Lots of adoptions

 Perhaps we should move every year to a new location and get a rush of locals to adopt our cats!

6 went over the weekend including Lola and Pixie, Chaulk, Harry, Nutmeg. And today a volunteer came with her family to adopt Carrot after falling in love with her on her shift on Saturday.

I moved Ravyn down to where Clover was. It is a busy corner but she does like to be in the center of everything. Bubble and Squeek were moved down to Lola and Pixie's enclosure. And I moved the remaining pair upstairs (blocked their names) down to beside the tasty family.

Luckily Joy was with us to take lovely photos.

This pair of kittens is in the back wall Incoming area. I weighted them for Irene. The champagne is a girl and the black one is a boy with the biggest balls I've ever seen on a kitten. Names anyone? 

 There is a new white stand alone next door to  Garry. Very smart. With a mum called Pishi. Her four kittens were whisked away this morning, ? to be desexed. She sat relaxed all day long.

 

Pishi

Princess Peanut is ready to leave. Pity she is in the far corner of the "Welfare" area.

 

Princess Peanut

At the other end of that row of condos, is Indy and Marcy. We spotted a suspicious bare spot on Indy's shoulder today. Fingers crossed it is not ring worm.

Indy

 Marcy says "it wasn't me".

Marcy

Kath and I gave Gideon a bit of a wash today. He keeps on walking in his poo. He must have been a bit cleaner because 3 hand towels were pooey. All he wants is a lap to crawl onto.

Gideon

 

 

Lost key

 I lost the front door key today. It must have jumped out of my pocket and down the drain. I searched everywhere. Catsie searched everywhere. It has vanished. Poor Tim will have to drive all the way to put another key in the lock box. It is the lock box at ankle level. The lock box at shoulder level is kaput. SORRY.

 Nutmeg was adopted over the weekend and her new owner rang to say "THANK YOU". Nutmeg has settled right in. Doesn't want to be in the safe room. Wants to be with her new people. Is talkative, playful and a pure delight.

A woman came in to look at the cats for her daughter. She rang later to make sure that Lola and Pixie are available. 

Ariel was moved into Nutmeg's stand alone. 

She loved the scratchy pole

 Chalk thinks a new neighbour will mean more food for him.

Chalk

Autumn, opposite them, will enjoy having somebody new to watch (down her nose).

Autumn

Piglet has been moved from "Incoming". She should get her pink name tag soon. I doubt she will last long.

Piglet would like the scratchy pole to go with her

And Sharon brought Garry back. She has commitments that mean that she can't keep him with her even though she would love to.

He is in the big stand alone in "Incoming" which I moved closer to the feeding table so he could be entertained by watching the feeders antics. 

Garry

 

Better Row

 The Willoughby bin trucks were late this morning so I got 20 bags of rubbish off the balcony before they arrived. We still only have one Willoughby bin and it is 2/3 full already. We do not want to take any bags of rubbish with us to Mona Vale.

Progress is being made there. We will have lots more enclosures (10 of each size) so I am frantically making hammocks for them.

Today I noticed that Cheeto's stratchy box was hairy. He must loose hair continuously . . whatever breed of cat that he is. That is a very condensed ball of his fur from the  box.

Cheeto and his hair

 His neighbours, Cosmo and Coco just want to eat.

Cosmo and Coco

  There is a new cat on Better Row, Enzo who would dispute the name.

Enzo

 And a couple of kittens below Cheeto don't seem to spend time together in their condo. Always one above and the other trying to get to whoever opens his door.

Daisy (I just vant to be alone)

and 

Milo (Let me show you this trick)

 I moved Chalk from Incoming to where Oreo and Gingie were. . . they were adopted.

Dinesh is back from the vet and is transitioning away from the ZD diet. Hope this makes him happier.  

He is not happy. And not eating. Not even special treats of baby food.

Chalk

Nutmeg, on the other hand is full of beans and happy to be where Cookie and Marmalade were. . . they were adopted.

Jerry gone

 There were lots of vollies this morning so the work got done early and very well. And the vollies got to spend extra time with the cats. Which paid off:

Dory accepted a pat

 A couple of visitors arrived to replace their elderly, unwell cat with a kitten. . . . culture shock ahead. She had done her homework on our blog and he had chosen the last cat they had so it was her turn to pick. So she fancied Sumi but Jerry fancied his beard. It is a long, multi-coloured beard. Jerry and he played and smooched. Sumi and she cuddled calmly. 

I took them out back to meet Mouse who looked calm and unconcerned (thank goodness her breast feeding hormones have gone!)

Mouse

 He won. They took home Jerry. (Let's hope they change her name to Gerry.  . short for Geraldine.)

 Irene gave Nutmeg's kittens an anti fungal bath and checked them all over for lesions. None were found. So they have been moved into the Palace. I suspect they will discuss a plot with Ravyn overnight. So be warned for tomorrow morning!

And there was discussion about putting Salt and Pepper back together again. But I think they are better apart.

Pepper

 

 

 

Sue on Friday

 She came because she couldn't come on Wednesday (car problems) and had a ADM to train. And a Tim to talk to. Good to see her even though she can't see us quite as well as before her op. It will improve. The trainee got to watch Sharon adopting Minette (in the stand alone beside the O's) to a girl and her mum. They were all entranced by those whiskers.

Salt/Pepper, the escapee, is still on the loose. 

Our Friday vollie (who slowly loved on Kitty until she was an acceptable adoptee ie she actually loved him so much she was prepared to like other humans including a stranger) has moved on to Dory. Goosey was easy-peasy for him. She now accepts pats from everybody. Dory is more of a challenge. He worked with small bits of the squeezy soft food on the floor and gradually Dory came forward to eat them. I noticed at dinner time that Dory was more relaxed. (?Full of squeezy food.) 

My camera is defunct. When I took photos with my phone it ran out of juice. But here is Nutmeg who was found talking to Lola earlier in the day. . .. in the front foyer.

Nutmeg

 Cookie and Marmalade are resigned to their boring stand alone. . . . except when somebody passes with food.

Cookie and Marmalade

 

Don't know why nobody has adopted the last of the H litter:

Harlow and Hudson

 Or the last G kitten, either.

Thanks to Joy for her three finger photos on Wednesday for Peanut:

Look at those whiskers!

 And Cheeto and Luna . . . are they related?

Cheeto and Luna

 

Maggot season

 Is upon us. It doesn't help that the balcony was piled higher than I have ever seen it. There was not enough space in the bins for the maggoty bags. Some of the younger bags had to be left on the balcony because all the bins were all full.

Comes of all the boarders going home and 7 adoptions this past weekend. There have been 50 adoptions already this year. Well done us all.

And PC is back. He is very thin and he has given up grooming his rear half. We will have to help him with that because he seems to be as sweet as he ever was. He has been in his foster home for a year. And was with us for a year before that.

Three of the spice girls are due to be desexed tomorrow. So they will all have a late breakfast. Nutmeg is looking forward to a rest. I think this tuxedo is a boy.

 Joy took photos and shared with me. She is enamored with Wolfgang in Incoming (despite his seriously boy smell).

Wolfgang

 Little Gary doesn't smell but he has something strange about the way his head moves.

Gary

 And Demi, the gorgeous one, is still in Isolation. Her kittens are almost as beautiful.

Demi

Demi's three 

But Valentines two will be sad tonight because Valentine has been moved to a stand alone. They will be all by themselves.

Dan

Phil

Why are they wearing collars if they are boys?
 

Busy afternoon

 Tommy was taken to the vet, by Tim. And brought back in time for dinner.

One of Nutmeg's kitten was taken off as well because s/he was off its dinner and had a temperature. (I got to hold the kitten still while Tim figured out why the thermometer wasn't working). Later on, David only saw 4 kittens in Nutmeg's enclosure while he was giving them lunch and pushed the panic button. We ran around, looking under everything, until I remembered the thermometer incident and put 2 and 2 together to come up with the missing kitten.

The detritus under the linen shelves is gross. It will be cleaned next Wednesday and two dozen ping pong balls added to the to-be-cleaned bucket! 

One of the fostered kittens was adopted this morning which put the mums and kittens feeds behind. And a woman came in to discuss the advisability of getting a kitten for her 2 pre teens to go with their labra-dog. She will return when they get back from holidays.

Then a boarder arrived early. And later another asked if it could arrive early. (Actually it's person made the phone call.) And June's people were supposed to pick her up today. No show. They owe us mucho $$$ for her very long stay. 

Our chief Friday-vollie-cat-cuddler made friends with Kitty this afternoon. 

Kitty's new best friend

He also fell in love with Claire, the kitten.

And another family of teenagers arrived to choose a kitten for one of them. There was an interesting dynamic going on there. Eventually they/she chose Owen. I think it was a very wise decision on her part because they have similar characteristics: observers, quiet, deferential, stubborn. Owen needs a vaccination so they will be back tomorrow.

 

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.

 

Adoption Tail's: Chai's spice litter

Nutmeg aka Mikey

1 day: The owners decided to change his name to Mike (Mikey). He is settling in really well! He has such a sweet nature, getting more curious and confident by the day. He is such a gutsy boy and eats all his food immediately. Mikey is using the litter and the owners don't plan on switching litter type as he is used to it.

 

1 week: Mikey's going really well! Much more confident and cheeky now that he is settled. The owner's camera roll is now just full of photos of Mikey!

 1 month: Mikey is doing really well - just got his last vaccination last week and he has grown so much! The owners love Mike and his sweet personality. "Thanks for your work in helping rehome him."

Chilli

1 day: Chilli has successfully used the litter box. Her owner loves her name so they’ll be keeping it. “She was crying last night but she ended up snuggling with me in the bed. I’m so in love with her and she is the sweetest cat ever.”

 1 week: “She’s so happy and I love her so much”

 1 month: “Everything is fine she is very healthy playful and happy! I love her “

Cinnamon (aka Dash) - adopted with Scorpio (aka Ditto) from Virgo's litter - no photos

1 day: They are doing fine in their safe room. They are eating, drinking and using the litter tray. They will be renaming them but aren’t 100% sure about their names yet. “They are so cute”

1 week: “We are doing well with the kittens.” They had a few issues getting used to each other but their owners are sure they can overcome them. The kids have given them new names. Scorpio is now Ditto and Cinnamon is now Dash. “We let them come out of their safe room last night and they had a great time together playing in the house.”

1 month: “They are awesome! We are super happy.”

I was late

 I was late this morning because the washing machine man came. He has ordered the part that will keep the Safe washing happen.

I was certainly late to all the movement that happened over the weekend.

Rooms were rearranged:

Incoming which used to be the junk/store room:

Incoming

Opie's room which has a table for vollies to socialize or committee members to meet at:

Opie's room

Opie's room also stores Purina food and other things.

And Quarantine where the sick cats keep Tim and Katie company.

Quarantine

Cats have also been moved since the parvovirus seems to have moved away from us.

The mums and newborns who were around Tiger have been moved to boarding and named. There is Virgo with Taurus, Aries, Gemini, Libra, Pisces and Scorpio. And Chai with her Nutmeg, Cinnamon and Chilli. Let's hope these names are more appropriate than the Shakespeare names that were given to the kittens who were in the play place until most of Ruby's got adopted. (Just Topaz is left.) Now they are in the Palace. Today this bard's litter was weighed to see if they are near to desex weight. They are. And they are all female/tortie so half the names will need to be changed. But I noticed that their tummies were hard so I had to administer the deworming pills. They didn't mind.

This was after Katie heard Bissuria (who has been moved to Rosie and Callie's condo on Better Row because they have moved to Welfare as they are available) made up-chucking noises. She looked at the vomit and it was seething with worms! I donned gloves to remove the towel that he threw up on directly into the rubbish bin. They both got worming mixture immediately. (And refused to eat it, of course).

Bissuria

Better Row might have to have a name change to Black Row.

Miranda came from Quarantine.

Miranda

She is next door to Ella. . . don't know her history. Perhaps being above Mia is making her flat.

Ella

And Joni has been moved to the high condo which she seems to like.

Joni

In boarding is Pearl who was dumped on us by a bloke who didn't want her/couldn't keep her and wanted her put down. Bad man.

Pearl