Bissie adopted

 After over 1100 days in the shelter by a lovely man who used to volunteer at Terry Hills AWL. He adopted an 8 year old cat from us from a foster home before we moved into Barcoo Street. That was 8 years ago. The cat died suddenly and peacefully last week so he came to get another cat from us. Bissie suited him. Luckily Joy took a photo of her last week. (When I went to take a photo of her empty condo this afternoon, my camera would not turn on and my phone was out of battery! Thank goodness for Joy.)

Bissie

Callie will probably go into her condo. To have Chai on one side. (She is a trendy cat. She has a green dish. . . . for matcha ie green tea in Japanese. Chai is Hindi for tea, I think)

Chai

And Amie on the other side.

Amie

And Dory below.

Dory

Opposite were the three kittens who were part of the 6 who were in Better Row for a while. Dash has been moved to Incoming because he as been adopted and one of the three has had spectacular diarrhea. Oreo and Tiger may have it as well. Or instead of Dash. The only way to tell is to separate them. The cleaning crew did a splendid job on their condo.

There is a new mum and her five kittens in Isolation. I don't think they are sick. Mum has the upstairs condo so can get away from the little ones. They don't like the arrangement very much. But she does. No names yet.

This afternoon an enthusiastic vollie checked all the food in the kitchen fridge. It was all out of date. Mostly by several years. So it was all thrown away. Sorry if somebody was saving something for a rainy day. It was past its use by date. I defrosted the fridge. It is now clean and empty. (But I don't imagine it will stay that way for long.)
 

He has arrived

 Giovanni. With a scratchy pole, a bed and a brand new cloth cat carrier. The telephone is already ringing with enquirers for this ragdoll. 

If only folk will phone for the Planet kittens who are now available. Mateo is booked into the Palace in 10 days or so. It would be good to say bye-bye to them before then.

Saturn giving Neptune a neck rub (with hiertongue)

 

Teddy doesn't seem to take any notice of them, in their palace, across the way from his play place.

Teddy

 

I got a shot of boarder Estelle's lovely green eyes because she had discarded the puffer jacket. . . . probably in disgust that her owner hasn't picked her up yet. I think she will take a while to forgive that owner for deserting her.

Estelle

Bissie was up and about this morning. Long time since I have seen her feet. She is shedding masses of hair. What a pity she will not tolerate being brushed.

Bissie

But Callie is getting more interactive. Don't think it will be long before she likes to be groomed.

Callie (Joy's photo)

Mike doesn't look like he will ever need to be brushed. . . I can do it myself
 

Mike

Roxy's champagne twins curled into a heart shape in a hammock. Forehead to forehead.

 

Her ginger wasn't invited.

 

Late

 Sorry, I had a committee meeting that went on and on. Poor Aslan had to watch the blank TV all by himself.

We had great adoptions this weekend: Faith, Rain, Le Clerk and Griffin (for the fourth time.)

And today a nice couple came in and adopted Carly who didn't even make it to the Safe website! 

We were kept busy with the usual business plus having to bottle feed Savannah's adopted little one. All that handling was a good opportunity to decide what its sex is. She is a girl. So she was immediately named Sybie after Helen's aunt. By the end of the day she weighted 300gm.

Luckily Joy took some photos of some of our tabbies:

Scardey Pepper and Salt in Incoming

 came in with Rose who is a delight. She will cuddle with anyone.

Rose

Valentina hasn't had any kittens yet but she is getting very round in the belly on pregnant rations.

Valentina ?cross-eyed

Out the back in Boarding are a shy trio
 

Freckles, Posie and Chester

 

On Better Row is Calli who is more relaxed these days.

Why did you wake me up! says Calli

And Bissie is a delight in the early morning when there is nobody else around. She doesn't greet newcomers. 

Bissie

Neither does Heffer. But she has a devoted admirer who comes every Friday to visit her.

 

Heffer

Thanks for the photos Joy.

I beat the bin pick up

 I was able to get all the bags on the balcony into other folk's bins this morning. So there was space in the Cousins bins in the afternoon. I got rid of a pile of bedding that hasn't been used in the past 4 years from the shelves out back. 

For the rest of the day the vollies did a splendid job and all finished early.

The play place was thoroughly dehaired because the glam kitten litter have all been adopted. Likewise Velvet and Vovo (wonder if it was the family who came on Friday), Kokora whose condo was occupied by Lewis whose adoption was formalised today. He will be picked up tomorrow.

A man came looking for an older cat to share his rather small appartment (and his girlfriend). He took ages with lots of connections via the phone with the girlfriend to finally decide to take Dixie. He fancied Frankie, Griffin, LeClerc, Aslan, Bissie, Mickey and Jellybean too. No wonder it took so long.

Frankie

 In the meantime a boyfriend came in to do the paperwork for Vanilla who will be picked up tomorrow from the foster home.

And Joy took photos:

Angelica seems to eat everything now. She has been desexed so should be available next week or so.

Angelica

The three Incomers, who used to be very shy but now are just very hungry kittens have names:

Renny

 

Darley

Blossom

Mistaken move

 Irene wanted kittens moved. So I successfully organised vollies to move Chloe, Pikachu and Blaze to the double under Bissie in Welfare. They settled in immediately. Especially Pikachu (the name comes from Pokemon, I am told). The other two are sweet, friendly kittens Pikachu is wary of people (with good reason!)

Chloe, Pikachu and Blaze. . .  L to R

I moved Romeo out of the Play Place back to his condo. He spent most of his time lying in his litterbox in the Play place which is a bit of a waste of the space. 

Then I organised a couple of vollies to move the kittens in Incoming who came together from the same kitten rescuer but who had been in two small condos. I mistakenly had them put into the Play Place. Irene hoped they would go into the Enclosure where Chloe, P & B were. But that might have been a bit close for comfort,

We left Panda behind. He was in a single condo with two older kittens and has become very aggressive about food (because he had to fight for every mouthful). His condo mates, Bagheera and Rama now reunited with George, Samuel and Bear. Later this afternoon I could only see three black and one tabby kitten in the play place. The grey one has hidden himself somewhere. We did take them all there. 

More missing kittens: Two of Peaches kittens are back into Isolation from the vet. One is still there. Two died. Peaches has been moved to condo 6 which she doesn't like because the door is so noisy.

 Cordelia's pair are thriving.

Cordelia's two

Valentine is also thriving. She will soon be as big as that pillow that we got when we had boarders next door over Christmas. 

Valentina

And Irene asked me to weigh Aziza's kittens. They are all too light to be desexed. But I took the opportunity to check their sexes.

Adom is a boy. He is the heaviest. And is ginger and white.

Anat is a ticked tabby girl.

Ali is the tabby girl

Ava is the calico and is, of course, a girl.

 

Quiet Wednesday

 It was quiet without Charlie and Champ. The gingers came out as usual: Big Kahuna went to the topmost level of the for sale scratchy pole and curled up there, PC sat on "his" office chair and Aslan looked for lost crunchies (didn't find any thanks to the great cleaning crew).

Big Kahuna on a small shelf

 Lola has also taken over a top shelf of the stratchy pole in the vestibule. I moved it so that it does not block the kitchen door. She is at nose level to passing people. And likes to touch noses and foreheads as a mark of respect (to her, of course)

Lola

"Nose bump please" purrs Lola

We have a pair of surrendered cats, Jack and Jessie who are a bit shell shocked to be in an institution rather than being the centre of affection in a home. So I let them stretch their legs in the Top Cat. They were not interested. Too well bred to sticky beak.

Jessie

Jack

So, as they weren't interested, I moved it across to Angie's condo. She might come out during the night. I have never seen her out of her bed box.

Angie

 Bissie is back ? from foster. Again.

Bissie

And Felipe has lost his stand-alone mate, Nix. Doesn't seem too upset.

Felipe

And Teddy and GG are in the play place where it is, marginally easier, to make sure that he eats his two pills in the afternoon and she doesn't greedy them.

"I know there are pills in that food" he says

"Let me at them" she says

Meanwhile the 3 sweet kittens in Incoming are doing very well, ie Malteser, Butterscoth and Snickers

Full again

We had a busy day today because there were not as many vollies as usual on a Friday. Even Geoff wasn't there as he was in Melbourne.

So I did the evening feed and the last thing check that everybody had water, etc. It was funny to see the cats all settled down for the night. They weren't expecting to see me again and had given up hope of a second serve of chicken.

Bassuria and Julie, photographed through the perspex, were relaxed.

Bassuria and Julie

Even Henry was in his igloo. He had a lovely time earlier running around with the low barrier only just keeping him constrained. He was helping Robyn make friends with Raven. (Raven wasn't having a bar of friendship but she did enjoy the Greenies)

Henry

Talking of igloos. I keep pushing Mickey's under the shelf and it keeps on sliding forward towards the perspex. Never see Mickey doing it. It must be magic. (Not the cat who is still hiding in her condo on Better Row and is still ? ringworm)

Mickey's Xmas igloo

Even Bissie in Incoming was "out".

Bissie

Lola was sound asleep in her stand alone. On Wednesday morning when I arrived early she was very pleased to see me because she had spent the night in Opie's room. She let me pat her before jumping into her stand alone to eat her last night's dinner's crunchies.

Lola on her shelf

We have Jacqui's two cats, Callie and Sootie. They are to go into the play place. Pickles and her kittens had a lovely time there this morning. Callie and Sootie did not enjoy the enclosure even after I added a hammock.

Sooty

Callie

And Freya had three kittens yesterday. One died overnight so she has two.

We also have Katie's cats filling up Boarding row. You will recognise several of them. So we are quite full, again.

Boarders trickling in

 Archie arrived today. I think he is one of ours. (See Friday, Sept 10, 2021) His people are moving this weekend and didn't want to subject him to that trauma (or themselves to the trauma of him disappearing in the middle of the chaos). They will pick him up on Sunday. They left his dinners and breakfasts in separate baggies so that he doesn't have to change his diet!

Bissie seems more comfortable after coming from his foster home on Wednesday.

Bissie

There is another new cat, Pippa in Incoming. Don't know her story.

Pippa

 And PC is settling in. I think he is more interested in food than people.

Pippa

And there is a new Molly in Welfare. I think she came from a foster home because she has a list:

FIV+, all teeth removed, doesn't like other cats, loves scratches and laps, but doesn't like to be picked up, OK around strangers if in  familiar surroundings, always seems to be constipated (tried latulose for about a month but it didn't seem to work). Perhaps too much detail but I would suggest the hairball crunchies that certainly keep Codys colon moving! No photo because she is a black cat hiding in a dark carry cage.

I came home with the Cousin bin key in my pocket (again). I will try to drop it back before Tuesday so that they can be filled for Wednesday collection. I managed to get all the cardboard behind and under the couch into the blue bin.