Adoption Tails: Venice, Muffin, Ella, Jorge and Gingerbread

Venice & Muffin

 Venice & Muffin were still quite shy when adopted and the owner has been very patient and has continued to work on their confidence. Venice & Muffin were rescued with another kitten named Cookie, now Umami, Her follow up is here: https://safehavencats.blogspot.com/2023/12/adoption-tails-chessie-cookie.html

1 week: They are super shy and still very scared. The owners are going slowly and giving them plenty of space.

 

1 month: Venice and Muffin are still very shy. The owners try their best to give some love and cuddles. They will need more time, especially Muffin. They're hopeful that the two become more comfortable and confident in the future.

 Ella

 

1 day: Ella is still very reserved as the owner expected. She is mostly just hiding under the bed but has eaten and used her litter tray. She's all set up in her own room. The owner is keeping her name.

1 week: Ella is going okay, still a bit shy but she has started coming out of the room and coming into the owner's room. She's been slowly approaching the owner but has yet to allow petting. She is eating well.

Ella in foster

 No 1 month response.

 

Jorge

 

1 day: Jorge is very well and is staying on just one side of the house from the resident cat who is aware of his presence. They have yet to meet each other. Jorge is eating very well, toileting and sleeping very well. He plays a lot and is very affectionate with the owners.

 

1 week: orge is doing very well. He is so playful and naughty. He is so affectionate. The owner's older, resident cat is already getting more friendly with Jorge, the two will smell each other.

 

 

1 month: Jorge and the resident cat are good friends now. They are so cute together!

 

 Gingerbread, now Maya

 

1 week: She is slowly settling in. Doing very well now. She is a very playful kitten and is so adorable.

 

Gingerbread (Maya)

 

1 month: Gingerbread is now called Maya. She is still growing and very well adjusted in the apartment. The owner took her to the vet for a flea treatment. "Thanks for introducing Maya in my life."

Pairs

 There are only 2 cats left on Better Row: Ella and Hugo. Katie wanted to move Hugo to Jagger's condo. No, Jagger hasn't been adopted. He is in the stand alone by the filing cabinet and Maggie's 4 are in the play place. He is not too happy about it. But Maggie's lot are.

I moved Hana. It wasn't hard. And when she was moved she took up her usual position on the top shelf in her hairy bed watching. (Thank you to the vollie who dehaired the bed. It is probably just as hairy by now).

The entire bottom row is occupied by pairs of cats. Charlie and Champ are a loving pair.

Charlie, in front, and Champ

Maggie's lot sorted themselves into pairs at dinner time.

Maggie's boys on left, girls on right

 

 

 

 

Blossom's black and white boys are heavy enough to be desexed. Her tabby girls are still tiny.

I couldn't get a good shot of the boys on the left through the hazy plastic.

Blossom's girls

 

And Timi is doing well. She and her sister's eyes didn't develop well due to their mum having herpes while they were in utero. Her sister had two very swollen eye balls and didn't survive the operation/anesthetic. Timi has one good eye and really enjoyed her first taste of chicken this afternoon. She proceeded to tip her water bowl into her litter tray and got wet in the process!

Timi

Smaller Better Row

 Today we moved Julie and Bassuria to the Welfare section. That was because Sidney was moved to Holly's stand alone next to Sydney. Because Holly was adopted over the weekend as were Sidney's two condo mates (Audrey and Sylvie, together).

Sydney and Sidney

Bassuria was no problem to move. He walked into the carrier as soon as we put some of Sue's chicken in there. It took some time for Gulia (vollie) to entice Julie (cat) into the carrier which she usually scurries into as soon as you look at her. But the deed was done and they are now below Joni.

Hana

So that only leaves Ella, Hugo, Mia and Hana on Better Row. I might have to change the name to Short Row.

Ella

Mia

Hugo who won't last long

The woman who adopted one of Maggies kittens brought him/her back because she couldn't deal with the mess a kitten makes. So Maggie's lot is back in the play place overnight or they go nuts in the stand alone. After breakfast this morning they got a big spurt of energy and raced around the play place like demons. The R girls in the Palace were parallel playing with them, bouncing from one side of their condo to the other. The R girls gave up first.

Another cat, Puma was returned over the weekend because the family situation has changed. The vollie who was there when he was returned immediately adopted him. She loved him when we had him over a year ago. But her mum wasn't keen on having a cat. On Saturday morning, she had finally given in and said she could have a cat. And up turned Puma, the love of our vollie's life. She came in this afternoon to smooch with him. He was perfectly happy to get all the love.

I was late

 I was late this morning because the washing machine man came. He has ordered the part that will keep the Safe washing happen.

I was certainly late to all the movement that happened over the weekend.

Rooms were rearranged:

Incoming which used to be the junk/store room:

Incoming

Opie's room which has a table for vollies to socialize or committee members to meet at:

Opie's room

Opie's room also stores Purina food and other things.

And Quarantine where the sick cats keep Tim and Katie company.

Quarantine

Cats have also been moved since the parvovirus seems to have moved away from us.

The mums and newborns who were around Tiger have been moved to boarding and named. There is Virgo with Taurus, Aries, Gemini, Libra, Pisces and Scorpio. And Chai with her Nutmeg, Cinnamon and Chilli. Let's hope these names are more appropriate than the Shakespeare names that were given to the kittens who were in the play place until most of Ruby's got adopted. (Just Topaz is left.) Now they are in the Palace. Today this bard's litter was weighed to see if they are near to desex weight. They are. And they are all female/tortie so half the names will need to be changed. But I noticed that their tummies were hard so I had to administer the deworming pills. They didn't mind.

This was after Katie heard Bissuria (who has been moved to Rosie and Callie's condo on Better Row because they have moved to Welfare as they are available) made up-chucking noises. She looked at the vomit and it was seething with worms! I donned gloves to remove the towel that he threw up on directly into the rubbish bin. They both got worming mixture immediately. (And refused to eat it, of course).

Bissuria

Better Row might have to have a name change to Black Row.

Miranda came from Quarantine.

Miranda

She is next door to Ella. . . don't know her history. Perhaps being above Mia is making her flat.

Ella

And Joni has been moved to the high condo which she seems to like.

Joni

In boarding is Pearl who was dumped on us by a bloke who didn't want her/couldn't keep her and wanted her put down. Bad man.

Pearl

Stellar weekend

Eight cats were adopted this weekend. Plus the dog, Ella.

Ming went to a family who already has a cat. So he will be happy rumbling with his new buddy. (Shivers has been upgraded to his condo. Tim tried to add Peanuts but they didn't like sharing digs).

A family came for a pair of kittens but took Tortie and Kitty instead. . . sensible people.

But, all three of Jewel's son's were adopted. So little Jilly is left by herself. . . . not for long: she is so cute.

Next door to her are four new kittens not yet ready to desex. They are all tabbies. Three are spotted and the fourth is a mackerel tabby with ginger fur. She must be a tortie and will be a dramatically gorgeous adult. Perhaps we should auction her to the highest bidder! This is a lousy photo but kittens will not stand still to be photographed, even if they look fabulous. Perhaps Joy will get an appropriate shot.

On the other side of Jilly is Bonnie who hasn't had her kittens yet! But she has had an ultrasound to prove that she is pregnant. Evidently, a queen can be pregnant from between 7.5 and 10 weeks. She is somewhere in there and holding on.

 Bonnie

Her sister, Candace hardly looks bigger than her kittens who are getting bold and playful.

Candace

Tilly was also chosen! And her condo has an new shy occupant, Olivia.

 Olivia

We have a new 6 year old, JImmy in Kimmy's condo. 

 Jimmy

And Jack, a disgruntled ragdoll who will accept pats, in Torties' condo. Where do they all come from?

 Jack