All day Friday

 I worked all day instead of just in the afternoon because. . . . Christmas holiday time. The Friday crew is lovely at the beginning of their shift as well as at the end. And Geoff is caught up with relatives in Victoria as well as doing fireman's work there. Irene swept in early to take PC, Aslan and Teddy to the vet for checkups. 

PC may have a foster carer. . . fingers crossed.

Teddy may have a ringworm. . . . fingers crossed that is wrong. Cultures have been taken.

Aslan has had tests done to try to figure out why he is so thirsty.

And she was worried about some kittens coming in and no empty condos. So I reshuffled some and put up an small stand alone on top of Kitty's stand alone. Alexis loves it up there. She can be nose to nose with everybody who comes through the door. She will be desexed asap and this may be our new "Get It Out Of Here" stand alone.

GIOoH stand alone

 There is a ragdoll, due to come into where Alexis was, who has had all the paperwork done so most of us won't get to meet her. I still reckon we should auction off ragdolls to the highest bidder!

I weighted Tilly's big kittens (her own kittens) and two of them are big enough to be sexed. Irene will book them in next week because their ringworm treatment is almost over. As is Dylan's.

And Big Kahuna might appear on the "available" page soon. Irene wants expressions of interest so that he goes to the best possible home.

Big Kahuna

Dusky seems to have gone to a really good home.  She has been scratching relentlessly on the perspex so she will be glad to have more room.

Dusky

Tuesday did not move the poo bags

 Even though I was very early to the cattery, Willoughby council was earlier. And none of our Willoughby bins had been put out. Neither had any bags been put into other peoples bins. So the verandah was FULL of bags of poo. I moved the newer bags to behind the door so that the oldest, most maggoty bags would be taken away first. And the Heavenly Helen took her car boot full of old bags home with her. But there are still bags behind the door to be disposed of. 

a proliferation of poo bags

 

Otherwise, we had a good day. The cleaning crew was small but mighty!

Julie and Bassuria have settled down in their new digs.

Bassuria at ground level

Julie on the shelf with tongue hanging out

Dusky has a "I am adopted" sign saying that she will be picked up on Jan 3. Today she wanted OUT and scratched the perspex unrelentingly. So I decided she needed time in the Top Cat. She was not impressed.

Dusky

Hobson had a turn and loved it. Of course.

One of the kittens in the large stand alone in Incoming wasn't eating this morning. But we gave her some medicine and some milk and she got the idea. By the end of the day she was doing better. 

Incoming kitten mayhem

I made some new hammocks and installed 3 layers of them which might have done the trick.

Joy took some lovely photos which I will use later . . . after the poo bag situation has been taken care of.

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