New Background for Bree

She had such a wonderful time this morning out of her condo, running after a toy on a stick. The game lasted for 15 minutes before she was carted off to the vets. Now she is checked and can be put up for adoption she has moved downstairs to next door to Oreo. That might be an interesting combination!

Bree

 Across the way in a stand alone are the two shaved rag dolls, Serafina and Beia. (Don't know which is whom). The one on the bottom went to the vet today.

Serafina & Beia

There is a new kitten in the Transit Lounge called Mochi. She arrived this afternoon.

Mochi

 Soon she will look as confident as Cleo.

Cleo

PS: Bella's three kittens survived being bathed on Wednesday. 

Bella + 3

 

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"

 

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

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!
 

Prime news

He got adopted this afternoon! He gave the perfect demonstration of how food driven he is: I put a few crunchies in a cat carrier and he climbed straight in!

Quite a few other cats were adopted over the weekend including Mr Bigglesworth and Aimee. I moved Emma (one eyed Emma) into Aimee's condo. And Zorro moved into the condo above Mr B's because Sunny and Hilda have been moved to Isolation because of the ringworm spot on Sunny's ear. We are being especially careful to not cross contaminate cats. Which means: no cuddles after the cleaning work is done.

Zorro happy to be out of Iso.

 We got cats from Collaroy Vets: Bella and Pippin are older cats, (12 and 10 yo rspvy). They are not necessarily bonded.

Bella and Pippin

And Pirate Pete who looks like a sweetie even though he is missing one of his back feet.

Pirate Pete

We have an enormous ragdoll boarder. He is in the Palace and makes it look small.

Goodbye Ginger George

 He was adopted today by a woman who has always owned cats (and or dogs) who lives in a retirement community in the Hills district. He will be renamed Tommy. Her friend adopted another Ginger from us some time ago and is very happy with him. Lots of photos on her phone showed how much he is loved and pampered.

Ginger George's new woman plans to train him to walk on a lead. I told her that she wouldn't have any trouble, tried to illustrate how easily he cooperates but he, cat-like, didn't cooperate at all. But she knows that she will get around him and take him up to the residential section of the village to be introduced to all the oldies there. Won't he love that!

And there is a stream in the gardens that she will walk him to. And trees to admire. And lots and lots of love to be had.

Ginger George soon to be Tommy

 

Gingi, in Incoming, is ready and willing to step into Ginger George's shoes.
 

Gingi

 

Tia has gone up on the adoption list. Geoff offered a bet that she wouldn't be still here in a week. Nobody took him up on it because she is grey and smoochy.

Tia

And Bella says.. .  "grey schmey. . . . black is beautiful" and "why is my bowl empty?"

Bella

My finger looks like chicken

 I was late getting around to handing out the chicken this afternoon. We had a delivery of litter after we had used up the very last bag. (Thank you M). 

Just because there is a big pile, please don't use more than you absolutely have to.

Madeline was picked up. Katie always worries that Madeline will die when she is boarding with us because she is over 19 years old. And the C-kitten with possible ringworm went home as well. There is a sign on her condo that it be cleaned with bleach. Tim couldn't see any fluorescence when he shined the Wood's lamp on her lesion. But that only works 50% of the time. They should take her to the vet to have a skin scraping taken. The results won't come back for 3 weeks. In the meantime, Vivienne and Calvin are "no touch" cats.

Milo is still with us. His new person (one of our vollies) is moving house. We must warn her that he will find somewhere high to hide. I had him out for a short while this afternoon and he immediately went to the top of the condos to find a carrier to hide in.

Milo at ground level

We tried the Top Cat on Biscuit and then on Bella. Neither ventured out even when temped with treats.

Bella

But I had a first sighting of Charlie. He came out of the carry case that has been his home for the past month, at least A friend wants a pair of cats. . . . .

Charlie and Champ

The other Charlie in Incoming was at the vet this afternoon having an operation. He survived that but didn't recover from the anesthetic. 

Chicken was late with all this. One of the black Rolling Stones, who are getting much bolder, mistook my finger for chicken while I was pushing pieces through the play place mesh. Chomp. . . drip, drip, drip.

Jolene is boarding

 Her new owner picked her up as planned but then a pipe burst in her apartment so Jolene is staying with us for a week while it is fixed. The vollies were overjoyed. She got lots of cuddles. She wears a very fetching pink collar which matches her ears.

This morning a couple arrived to look at Prada (adopted over the weekend), Milo and Baloo who walked straight into their hearts. Their 20year old cat died late last year and they were ready to fall in love. Baloo was IT. They got the urinary problems are common in cats especially in highly (in-)bred ones lecture and went away very happy.

Baloo last week

We have a new B cat who lives where Tiger used to be: ie beside Biscuit and above Bissie. She came from a vet where there were barking dogs and she attacked the vet nurses. She seems as sweet as she can be with us. Her back end is bronzed.

Bella

Because Baloo vacated the stand alone, Maxwell moved in. He came into quarantine with rampant ring worm but is all good now. He likes to chat. All you have to do is look at him and he will talk to you.

Maxwell

Salazar is settling into his AWL condo slowly. The vet decided that he has a dicky heart as well as a warty chin. He wouldn't survive chin surgery. We should offer him to somebody who wants a fragile but super-loving cat to foster.

Salazar

Saffron has moved into Salazar's old digs above Bassuria and Julie. He looks somewhat overwhelmed. His owner visited over the weekend and is adamant that we not "give him away" to anybody else. He is still boarding with us.

Saffron

Julie and Bassuria

Milo has a funny toe.

Milo's missing toe

what about the other foot?

Oops, late blog

 Sorry to keep you waiting. I went to a lecture in Chatswood after closing up shop at the cattery today. It was about an ambassador's wife who made the most of being in the Middle East for her inspiration to make amazing quilts.

No adoptions today.
But a woman brought in her daughter to check on Peppa. But she wasn't in the cattery. We thought we had booked her and tabby Amelia in for desex yesterday. But the vet practice disclaimed all knowledge of the booking.  They did agree to keep them for a day and do them today. So Peppa wasn't home when her prospective new owner came to visit. I showed them Blueberry who put on a star turn, cuddled in their arms and purred. So now they can't decide between Peppa and Blueberry.

Blueberry all ready to go

Then a man arrived to meet Tabitha. I know him from at least a dozen years ago when he adopted a cat from us at Peggy Brown's. At Peggy's AWL branch we used to let folk choose kittens before they were ready for adoption. The prospective owners would come by every weekend to play with "their" kitten. It helped the bond to form. The kitten that this man chose unfortunately died while being desexed. It can happen. He was convinced that we had sold "his" kitten to somebody else until I convinced him that it was just an unfortunate death. 

He eventually chose another kitten and has lived happily with her for over a decade. But recently she died and he is ready to choose another cat for him and his mum to love. l think Tabitha will be perfect. He spent lots of time talking to her and patting her. He took lots of photos to show his mum. They will be back. She enjoyed the attention so much that she made a very rare appearance at her window later in the afternoon.

Tabatha

Valentino came in to board for the weekend. He is just as wonderful as ever. 

 

Valentino

He settled into the condo next to Libby who was taken home. Her new owner was concerned that she might get confused because they have only had her for a month. She came from Monika's Doggy Rescue. 

I noticed today that Mayka as white socks on her back legs. She is much more relaxed these days.

Mayka

So there is hope for Bella and Lulu who have come in from a foster home, Dynamo and Rosie and Callie who have moved out of their cat carrier but no further than its roof.

Callie and Rosie

Dynamo

Bella and Lulu