Adoption Tails: The Christmas litter

Rudolf

Rudolf

1 day: “She has settled in well. She’s eating, drinking, playing and purring”.

1 week: She’s a lot more confident, especially with their dog.

1 month: no response

Dasher aka Millie

2 weeks: She has been renamed Millie. “She has been very interested in exploring the rest of the house since being given access to it this week. She is playful, is attached to family members, curious, and eating well.”

Dasher

1 month: “Millie seems very happy, she plays a lot, is eating well, loves to sit on our laps, enjoying lots of pats, and is attached to family members, and is very curious. She gives us much entertainment.”

Prancer

2 days: She is settling in well. She’s eating well, drinking normally, using the litter tray, and sleeping nicely. She’s found her favourite place on the windowsill. She has been renamed Chutney. “She is very cuddly and affectionate not hiding at all and always seeking attention. Chutney is also getting into some morning meditation with mom.”

1 month: She is really happy, is getting more confident by the day, and is growing.

Dancer aka Kyoto

 

1 day: “She seems to be doing well. She’s exploring the spare room and is eating and drinking, and went to the bathroom. We are probably going to call her Kyoto.”

9 days: She’s going well. She explored most of the house and also playing well with their resident cat Memphis (also adopted from SAFE). She’s still a bit timid but each day she is a bit better and her owners are taking it slowly with her.

1 month: She’s settled in well. Her owners are starting to see her personality more every day and say she’s doubled in size in a month.

Mrs Claws 

2 days: “I may need to give her back. She hasn’t eaten or used the litter tray. She hisses at me. I am mildly allergic (have been taking anti histamines every day). She is the most beautiful cat and I feel I’ve done everyone a disservice in bringing her home. Please advise. I do not want her to be euthanised.”

10 days: They haven’t been able to return Mrs Claws due to their work schedule. “The cat still hisses at me and I cannot get close to her. I am afraid she will injure me. I would like to donate what I have bought for the cat. I am really sorry about the inconvenience caused.”

1 month: “Unfortunately Mrs Claws ran away two days ago. I have been leaving food outside in case she comes back but I have not seen her and neither have my neighbours. I had decided to keep her and now this has unfortunately happened. I am unsure what to do.”

The owner was regularly letting Mrs Claws onto the balcony. She got scared by some wind and jumped off the balcony, presumably going into the national park behind the owner’s house. She didn’t have any tick prevention so it’s assumed she may have died of tick paralysis.

Ants

 I came home today to find ants in Cody's quarter full bag (4Kgm) of crunchies. It has been a very bad summer for ants here in Sydney and I had not sealed the zip seal properly last time I scooped out a jam jar of crunchies. Be warned. And hope that ants don't discover the Safe crunchy shelves!

I moved Pickles from Isolation (aka Maternity) into Dancer's enclosure. No, Dancer hasn't been adopted. She has been moved next to Angel and Rory and Little have moved to the condo below Virgo.

Pickles and co love their new space. They were acrobatic when exploring the possibilities when they first moved in. There are 3 hammocks. Top two have one kitten each, bottom one has two kittens. Mum gets to sleep on the floor.

Salt and Brine

Dill

Cucumber

Penelope and Dot were brought in by their foster carers. And left them with us accompanied by tears. They are quite young so should settle down well (both cats and people). [Dot is a boy and has a spot above his right eye].

Josie's kittens are doing very well. They are plump and adventurous. A grand advertisement for not having 7 kittens at one time like Betty did. Her lot have gummy eyes and empty tummies because she has quit feeding them.

Josie and her ginger

PC had time out today and got to meet Michelle. She was not impressed. He was much more interested in being groomed with the strange blue cylindrical toy-thing.

Michelle and PC

Boarding sparkles

 Coco came in to board this morning. I think it is this Coco, https://safehavencats.blogspot.com/2022/06/adoption-tails-coco-again.html

When she was brought in Boarding Row was being scrubbed, bleached and F10'd because Katie's cats all went home last night. It required two vollies. . . one short and one tall. And took ages. 

Only Ashley left in Boarding.

So I popped Coco into D4 which is on Better Row beside the fridge. It should be nice and quiet there. 

Should be but:

Dancer escaped during the cleaning and ended up under the far end of the food shelves. A bowl of milk placed outside the shelves on the floor didn't entice her out. So I put some smelly food in a bowl up the feeding table end and she migrated there. I blocked off her escape back to the far corner with towels and gradually narrowed the gap. I put a cat carrier in her escape path out from under the shelves and put the food in there. Eventually she came out. Not into the carrier unfortunately. But to a place where I could grab her and take her back to her home.

Pretty entertaining for Coco to see me crawling around on the floor.

Stevie, one of Sabrina's kittens from the play place has an infected tummy wound and has been moved to the condo next to Tommy. She spends her time screaming for attention when any person appears. I thought it was just Sabrina's black and white boy who screamed. But now there is a chorus!

Stevie

Poor Coco.

Shortly thereafter, Sue said "Why did you let Callie out?" .. . . . . I was on my tummy in Better Row! Somebody else didn't shut her door. Callie, of course, was under the merch shelves. In the very area that Sandy and I blocked off with cardboard after fighting to get out a pair of very frightened cats during their adoption last year some time. The cardboard has gone. Callie is much friendlier than those kittens were but she is still too canny to let herself be caught after only one mouthful of lovely wet food. Eventually I dismantled the corner shelf and grabbed her. She forgave me. The wet food helped.

Callie

Tinkerbelle appeared on the For Adoption list on the Safe website briefly over the weekend. We thought that she had been adopted. A family came very ready to adopt her but she wasn't microchipped and didn't have any paperwork so they will have to come back. Tinkerbelle isn't in a hurry.

Tinkerbelle

And a lovely family came to check out our cats. They have just moved back to Oz from Shanghai/Taipei and have moved into a pet friendly apartment block. It will be a couple of weeks before they are ready for a pet. But the boy loved Martin and the girl loved Gemma. (I didn't show them Tinkerbell). They will be back.

PC rearranged

 It struck me this morning when I had fed the cats that the stand alone beside the filing cabinet and the cleaning trolley might change positions to make the hand disinfectant accessible and make the cleaning stuff more central for the enclosure cleaning. So I moved Gemma across. Then I had another thought, Martin would prefer watching the comings and goings through the door while Gemma would rather be in a quiet corner. So I swapped them around. I think it works well. But will be interested to see if it is still so arranged by Friday. 

Later in the afternoon PC came out for a wander. Sue cleaned his eyes and I gave him a good brush which he LOVED. He looks so much better than he did when he arrived.

PC

Ms Claws only has one kitten unadopted. Dasher was picked up today. She and Dancer were in the play place together overnight. I put Dancer back in with her mum, disinfected the play place and put Henry there. He keeps saying what a big boy he is, so I thought he would like it. He hid most of the time.

"Thought I'd got rid of them" said Ms Claws

Mariko came. . . a little late because her bus from Chatswood station didn't arrive. She asks how long does it take to walk? I don't know. But she noticed the Freya's tummy is hard. I noticed that her nipples are becoming bald. Sue said that she was thought to be pregnant when she arrived. Not very then, but quite noticably now. But remember how long it takes some mums to drop their bubs.

Freya

Betty had seven kittens by Saturday morning last week. They are doing well and tend to lie beside each other in a row. 

Joy took some photos. Her brief it to take a photo of each cat in the cattery so that there is a good one to upload when they become available. Tough job, but somebody . . . . . 

She had a cat named Misty. Wonder if she looked like this Misty.

Misty

Joy noticed that Rory and Little have symmetrical face markings. Merged they would have a white nose and two white cheeks.

Rory and Little

Tinkerbelle has been desexed. The collar is too big and has to be folded back for her to eat.

Tinkerbelle