All clean

 Today, for the first time, there were no bags of dirty laundry left for other folk to take home. I just brought home one bag. The clean laundry shelves are all full. And a woman rang to ask if we would like more towels. (I said yes, please despite the full shelves today.)

Dawson seems happier in Welfare. He didn't have anything to say for himself this afternoon. But when he first moved to Boarding, he was quiet. So it may not last.

Dawson enjoying a scratch

Goosy was out and about this afternoon. She was at the vet's on Wednesday. Must have had a good time because she doesn't usually come out of her sleeping box.

Goosy

A young couple came to look at black cats. They liked the sound of Midnight on line but prefered Licorice in person. Licorice needs to go to the vet to have her gums looked at again. They were a bit inflammed when she went to be desexed. With any luck she will get the all clear and the lucky couple will have the black cat of their dreams. (They were both completely dressed in black and both black haired!)

We have a new occupant of Faith's condo. She has been called Kiki. She wasn't chatty this afternoon but perhaps she will catch Faith's chat.

Kiki

Rose might be adopted this weekend. She is almost ready.

Rose

And Sybie is still putting on weight with extra bottle feeds. Gotta love those blue eyes.

Sybie

And, gotta love the Gymea lily at ground level. Probably the only chance we will ever get of being face to face with one.

 

Working out the W's

 Joy took some lovely photos of Wolfie's kittens on Wednesday. But she couldn't work out who was whom. So I said that I would sort it out. . . . famous last words! And with Tim C's help, I think we know who is whom. They are all girls. Wolfie is their dad. Tim W held them while I took ID type photos. (Joy's will go on the website.)

Wanda

Wanda: no white fur

Wynonna

four white paws

Wilhelminna 

only 3 white paws, the back right one is a long white

Winnie

The last one: no white paws, White under nose and chin. Semi fluffy

Lovely separated spots!

I doubt that this will help Joy. But they will be adopted in a flash because they are lovely kittens.

Other things happening other than W's:

Lola's test results came back. She has a problem with her spleen. Human's can do well without their spleens. Don't know about cats. She was very happy to lick the chicken dish this afternoon.

One of Lilli's kittens is failing to thrive. She is only around 150gm and her sibling is 450gm. We tried, with varying success to give her bottle feeds, ointment for her gummy eyes, extra intraperitoneal fluid, hotties, cuddles, doxycycline.

For light relief, I let Mateo out for a run. He had a fabulous time belting around Boarding and Better Row. He stopped occasionally to touch noses with Gimli in the Play Place.

Gimli and Kiki were supposed to be picked up this afternoon. Their people have probably been delayed by airplanes or trains. Expect them tomorrow.

And a lovely lady will come on Monday to adopt Phoebe.

Familiar face: wrong name

 In boarding is this face:

It has to be our Puss. But the sign said "George". Sure enough. He has come back to board after being adopted last weekend. He was pleased to see the chicken lady.

I arrived in time to hear a fracas coming from Gimli and Kiki's condo. When I looked there was Kiki coloured fur in Gimli's mouth. I think they are getting sick of each other. So Gimli was allowed to wander around out back for a couple of hours. Kiki stayed in their condo and slowly relaxed and got brushed. She enjoyed some chicken which Gimli usually greedys.

Gimli meets Phantom

Max was quite active in the play place. He talks dirty to Phantom.

Max

Callie has resumed her usual place on top of the cat carrier. And Rosie hides in the carrier. She was not interested in chicken.

Callie

There are two new kittens in the stand alone in Incoming next to the Canon SA. They are Angel and Narnia. It is not known whether they are related, complete strangers or just not talking to each other on the first day in captivity.

Angel

Narnia

A couple of sisters came in to look for a black kitten. Taylor is the only one available at the moment. More are coming along the pike. He behaved perfectly. They have gone away to think about it. They have had a series of wonderful black cats. One is trained to walk on a leash and regularly walks to the dog park, gets let off his lead, climbs the trees, chases the dogs, comes when called to walk back home. Must be a dog in cat clothing.

Black cat Adoption Tails: Kiki and Sooty

 Kiki

1 day: Kiki is settling in nicely. She has eaten her food this morning and used the litter tray. The owners will keep her name.
1 week: Kiki is incredibly affectionate. She sleeps on the bed and cuddles up on the couch when the owners watch TV. She is very settled in and has fit right into their family.

KIki

1 month: Kiki has settled in fully now though she is still unsure about sitting on her owners' laps. They hope that she will come around with time. Kiki is a very well behaved cat with a lovely personality!

Sooty

1 day: Sooty is fine. She ate and used her toilet last night. The owners believe she will get used to her new home soon. Sooty is spending her afternoon in a cat tree, with her signature blep face.

Sooty

1 week: Sooty is still shy and timid but definitely getting used to her new den.
1 month: Sooty is still alert and likes to hide herself on top of the bookcase in the room rarely used by the owners. 

Sooty will learn to read Chinese

They can pat her on the head and back. Sometimes she will respond in an unfriendly way but calms down if they keep touching her gently. The owners think Sooty goes everywhere in the house when they are sleeping at night. All in all, Sooty is eating well and using the litterbox well.

 

bleh

What happened to Linda's whiskers

 I put Linda and Yoko into the play place today. I wanted to give them a good brush. It worked last week when I brushed Bubbles (but not Cheena). They got adopted over the weekend. So I am hopeful that the brush will work its magic on L & K. Sammy and Cypher were adopted over the weekend too without any help from me. On one side of her face, Linda has a crop of short whiskers. The other side's whiskers are long and graceful. What happened?

Short ones with a few long ones

We tried Kiki in the Top Cat. She finally figured out how to get down, after I leaned the stratchy pole against her condo but wasn't very happy. She was much happier this morning playing soccer with a ping pong ball while lying in her carrier.

Long way down Kiki

Mia was happy as long as she was being cuddled. There are plenty of volunteers for that job. Mia is where Pluto was. Pluto has been adopted.

Mia with Sandy

Taylor also played soccer with his ping pong ball but he was bouncing about behind his igloo. I've never seen him so active in all the time he has been with us.

Taylor

Wanda has got over her horrors at being back in the institution and is the sweet mum cat who adopted two stray kittens along with her own and then had Midsummer added to the litter later.

Wanda

Lobster was adopted today to a family who missed out on Duke. They will probably change his name to Charles. He will come back as a boarder to delight his fans at Safe Haven.

Thank You Helen

 I slept in this morning and arrived at Safe a little late. But, thank goodness, Helen had taken home all the poo bags yesterday so I didn't have any to schlep down to the bins. I could get straight on to feeding our 62 cats plus four boarders. There will be many more boarders next week. But our Daphne (now Tilly) goes home tomorrow. She was really happy to see me today having got over her disgust at being sent back to lock up land last Friday.

Daphne/Tilly

Yin had tossed all his bedding into his litter tray which was in his tall space. So I tossed the blankets onto the upper shelf to get it out of the way of his breakfast. Later I found him wrapped up in his blankies.

Yin

I put the red and black spotted rug thing in his sleeping room because it might be more difficult for him to dig it out of there and into the litter tray. Later he went into that space and I removed the dirty blankets. Cats have strange ways of relating to two leggeds.

I demonstrated the erection procedure of the Top Cat play place to Terry who came by with a load of litter. (If the person who overfills the litter trays on Tuesday will stop doing that, the litter will last much longer). So now he knows how to do it.

Kiki enjoyed it. But later when we moved it, Diego escaped through the gap at the bottom.

Kiki kinda likes it

Kiki preferred being in the proper play place. A couple of blokes came to find a friend for their ginger, 1-2 year old boy. They rather fancied Duke on line. (What's not to like!) But I thought that two bossy boys was not such a good idea (especially in view of the nasty pee smell that came with Duke and Bowie when they arrived) and suggested that a female cat would rule the roost and everything would smell sweet. So they looked at all our single girls. Couldn't decide between Courtney and Kiki. I put them in the play place with each, successively, for a good while. .   for them to get to know each other. They went off for a cup of coffee and a talk. They came back and chose Courtney. 

Courtney's new best blokes

Enzo and Cleo are in Truffle's stand alone. The daughter of the house is doing her HSC and doesn't need the distraction. But said daughter and sister arrived to have a kitty cuddle today. I put them all in the play place. (I had a struggle getting the kittens out of the high-rise-hidey-hole when they left).

Enzo and Cleo's girlfriends

Later their mum and brother arrived to have their cuddle and discuss other cats that need to be rescued. 

And another woman came in to see one of the Supermodels. She will return on Saturday, perhaps, when she makes up her mind about her first ever cat.

Head to head super models

Luckily, Ann baked a banana cake this morning and brought it with her. Thank you, Ann. There are left overs.

Nada doesn't need cake. She has been on weight reduction crunchies for ages. It is not working.

Nada

And a fortuitous kitten photo. (Thanks Robyn)

Cleo plus 4

Ginger magic

 Gina was chosen yesterday and her excited person came in today to do the paperwork. I think they will be very happy together. Gina didn't quite make the website.

Gina

The woman who adopted Coco last week thought she would be able to pick her up today after her ankle surgery yesterday. Wishful thinking, I thought. She didn't come. Skittles is happy to have her mum with her as long as possible.

Coco and Skittles

The smelly boys below Hana have been desexed. Duke is out back until a single condo becomes available.

Duke

Bowie is still on naughty row because he had an undescended testicle and had to have exploration in his abdomen to find it. He is wearing a collar (of shame). And didn't pose for a photo.

We have an new big faced ginger boy in the main room with a name that starts with a Z. . . . impossible for either Joy (thanks for all the photos!) or I. He is very chilled. [Zatoichi is his name. He was with a foster carer who named him after a blind eyed Samurai because Zatoichi had Entropion surgery done at the beaches vet. The rescuer kept him until we had a spot at SAFE. . . . thank you Irene. As it is a Japanese name it will be pronounced Za - toe - itchy]

Zatoichi

Also new out front is Eric and Lucy. Don't know where they came from but one is friendly and the other hissy. Lucy and Eric are siblings, who were in separate foster homes for 6 weeks. Lucy was bitten by a dog and had part of her tail amputated. They were rescued from Condell Park way.

Eric and Lucy

And Leon and Teddy have moved into Suzie's double. Can't tell them apart either.

Teddy?

Leon?

More questions. . . . Kiki is supposed to be a black cat. But when I tried out a cunning brush* on her this afternoon, her face looked black but her back looked deep, delicious, chocolate brown.

Kiki

* Sandy and I sorted through the three containers of brushes, combs, nail clippers and other grooming aids. One was a glove with plastic knobs all over. To see if it worked  I tried it on Kiki. She loved it and I looked closely at her fur.

** The three containers are nicely separated and arranged now. Worn out or otherwise useless tools have been discarded.