Sheridan to the rescue

 Sheridan is a devoted fosterer and deliverer of cats to vets. Today she wrangled Eli into a carry cage so he could go to the vet to have all his teeth removed. Perhaps he knew why he was being put into a carry cage. Perhaps he just doesn't trust people very well. After this vet visit, that mistrust will be fully justified! (But he will love the "soft food only" period).

Eli and Sheridan

Bindi is in Griffin's stand alone. She is a sweet cat who probably won't last long. 

Bindi

Griffin was going to be returned today because "he doesn't like being picked up". He was adopted last Wednesday and Sue did tell them that it might take a month of two for him to settle into a new environment. They didn't arrive. Perhaps they reread the adoption folder!

Raya and Ashley have gone to Goulburn to live with Rosanna and a couple of stratchy poles from the lobby.

Sunny and Hilda finished their ringworm meds and were promptly adopted by the folk who live in Mayfield somewhere in western NSW. They came on the weekend.

Puss Puss and Aziza when home over the weekend.  

Cordelia was adopted over the weekend so her stand alone was empty for the morning. Then Mochi and Cupcake were delivered by their fostermum to go into that stand alone. We had already had calls about adopting Mochi!

Cordelia's kittens have been desexed and will be ready to adopt soonish. An older woman came in this afternoon for a kitten and eventually settled on one of them but couldn't decide which one. But they are not available yet. I showed her how to check out Adoption page on our website.

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Angelica was off her food today. Which reminded me of her story. It seems a woman picked her up from a hoarder's house and decided to take her home, by car, to Queensland. On the way she let the kitten out of the car to do a wee and thought "this is not a good idea". Somehow she got onto us and dropped off Angelica. The kitten wouldn't touch Mother and Baby cat soft food initially. She would only eat crunchies. Today she wouldn't touch M& BC of any texture but happily ate any other brand of food I gave her.

Angelica

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He got adopted this afternoon! He gave the perfect demonstration of how food driven he is: I put a few crunchies in a cat carrier and he climbed straight in!

Quite a few other cats were adopted over the weekend including Mr Bigglesworth and Aimee. I moved Emma (one eyed Emma) into Aimee's condo. And Zorro moved into the condo above Mr B's because Sunny and Hilda have been moved to Isolation because of the ringworm spot on Sunny's ear. We are being especially careful to not cross contaminate cats. Which means: no cuddles after the cleaning work is done.

Zorro happy to be out of Iso.

 We got cats from Collaroy Vets: Bella and Pippin are older cats, (12 and 10 yo rspvy). They are not necessarily bonded.

Bella and Pippin

And Pirate Pete who looks like a sweetie even though he is missing one of his back feet.

Pirate Pete

We have an enormous ragdoll boarder. He is in the Palace and makes it look small.

A new bin

Tim is back and took Sunny & Hilda and Julie to the vet. 

Sunny does have ringworm. Hilda doesn't. Being a white cat is not fair. Not only are you more likely to be deaf and you can easily get skin cancer from sunbaking in true cat form but, it seems, you are more susceptible to fungus infection. The potential adopters from Mudgee have been put off. S & H have moved to Isolation.

Julie may have a kidney issue. Blood was taken for testing. She was not happy.

Incoming S/A kittens

Willoughby Council delivered a new rubbish bin. So I brought it upstairs and filled it up. there were 3 bags left on the balcony. Together with maggots! In winter!! I realised that the bin didn't have our unit number on it, so I added sticky labels with 19 written in whiteboard marker (which doesn't dissolve in water/rain I guess.) And took it down to the basement. 

 Then Irene rang to say that it needs to be on the sidewalk so that the council can add their label. So I schlepped it out to the roadside as the council said they would do it within 2 days. It is full so nobody else can add any rubbish.

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Velvet

Princess and Sylvie are available for adoption in Welfare. An interested woman will come tomorrow to make a hard choice.

We put Ishi and Apricot in the play place for a run around. It didn't stop their madness at dinnertime.

Apricot

Ishi

Thanks for the photos Joy.

An interesting day

 Firstly, the balcony was piled high with rubbish bags.

Secondly, Rascal let himself out of his condo after breakfast. I warned all the vollies to be extra quiet and efficient today and to keep an eye out for him. Nobody saw him until all the work was done and Romeo went on his escorted walk without his cone on. (Just to make sure that he doesn't scratch himself or eat food that he shouldn't). He often talks as he walks. His escort noticed some faint meows coming from the food selves. Sure enough. There was Rascal. It was easy enough to move boxes of food out of the way, insert his carrier into which he walked without any complaints. The carrier doesn't have a door so manouvering a sheet of cardboard over the door way was tricky. But I managed it and Rascal was put back into his condo. Doesn't really look glad to be home.

Rascal

Joan did the paperwork to adopt Storm. She lusted after him when he was available around Easter but was pipped at the post, so to speak. So when he was returned last week, she cleared a space for him at her home.

Joan and Storm

He already has a place in her heart as you can see by the photo. Mickey's nose may be put out of joint just when he is seeking her company and cuddles.

And the folk who said they might be interested in Hilda and Sunny got in touch to say that they are ready and can come from the other side of the mountains to pick them up this weekend. Then a suspicious lesion was noticed on Sunny's ear. She may be taken to the vet. There is a sign on their condo.

 Mano (who is a female cat!!) was moved to Welfare after being vaccinated and deflea'd. She is a sweetie and should go quickly: perhaps to be the 41st cat adopted in May.

Mano

The laundry shelves were restocked. Thanks to washers.

And the verandah was down to 3 bags thanks mostly to Helen who took off a car full of bags, again.

The council now knows that we are one rubbish bin down thanks to Irene.

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