Adoption Tales: LeClerc

1 day: “He has spent most of his time in his carrier in which we brought him home. He is eating and drinking but hasn't used the litter yet. He has warmed up to the humans in the house so has rubbed against and allowed to be picked up. He is still very cautious and low to the ground when walking. We will be renaming him. Already renamed to Jelly bean (inspired from another cat from the shelter). Here is a picture of a rug that my daughter made in a carpet weaving class today. Leclerc inspired.“

 

1 week: “Jellybean is doing wonderfully! He is very confident and has already adapted to his new room. He loves to play and wants to explore the rest of the house already”

1 month: “They are now on almost completely friendly terms. Running after each other, playing and sleeping in the same place.” 

Lots of adoptioins this month

 We are up to 34 so far this month already.

New faces in Welfare. Sunflower and Rain have been moved from Incoming.

Sunflower

Frankie is still there. Don't know why he doesn't get chosen. He is so handsome.

Frankie

And this afternoon we let out LeClerc to play with a ping pong ball. The team was so efficient that all the work was done by noon. Plus there are very few mums and bubs to feed repeatedly. And no adopters came out in the rain today. It was an easy day.

Some of the little kittens don't like Mother and Baby Cat. Ollie and Daisey on Better Row hardly ate anything until I gave them some Kitten Boost and adult soft food.Ollie is 4-6 months and is shy. Daisey is 2-4 months and friendly. Perhaps their mothers were sisters. Ollie hides in the upper sleeping box. Daisey needs a stratchy pole positioned next to it to be able to climb up there.

Ollie and Daisey

 Since Darley was separated from the two kittens that he came in with, he has become much more friendly and calmer. (As have his erstwhile condo mates). And he didn't eat much Mum and Baby cat food today either. (They scarfed theirs). He loved the alternatives. And he enjoyed being combed. His fur is very lumpy in parts and he has a bare strip around his neck. It is a pity he can't tell us his story.

Darley

 Thanks for the photos Joy.

 

I beat the bin pick up

 I was able to get all the bags on the balcony into other folk's bins this morning. So there was space in the Cousins bins in the afternoon. I got rid of a pile of bedding that hasn't been used in the past 4 years from the shelves out back. 

For the rest of the day the vollies did a splendid job and all finished early.

The play place was thoroughly dehaired because the glam kitten litter have all been adopted. Likewise Velvet and Vovo (wonder if it was the family who came on Friday), Kokora whose condo was occupied by Lewis whose adoption was formalised today. He will be picked up tomorrow.

A man came looking for an older cat to share his rather small appartment (and his girlfriend). He took ages with lots of connections via the phone with the girlfriend to finally decide to take Dixie. He fancied Frankie, Griffin, LeClerc, Aslan, Bissie, Mickey and Jellybean too. No wonder it took so long.

Frankie

 In the meantime a boyfriend came in to do the paperwork for Vanilla who will be picked up tomorrow from the foster home.

And Joy took photos:

Angelica seems to eat everything now. She has been desexed so should be available next week or so.

Angelica

The three Incomers, who used to be very shy but now are just very hungry kittens have names:

Renny

 

Darley

Blossom

Repeat adopters

 I thought I had done something wrong during Pirate Pete's adoption because he wasn't taken off the "Available for Adoption" list on Safe's webpages. But he is back. After all the telephone calls and time taken to think about it on Friday, his partner rejected Pirate Pete and he was back on Saturday! He doesn't seem upset by his outing. We might have adopted him this afternoon to a mother and son who adopted from us four years ago. That cat is no more (I didn't get that part of the story) so they came back to us. They might be interested in Aslan. Or LeClerc because he is in the same position as their previous cat was. Or Pirate Pete because he is . . . perfect.

LeClerc is ready to GO

There is a new cat in Lola's* old stand alone. Her name is Astrid and she is black except for the white bow on her collar.

Astrid

I heard a strange ticking noise coming from Incoming this afternoon. Lola was sitting on the keyboard of the desktop computer. It was nice and warm. I closed the lid and she sat on that and the ticking stopped. 

And a new cat in Pikachu's condo called Jimmy. He has a wound on his throat. His paperwork was supposed to be in Irene's letterbox when I drove by this morning. But I was too early.

Jimmy

I moved Pikachu's triangular scratchy into Choc and Chip's condo (after cleaning it), They keep chewing off bits of the box that has been with them for a month. Perhaps they will like this one better.

Choc and Chip

Romeo is doing very well. He came when I called his name!