Nova's new eye

 Since she has moved to Boarding, her left eye has changed. It used to have a white circle on the lower half. Now that has disappeared but it looks as though the front part of her eye has become more spherical rather than being convex outwards. She seems very happy and friendly as ever.

Nova's eye

 

As is Chelsea along at the other end of Boarding. Her kittens don't bolt out of the condo quite as quickly. And she just wants cuddles.

Chelsea

Even Whitney's kittens aren't such quick escape artists.

Whitney's three

There were adoptions over the weekend: Akira, Jenni, Cuddlepie and Mystic

Mystic

Camilla has been moved to Cuddlepie's condo. She was not happy after being moved. But she will get used to her new digs.

Camilla

She is next to Clyde who rather likes it in Welfare.

Clyde

Whereas, Robbie can't decide whether or not he likes the change.

Robbie

All the itchy gingers had a nice long self grooming session under strict supervision. No scratching allowed.

Big Kahuna, PC, Aslan

Lola looses lockup

Her stand alone is now occupied by Mystic (who is a girl. No wonder her name was changed from Grey Guy!) Lola now is officially the occupier of Opie's room, now renamed Lola's room. And Charley did a fabulous tidy up of it today. Let's try to keep it that way. . . . . for Lola's sake. She may have potential adopters visiting her there.

Mystic

Little One has moved from Incoming to below Mickey and has had a reversal of personality. I thought she was a girl. Turns out he is a boy. And a really soppy, smoochy boy to boot! Joy discovered his change in personality when she took photos of him.

Little One

The only visitors we had today were repeats from Sunday. They are looking to replace a cat who lived with them for a while and who had a special love (mutual) for the small daughter. They rather liked Cuddlepie (her) and her neighbour Dylan (her dad). But today, Little One may have won them both over. They will return.

Jenni, Domino and Harry have moved between Prue and Trude and Mia. They don't seem to be very happy with the change.

Domino and Jenni

Harry

And Ollie and Billy are getting used to being with us.

Grey Guy

 We had an efficient cleaning team and a quiet visitor day. Plus Katie's cats have all gone home. I imagine that everybody is happy to be there.

One visitor was Rose who brought in a grey cat with a story that Helen, Tim and Irene knew all about it. He is desexed but has no papers. She left bags of fruit, etc for Tim and Irene and "lunch" for Helen. The grey cat was sweet and friendly so I accepted him.

Grey Guy

When Helen arrived, she denied all knowledge of the cat. When she called Irene, Irene said "Oh, Rose" or words to that effect. I put him into the condo where Cuddlepie used to be in Incoing.

Cuddlepie got moved because Irene will bring three of her foster cats in tonight. She wants them to be close so that they can play together in the Top Cat. So I moved Cuddlepie to above Jack and Jessie. I don't think she likes having two windows of her hiding box exposed.

Cuddlepie

Jitterbug doesn't seem to be missing Falco. In fact, she was more friendly today than when he was around.

Jitterbug

Jessie and Jack

Jessie and Jack will be available soon. Perhaps we should auction them off to the highest bidder.

Sterling and Dorian are available. They really liked Jack who had a wander (with hidey holes in stratchy polls blocked by packs of puppy pads).

Sterling and Dorian meet Jack

There is a new, lovely ginger boy Clyde in Incoming. He has had teeth out so is on wet food. And his coat is a bit patchy. I hope we don't have another food sensitive ginger. 

Clyde

Low Lola

 Irene was horrified to find the "new" stratchy pole that Lola loved to loiter on was covered with her hair and her upchucks. Irene moved it into the corridor to give it a good cleaning in the hope that somebody will buy it. Lola wandered around looking lost. She climbed into the bookshelf and sat with the Safe hats for a while but eventually retreated to ground level. No nose bumps there.

Lola

It was a very quiet afternoon. The most exciting thing was when the wooden, crate-like carrier was picked up, at last. And a pair of boarders were transferred to a fosterer to take home. 

Although when I was handing out chicken (thank you Catsie, the cats loved your crispy chicken skin) I noticed a black cat waiting for me in the Welfare area . . . . not confined. On investigation it turned out to be Mia. How did she get out? With chicken in my hand she was easy enough to get back in. 

Sesame is settling in but doesn't like us yet (or my chicken).

Sesame

Cuddlepie declined to venture into the Top Cat.

Cuddlepie

Mickey prefers to be in his bed box.

Mickey

There is an new cat come in from foster in Rebecca's condo. He is Simba and is confused.

Simba

Mums and bubs are doing well except that Whitney prefers to spend most of her time in her upper bed box where the little suckers can't get at her. They happily eat baby food. We think she must come down to feed them when she is ready.

Whitney upstairs

Little Ws downstairs

 

A big boy needs a big carrier

 When I arrived around 11:30 there were two adoptions happening.

The first was Kit who was chosen, after a lot of discussion, by a family of at least 5 boys (perhaps some were friends) and two parents. They had brought with them one of the smaller cat carriers: kitten sized. Not Kit sized. They tried to say that he would go in and it would be inconvenient for them to come so far back again if they borrowed a carrier. But after Kit demonstrated that he would NOT go into that shoebox, they were convinced to borrow one of our largest carriers. Tim did the deed and they carried him off. I am sure they will all be very happy. Let us hope that none of the boys develop an allergy to cats which is what happened at his last home.

And a pair of girls came to adopt Sooty. Rosanna sent them and rang later to confirm that they actually turned up. 

So there was a spare condo which got speedily cleaned and I was asked to move Cuddlepie into it. Now, Cuddlepie has never acted true to name to me. So I invited Tim to do the deed. They struggled on the floor for a while before Tim got a good hold on her and afterwards he retired to tend his wounds. (My tearable skin would have been tattered).

Cuddlepie

 

And a mum and daughter turned up to discuss fostering Stardust with Irene. They had a lovely meeting with him and have gone home to think about it. 

Meanwhile Rebecca came back from the home she went to last Wednesday. Via a vet where she was abandoned on Wednesday. She was so happy to be back with us. Friendliest she has ever been.

Rebecca

She and The Sheik had a lovely chat while The Sheik was in the Top Cat later on.

We have new front door "kittens": Felipe and Nix. They are shy. Perhaps they should be moved to an area with less traffic.

Nix

Felipe

It was nice to see Aspen rolling around in her condo this afternoon. She was excessively shy when she first came to us.

Aspen