Adoption Tails: Oliver and Buttons, Mimi, Oscar

 Oliver & Buttons

2 weeks: The owner is delighted with how people-oriented Buttons and Oliver are. Oliver starts purring as soon as she comes into a room and rolls over for pats and tummy rubs. Buttons has been more reserved, taking her to check everything out but is first to the food bowl every time! She snuggled up with the owner on the lounge a few nights ago and even licked her hand. The owner was absolutely thrilled! She is so happy to have these gorgeous cats!

Oliver in front, Buttons behind

1 month: The owner is loving having Buttons and Oliver who are now quite relaxed and content. They have grown so much and are very comfy at home!

. . . love their food!. .  .

Luz Moriarty (formerly Mimi)

1 day: The owners have decided to rename Mimi to Luz Moriarty. She is adapting well to the house and has ventured outside the safe room a couple of times since arriving the day before. She has eaten and used her litterbox. She is also enjoying her playtime.

Mimi/Luz Moriarty

1 week: Luz has really settled at home. She has been very playful and loves to sit in a little basket.

Luz in basket

1 month: Luz is very much a member of the family. She enjoys her new home and is absolutely adored!

Quincy (formerly Oscar)

1 day: Quincy, formerly Oscar, is doing pretty well so far for a shy little kitty. He has been eating and drinking and especially loves to be fed treats by hand. He has also been using the litter trays just fine. Quincy has also been exploring the room, sometimes while the owner is in there as well.

Quincy & finger food

1 week: Quincy is doing really well, getting more comfortable with pats and visits from the owner's family.

Quincy and secret friend

1 month: no response

Quarantine rearranged

The condos from in front of the desk have been moved into the "front office" to be quarantine accomodation. The stand alones/wheely cages have been moved to their space. I understand that we will get more shelving for the For Sale carriers.

Marigold, Gracie and Bridie have been moved with their condos into quarantine even though they are not in quarantine. . . . confused? I cleaned the condos that had been occupied by Candy and Collette, Daphne (who was adopted by the person who came to met Sprinkles but fell for her instead) and Apricot. Next time I will bring my head torch with me to see the grubby bits clearly. It was a good thing that I cleaned them because Buttons, the smallest of Belle's kittens failed her desexing today. She has flu. Because they have all been in the same condo (above Ashleigh, out back) Terry and I decided that they should all go into quarantine to see who sneezes or not. Honey's kittens are getting more adventurous. One of them kept going downstairs, finding him/herself all alone and screamed. (I bet he is a boy).

Honey, being the perfect mum that she is, would go down to calm him/her.

leaving the sibling in the carry cage upstairs.

Eventually I got sick of the scraming and moved the carry cage and sibling downstairs and Honey followed. She can jump up to her litter tray from some peace and quiet. Another scream came from Coco and Mason's Palace. Mason said "It wasn't me. It was him" But the tuft of brown hair dangling from the side of his mouth tells another story.

First the good news

Which is of Billy Bigmouth. His new owner Valda reports that he gives lots of kisses, no rough stuff and Sam and Billy sleep together on the sofa at nighttime.

Then the not so good news that Suki was very flat today. She had an ultrasound yesterday and has various shaved areas around her legs and tummy. All too much for an old girl.

Then the "Oh Really!" news. Yesterday I phoned Tim to get the running orders for today. He told me that he had Silky's boys booked in to be desexed but nobody had volunteered to get them to the vet. Irene was going to bring them home in the afternoon. We had a bit more discussion about them being off ringworm treatment so that they could be moved across the aisle in quarrantine to the flu section. I said it would be easier to change their wheely with just Silky's girl in residence. So I this morning, I decided I had time to get the boys to the vet as I had got to SH good and early and there weren't too many crap bags to schlepp out to the bins. I got them there before the Pet O shop opened. Good thing I knew that there is a back door to the vets. I arrived with three black kittens to be told that they were expecting two ginger boys. . . . . Daphne's boys. Bugger. I had already fed them so it wasn't a matter of going back to SH to swap them over. It all comes of not giving the kittens proper names as soon as possible so that we all know who we are talking about . . . I say! Meanwhile there were lots of volunteers. Even Catsie visited. I put her in the play place with Mia and Belle. Belle cooperated and played a bit. Mia just wants cuddles. We have a new "mum +4". And Mini is back in the cattery where Christopher was.

Buttons, the smallest of Belle's kittens is on a pill, twice a day. I tried to pill her but she has 20 very sharp reasons why I did not succeed. I crushed the spat out pill and mixed it with her breakfast and put her food and her into a carrier. She ate some of it. Come time for the afternoon pill, I did the same. She ate about a third of her dinner. Eventually I moved her and her dish back into the condo with the other two siblings. I stopped them from eating her food and encouraged her by adding a crunchie at a time to her wet/pilled food. Baxter was very happy to be patted. He purred and purred, not at all interested in the soft or hard food. Whereas Bonnie was just interested in eating her share of crunchies. I think the purring encouraged Buttons to eat almost all of her soft, pilled food. Success! Belle is putting on weight again.

At the end of the day all the cats curl up in their beds and wait for the lights to be turned off. Here is Freya, Celeste and Peggy who had had enough human entertainment for the day.

And the bad news is that Starmoon who was adopted on Sunday escaped from her new home. They will try to set a trap for her.