Dory spoke

 He greeted his favourite Friday vollie with a kitten sized meow!

Dory

And, there is no dirty laundry at Safe Haven! We have finally caught up. (It has taken 5 years!)

Of course, the rubbish is another story with only one Willoughby bin still. But visitors took off several bags, as did I. So the balcony is not too bad. But anything but empty of bags is bad.

Bruce was blue today because his mum was at the vets. He stole Mickeys toy but still missed his mum/pillow.

Bruce

 Peter, Patch and Phoenix have been moved to Welfare. It is nice to have some tiny tabbies there.

P's

Faith and Flora were desexed. They came back with plastic cones but I changed them to cloth ones which are more comfortable.  They don't seem to get on all that well. But it might just have been the post op!

Flora and Faith

Chloe who was moved to Welfare some days ago, seems to have developed a mucky eye. She will get the dreaded ointment which is a shame because she has become much friendlier since being moved.

Chloe

Australis has been moved back to Incoming. Borealis left in Welfare all by herself is now enjoying visitors.

Borealis

In Isolation the four champagne, identical kittens suddenly have a champagne mum! She escaped while they were catching the family but has since been brought in. She seems a calm, sweet cat (who luckily remembered her kittens).

There is another kitten in Isolation called Bonnie. She was adopted from a breeder of British Short Hairs but developed ringworm and giardia. Both of these are infectious to people as well as to animals. So she was surrendered to us with a bag of food and meds and cash! I wasn't going close enough to get a good photo because both of those parasites infect people as well as felines. But she is cute enough to wait for.

David is in love

He took these photos of Freya and Anthea and their kittens this morning.

His phone takes much better photos than my camera. 

I got a quick shot of Nutmeg (plus 5) who has been moved into Prue and Trude's  enclosure. I am sure they will have a Callie and Rosie stay rather than a P & T stay!

Nutmeg aka The Milk Bar

One of her kittens, Cinnamon, wasn't interested (this time) and relaxed up the pole.

Cinnamon

 Next time we have a tortie kitten without a name, tell Sue. She has a name to give a tortie in memory of our lovely vollie from London.

Mickey got time out (of the stand alone) to run off his excess energy. 

Mickey

Cookie is putting on weight. Today she is 830gm. (Moving on to Joy's photos from last Friday).

Cookie

Aurora's little kitten is still significantly smaller than the other kitten who has the lesions. 

Aurora's Borealis or Australis

And just to take us from kittendom to the real world, here is Aslan enjoying shade on a warm day in Avalon.

 

Bent Lily

I refer to the Gymea lily growing in front of Block 1. It has bent over to face level in an attempt to get more sunlight. So, next time you come to save, walk past the mail boxes to get a close up view of a lily that is usually 3meters up in the sky. 

Another spectacular thing is that we have adopted out 2 dozen cats/kittens so far this month. But we only have 71 cats in residence at Safe Haven because we are expecting a deluge of kittens shortly. September is traditionally the beginning of the kitten season. But we have had a steady trickle of kittens all year.

Cats who got adopted since last week include Mickey who has been on our books for ?3 years.

Mickey

And Pixie a kitten who's sister Ecco, the last of that litter, was chosen by a woman today. She has to convince her husband that their Siamese cat needs a friend.

The man who came in last week came again and will return tomorrow to adopt Meika and Loki!

I did one adoption today of Garfield to a couple who picked him up from the foster home.

And the man who surrendered two of his family's 17 cats (!) was in tears this afternoon after visiting them. The cats, Heffer and Ginger, weren't happy either.

Heffer

Ginger

A busy day. Cherish got a bath and has moved to Darcy's condo. Darcy in next to Bass and Julie in an enclosure. I tried to take her photo but she is one wiggly cat! Ishi and Apricot got baths too. Sue and I got scratched. They are still in Isolation, waiting for a suitable condo in Welfare.

We have two new cats in Incoming. Sunflower and Rain. Neither of them ate much last night or today. I wonder if they came from the same place.

Sunflower

Rain

Not like Lola whom I caught snacking on the kitten's MBC food this afternoon.

Naughty Lola

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

An interesting day

 Firstly, the balcony was piled high with rubbish bags.

Secondly, Rascal let himself out of his condo after breakfast. I warned all the vollies to be extra quiet and efficient today and to keep an eye out for him. Nobody saw him until all the work was done and Romeo went on his escorted walk without his cone on. (Just to make sure that he doesn't scratch himself or eat food that he shouldn't). He often talks as he walks. His escort noticed some faint meows coming from the food selves. Sure enough. There was Rascal. It was easy enough to move boxes of food out of the way, insert his carrier into which he walked without any complaints. The carrier doesn't have a door so manouvering a sheet of cardboard over the door way was tricky. But I managed it and Rascal was put back into his condo. Doesn't really look glad to be home.

Rascal

Joan did the paperwork to adopt Storm. She lusted after him when he was available around Easter but was pipped at the post, so to speak. So when he was returned last week, she cleared a space for him at her home.

Joan and Storm

He already has a place in her heart as you can see by the photo. Mickey's nose may be put out of joint just when he is seeking her company and cuddles.

And the folk who said they might be interested in Hilda and Sunny got in touch to say that they are ready and can come from the other side of the mountains to pick them up this weekend. Then a suspicious lesion was noticed on Sunny's ear. She may be taken to the vet. There is a sign on their condo.

 Mano (who is a female cat!!) was moved to Welfare after being vaccinated and deflea'd. She is a sweetie and should go quickly: perhaps to be the 41st cat adopted in May.

Mano

The laundry shelves were restocked. Thanks to washers.

And the verandah was down to 3 bags thanks mostly to Helen who took off a car full of bags, again.

The council now knows that we are one rubbish bin down thanks to Irene.

 It seems that somebody was using the 4% bleach straight instead of diluting it to sterilize washing up and condos. So Sue made some signs.

Aziza says that it wasn't her. Her Adom has been adopted.

Aziza and her girls

They love the Palace. They no longer try to bolt out of it as do Lilly and her kittens from their enclosure. But Lilly's lot will be mostly gone by the end of the week. Ryder was adopted today and Jasper will be picked up tomorrow.

Ryder

Lilly's white girls

But the real news is that Pikachu has been moved:

Pikachu

To Mickey's condo. . . . . 

Mickey has gone to Joan's to foster. Joan says that he is in his own bathroom, where she can watch him with a camera. He hasn't come out of his carrier since he arrived there on Monday. He hasn't eaten the nice new food that she bought for him. So I gave her some of our crunchies that he does eat. . . . eventually. But he will allow her to groom him with a brush. Early days after such a long time with us. (My first blog about him was Oct 20, 2022).

And Minty and Rascal have been moved to boarding. They are not in together. They didn't really like each other when they were together before their brush with ringworm.

Minty

They didn't like the move either.

Rascal

And we were given a group of four big kittens from a colony. They are in boarding and are scared.

Greta (B & W) and Frankie (tabby)

Flynn (ginger) & Ebony

Tommy says"bloody kittens. What about ME?"

Tommy

Half beat the truck

 I got 19 bags of rubbish out into other folk's rubbish bins this morning before the Willoughby truck rolled around. There were at least a dozen left on the balcony. But they went into the Cozens bins. So the balcony is empty. Long may it remain so now that most of the boarders have gone home.

Ginger Megs was the last to go from next door. His owner is an old lady so brought her granddaughter to help get him into his carrier which he is well known to NOT LIKE. After a kerfuffle to find the key to next door (the label fell off between 18 and 19 this morning so there was a moment of deep panic when it wasn't obvious in the drawer. It was there but without the frail tag on the paperclip. There is now a curly blue ribbon securely knotted to the key with a pink tag with "18"). Granddaughter and I went to get him. He was sitting in his carrier. So I quickly shut the carrier's door. Done!

Good thing the grand daughter was there to help carry him. He is a big boy. 

Oscar who is available

 We had a rush of visitors in the late afternoon. A couple's cat died before Christmas and they are looking for another. They went to Petbarn in Chatswood (as they did the last time they needed a cat). There were no cats for adoption there. They did a Google search and found us. Liked the look of Luna on line because they had a black and white Lunar in the past. Came and liked her. Turned around and spotted Pikachu. 

 

Pikachu (my photo not Joy's)

They used to have  a white Pikachu in the past as well! Whoooo to choooose.

They have gone away to think about it.

At the same time was a family (Mum and 2 adult children) wanting perhaps a pair of cats. They couldn't decide. Too many members of the family to make a decision. They had left dad at home because he "would have wanted to adopt every cat."

Mickey

And this was after a family arrived with a plan to adopt or foster a cat or a dog or a couple of cats or a couple of dogs. I, shamelessly, referred them to Irene.

Why not Turbo and Hiccup who are now available. (And both boys which surprised me.)

Turbo (R) and Hiccup (L)

 So, nobody left but there is potential.

Joy came and took the photos.

This trio in Incoming are sneezing.

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