Maggot season

 Has returned. There were 14 rubbish bags on the verandah this morning. When I moved them into the rubbish bins across the road (all the big ones were full) I uncovered a mass of moving maggots. Tuesday folk need to be reminded to take the oldest bags out first.

It is also kitten season. We have a new one where Vader was. (Vader was adopted.) No prizes for guessing what colour a kitten called Tar is!

Tar

And Fuff was adopted today. The kitten he came with whom I called Duff has been renamed Tango. She has been desexed but is still wearing a collar. And she has a sore front right leg. She doesn't put any weight on it. She is in the Welfare area all by herself now.

Tango (was Duff)

Joy wanted to take photos of Ginger Roger's kittens but we decided that it was easier to take a group shot of them. (Ginger Roger has been renamed to something like Rosin . . . Irish for red headed, perhaps)

Ginger. . kittens

And in Isolation, Mateo's siblings are growing up fast. They know where their food comes from now and squeal for it.

more squea kittens

PC has a bare patch behind his left ear and on top of his head. I wonder if it is a side product of the special diet. Aslan seems to have bare patches as well and he is on the same diet. As is Tommy but he doesn't seem less hairy!

PC

We left Teddy and GG in charge in Welfare.Teddy's eyes are both squintty. It is ingrowing eyelashes rather than a curable infection. . . unfortunately.

Teddy, Gigi

An excess of ginger

A ginger mum and her six ginger kittens were brought in today by Sheridan. Irene asked me to give them names. She thought the mum's name of Ginger was too obvious.

Ginger Rogers with Bread, Snap, Pickles, TurmeRick, GingerBee(r), and Meg

I don't expect my names will stick but it was fun thinking about them. Sheridan wants to foster them as soon as her current litter is off her hands. Ginger Rogers was very stressed by the capture and transport procedure and poo'd herself and a couple of the kittens so it was a bit stinky there for a while.

Sheridan also picked up a pair of kittens en route. One is fluffy and the other is a DSH. So obvious names are

Fluff

and

Duff

 

They seem friendly but a bit overwhelmed by their day. . . . perhaps because of the smell in the car.

They are all in Incoming. Where Dusky has decided that she is a friendly cat.

Dusky

I moved Missy into the stand alone by the Welcome Door. . . . the stand alone that gets overlooked by adopters. She settled down nicely, after a while.

Missy