No Lunch

 I wasted spent a lot of time this afternoon updating the vollie's name tags. The wee box that they live in has become very tight and most of the names in it are of vollies who have "retired". So I asked Rosanna for an updated list of vollies names and went through the box pulling out the uncurrent names and writing the new current names. It is amazing what a difference that has made to the number of cards that are current. But, if you can't find your name in the alphabetical sorting, go through the stack of cards at the back of the box. You may well still be there!

One adoption today to the woman who confessed to having visited 10 times before deciding whom she wanted to take home with her. David did the deed. They all went home happy. . . . see multiple social media posts. 

Pippa adopted

 Another visitor couple were looking for a kitten even though they are older. He is mostly in a wheelchair and she is lively. They liked Phoebe (Valentina's last wobbly kitten). Unfortunately they have a scheduled "away" time until Wednesday. But the probability of Phoebe still being available when they return is 95%.

Irene anticipates that 5 kittens will be adopted tomorrow. (Not including Phoebe.)

Georgie, the female G, went to be desexed today but did not survive the anaesthetic.  . . . something congenital. Rather like Grayson's missing back leg. The rest of the family is getting more relaxed and friendlier by the day.

Gideon (tabby with white on face), Gaia (Black & White), Gruff (brown tabby)

Including Grayson who can be picked up and cuddled medicated. 

 While on G kittens: I tried to clean up Gary who gets drops put into his ear twice a day. Of course, he shakes them out onto his divine ginger coat. I gave that coat a good wipe with damp paper towel this afternoon. It didn't do much good.

Gary

 Late this afternoon (when I checked that everybody had enough water to drink overnight) Lilli came out of her bed box. She is such a pretty cat with GREEN eyes.

Lilli

 And the new kittens who arrived on Wednesday are Caramel: tabby & white paws, Cheetah: tabby with white nose, Fluffy: DMH and, our named, Panther: black.

I have made two more hammocks to replace the ones that were thrown out from Nutmeg's enclosure.

 Bright enough?

 

Moving kittens

 Six kittens arrived this afternoon with black robed girls. One was thought to have possibly had ringworm. It was inspected and passed inspection so all were accepted.

In anticipation white mother (Lily) and her the kittens (3 ginger/whites and two white) had been moved to an enclosure in  Welfare. As soon as they are desexed they will be adopted. The 4 boys will go quickest.

The new kittens need names. They already have much better manners than the previous lot.

 

Cordelia's kittens are out of the sleeping box all the time now. They need names too.

Cordelia's kittens

Cordelia looks a bit sick of being a mum.

Cordelia

While Yahtzee is still looking after most of her kittens with Tim's help with the little tabby. They need names too.

Yahtzee and co

Aziza's Aki was desexed and is in the condo next to Cordelia. Don't know where Panda is.

Aki

I moved Tank to where Alaska was, he has been adopted. Irene moved his mum Lilli  and got scratched.
Aimee who I moved earlier to the condo above will have fun downstairs neighbours.

Pork does the trick

 I perhaps can take a little credit that Casper was adopted today. 

A young couple who live in a flat came in looking for a cat who would suit her need for a lap cat and his preference for a cat exactly like Billy who was just like the cat he had as a kid. She didn't fancy Billy. . .. . 

Billy

 I'd say that one of those characters in the family is enough for any working girl. She was torn between Casper, Petal, Roisin and Storm. She eventually decided on Casper who I had softened up at lunchtime by sharing some of the pork from my salad with him. 

I am sure they will be happy with Casper.

So I cleaned his stand alone. Moved Prime into it because you just couldn't see him, a black kitten, in Lola's stand alone. Cleaned that one and moved Qui Qui into it. That name is mispelt according to Tim W who named him. It should be Qiu Qiu which means ball of fluff and is pronounced Chi Chi. He is the last of the Mateo batch of kittens that was in the stand alone in Incoming.

Tim W with Lilli's boy kitten now called Tank

 

There is a new family in there now. The mum is very vocal and all white. She has 5 kittens who are quite big and friendly. They, fortunately don't have Mateo's siblings' habit of leaping out of the stand alone onto your shoulder as soon as the door is opened. I will get a photo on Friday.

Iso family

 I looked up Egyptian names a couple of weeks ago and wrote them on a plastic sheet to blue tack to the wall beside their stand alone. Nobody has moved it. Or changed the names. So, perhaps they have been accepted (or nobody has noticed.) But I will introduce the Iso family who came in with a couple of moslem dressed women who had been looking after them somewhere in the western suburbs. The women were lovely and the cats have turned out to be lovely too. 

The mum is Aziza. You have to feed her in a carrier on top of their stand alone because the kittens were vomiting after scoffing her crunchies. She happily climbs onto your shoulders after meals to get back to her family. Here she is with Adom (ginger male) and Aki (tabby: I couldn't pick the sex a fortnight ago).

Adom, Aki, Aziza

The other tabby is ticked. His/her name is Anat. And he/she wouldn't stand still for a photo. 

Anat

The calico is Ava.

Ava

Lilli has one chunky kitten. Perhaps his/her name should be Larze.

Lilli and Larze

Zoe has moved to Welfare. She is newly desexed. And not only did they cut her tummy. . . they cracked one of her whiskers!

Zoe

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.

Aiming for 40

 Suki was adopted this afternoon. I think the couple who took her looked like a good match but didn't do the adoption . . . . . Tim W and Sue looked after them. 

Another woman is coming back tomorrow to adopt Harry to go with her rather shy, small 7year old cat. He will be happy at her house. 

That probably will make 39 adoptions this month. Which must be a record.

We certainly have more kittens coming to make Feb and March record breakers as well. 

Peaches had 5 babies.

Peaches

Peaches' ? 3 boys and 2 girls (torties)

And Lilli had four:

Lilli + 4

The set of three kittens brought in last Friday were given names:

Mowgli is the tabby in front, Bagheera is the black on the right and Baloo is the black and white on the left.

At one stage all of Mateo's lot were in one hammock. I managed a photo when three were snuggled up together. So cute!

Catsie got a shot of them all together in one hammock.