New faces

We may become the shelter for shy/stray cats if this week's new faces are anything to go by.

Behind complete blackout modesty cloths are Leopold and a pregnant mum. The mum is the one who should have come when Chevy arrived. He has gone to foster somewhere. But there are 2 kittens in semi-modesty, but without names:

"Kitten 4 months"

"Kitten 8 months"

Perhaps they could be called Quartro and Octavius.

Another of Harriet's kittens, Heidi, was adopted. One of the remaining boys has an EOI. They cuddled together on their smaller hammock. 

Henry, Harold, Haley

Bosely is back from his op and not feeling very well. Shumai was vet checked and has a heart murmur. Saxon is still having his water consumption monitored. He doesn't look like a nine year old.

Saxon

Nam is upset by his neighbour next door, Midnight who was surrendered for any number of reasons. She is only 1 or 2 and is loud. But the cat below who is a screecher is more upsetting to the cats, and to the gaunletted Tim. Didn't try for a photo of him/her or even to clean his/her litter tray

MidnightNam

Kimi is back from 12 months foster. She is still shy.

Kimi and Jo photographing Kimi. Tim wants better photos of Diva and Sienna for the website. Joy took hundreds by enticing them to play. (I replaced their old carry cage/bed with an identical one which is not hairy or wet (yet)/

Sienna and Diva

Should a collection of shy cats be called a blush of cats or a skitter of kitties?

Late yesterday afternoon Pepi was adopted. Hurrah.

Old friends

Ham was returned. They let him out of his safe room too soon and he got confused and was noisy. Catsie cooed at him but he is still behind a modesty cloth.

Tam

Katie is back. She was beating up on another of Lauren's foster cats. I suspect that she wanted Miles bed all to herself.

Katie

Harriet was adopted. I hope she doesn't come back.

And whoever takes Jasmine would be a fool to let anybody else get their hands on her.

 Jasmine

Chevy is good at getting out of his condo. On Monday he was found, after a long search, under the clean laundry shelves in a very small space. He should be picked up by Clare soon (and perhaps exchanged by a pregnant mother).

Chevy (another photo just in case you have to find him)

Poor Ashleigh lost two of her kittens. She has two left. Let's hope that these survive.

 WIllow's kittens are doing a brilliant job of dirtying their condos. Even Willow's was grubby. I gave them all a good cleaning and fresh bedding. The kittens managed to drown theirs in no time. Sigh.

 Willow and kittens

They don't look wormy at all so the medication is working. They really loved some new toys.

 Marmelade has to balance on the edge of his litter try and duck under his upper shelf to get to his water bowl. Good thing he is a cat and is flexible.

Marmelade

Boss Cockie day 2

Everything went smoothly thanks to Joy (walking wounded with a groin injury) and Ros. And Sue came in (despite her wrenched knee) to meet with a marketing student who is supposed to have devised a pitch for us. The student didn't show at the appointed time -- between noon and 2pm. When Sue chased her she said "I couldn't find you". She should get a big fat F.

After all the recent adoptions (Indy, Berry, Fizzy, Ham) we are looking decidedly thin on available cats. We have several who haven't been vet checked and/or desexed. And others who have ringworm or who are super shy. Folk will just have to line up outside our door.

The woman who adopted Berry and Fizzy returned their carry cages. [I got them wrong he is the fluffy and she is the shorthaired. . . .  whatever.] She came in to adopt Indy but was intimidated by Indy's size. Her 13 year old son spotted Berry who fell in love and walked into his arms. "They chose me". She is very happy and told us her life story. Sue encouraged her to share their journey on our FB page.

A new cat was delivered by Claire who brought us Marmalade, Apricot and Dorito.

Apricot

I was told that she was bringing in a pregnant mum. So I moved Tinkerbelle and Tobias (who both have potential owners hovering in the wings) into a wheely cage (the non-ringworm one) and sterilized their grubby condo for her. [We really should have a policy of moving mothers and kittens every two weeks and cleaning out their condos to prevent the poo from bonding with the paint!]

Tinkerbelle and Tobias

When Claire arrived she had Chevy, a boy. She believed he was a Cherry, another girl cat in "her" colony. It wasn't until he was on the vet's operation table that they discovered that he is male. He is shy. But he did eat his dinner.

Chevy

And we have Ashleigh who had three tiny kitten after she was brought in on Sunday. She is not eating so has multiple dishes with many offerings.

Ashleigh

 Harriet is developing into a very chatty, sociable cat. Her kittens are still skitty but pretty.

H kittens