene moved his mum Lilli  and got scratched.
Aimee who I moved earlier to the condo above will have fun downstairs neighbours.

Rebagged

 On Wednesday I left Safe with a huge bag of washing. Somebody had sewn a pretty print of cartoon cats into a laundry bag that would have been big enough for Santa to deliver presents to the Old Lady who Lived in a Shoe. Sue thought I looked hilarious. The bag held four loads of washing. I cut it into two to make two laundry bags of a more reasonable size.

Cody approved

Mateo was collected yesterday so his small condo was free. We moved Prime into there. He is the biggest of the kittens in Mia's condo and added greatly to the havoc of feeding time by greedying as much tucker as he could get his paws on. Moved into his own condo he hid in the hammock. And wasn't interested in his dinner! He is available for adoption.

Prime

As are Prue and Trude. Irene took lots of cats to the vet this morning. It is great to see their name cards changed to pink!

Prue and Trude

Also good to see was Archie out of his Pub Box. His face is cleaner but he needs to work on his body.

Archie

And also great to see was Shadow in Incoming responding to occasional visitor Christine.

Shadow

Now we know that he likes pats, we all need to give them to him.

Aziza and co were moved out of Isolation because a small kitten with ringworm was moved in. A and the little A's are in the Palace. I moved one of the Lola anointed stratchy poles from the front foyer into the palace so that the kittens could move vertically to get to Aziza. (My chosen names have been approved).

A visitor came to choose a second kitten to go with her boy kitten. She fell for Hui Hui because Tim W has her trained to be carried around lying on her back in his arms! She may well be back tomorrow at 10am to adopt her (after consulting her mother).

Iso family

 I looked up Egyptian names a couple of weeks ago and wrote them on a plastic sheet to blue tack to the wall beside their stand alone. Nobody has moved it. Or changed the names. So, perhaps they have been accepted (or nobody has noticed.) But I will introduce the Iso family who came in with a couple of moslem dressed women who had been looking after them somewhere in the western suburbs. The women were lovely and the cats have turned out to be lovely too. 

The mum is Aziza. You have to feed her in a carrier on top of their stand alone because the kittens were vomiting after scoffing her crunchies. She happily climbs onto your shoulders after meals to get back to her family. Here she is with Adom (ginger male) and Aki (tabby: I couldn't pick the sex a fortnight ago).

Adom, Aki, Aziza

The other tabby is ticked. His/her name is Anat. And he/she wouldn't stand still for a photo. 

Anat

The calico is Ava.

Ava

Lilli has one chunky kitten. Perhaps his/her name should be Larze.

Lilli and Larze

Zoe has moved to Welfare. She is newly desexed. And not only did they cut her tummy. . . they cracked one of her whiskers!

Zoe

More adoptions

 A busy weekend. Not only was Mia adopted but her next door neighbour Harry was adopted too. And so was Felicity the kitten.

Felicity

 And Teddy and GiGi have been adopted by our Natalie.

Lola is doing well. She is in a small condo and has a huge plastic cone on. But seems to be happy to be home. (The pain killers probably help). There is a fund raising effort on Facebook to try to recoup the price of her operation.

Cordelia was sent to the vet to be desexed. And they discovered that she is pregnant. So she is back in her condo, enjoying the pregnancy rations and looking as slim as she was last week.

Cordelia

She came in at the same time as Zoe did. Zoe is younger.

Zoe

 We had a new kitten for a short while. Choco was whisked off to be fostered.

Choco

And Mateo is back in a hard collar for another week. He bumped his wound in the soft collar . . . . probably when racing around like a mad thing. He had a turn in the play place where he can't get up to full speed.

Mateo

Aziza's kittens (in Isolation) are very interested in eating her food. Unfortunately the crunchies make them vomit. So we separate Aziza in a carrier to eat her crunchies with a side of wet food while the littles have just the wet food. They love it.

Aziza's 4

Fun with the bins today included magots! Somebody filled the Willoughby bin in the basement and it was left there yesterday because two others were taken out to the pavement (including the cracked one that I had left upside down in the basement to NOT be filled).

That cracked bin will be collected by Willoughby council within the next three working days. It is on the sidewalk. . . . upside down.