All clean

 Today, for the first time, there were no bags of dirty laundry left for other folk to take home. I just brought home one bag. The clean laundry shelves are all full. And a woman rang to ask if we would like more towels. (I said yes, please despite the full shelves today.)

Dawson seems happier in Welfare. He didn't have anything to say for himself this afternoon. But when he first moved to Boarding, he was quiet. So it may not last.

Dawson enjoying a scratch

Goosy was out and about this afternoon. She was at the vet's on Wednesday. Must have had a good time because she doesn't usually come out of her sleeping box.

Goosy

A young couple came to look at black cats. They liked the sound of Midnight on line but prefered Licorice in person. Licorice needs to go to the vet to have her gums looked at again. They were a bit inflammed when she went to be desexed. With any luck she will get the all clear and the lucky couple will have the black cat of their dreams. (They were both completely dressed in black and both black haired!)

We have a new occupant of Faith's condo. She has been called Kiki. She wasn't chatty this afternoon but perhaps she will catch Faith's chat.

Kiki

Rose might be adopted this weekend. She is almost ready.

Rose

And Sybie is still putting on weight with extra bottle feeds. Gotta love those blue eyes.

Sybie

And, gotta love the Gymea lily at ground level. Probably the only chance we will ever get of being face to face with one.

 

Light on staff

 As soon I arrived I was asked to tell vollies what to do about the rubbish tins. The last month or two has gone on very well without my interventions. But today, half a dozen of the regular vollies were off sick. Luckily, the remaining few did a splendid job and the Couzen bins are on the sidewalk.

Savannah's little adoptee, Sybie, is putting on weight. She guzzled down her extra feeds today. Her weight has gone up to 370gm! Savannah looks exhausted though and somebody is vomiting or doing very sloppy poos in her condo. (Talking of which, Aslan has just squirted a poo in the litterbox beside my desk. Excuse me for a minute. . or two.)

Be entertained by the kittens who were picked up from the street and brought in this afternoon. They have been farmed out to a bottle feeder. (Irene sent me a video but all I got was a jpeg.)

The guy who is fostering Eli came in. He and Eli are getting on famously. And the woman who adopted LeClerc dropped by to report how well he is getting on. He is entertaining the entire family.

And a woman rang to ask how she could meet our cats. She mentioned being interested in Aslan. We shall see.

Then the family returned who were interested in a ginger cat. . . . Griffin when last they came. But he has gone. So they settled on Max. Irene had spoken to their fosterer and been told that while Milo and Max are good mates, they are not necessarily bonded. So she OK'd them to take Max by himself.

Max

Not this Max but the ginger kitten. This Max is much happier not being next to the doorway. . . . even though he doesn't look that cheerful.

Now Milo has been moved to where Faith was and will probably be adopted over the weekend. 

Milo

 And Rose may be put in a small stand alone on top of where Le Clerc was, but where Luna is now.

green eyed Luna

 

Late

 Sorry, I had a committee meeting that went on and on. Poor Aslan had to watch the blank TV all by himself.

We had great adoptions this weekend: Faith, Rain, Le Clerk and Griffin (for the fourth time.)

And today a nice couple came in and adopted Carly who didn't even make it to the Safe website! 

We were kept busy with the usual business plus having to bottle feed Savannah's adopted little one. All that handling was a good opportunity to decide what its sex is. She is a girl. So she was immediately named Sybie after Helen's aunt. By the end of the day she weighted 300gm.

Luckily Joy took some photos of some of our tabbies:

Scardey Pepper and Salt in Incoming

 came in with Rose who is a delight. She will cuddle with anyone.

Rose

Valentina hasn't had any kittens yet but she is getting very round in the belly on pregnant rations.

Valentina ?cross-eyed

Out the back in Boarding are a shy trio
 

Freckles, Posie and Chester

 

On Better Row is Calli who is more relaxed these days.

Why did you wake me up! says Calli

And Bissie is a delight in the early morning when there is nobody else around. She doesn't greet newcomers. 

Bissie

Neither does Heffer. But she has a devoted admirer who comes every Friday to visit her.

 

Heffer

Thanks for the photos Joy.

Incoming population explosion

 We have kittens.

Savannah and her Sebastian have been with us for a fortnight or so. But now they have another kitten. It was one of Elle's. The rest of her litter died so it was decided that the remaining kitten might have a better chance with Savannah. Sebastian is cooperating . . ..  for now.

Sebastian and ?Silas or Silvia

Savannah is cooperating, bless her.

 Elle is not a happy cat. . . 

Elle

 There are three together in one condo who must be a mixed litter because two are bigger and shyer than the smallest tortie. The tortie is Rose and the others are Salt and Pepper . . . one male, one female.
 

Rose, in front and cowering S & P behind

Fawny had 2 kittens

Fawny's 2

Autumn had six! 

spaced out Autumn + 6

 

Valentino turns out to be a girl and has a name change to Valentina and put on Mum and Bub food.

Valentina in waiting

And Roxie's 3 are getting bigger: even the little dark ginger (in the back) is getting bigger.

Roxy's 3

 Bubble's five were on the bottom level this morning. They are usually in the upper bed box. I lifted them back because they couldn't jump up two levels but they didn't eat today. Neither did Bubble. 

Bubbles plus 5

 

Balls galore

We had a visitor this morning on her second visit. She has three adult (6, 11 and 12) female cats at home as well as 2 doodle dogs and 3 kids from 12 up. The house is currently being worked on so her husband has said "Not this week!" and also "Not a kitten". A pity because she likes Rose ( in Incoming or Rosa in Welfare who was adopted over the weekend). She also likes Mallee. Who doesn't really like people yet but I am sure she will learn to love the person who feeds her. 

We were keen for her to like Storm. A boy, young cat would be a good idea to go with all those females and he probably met some dogs while he was living at large. 

Storm

So we opened up the Top Cat and let him out to play with Petal and Koa (Ziggy was adopted over the weekend). They had a fabulous time chasing ping pong balls. Eventually they chased them into the space between Pepper's condo and the wall. I sent Tim W to get them out. He found 11 ping pong balls there!

Later, after she left and Storm went in for a rest, we added Prime who had a fine time. 

Then added Zoe who really wanted to play with all the balls by herself but not with any other cats, thank you. I eventually put on the blue gloves to put her back she was having such a bolshie time.

If you notice a pink washer rolled into the space beside  Pepper's condo, it is to keep the ping pong balls out.

Pepper wanted to play too.

Later on Helen and I rotated Hiccup and Turbo's carrier so that the larger "window" could be opened. They are very friendly cats (especially if you have something delicious to temp them). Now they can't hide so well.

Hiccup and Turbo

Two of the stand alone kittens in incoming have been desexed. Their collars were off and wet. So I put on clean collars. I think that wink says that the collars will be off as soon as I walk out of the room!

There is another new mum in Incoming. She had four kittens yesterday. Her name is Yahtzee. What are we going to name her kittens? Yvette, Yves, Yvonne, Yosef, Yale, Yasmine. . . . not Yoel!
 

Yahtzee

And Peaches is all alone in Isolation. She has been since March 24 when her kittens were sent to the vet.

Peaches not happy

Rosie and Callie are back

 We were expecting them but they were late so we hoped that their adopters might have had second thoughts. Callie was pleased to see me and let me pat her head. That is progress. We also have new cats in Incoming. But the good news is that Ginger George has been adopted. The strong minded friend must have fallen in love with him too.

Biscuit wasn't supposed to come in but s/he got trapped and the other escaped. S/he is a very sweet cat. But grubby. There may be problems with teeth that make the tongue hang out.

Biscuit

Prada, across the way has settled in nicely and is friendly as well as beautiful.

Prada

There are four scaredy kittens in the stand alone against the other wall: Venice, Scooch, Muffin and Cookie. Seems to me that several folk named the kittens in this litter.

Venice, Scooch, Muffin, Cookie

And Alfredo below where Rebel was has a good appetite.

Alfredo

Gulia took Honey home over the weekend. They were both very excited. A woman came this afternoon to choose a cat to foster. It took all afternoon and she eventually chose Lola. But Lola didn't want to go. She absolutely refused to let Tim microchip her. So the fosterer took Nancy who didn't like the microchipping and hated having to get into the carrier where that foul dead had been done. But she was taken off. And we hope she will live happily ever after.

Sydney is looking quite content in the afternoon these days. So miracles do happen.

Sydney