Christmas Eve

 It wasn't as frantic today as it was yesterday, I'm told. But it was pretty busy. More cats came in to board and one pair left. . . . early. The nice family who left Tigger and Misty on Wednesday collected them today. On Thursday they got as far as Goulburn when a friend called to tell them that one of their girls friend's had a positive Covid test. They rushed home to isolate and test the girls. All the relatives in Melbourne will have to go to all those exciting places and do all those fun things without them. They, poor girls, will at least have their cats back. The dad hopes that their tests come back negative so that the family doesn't have to isolate for 10 days!

Folk came by with donations, feeling the spirit of Christmas, and needing to be shown around. One man discovered that we had cat goodies for sale and wanted to stock up for the British . . . special breed. . . that he is buying for his family for Christmas from a breeder. He must have needed to save money on the goods! Sue spent almost 2 hours telling him how to set up his house, how to feed and care for this kitten, etc, etc. He did spend some money with us but . . . . 

Imogene's kittens are listed as available and one of the morning vollies called her mum who called her friend and they adopted the one with one blue and one yellow eye.

Adopted

I told you we should have started a book on him!

And I know what happened to the rat, Fat Louis. He was adopted by a vollie on the day that he arrived. She has other rats at home. 

I am to feed tomorrow morning so will try to take some photos. Pity I can't take some audio because we have Burmese chatters at either end of what used to be Naughty Row. They will be talking to each other all night.

The Naughty Row cats next door really liked chicken Friday. Remi actually hissed at me. She was silent on Wednesday.

Banished

 Tim told me yesterday when I called to get the running orders for today that the naughty corner had been moved to Dr Kim's suite. Our hand over conversation usually happens at 4pm. Yesterday Tim was busy then so I said "ring back when you have finished". He called back at 6:30pm. The cats who have been moved are in a state of shock today. I imagine that Tim and whomever helped him also spent the day recovering from the transfer. At least it is nice and quiet next door. And cool with the air conditioner playing on them. But Remi is not happy. She has retreated to the back of the upstairs nestbox and didn't even hiss at me!

Peach, Blueberry and Blackberry next door

But this has freed up all the condos out back for boarders who are streaming in. Many are "our" cats/kittens and it is lovely to see how they have grown.

I happened to check the list of animals and the most recent entry was Fat Louis at Safe Haven. He is listed as a white Rat. I couldn't see any rats anywhere. It was reassuring that there were no condo cards labelled with "Fat Louis" or I would have worried that he had escaped. Very intriguing. Every condo has a label.

I resurrected the small stand alone that we used when Incoming was separated into a quarantine area and an incoming area before the condos were moved there. There was a mum in the small stand alone. I can't remember her name. I will come to me. . . . 

Two kittens Baby and Tux, both girls who were desexed yesterday, were added to the play place which is now the home of Imogene's kittens. 

Baby or Tux

They are younger than Imo's kittens and were overwhelmed by the boisterous, bigger kittens. Not to mention they are sore post op. So I unearthed the small standalone from the store room, with Catsie's help. It was a good thing I did because Frankie arrived, unexpectedly, from his foster home to be desexed. It wasn't on the list but Tim will sort it out now that he has rested.

Frankie

Charlie is taking it all in his stride.

Charlie

PS Jumi and Victor have been adopted. As have Anvi (Dusty) and her two kittens. The woman who found them in her back shed decided to give them all a home. What a lovely lady!