Adoption Tails: Harley and Quinn, Heidi and Axel

 Harley

 1 day: She’s doing ok. She’s still a little shy and still likes her safe place. She’s eating well and using the litter box with no problems. They will be keeping her name.

Harley

1 week: “She's well and truly settled in. Definitely comfortable around the whole house now. Playing with the laser at the moment.”

5 weeks: She is doing well. The vet recommended feeding her more dry food than wet but it didn't agree with her stomach so they’re back to the way it was before but more of a balance. She's burning a lot more energy in a two-storey house.

Quinn

1 week: Quinn has done very well. She was happy to explore outside her safe from quite early. “She has a very healthy appetite.”

2 weeks: “She’s not shy anymore at all”

6 weeks: “We are doing well, Quinn is a very affectionate kitten. She loves the tunnel and scratching post playhouse they bought her. She lives inside and her owner thinks they’ll keep it that way long-term. She is now sitting on her owner’s lap while they’re studying.

Quinn

Heidi, now Cookie

3 days: “She’s settling in well.” She has used the litter tray and has been both eating and drinking. She has been renamed Cookie.

Heidi, now Cookie

1.5 weeks: “She’s settling in very well”. She explores the whole house and her safe room is now her bedroom.

Heidi

5 weeks: no response

Axel, now Popcorn

2 days: “Everything is good! His new name is pop corn and he likes sleep on my belly”. They haven’t seen him go to the toilet actively but if they put him in the litter tray, he will use it.

Axel

 4 days: They’ve bought a few scratchers and have put them on the floor. They also have vertical scratching areas on the cat tree. He doesn’t like using them and prefers to scratch on the carpet. He doesn’t seem to realise how to use the scratching post yet so they will watch him and guide him. They have already trimmed his nails when he’s sleepy. “He is a purring machine when we play with him”

1.5 weeks: He runs around in the living room every night. His owners say he is an “energetic boy”. “He plays and eats normally, and loves playing with us.”

Axel

 5 weeks: “Everything is well!”

 

More Mums

 I thought from the dirty state of her condo that Tilly had her kittens last night. But it seems they were born on Saturday night. We did try to clean up the mess but she didn't like it. So we covered it with a bath mat. She has five kittens.

Just like the mum last Tuesday night whom we named Quin.

We named the Mum with 3 kittens in Isolation Whitney.

Whitney plus 3

 And the pregnant mum in Incoming Zali. Her tummy is as round and hard as a ball. She is very friendly.

Zali

 I doubt that these names will stick but there are just too many "pregnant mum" labels around.

Raj has settled down on Better Row and is super friendly.

Raj

LeClerk had to move out of the Palace which now houses three of Katie's cats. He is not real pleased with the move.

LeClerk

Sparkle is next door to Big Kahuna. Heidi is in the play place. She was returned because the husband thinks she looks too much like the previous beloved cat who got run over. Her son Axel has been adopted.

Sparkle and Big K

Plus, the Willoughby bins were collected at before 7am so I didn't have a chance to add more bags to the bins. They are back to the pre Covid schedule.

Mums

 Axel's mum Heidi got adopted today by a woman who had a pair of cats but one of them was run over. She is going to install a meshed outdoor enclosure for them (having learned her lesson). But she was keen to get a companion for the remaining young boy cat. Heidi will be perfect. She will easily keep him in order because he is not as young and rambunctious as Axel. 

Axel spent the afternoon, after his mum was whisked away, sound asleep on his ledge.

Axel

He is bound to be adopted tomorrow. There have been lots of enquires about him.

Ginnie's nose looks much better since Tim bathed it. She seems much happier now too.

Ginnie

It seems that Chad's side was shaved so that he could have an ultrasound. His kidney's passed that test but they discovered a bladder infection. He seems happier now too. There is one vollie on Wednesday who makes him purr with pleasure.

I think the new mum in Incoming should be called Quinie as she had quins. Then we could call the babies Quin, Qutie (pronounced cutie), Quincy, Quester, Queery. . . . 

Queenie plus 5

And the mum in Isolation could be called Tripy because she has triplets. The kittens could be Truth, Trial, Tribulation. . . . .

Tripy plus 3

Joy's Wednesday

Billy in main cattery

Hilda and white kitten in Incoming

Gracie on Better Row

Pebbles just inside the door

Valentina in Boarding

New boy LeClerk in Cat Palace

lookalikes. . Mum and son: Heidi and Axel

New faces

We may become the shelter for shy/stray cats if this week's new faces are anything to go by.

Behind complete blackout modesty cloths are Leopold and a pregnant mum. The mum is the one who should have come when Chevy arrived. He has gone to foster somewhere. But there are 2 kittens in semi-modesty, but without names:

"Kitten 4 months"

"Kitten 8 months"

Perhaps they could be called Quartro and Octavius.

Another of Harriet's kittens, Heidi, was adopted. One of the remaining boys has an EOI. They cuddled together on their smaller hammock. 

Henry, Harold, Haley

Bosely is back from his op and not feeling very well. Shumai was vet checked and has a heart murmur. Saxon is still having his water consumption monitored. He doesn't look like a nine year old.

Saxon

Nam is upset by his neighbour next door, Midnight who was surrendered for any number of reasons. She is only 1 or 2 and is loud. But the cat below who is a screecher is more upsetting to the cats, and to the gaunletted Tim. Didn't try for a photo of him/her or even to clean his/her litter tray

MidnightNam

Kimi is back from 12 months foster. She is still shy.

Kimi and Jo photographing Kimi. Tim wants better photos of Diva and Sienna for the website. Joy took hundreds by enticing them to play. (I replaced their old carry cage/bed with an identical one which is not hairy or wet (yet)/

Sienna and Diva

Should a collection of shy cats be called a blush of cats or a skitter of kitties?

Late yesterday afternoon Pepi was adopted. Hurrah.

RIP Chester

As I drove to Oz-Pet in the west I followed a car, for a while that had a cat escaping from it's boot.

When I arrived at Safe Haven, Chester was on his final journey. I will forever think of him as the car boot cat.

We named kittens. The last lot were G's and then there were Jaffa's. Jaffa's two grey kittens were adopted this afternoon by a mother and son who is a JJ. .. .appropriate. They got full instructions about how to tame nervous kittens.

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The new mum of 5 kittens was named Harriet. She has been moved to the main room. Her kittens are
Henry: white and ginger
Harold: ginger and white
Heidi: calico
Horace: brown tabby and white
Haley: champagne ginger

Lucia's kittens are both boys:
Leonard with the shorter hair and Larry with the longer fluff who seems mostly to be outside the maternal carry cage while Leonard is inside with her.

Larry

Willow's kittens are:

Wendy: the grey tabby

William: the tabby and white

Wal-E: the black and white

Walter: the grey

Wal-E, Wendy, WIlliam

Walter

And Tessa's are 

Tommy: black

Toulouse: dark tabby

Tobias: white face

Tinkerbelle: light tabby.

Next is I . . . . . Ian is an awfully prosaic name for a cat.