Leopold adopted: Liz reports

Leopold was adopted by an older lady who seduced him with treats and he responded by allowing her to stroke him. Tim says she is fully aware and prepared for the fact that it will take time for him to settle down and relax in his new home.

Tabby was also adopted - but no surprise there.

Settling in

Tabby seems like an affectionate cat. His first owner says that he was and he is certainly warming up to us.

His neighbour Mally is quite confused. He thinks that he would like to like us but then changes his mind and snarls.

Next door to him is Windsor, the new boy who came from a cat colony. He knows that he doesn't like us and is doing a really good job at being invisible.

Leopold is trying hard to get used to our strange ways in his condo. But sometimes he gets overwhelmed. I tried to get a photo of his ears which show the signs of many battles. He must have spent time on the street.

Angel is still not well. She hardly eats and prefers to sit on a hottie.

Her sister (still unnamed) keeps it warm for her.

Pepper adopted

She was gone this afternoon. So I cleaned her wheely cage and we couldn't think of anybody to go into it so it is out the back again and Lennox has star billing just by the front door. His cuddle rugs had mostly fallen through the gap and he was sitting on a couple of inches of rug on the bare shelf. I installed a hammock and put one of the fallen cuddle rugs onto it. I pulled his sheet across and within a whisker he had settled himself into the hammock and was peeking around the corner of the sheet. But he still had not eaten his breakfast. Leopold and Waffles have been moved into the front area. They are where Diamond and Hera were. . . . but without the connecting trapdoor opened.

Leopold

Waffles

Cookie and Tim Tam look apologetic for having misbehaved at their new house.

Tim Tam

Cookie

The cat without a name has disappeared . . . possibly taken back by the person who brought her here. Another of the mysteries of Safe Haven.

Fixed it

. . . . the squeaky front door. All it needed was a squirt of WD40 on the top most hinge. I left the almost empty spray can of WD40 just in case the squeak returns.

It was nice to get something right. I drove from tennis via Pet-O vet where I was to pick up something for Tim. When I arrived at SH, I had got the wrong thing. So I went back, eventually, and got 13 vaccination booklets. Some of these cats have already been adopted so their vaccination records will have to be mailed out or delivered by vollies.

A couple came in from next door with their cat  -- he had been groomed. It was Sammy, the 10th cat that we adopted (from Bron's in Avalon). The new owner had, as instructed, mailed off his change of owner form to the council so he would be registered, along with the fee, in cash. Dr Kim discovered that Sammy is still registered to us. Which means that the forms (and cash) never arrived at the person who was to update his record. Now they have learned, the hard way, never to put money in the post. We have a friend, Sara, who will take credit card details over the phone to pay for cat registration.

While their problem was being sorted, by Tim, Shumai put on a great show. I had combed him just before they arrived and it must have put the happy into him. He tossed a pellet of litter around, then rolled around with his comb and generally made himself look charming. His heart murmur doesn't slow him down.

Tim was happy for me to name 4 mth kitten "Quatro" and 8 mth kitten "Octavia" (she is a calico). So while he was off doing the banking, I made friends with Quatro who had not eaten her breakfast. She eagerly ate her wet food from my finger and eventually tried the crunchies.

Quatro

While I crooned sweet nothings to her I heard gentle calls coming from Charlie's condo. So I crooned to him through his mesh. The perspex is covered with cloth so the interior is quite dark and all I could see, pressing my nose to the mesh, was a black, fluffy face. But when I held the camera to the mesh and pressed the button, I got the following photo, without any flash:

Charlie

What a clever camera. So I tried the same croon/photo on Leopold:

Leopold

Not very illuminating but better than nothing.