Adoption Tail's: Chai's spice litter

Nutmeg aka Mikey

1 day: The owners decided to change his name to Mike (Mikey). He is settling in really well! He has such a sweet nature, getting more curious and confident by the day. He is such a gutsy boy and eats all his food immediately. Mikey is using the litter and the owners don't plan on switching litter type as he is used to it.

 

1 week: Mikey's going really well! Much more confident and cheeky now that he is settled. The owner's camera roll is now just full of photos of Mikey!

 1 month: Mikey is doing really well - just got his last vaccination last week and he has grown so much! The owners love Mike and his sweet personality. "Thanks for your work in helping rehome him."

Chilli

1 day: Chilli has successfully used the litter box. Her owner loves her name so they’ll be keeping it. “She was crying last night but she ended up snuggling with me in the bed. I’m so in love with her and she is the sweetest cat ever.”

 1 week: “She’s so happy and I love her so much”

 1 month: “Everything is fine she is very healthy playful and happy! I love her “

Cinnamon (aka Dash) - adopted with Scorpio (aka Ditto) from Virgo's litter - no photos

1 day: They are doing fine in their safe room. They are eating, drinking and using the litter tray. They will be renaming them but aren’t 100% sure about their names yet. “They are so cute”

1 week: “We are doing well with the kittens.” They had a few issues getting used to each other but their owners are sure they can overcome them. The kids have given them new names. Scorpio is now Ditto and Cinnamon is now Dash. “We let them come out of their safe room last night and they had a great time together playing in the house.”

1 month: “They are awesome! We are super happy.”

Adoption Tails: Virgo's star sign litter and the Spices litter

 Taurus

1 day: He’s going really well, all is good.

1 week: He’s going very well. Such a friendly kitten.

1 month: He's going great, such a good addition to the family.

Aries

Aries has settled in very well indeed! So much so that we have started to introduce him to the rest of the house. The family got him a second litter tray that is larger and will become his main one as he grows as well as some extra bowls for food and water. Aries also has a cute perch/scratching station/cubby. He's fully set up for both sides of the house but is returned to his safe room during night time and unsupervised time during the day. 

The family was going to give him a different name but Aries has stuck now. Aries will drag the cat toy fishing around and drop it at the owner's feet to let them know he wants to play. They can't believe how easy and smooth the transition has been. "It's like he's been part of our family and just came home after a long time away!"

Libra

No response

Gemini (aka Pesto)

5 days: “Gemini, renamed Pesto, is adjusting very well to his new life.” He has been eating and drinking well. He has started to explore other rooms of the apartment and is now more confident. “He sleeps with us and is very chatty.” 

1 month: “Pesto is very happy and spends a lot of time with us and enjoying his new toys.” He had a rash inside his ear and decided to take him to the vet as they couldn’t reach SAFE. They did his booster vaccination at the same time. He seemed to react to a treat they gave him, as it disappeared once he did not get the treat.

Pisces(aka Rocket)

1 week: “We love him and he’s settling in very well with us!” He has been renamed Rocket and is doing great. “We had him separated for a few days but he was very keen to explore and he’s become best friends with our 4 year old cat. They’ve been sleeping next to each other during the day and playing a lot. He’s using his litter and eating and drinking water regularly.” They are keeping them apart at night and when they’re unsupervised but they don’t feel it’s necessary for much longer as they’re very relaxed around each other and play well.

1 month: “He’s doing very well and grown a fair bit. He’s getting along very well with our resident cat and they are having cuddles and licking each other so I couldn’t be happier with their bond”

Scorpio (aka Ditto), adopted with Cinnamon (aka Dash) from Chai's litter - no photos

1 day: They are doing fine in their safe room. They are eating, drinking and using the litter tray. They will be renaming them but aren’t 100% sure about their names yet. “They are so cute”

1 week: “We are doing well with the kittens.” They had a few issues getting used to each other but their owners are sure they can overcome them. The kids have given them new names. Scorpio is now Ditto and Cinnamon is now Dash. “We let them come out of their safe room last night and they had a great time together playing in the house.”

1 month: “They are awesome! We are super happy.”

Paprika & Pepper

1 day: They are settling in fine. Eating, drinking and using the litter tray. 

1 week: They are doing well. The two have started to spend some time out of the safe room and even sit by the windows to watch the birdies outside

No 1 month response. 

Chilli

1 day: Chilli had a good night and has a little to eat, used the litterbox last night and this morning but no poo yet. He had cuddles before bed. He is settling in well. The owners love the name!

1 week: He is delightful, no more safe room and sleeps on the owner's bed at night when he is not running around the unit. They are very happy with him.

 1 month: Chilli is doing great, the owner tried to get a good photo of him in front of the fireplace last night but he wouldn't keep still.

 

No bags again

 Thank you Tuesday. But I took the bags our vollies filled out before the Willoughby garbos came just to get rid of them. The first bin whose lid I opened did have some space. And also a rat. . . a live rat who scurried down into the bin's depths. Poor thing will get a surprise when s/he arrives at the landfill. But it might just be the perfect place for a rat to live.

Since last week Chilli, Mouse and Eric have been adopted. I wonder if the person who adopted Chilli was the one who initially wanted Jade. But Jade was adopted by a mum for her kids' holiday pleasure. That didn't turn out well because one of the kids developed a severe cat allergy within 2 days. He hadn't shown signs to other cats in his life. So it was just Jade. Jade is back with her fosterer. 

Pickle has been moved to Eric's stand alone. This afternoon we moved her to the play place because Cindy and Co had it overnight last night. They need a quiet night tonight.

Cindy, Rufus and Indiana (L to R)

Chilli's is empty. And Tim wants to move Yin and Yan into Mouse's condo. But they were perfectly happy to be stroked this afternoon in their separate hidey holes. Sue and I thought that they would regress if shut up in an airless condo. So we left them where they were.

And let Venus and Muffin have a night out in the Top Cat. They were delighted to have a good stretch and scratch.

Venus and Muffin

Miz and Riley came to us because their owner has a terminal disease. They don't need their privacy covering. Riley is very friendly now. Miz perhaps not so much but she will come around.

Riley above, Miz skeptical

Betty's kittens have been named Barry and Blaze (by Sue). They have ringworm and today had a ringworm treatment bath. They did not enjoy it (neither did Sue). But they rather liked being snuggled up in towels on top of fresh hotties.

Barry and Blaze

Each week Lola tries another spot. She is accepting greetings from strangers as well as vollies these days and does nose bops with anybody who feeds her.

Lola

a good Friday

 The traffic was terrific. The parking was plentiful. But Cousins didn't come to empty their bins.

Otherwise it was a good Friday with 11 vollies falling over each other and lots of cuddling going on when I arrived around noon.

With not much to do, I decided that PC needed some beauty treatment. His saliva blackens on exposure to air and where he licks himself is covered with black tar-like stuff. I put some warm water in the big sink and added PC. He didn't like it much. But he is such a gentleman he tolerated it. And he didn't really mind being dried with a towel by Emily. And he really liked being combed with a fine tooth comb while sitting on the visitors chair when he was all dried off. Meanwhile Stephen Gumptioned his condo. PC was quite happy to go back to his condo and was ravenous for his dinner.

Meanwhile Marissa arrived to spend time with her Azlan. Her house is being "fixed" so he is better off with us but she misses him. She pops a harness on him and lets him take her for a walk.

Azlan walkies

While I took this photo a man arrived and said "I am here to pick up Emily". My memory failed me. We don't have a boarder named Emily. Of course not. He came to collect his daughter Emily. And to check out our torties (because he had one in his boyhood). While showing them to him I noticed that Salt was trying to suck on Pickles. He is too big to do that. . . . and she is too skinny to tolerate it. So I let her out. She immediately went back to her previous enclosure.

Pickles pickle

But Yin and Yan are in residence there now. They have come in again from their foster home where they were doing very well. I tried to make lots of covers for them to settle into/under. One had made it out of the hidey hole when I left.

Yin/Yan

Chilli was moved into Mouse's stand alone because his condo is needed for a boarder. He was transported in his plum pudding. That will definitely need to go with him when he is adopted.

Chilli

I reaarranged the two stand alones so that neither Chilli or Eric is in a busy traffic lane. The trolley is back there.

Betty's two kittens are still with us. One is much plumper than the other. Guess which?

Neat day

 I got all the poo bags out into other peoples' bins early. Including the old ones that I had left behind the door last Friday. So today we have two empty Willoughby bins in the basement and two Cousins bins on the sidewalk. One is full with 30Kg of poo bags, etc. The other only has 17 Kg of trash in it. So can be added to before Friday afternoon.

Sue tackled the stuff that shouldn't be in the entry hall. I squeezed those cardboard boxes into the Cousin's bin which wasn't emptied on Friday. Then we tackled the teetering column of cat carriers in the Boarders Back Corner. They are up top now and the ridiculously large sifting litter trays (which must take all of a 15Kg bag of compressed sawdust litter) that were put in the working space in Better Row are now back where they used to be in the Boarders Back Corner. Some people will be unhappy. But more will be overjoyed at not having to negotiate piles of stuff all morning long.

Pickles and kittens are back in the play place. They were having such a lovely time, Sue and I decided to leave them there. Pickles is a great mum. She supervises and plays with her kittens.

The person who was going to adopt Angel, didn't. She (the kitten) is available again. Don't know what happened there.

Angel and Luke

They have new neighbours in the corner whose names I have forgotten.

And Talia above, whose condo mate (?Henry) was adopted. She is very pretty.

Talia

There was only one visiting couple today: a daughter who is trying to talk her dad into having a cat. He doesn't speak much English so it was hard for me to gauge how convincing his daughter was. She seemed to like any and all kittens. He seemed to like Dexter who behaved perfectly.

We moved Chilli's carry cage out of his condo and replaced it with an igloo shaped like a Xmas plum pudding. He seemed much happier! Who knew that cats like plum puds.

Chilli before the plum pud transfer

He has a new neighbour who must have been well loved because he came in a box labelled Tommy's Shed. I don't know his story but will try to find out.

I was late

 I was late this morning because the washing machine man came. He has ordered the part that will keep the Safe washing happen.

I was certainly late to all the movement that happened over the weekend.

Rooms were rearranged:

Incoming which used to be the junk/store room:

Incoming

Opie's room which has a table for vollies to socialize or committee members to meet at:

Opie's room

Opie's room also stores Purina food and other things.

And Quarantine where the sick cats keep Tim and Katie company.

Quarantine

Cats have also been moved since the parvovirus seems to have moved away from us.

The mums and newborns who were around Tiger have been moved to boarding and named. There is Virgo with Taurus, Aries, Gemini, Libra, Pisces and Scorpio. And Chai with her Nutmeg, Cinnamon and Chilli. Let's hope these names are more appropriate than the Shakespeare names that were given to the kittens who were in the play place until most of Ruby's got adopted. (Just Topaz is left.) Now they are in the Palace. Today this bard's litter was weighed to see if they are near to desex weight. They are. And they are all female/tortie so half the names will need to be changed. But I noticed that their tummies were hard so I had to administer the deworming pills. They didn't mind.

This was after Katie heard Bissuria (who has been moved to Rosie and Callie's condo on Better Row because they have moved to Welfare as they are available) made up-chucking noises. She looked at the vomit and it was seething with worms! I donned gloves to remove the towel that he threw up on directly into the rubbish bin. They both got worming mixture immediately. (And refused to eat it, of course).

Bissuria

Better Row might have to have a name change to Black Row.

Miranda came from Quarantine.

Miranda

She is next door to Ella. . . don't know her history. Perhaps being above Mia is making her flat.

Ella

And Joni has been moved to the high condo which she seems to like.

Joni

In boarding is Pearl who was dumped on us by a bloke who didn't want her/couldn't keep her and wanted her put down. Bad man.

Pearl

Neat morning, messy afternoon

When I arrived at noon there was a family with two small children after a kitten. They chose Kimmy (and vice versa). Then the woman and her daughter who wanted Kimmy on Sunday came in after getting permission from her landlord to have a cat. While Irene was checking out Kimmy, they decided that Chilli really was the better choice for them. They are Spanish speakers and will change his name to something unpronouncable. She has had cats forever so knows what to do. While I checked out Chilli, Irene introduced a woman to all the quiet cats in residence. She had a problem choosing between Soxy and Marmalade. And finally chose . . . . . MARMALADE!

She paid her money and went away without him but promised to be back. She came back at 3:30 having set up her house with everything that he will need . . . . lots of hiding places initially. But we think that they will be a good match. They are both quiet, aloof, self contained folk just aching for somebody to love. And then Robyn came in and talked to Tim about Belle's condition and dietary needs. While she was doing this (and Irene was processing Marmalade) I introduced a woman and her two teenaged sons who really had wanted Kimmy, or a Kimmy-like semi-long haired kitten. I introduced her to the longish haired ones in Incoming. We think that Petite and Norma are the longer haired girls. And then to the delicately grey Lucy and the longer haired of her brothers in Mia and Bella's stand alone. I suspect that the boys will go for Lucy because she will be ready earlier. They are desexed. They just need a vet check and microchip whereas the ones in Incoming need to be there for another week and then go through the vet check, etc. Those boys need a kitten while they are in lockdown to replace the much beloved cat who died last year. They want a longish haired cat because their old cat was. But they don't want a matted cat. I tried to convince them that if they start brushing the kitten while it is young, the cat will enjoy being brushed all its life. I suppose this is true.

They certainly like to cuddle up together. Robyn and I processed Belle and she went home with Robyn. I thought it was warm at Safe Haven today but the cats didn't. Ginger and Lechusa shared a box.

Now that we have spare condos, we have assigned separate condos for Bobby and Doel. While they came as a bonded pair, they have been quarrelling all day. They have gingivitis so are on TD's. A better solution is daily brushing, of their teeth. What's the chance of that while they are cross with each other?

Begone the other Coco

We got our Covid tests on Thursday morning and by Friday morning our results came back negative. But at Safe today, everybody wore masks. Including Joy's friend Barbara who came to choose a cat. Irene and I twisted her arm and she chose Coco who has just become available over Miyuki who tolerated being held by me but skedaddled to her upper shelf when Barb tried to take over and Peggy who was prepared to be patted by Irene but gave Barbara THE KEEP AWAY LOOK. (Peggy is available now too). It was a no brainer and they will live happily every after. We will get regular updates from Joy and in the meantime Coco (of C & Mason) is happy to be the only Coco at last.

Sandy reports that Ashleigh finds all the narrowest, darkest places to hide in her room. She will take a long time to realise how lucky she is now. Belle is looking much better. She is almost plump. I gave her a tiny bit of chicken this afternoon because she usually misses out. Let's see if it upsets her tummy.

And Apricot is getting friendlier. After her bit of chicken I picked her up and felt stitches. It is ages since she was desexed. So Tim removed them and let's hope that she cleans up the scar which looked a bit scabby. Chilli and Murphy had a great play in the play place followed by Sabrina's two. We decided that she would be happier to have their condo all to herself. She actually enjoyed getting ALL THE CHICKEN.