Going, going

 The conference room (aka the junk room) is half empty.  The shelves on the right hand side have all gone (along with the boxes of gloves. But I am assured that there is a box of gloves somewhere). I couldn't find Lola this morning. She wasn't waiting for me at the front door. But when it was her turn to be fed, she appeared like magic.

There were only a few vollies but they did a splendid job and even though the mop is broken the place sparkled at the end of the day.

We had one customer. . . a young couple. He said that she had promised him they would have a cat before kids five years ago when they got married. They went around everybody. Every cat loved them. Including Peanut.

Peanut

They took photos. I sent them to the cafe next door to decide. The came back and adopted Bruce and Ruby. They will be very happy.

Kath did the adoption which went well until it came to printing out the Adoption Contract. Because Ruby has just turned 1 year old, the system has a hissy fit and doesn't process it to the end. It has happened before. (But not to Kath or me). But Kath worked around it and they took the cats off. 

On my way home I dropped by the new premises which look much better in real life than in photos. Geoff was there working away with Tim and Sue. Most of the new enclosures are erected so I was able to install one hammock in each. When they are all there, I will add extras because there are no shelves yet. 

Some of Joy's photos from last week: 

 

Piglet having time out

 Dory will now happily take treats from everybody.

Dory

 

And you have to put Gary's medicine into his left ear. He is such a sweetie he has forgiven those who put it into his other ear.

Gary

 

Dory spoke

 He greeted his favourite Friday vollie with a kitten sized meow!

Dory

And, there is no dirty laundry at Safe Haven! We have finally caught up. (It has taken 5 years!)

Of course, the rubbish is another story with only one Willoughby bin still. But visitors took off several bags, as did I. So the balcony is not too bad. But anything but empty of bags is bad.

Bruce was blue today because his mum was at the vets. He stole Mickeys toy but still missed his mum/pillow.

Bruce

 Peter, Patch and Phoenix have been moved to Welfare. It is nice to have some tiny tabbies there.

P's

Faith and Flora were desexed. They came back with plastic cones but I changed them to cloth ones which are more comfortable.  They don't seem to get on all that well. But it might just have been the post op!

Flora and Faith

Chloe who was moved to Welfare some days ago, seems to have developed a mucky eye. She will get the dreaded ointment which is a shame because she has become much friendlier since being moved.

Chloe

Australis has been moved back to Incoming. Borealis left in Welfare all by herself is now enjoying visitors.

Borealis

In Isolation the four champagne, identical kittens suddenly have a champagne mum! She escaped while they were catching the family but has since been brought in. She seems a calm, sweet cat (who luckily remembered her kittens).

There is another kitten in Isolation called Bonnie. She was adopted from a breeder of British Short Hairs but developed ringworm and giardia. Both of these are infectious to people as well as to animals. So she was surrendered to us with a bag of food and meds and cash! I wasn't going close enough to get a good photo because both of those parasites infect people as well as felines. But she is cute enough to wait for.

Jerry gone

 There were lots of vollies this morning so the work got done early and very well. And the vollies got to spend extra time with the cats. Which paid off:

Dory accepted a pat

 A couple of visitors arrived to replace their elderly, unwell cat with a kitten. . . . culture shock ahead. She had done her homework on our blog and he had chosen the last cat they had so it was her turn to pick. So she fancied Sumi but Jerry fancied his beard. It is a long, multi-coloured beard. Jerry and he played and smooched. Sumi and she cuddled calmly. 

I took them out back to meet Mouse who looked calm and unconcerned (thank goodness her breast feeding hormones have gone!)

Mouse

 He won. They took home Jerry. (Let's hope they change her name to Gerry.  . short for Geraldine.)

 Irene gave Nutmeg's kittens an anti fungal bath and checked them all over for lesions. None were found. So they have been moved into the Palace. I suspect they will discuss a plot with Ravyn overnight. So be warned for tomorrow morning!

And there was discussion about putting Salt and Pepper back together again. But I think they are better apart.

Pepper

 

 

 

Happy Birthday David

 Thanks to David I have photos from today. I left both my camera and my phone at home this morning. It is Sharon's fault because I was asked to fill in for her. . . . she is away which is why we have Gary back with us. 

So I got up early (and left stuff at home) and did the Full Friday ADM. It was terrific. The vollies work so well together and they spend quality time with the cats at the end of their shift. Even Dory was enticed to come forward to get some creamy treat from a hand held offering!

No adoptions today. We have stored our potential for Terry tomorrow.

David photographed Julie and Bassuria enjoying a new, clean, wide hammock together.

Bassuria and Julie

 

David was delighted to meet the new cat in Incoming who was accepted before she dropped 5 kittens. She is a sweetie so we are thrilled to have her and her tiny, 2 day olds.

As it is his birthday, David got to name her and chose Faye. The last time we had a Faye was in 2022. That Faye only had 2 kittens. We will have to come up with 5 F names when we know who is boy and which is girl. 

Faye + 5

 Probably some of Ruby's kittens will get adopted this weekend. They are seriously cute.

4 in a hammock

 It must have been the sudden cold spell that sent the kittens to the hammocks. Even Ody and Ophelia succumbed.

Ophelia and Oydsseus

 (But somebody got Ody out to explore after his nap)

Odysseus

 

Sue on Friday

 She came because she couldn't come on Wednesday (car problems) and had a ADM to train. And a Tim to talk to. Good to see her even though she can't see us quite as well as before her op. It will improve. The trainee got to watch Sharon adopting Minette (in the stand alone beside the O's) to a girl and her mum. They were all entranced by those whiskers.

Salt/Pepper, the escapee, is still on the loose. 

Our Friday vollie (who slowly loved on Kitty until she was an acceptable adoptee ie she actually loved him so much she was prepared to like other humans including a stranger) has moved on to Dory. Goosey was easy-peasy for him. She now accepts pats from everybody. Dory is more of a challenge. He worked with small bits of the squeezy soft food on the floor and gradually Dory came forward to eat them. I noticed at dinner time that Dory was more relaxed. (?Full of squeezy food.) 

My camera is defunct. When I took photos with my phone it ran out of juice. But here is Nutmeg who was found talking to Lola earlier in the day. . .. in the front foyer.

Nutmeg

 Cookie and Marmalade are resigned to their boring stand alone. . . . except when somebody passes with food.

Cookie and Marmalade

 

Don't know why nobody has adopted the last of the H litter:

Harlow and Hudson

 Or the last G kitten, either.

Thanks to Joy for her three finger photos on Wednesday for Peanut:

Look at those whiskers!

 And Cheeto and Luna . . . are they related?

Cheeto and Luna

 

Bissie adopted

 After over 1100 days in the shelter by a lovely man who used to volunteer at Terry Hills AWL. He adopted an 8 year old cat from us from a foster home before we moved into Barcoo Street. That was 8 years ago. The cat died suddenly and peacefully last week so he came to get another cat from us. Bissie suited him. Luckily Joy took a photo of her last week. (When I went to take a photo of her empty condo this afternoon, my camera would not turn on and my phone was out of battery! Thank goodness for Joy.)

Bissie

Callie will probably go into her condo. To have Chai on one side. (She is a trendy cat. She has a green dish. . . . for matcha ie green tea in Japanese. Chai is Hindi for tea, I think)

Chai

And Amie on the other side.

Amie

And Dory below.

Dory

Opposite were the three kittens who were part of the 6 who were in Better Row for a while. Dash has been moved to Incoming because he as been adopted and one of the three has had spectacular diarrhea. Oreo and Tiger may have it as well. Or instead of Dash. The only way to tell is to separate them. The cleaning crew did a splendid job on their condo.

There is a new mum and her five kittens in Isolation. I don't think they are sick. Mum has the upstairs condo so can get away from the little ones. They don't like the arrangement very much. But she does. No names yet.

This afternoon an enthusiastic vollie checked all the food in the kitchen fridge. It was all out of date. Mostly by several years. So it was all thrown away. Sorry if somebody was saving something for a rainy day. It was past its use by date. I defrosted the fridge. It is now clean and empty. (But I don't imagine it will stay that way for long.)
 

Archie Adopted

 When I saw on the Safe website this morning that he had been adopted, I assumed it was the woman who came and smooched with him on Wednesday afternoon. But it was a couple, much younger, who took him home yesterday. Heavens to Betsy! I hope they have patience because he will disappear for a quite a while. I wonder if we can get Geoff to make him another Archie's Bar box to settle him into his new home?

 The only other thing missing when I arrived at Safe this noontime, was vollies. All but 4 called in sick. But those 4 plus the ADM's did sterling work and everybody was happy, clean and fed. The vollies were rewarded by the six kittens in Amie's old condo. (Amie wasn't feeling too good today). These kittens are to go with Irene to an adoption day at the Collaroy vets tomorrow. But they aren't ready for adoption even though they have been desexed. They are all boys which makes it easier and not so weight dependent as with girls. (It is the anesthetic which is hard for vets to calculate). And there are 4 tabbies (plus 1 ginger and one tuxedo) who are hard to tell apart.

Here is a photo of Moo to lighten Joy's heart.

Moo

She has been booked into the vet next week to see if she is pregnant or not. She is getting fat but that is because she is on pregnant cat rations.

For the first time Valentina's kittens were out at dinner time. 

I think she will have to fight for her share as they grow.

The new cat in Incoming has a warning on his condo:

But he is a pussy cat:

Binx

In contrast to Dory in Welfare who does not want to be with us or to be seen or to be looked at:

He is in Dawson's condo. I hope that some of D's vibe will rub off on Dory.

Dory