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.

Another Mateo

 Another Mateo was delivered to Incoming this afternoon. He doesn't look dissimilar to our first Mateo. But has two good eyes.

Mateo 1

and stripes.

Mateo 2

 I suspect that one of the three (used to be wild) kittens in Incoming is not the same family as the other two. He keeps getting pushed back. And today he looked as though he got half way through a poo and was kicked off the litter box. So I isolated the other two in the bed box and let him have time alone with the litter box. Success! One happy(er) Bartley.

Bartley

We had a couple of brief visitors who promised to return but otherwise it was a quiet Friday afternoon.

Doris is unsettled in the stand alone. She hadn't eaten her breakfast by the end of the day. She has reserves.

Doris

Roxie has the "when will this stop" look of new mums.

Roxie plus 4

Calli has settled down nicely from her move from Isolation to Better Row.

Calli

Ginger Megs is back boarding. He looks bored because he is stuck at the dead end of Better Row.

Ginger Megs

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

 

Boarders

 For school holidays we are remarkably unfull of boarders this week. But a pair of cats who were "adopted from us 2-3 years ago" came in this afternoon. . . . Calli and Lexi. I can't remember them but they may have put on a little weight. And they are not happy, Jan.

Calli and Lexi

Over the weekend all the "desirable" kittens were adopted. We even had another call to adopt Souffle today!

And a man came to meet Valentina. She played "I want to be alone" as usual. So I introduced him to the other available cats who have been with us for a while. He really liked Darcy. He will be back on Friday morning when he has set up his apartment to adopt one, or the other.

And a nice teacher came in with her mother to adopt Astrid. She knew all about her dodgy patella and is fine with it. She will bring Astrid in next Thursday because her vaccination is due and there wasn't anybody around who is trained to give injections.

One of the vollies is doing Animal Heath at Tech and had to give a cat a "physical". Not so easy choosing a suitable cat for that! But we settled on Velvet who tolerated being prodded and handled. Vovo was a bit jealous of the attention that she got. It was definitely a two person examination!

Sue spent the afternoon giving Calli's four kittens a bath. . . separately. And thoroughly scrubbing their condo. They are probably ringworm free now. But don't look very happy about it.

They have names: Jasper (ginger), Lapis (black tabby), Coral (white tabby) and Jade (orange).

There are plenty of pretty kittens in Incoming: photographed by Joy.

Amelia and Lexi

Loki

And two from the stand alone:

Movement at last

 After an adoption drought (despite the rainy weather), there have been adoptions and movements of cats.

Dexter got adopted by a man who "has experience with difficult cats". It has been 4 days which is 3 days longer than the last time he was adopted. So fingers crossed. 

And Betty has gone to a foster home. And Hermionie has gone to Katie's to live. And two of Honey's kittens have been adopted naturally including the super friendly Socks. Left are Luna, Scarlett, Patches and Panther. Honey is posted as 10 months old. What a heroine!

Honey plus 4 this evening at dinnertime.

The Squee litter in Isolation has been moved out except for Pumpkin who is still there and being treated as infectious. Two have . . . ? been adopted. . .. disappeared. And two are in Dexter's condo. They are still dedicated to eating.

Spots and Marmalade

We have new cats on Better Row. Moet and Jerry were surrendered. I will try to find out why. They seem to be a lovely pair. Jerry is the ginger male who is friendly. Moet is the ginger and white girl who is wary. Or the other way around!

Jerry and Moet

And Calli is under Josie who is getting friendlier every day.

Calli

As are Theresa's big cats in the stand alone in Incoming. They are very food oriented. They loved it when they were getting 2 month old kitten rations.

Theresa's three

Trude and Prue would like to go back to those good old days. But with patience, Sue is getting them used to being touched.

Trude, Prue and Sue

And for entertainment we have: Meatball, PC and Derek. Meatball is a comedian, PC is an opportunist, Derek is a fanatic (aka a kitten).