Sheridan to the rescue

 Sheridan is a devoted fosterer and deliverer of cats to vets. Today she wrangled Eli into a carry cage so he could go to the vet to have all his teeth removed. Perhaps he knew why he was being put into a carry cage. Perhaps he just doesn't trust people very well. After this vet visit, that mistrust will be fully justified! (But he will love the "soft food only" period).

Eli and Sheridan

Bindi is in Griffin's stand alone. She is a sweet cat who probably won't last long. 

Bindi

Griffin was going to be returned today because "he doesn't like being picked up". He was adopted last Wednesday and Sue did tell them that it might take a month of two for him to settle into a new environment. They didn't arrive. Perhaps they reread the adoption folder!

Raya and Ashley have gone to Goulburn to live with Rosanna and a couple of stratchy poles from the lobby.

Sunny and Hilda finished their ringworm meds and were promptly adopted by the folk who live in Mayfield somewhere in western NSW. They came on the weekend.

Puss Puss and Aziza when home over the weekend.  

Cordelia was adopted over the weekend so her stand alone was empty for the morning. Then Mochi and Cupcake were delivered by their fostermum to go into that stand alone. We had already had calls about adopting Mochi!

Cordelia's kittens have been desexed and will be ready to adopt soonish. An older woman came in this afternoon for a kitten and eventually settled on one of them but couldn't decide which one. But they are not available yet. I showed her how to check out Adoption page on our website.

India

China

Angelica was off her food today. Which reminded me of her story. It seems a woman picked her up from a hoarder's house and decided to take her home, by car, to Queensland. On the way she let the kitten out of the car to do a wee and thought "this is not a good idea". Somehow she got onto us and dropped off Angelica. The kitten wouldn't touch Mother and Baby cat soft food initially. She would only eat crunchies. Today she wouldn't touch M& BC of any texture but happily ate any other brand of food I gave her.

Angelica

Valentina's Day

 Her man came back today and decided that he wanted Valentina not Darcy. Fastest adoption ever. I sent him off with an old litter tray and a scratchy pole from below the couch in the hallway as "adoption freebies". Tim retired for bandaging after getting her into the cat carrier. She even managed to draw blood from his leather-gloved-left-index finger! And achieved a swipe to his left leg. As well as pee-ing on her pillow. (I whipped off the pillowslip, replaced it, and gave it to her new owner too). I believe she will settle down with Colin and be a loving companion.   . . . . . in time.

Irene is about to go overseas for weeks so came in to rearrange as many kittens as possible.

The three kittens in Incoming have moved to Welfare. One of them, Loki, is already earmarked for a very nice man who came in this afternoon. He has a white and ginger cat at home who needs a ginger and white friend. Loki will be perfect.

Loki

His condo mates, Amelia and Lexi are not his siblings.

Amelia and Lexi

Jellybean went to the vet and passed so he has been moved to where Jimmy was. I expect he will have the same short stay as Jimmy did because he is a loving spoonful too.

Jellybean

Griffin went to the vet too. And has a new place in Welfare.

Griffin

When Angelica came in she wouldn't eat anything but crunchies. Now, after 2 weeks with us, she only eats babycat wet food.

Angelica

And the two kittens with Japanese names are just the same.

Thanks to Joy for the lovey Incoming photos. 

Cordelia has moved from Isolation to Incoming.. . . no signs of ringworm on her.

And we have another "pregnant" mum in Incoming. She really looked as though she had swallowed a football when she was photographed on the street that she was picked up from. But will she absorb that bulge just like Chicken and Goosey have done? A woman came in with some nice donations. Her name is Lorraine so we decided to name the new "mum" after her. But then she said that her nickname was Roxy and we chose that one instead for her.

Where for art thou, Romeo?

 Soon after I arrived this afternoon, a couple came back to adopt either Greta or somebody else. Eventually they chose Greta who accepted their cuddles quietly. They have 3 kids: 14, 11 and 3. The three year old might be the problem but they are both experienced cat owners so will deal with it.

Then a man came in to meet Pirate Pete. He likes to adopt cats who have problems. So the lack of a foot appealed to him. After lots of cogitation and discussion, he decided that Pirate Pete would get on with his other cat who has the wobbles.

Caudelia and her two (China and India) have been moved to the stand alone in Isolation. They do have ringworm.

Cordelia, India, China

 Likewise with Ishi and Apricot.

So does one or two of the Spagetti, Pixie, Ekko condo in Welfare.

Not us! We are Choc and Chip

Next to them are Dixie and Pepper. Don't know their history.

Dixie (1-2yo) and Pepper (2-3 yo)

The "unbonded" pair in the condo below Tilly have been adopted too. 

And I brought home Romeo for some R&R.

Romeo

Moving kittens

 Six kittens arrived this afternoon with black robed girls. One was thought to have possibly had ringworm. It was inspected and passed inspection so all were accepted.

In anticipation white mother (Lily) and her the kittens (3 ginger/whites and two white) had been moved to an enclosure in  Welfare. As soon as they are desexed they will be adopted. The 4 boys will go quickest.

The new kittens need names. They already have much better manners than the previous lot.

 

Cordelia's kittens are out of the sleeping box all the time now. They need names too.

Cordelia's kittens

Cordelia looks a bit sick of being a mum.

Cordelia

While Yahtzee is still looking after most of her kittens with Tim's help with the little tabby. They need names too.

Yahtzee and co

Aziza's Aki was desexed and is in the condo next to Cordelia. Don't know where Panda is.

Aki

I moved Tank to where Alaska was, he has been adopted. Irene moved his mum Lilli  and got scratched.
Aimee who I moved earlier to the condo above will have fun downstairs neighbours.

Incoming flu

 There may be some sneezers in Incoming. 'Tis the season!

Yahtzee couldn't get up to eat what was just outside her bedroom. But stood up to eat when I put it in with her and her kittens.

Yahtzee plus 4

And Cordelia left food in a bowl. Although her two kittens seem fine (so far).

Cordelia plus 2

Bree's kittens seem fine too as does she (on the other side of the aisle). They are venturing out of the "birthing box" while mum stays inside.

Bree's three

All these kittens need names.

I talked Tim into changing Oscar, in Boarding although he isn't a boarder, to a wet only diet. He doesn't eat his crunchies and is soo hungry all the time. Look at his long socks and his fabulous furnishings (hairs in his ears)!

Oscar

Another non-boarder has been moved into Welfare: Bonnie. She was hiding in her carrier because nobody had installed any hammocks. She is very friendly. And has lovely green eyes.

Bonnie

I put the small, triangular scratchy into Pikachu and Blaze's condo . . . just to get it out of the way while moving scratchy poles around so that kittens could play within the Top Cat boundary. And Pikachu immediately adopted it. And after running around she went straight back into it. I wonder if triangles appeal to cats?

Pikachu in triangle

Blaze (? her brother) is perhaps trying to make the box into a triangle?

"Two triangles when I get more food"

Fun was had by Roisin and new day manager in training Janine.

Go Ro!

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.

 

106

 I was curious and counted the cats in the cattery this afternoon. One hundred and six cats and kittens.

The most recent two are doing well. Cordelia is getting up to eat so I got a good photo of them.

Cordelia's two, at two days old

 Bree's three were on display as well. She keeps well to the rear and spits.

Bree plus 3

I tried to take a good photo of Le Clerc because the one on the Safe Haven website is very blurred. Mine were all as bad. That cat doesn't like to stand still. We let him out for a wander and a vollie took lots of photos with her phone. I hope she can send them to Irene to upload. He had a lovely play with the bobbles on a stick.

Gracie was out today. . . not out of her condo but off her sleeping shelf. It is a long time since her kittens were adopted. It would be good if she started to accept chin rubs as Shadow is doing in Incoming.

Gracie

Likewise, Ezra in Isolation, of the fluffy feet. He still spits.

Ezra

I carried Casper from Isolation to Wolfie's stand alone. No problem. He enjoyed it as much as I did. It didn't take him long to settle down. He will be on the "available" list as soon as he has been vaccinated.

Peaches and four of her kittens are back from the vet. She is in the stand alone in Isolation. She and the kittens have had two lots of medicine for their intestinal parasites. The littlest ones aren't eating well but Peaches is back to feeding them and she is eating well. Throw away any poo'y towels. We have plenty of towels. And no spare bags of washing today!

Don't know why nobody has snaffled Zoe and Maddy. They came in together but don't really seem to get on well. (Perhaps a clash of two dominant females). They enjoyed time in the top cat.

Zoe above, Maddy below, as usual

Cordelia is a mum

 I could tell that something was going on this morning when she wasn't waiting anxiously for her breakfast. I had a quick peak and saw one baby. Later on I saw another. Don't know if she had them today or I just missed the second one on my first brief peek. Later I got photos:

Cordelia with white with black kitten

Cordelia with white and ginger kitten

 We will have to read up on our Shakespeare to get names for them. There may be more by tomorrow.

Bree is getting more relaxed. We need names for her great gingers.

Bree and her ?boys

I tried to make friends with Shadow. He was not thrilled but submitted to being touched, briefly. Charley made real friends with him earlier so perhaps he was sick of the attention by the time I got to him.

Shadow

The other girl Shadow, on the other side of that condo block, renamed Codie, has got the sloppy, smelly poos. She may have got it from Peaches. Peaches and family are at the vets for tlc.

Zoe and Maddy are available for adoption, separately. One of them had inappropriate urinating problems in the home that she came from. So we have not labeled them as a bonded pair. Often two females together, if they are not related, have dominance issues that result in inappropriate peeing. 

Zoel and Maddy

The other Zoe is ready to a proper home, she tells me.

Zoe

And Wolfie has gone to his home. A young woman came in to adopt him from the play place. It was a wonderful opportunity to have a final cuddle. I quickly trimmed 6 of his nails before he realised what I was doing. I gave the trimmers to his new owner to finish off the job. All his daughters have been adopted as well.

 

More adoptions

 A busy weekend. Not only was Mia adopted but her next door neighbour Harry was adopted too. And so was Felicity the kitten.

Felicity

 And Teddy and GiGi have been adopted by our Natalie.

Lola is doing well. She is in a small condo and has a huge plastic cone on. But seems to be happy to be home. (The pain killers probably help). There is a fund raising effort on Facebook to try to recoup the price of her operation.

Cordelia was sent to the vet to be desexed. And they discovered that she is pregnant. So she is back in her condo, enjoying the pregnancy rations and looking as slim as she was last week.

Cordelia

She came in at the same time as Zoe did. Zoe is younger.

Zoe

 We had a new kitten for a short while. Choco was whisked off to be fostered.

Choco

And Mateo is back in a hard collar for another week. He bumped his wound in the soft collar . . . . probably when racing around like a mad thing. He had a turn in the play place where he can't get up to full speed.

Mateo

Aziza's kittens (in Isolation) are very interested in eating her food. Unfortunately the crunchies make them vomit. So we separate Aziza in a carrier to eat her crunchies with a side of wet food while the littles have just the wet food. They love it.

Aziza's 4

Fun with the bins today included magots! Somebody filled the Willoughby bin in the basement and it was left there yesterday because two others were taken out to the pavement (including the cracked one that I had left upside down in the basement to NOT be filled).

That cracked bin will be collected by Willoughby council within the next three working days. It is on the sidewalk. . . . upside down.