Romeo adopted

 His new people fell in love with him on Saturday and took him home. Seemed like a match made in heaven to me. I hope he finds it so. On Sunday I brought Aslan home to have some R & R after I thoroughly vacuumed all Romeo's hair off the carpet. I don't think he has taken any notice of "other cat" smellls. He is just interested in finding the food. He can jump up onto the kitchen benches (unlike Romeo who kept all paws on the ground at all time). So never has my kitchen been so neat and clean.

As he is quite thin (4.2Kg) I will put him on normal rations to see if that diminishes the food drive. 

Today we are up to 41 adoptions for August. Including Mateo who was spotted at the Cat Show by an enthusiastic dad who came at 10am to adopt him. It would have been 43 if the computer had cooperated when I did the paperwork for Phoenix and Sydney. The new owner didn't want to pick them up until tomorrow or Friday when everything in their house will be ready for them anyway. Now the paperwork is mostly done and Sydney just needs his vaccination before he is set to go. So they have an "ADOPTED" sign on their condo. And Tim will sort out what I did to Shelter Buddy tomorrow.

Sydney and Phoenix

Maple and Benny have moved into Loki and Mieka's condo. The young man kept on coming back.

 

Maple and Benny

I just heard a suspicious noise from the kitchen. Aslan was attempting to open the jars of fish food that I used to keep beside the fish tank. They are now in a drawer. I wonder how long it will take him to catch the tiny tetras! 

Aston is in Alladin and Jasmine's stand alone. Not happy.

Aston

And Brennan is where Doris was for a nanosecond. He is a typical ginger: noisy and demanding.

Brennan

This afternoon the "pregnant mum" had one kitten. Black and white. May not be the last one. She was remarkably relaxed about it. Perhaps it is not her first litter. Which means that there may be many more by tomorrow morning.

Another Mateo

 Another Mateo was delivered to Incoming this afternoon. He doesn't look dissimilar to our first Mateo. But has two good eyes.

Mateo 1

and stripes.

Mateo 2

 I suspect that one of the three (used to be wild) kittens in Incoming is not the same family as the other two. He keeps getting pushed back. And today he looked as though he got half way through a poo and was kicked off the litter box. So I isolated the other two in the bed box and let him have time alone with the litter box. Success! One happy(er) Bartley.

Bartley

We had a couple of brief visitors who promised to return but otherwise it was a quiet Friday afternoon.

Doris is unsettled in the stand alone. She hadn't eaten her breakfast by the end of the day. She has reserves.

Doris

Roxie has the "when will this stop" look of new mums.

Roxie plus 4

Calli has settled down nicely from her move from Isolation to Better Row.

Calli

Ginger Megs is back boarding. He looks bored because he is stuck at the dead end of Better Row.

Ginger Megs

Mateo has gone home

 His person is absolutely bespotted by him. He has the biggest cat carrier. We formed a farewell queue to see him out. He will be back.

I made it to Safe before the Willoughby trucks did. So there are no bags on the balcony and room in one of the Cousins bins. Because I was so early I got to see the full moon setting on my way to Safe. And I saw it again rising on my way home. How often does that happen on a Wednesday?

We had visitors this afternoon. The sons of the family who brought back Teddy visited to say goodbye properly. Their explanations about why he was returned were more along the lines of "realized that we need to travel, not a good time, etc, etc". 

But this afternoon he was adopted to a woman who visited yesterday and left her T-shirt in his hammock for him to get used to her smell. (I didn't know about that and had chucked it out by the time she arrived because I thought one of the sons had left it). Never mind. He has gone to a better home.

A couple rang to say they wanted to meet Pirate Pete and came in about 3pm. P Pete wasn't very friendly. Charlie dropped off her foster kitten Mylo this morning and said that he was super cuddley. He didn't want anything to do with this older couple.

Mylo

So I introduced them to Emma. I had to drag her from her upper shelf. But she soon settled into my arms and when I handed her over to the woman, she started to purr. They have gone away to think about it and may be back tomorrow (at 10am).

Emma

Then another couple (mother and daughter) came in. They had phoned after looking at our website and wanted to meet Pikachu. They spent quite a bit of time with her. And she liked them. They are both dark skinned, dark haired women so perhaps she can see them more clearly. They will be back tomorrow to adopt her.

Pikachu

And another woman came in to adopt Alfie, a kitten from foster.

Recently Lola has taken up residence on Tim's chair or on his desk. Not exactly convenient for Tim. But good for Lola to stroll over to the feeding station. Today one of the vollies suggested giving her a box. There was a black box that looked conveniently small. I put it behind Tim's screen. And she climbed in, curled herself into a tight ball and went to sleep.

Mateo is boarding

 He was very pleased to see me. And got lots of cuddles from his faithful admirers. (After they F10'd themselves, of course).

And Teddy is back. It didn't work out in his new home. The teenaged son was very sad to loose him but the mum wasn't coping at all. Teddy looks thoroughly pissed off. He is in Prime's stand alone so will probably enjoy the attention and busy-ness once he gets his equanimity back.

Irene was in this afternoon and made up the files of all the potentially available cats. There should be lots more posted by tomorrow. We were down to just over one page of available cats. She spread herself all over the desk so gave me the phone to answer. I popped it in my pocket where it stayed quiet. Eventually Irene got suspicious and realized that it was out of juice. . . flat as a tack. Hence it was a quiet afternoon despite the lack of Janine and Geoff. 

You'd think I'd have time to take some photos. But I didn't. So back to Joy's of last week.

Darcy always appears when he hears Irene's voice. She intends to take him home when they get back from their next trip.

Darcy

Flynn, Greta, Ebony and Frankie should be on the available list this weekend. They were vaccinated this afternoon.

Tommy will be happy when Geoff gets back. He needs another bath.

Tommy

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.

Rebagged

 On Wednesday I left Safe with a huge bag of washing. Somebody had sewn a pretty print of cartoon cats into a laundry bag that would have been big enough for Santa to deliver presents to the Old Lady who Lived in a Shoe. Sue thought I looked hilarious. The bag held four loads of washing. I cut it into two to make two laundry bags of a more reasonable size.

Cody approved

Mateo was collected yesterday so his small condo was free. We moved Prime into there. He is the biggest of the kittens in Mia's condo and added greatly to the havoc of feeding time by greedying as much tucker as he could get his paws on. Moved into his own condo he hid in the hammock. And wasn't interested in his dinner! He is available for adoption.

Prime

As are Prue and Trude. Irene took lots of cats to the vet this morning. It is great to see their name cards changed to pink!

Prue and Trude

Also good to see was Archie out of his Pub Box. His face is cleaner but he needs to work on his body.

Archie

And also great to see was Shadow in Incoming responding to occasional visitor Christine.

Shadow

Now we know that he likes pats, we all need to give them to him.

Aziza and co were moved out of Isolation because a small kitten with ringworm was moved in. A and the little A's are in the Palace. I moved one of the Lola anointed stratchy poles from the front foyer into the palace so that the kittens could move vertically to get to Aziza. (My chosen names have been approved).

A visitor came to choose a second kitten to go with her boy kitten. She fell for Hui Hui because Tim W has her trained to be carried around lying on her back in his arms! She may well be back tomorrow at 10am to adopt her (after consulting her mother).

Split bin gone

 So we are back to 2 Willoughby bins. But they only emptied one of them this morning. Tim W phoned the council and they promised to empty it in the next day, or so. What a relief. Because I had schlepped out 22 bags of poo from the balcony, with their resident maggots, into other peoples bins there was only enough trash from today to fill one Cozens bin. I didn't fancy having to transfer bags from the Willoughby bin to the other Cozens bin. It would have been way overweight.

 No surprise, Mateo has been chosen. He will be picked up tomorrow. The woman who adopted him came for two kittens. Why didn't she choose Hui Hui and Daisy May? Put it down to Mateo's charm.

Irene wanted a photo of him for social media. He doesn't stand still long enough for a good shot.

Mateo ignoring Tim W and Sue

Wolfie sat still and watched. He had a wander time out today too.. . . . we still hope he will become an old persons' home cat.

Wolfie

So did Hui Hui and Daisy May. That woman should have chosen them.

Hui Hui and Daisy May

I think we should swap their stand alone position with Wolfie's so that they are nearest the front door and get seen by the incomers.

Wolfie only has two daughters left on the premises. I got the job of holding them while their condo was cleaned (because we were short on vollies this morning). A hard job but somebody. . . .. (gets lucky).

Wilhelmina and Wanda

Violet is off "wet food only". I think she likes the full tummy effect of crunchies.

Violet

Grumpy cat faces:

Greta in Incoming.

Greta

Mickey in Welfare

Mickey

Zoe, is more confused than grumpy now that she has moved from Incoming to Welfare. This is last week's photo of her in Incoming. Today, she wouldn't stand still for a photo.

Zoe

More adoptions

 A busy weekend. Not only was Mia adopted but her next door neighbour Harry was adopted too. And so was Felicity the kitten.

Felicity

 And Teddy and GiGi have been adopted by our Natalie.

Lola is doing well. She is in a small condo and has a huge plastic cone on. But seems to be happy to be home. (The pain killers probably help). There is a fund raising effort on Facebook to try to recoup the price of her operation.

Cordelia was sent to the vet to be desexed. And they discovered that she is pregnant. So she is back in her condo, enjoying the pregnancy rations and looking as slim as she was last week.

Cordelia

She came in at the same time as Zoe did. Zoe is younger.

Zoe

 We had a new kitten for a short while. Choco was whisked off to be fostered.

Choco

And Mateo is back in a hard collar for another week. He bumped his wound in the soft collar . . . . probably when racing around like a mad thing. He had a turn in the play place where he can't get up to full speed.

Mateo

Aziza's kittens (in Isolation) are very interested in eating her food. Unfortunately the crunchies make them vomit. So we separate Aziza in a carrier to eat her crunchies with a side of wet food while the littles have just the wet food. They love it.

Aziza's 4

Fun with the bins today included magots! Somebody filled the Willoughby bin in the basement and it was left there yesterday because two others were taken out to the pavement (including the cracked one that I had left upside down in the basement to NOT be filled).

That cracked bin will be collected by Willoughby council within the next three working days. It is on the sidewalk. . . . upside down.

The A Team

 The cleaning team was in top form today. They even cleaned  the W kittens condo which was a mess. They had even thrown some poo out of their condo. I didn't see it. And I kneeled on it during the first morning feed. Luckily that was very early and I could take off my trousers, wash the poo off the knee and potter around in my knickers while they partially dried out on the balcony. They were back on well before the cleaning vollies arrived!

Later in the afternoon I let Le Clerk out for a wander. Wolfie, who is in the stand alone just inside the door was desperate to meet him. He is also deperate for food because he became accustomed to 6 meals a day while housed with his four daughters on Better Row.

Le Clerk and Wolfie

At the time, the girls were having a marvelous time in the Top Cat.

They are spectacular looking cats.

Wanda or Wynonna

Mateo had several turns at being out of his condo. He runs like a mad thing around  because he has so much energy to get out. I changed his stiff collar to an cloth collar (after consulting with Sue). That confused him for a while and he ran in circles but he soon got used to not being able to see out of the corner of his eye.

Here he is meeting the three extra kittens in the Palace. Don't know where they came from. They are shyer than the other three.

But the best news of the day is that somebody is coming to adopt Mia tomorrow, or the next
day. She has thrown a bare spot over her spine just below her shoulder blades just  because. . . . .

I hope it doesn't put her adopters off.

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.