Four Tillys

 There were four Tillys at Safe this afternoon. One came in with her brothers from a foster home to get their shots, etc. The two boys (Baxter and bro) were adopted by the fostering family. Their sister Tilly was left behind. She went into the condo opposite to Peaches because Fawney was adopted yesterday. (Her kittens had all gone by Wednesday). That condo is below Tilly the mum who is not yet available because she hasn't forgiven us for the days of her litter.

Neighbour Tillys

 But new Tilly won't be there tomorrow. Irene will take her home and give her back to the foster family. Their neighbors want to adopt her. But are away on holiday. So the fosterers will take her back home until the neighbours get home and can adopt her .. . . . . it get complicated at Safe!

temporary Tilly

There were lots of other visitors. Milky Way got lots of attention. I will be surprised if he doesn't get adopted tomorrow (by Terry).

Milky Way

And a young girl chose Sebastian after considering all the other possibilities who could go with the previous cat they got from us. The parents were delighted. 

  It seems that Aurora and kittens in Isolation do have ring worm. And Squeek's tail is suspicious. 

Bugger.

 Tis the Season!

 

Moo gone

 She got adopted yesterday. Sebastian has already moved into her small stand alone.

Sebastian

He has been desexed and is ready to go. Savannah was sprawled out in their condo this afternoon while Sybie was in the bed box by herself. 

 And Tiger has been moved from Incoming to be with his siblings, Dash and Oreo because he has recovered from whatever upset his kidneys. You can tell which of the tabbies is Tiger. He is the one who jumps onto your head when you open the door.

Oreo, Tiger, Dash. . .. perhaps

I have noticed that Goosey is very affectionate at dinner time. If you approach her at other times, she does NOT want to know you. But at dinner time she would rather have cuddles than food. 

And since Ravyn has had a harness on, she is much more relaxed. Perhaps it is the prospect of wanders that has taken off the edge. Or just the realization that she is in an enviable position. . . . all that space for just her. Or the vollies who give her treats whenever they approach her.

Ravyn

On the other end of the scale is Dinesh who looks miserable and has battle scars to justify that feeling. Must find out his history.

Dinesh

Kiki adopted

 Sorry I am late. I got talking to my niece to celebrate my birthday and it went on, and on. 

 It was a quiet Friday. We had one visitor who arrived late (traffic) to adopt Kiki. Both were thrilled and it went smoothly. (Irene took a photo to be posted on the WWB).

I will use Joy's delightful photos of the mums and bubs on Wednesday.

Valentine plus 2

She is still a kitten herself. Somebody Googled when a cat could first get pregnant and Valentine probably was on the theoretical schedule! She is a kitten and has these two great kittens of her own.

Savannah is on heat, again. Her two: Sebastian (her own) and Sybie (given to her after Seb's birth) are both  flu-full. They need a bigger space.

Sybie (ex Elle)

Sebastian and Savannah

Today Peter and Brock broke out of the Top Cat and had a lovely time running all around Welfare. This is probably their more usual activity than sitting, demurely, in their condo when Joy snapped them.

Peter and Brock

 If they don't get adopted soon it will break Irene's heart.

 

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

 

J's countdown

Jack and Jessie were posted on the Safe website today. This afternoon a woman called interested in them. She will drive from the south coast to be in East Roseville as early as she can tomorrow morning. 

It has been nice having them with us.

Irene did bring in her foster cats after Helen and I left on Wednesday. I installed the Top Cat so that Dylan could visit with Willa and Darcy. He spent some time in the scratchy pole hole but jumped back up to his bed box pretty quickly. It is a scary place.

Dylan

Willa and Darcy hid in their scratchy box all the time.

Willa (on left) and Darcy

So I moved the Top Cat so that Simba could meet Sebastian and Dorian. They seemed to be pleased to meet. 

Simba with Sebastian and Dorian

 Ashley (sister of S & D) was out of the cat carrier and in her bed box for the first time, today. Slow progress.

Ashley

If anybody knows/remembers where they bought the spray bottle on the right will you please buy us some more of them. The one on the left (from Bunnings) is no good. Even the tall Bleach spray bottle in the kitchen has given up the ghost.

New doors

 When I arrived early this morning, there was a condo with its door open, no cat inside but a label saying that the bed was to go with Winnie. There was a liberal scattering of food on the floor so I assumed that "Winnie" was on top of the condos. So I fed everybody first. Then, when Sophie arrived early I asked her to look for "Winnie". She found her in no time hiding behind the dirty laundry bins and promptly put her back in her condo. Winnie seemed happy enough.

Winnie

And there was only one cat in Dorian and Sebastian's condo. With drugs for one cat. So I assumed (correctly) that the other was still at the vets. Teeth were removed from one first. The other had to wait a day.

Kit seems to have expanded since moving into the Play Place. He is a very friendly cat. He needs space above his litter tray to be able to assume the poo position. So don't put it under anything or you might have to clean the floor.

Kit

There are new cats in Incoming. It was hard to find Gitterbug and Falco. G is the ginger hiding under the bedding pushing his bum into Falco's face.

Gitterbug

Falco's face

And a cat called Littleone who has grown out of his/her name.

Littleone

Geoff came to redo some of the mesh on the condo doors. Much to Julie's delight because she got time in the Top Cat while he worked on her and Bassuria's door.

Julie and Geoff

Terry Tidys up

 Terry came today on his day off to replace Dexter's mesh. I remembered to bring my needle and thread and luckily by the time I arrived (late because of DH's doc visit) he had already removed the screws, located the mesh and was on the job. Meatball was delighted that his new condo (he is now available so out of Incoming) because he got to roam around while the vollies were working so could make mad dashes out the front or back door then get chased, picked up, cuddled and settled onto another lap. 

After Terry finished his mesh, he started to repairing all the cat carriers that adorn the top of the condos. Many of them didn't have doors that fitted, or tops that stayed with bottoms, etc, etc. By the end of the day there were only 4 left that couldn't be repaired. All the rest are neatly stacked on top of the condos or in the area where goods are for sale because they are almost new. THANK YOU Terry.

And Joy was back from her eventful holiday in the UK. She tested the National Health and was delighted by the service. And for friends and relatives who made her mum's fall bearable. We will celebrate with some of her photos from today.

Lion and Enoki are in Oscar's enclosure.

Lion (calico) and Enoki

And Sebastian and Pebbles are in Yin and Yang's enclosure. I made new hammocks for them out of the mask fabric brought in a couple of weeks ago by a visitor.

There seems to be a wine theme going on with names. Merlot and Jerry are where Sebastian and Pebbles used to be in the corner.

Merlot and Jerry

And Gino Grigio and Pino Nero are in the stand alone next to Julie and Bassuria where. . . . used to be. (Having a senior moment). I installed two hammocks (old ones) for them.

Gino Grigio & Pinot Nero

Amelia is where Annabelle and Abagail used to be. That has fine alliteration.

Amelia

Movement in photos

 Is not as desirable as movement in adoptions. But is inevitable. Trude and Prue were sitting at attention this afternoon, waiting for chicken. But as soon as I pulled out my camera one or the other moved.

 Miz and Riley have a "bonded pair" sign but they really don't act like a pair. Only one ever comes out for a wander when the door is open. Charlie likes them because they don't eat all of their crunchies and they let him come into their condo.

Riley and Miz

The folk who were going to come to adopt Yang either didn't come or got talked out of it. The sisters are both still here. Yang tends to hang out on a top shelf and Yin stays in a hidey hole. Both accept pats happily enough.

While Billy and Harley are not in the same condo (Billy is above Harley) they seem to have the one still/one moving vibe going:

Billy

Harley

I gave Harley a cuddle this afternoon and almost had to wash my face afterwards. She is very enthusiastic.

A bloke rang up about Cooper. He regularly looks after other folk's cats and wants one of his own because the hole in the house when the cat goes home is just too hard to live with. If he takes Cooper, he will be able to have other folk's cats visit because today Cooper, PC, Harry and Charlie all shared the front desk while Meatball frolicked in the corridor. Harry has been moved from Better Row to Betty's stand alone. I am not surprised that he preferred his bed on the desk: the stand alone was uncovered and hammock-less. It is habitable now.

Muffin and Venice were the last ones out in the Top Cat. (Sebastian and Pebbles had a fine ping pong ball game, Sparkle surveyed his domain and Abigail and Annabelle had a lovely time there too). I hope it is not too hard for Irene to take it down in the morning.

Muffin and Venice

Happy Harry

 Sorry I am late. Geoff usually does the night feed on Fridays but he has gone off to WA to swim with the whales and enjoy the big skies. For three weeks. . . . 

But Irene came today to catch up the paperwork on the cats who are ready for adoption. There should be new faces on our website soon. Hansel and Derek are ready to go. They want out of their stand alone. They wiggle so much it is difficult to get a good photo of them. Sod's law says that after all the efforts to get photos of them together and separate today by Irene and others, Terry will find them a home tomorrow.

Somebody was handing out clean cat beds. I don't know how Harry came to have his put on the front desk. He was happy and stayed there most of the afternoon while Cooper was on the poof under the computer.

Harry is happy

Later Charlie took up his preferred place on the visitors chair. (Lola spends her days on the conference table on Cass's hoodie in a cat bed in Opies room). Champ was tucked into a stratchy pole box.

Charlie

I agreed with Sebastian and Pebbles that they NEEDED time out in the Top Cat.

And Miz actually got up to visit them. 

Riley was not going anywhere, thank you!

Theresa's four are only three these days. The little one has gone to foster. The remainders are getting bolder. There are two white ones and one tortie. We need names beginning with T.

Amelia has been desexed and moved to Boarding. She was quite confused this afternoon. But quite needy. As was Mira. And Epsilon. Maybe it was a bit chilly back there.

Cat fight

 Well, after the weekend we know which one is Harley and which is Quin. Quin has been adopted so it is Harley who is still with us. I can't tell if she is the friendlier tortie or has become friendlier since her sister left her.

Harley

My camera was playing up today so it is still difficult to tell who is who.

One of our earlier vollies, Monica brought in her cat. Molly whom she adopted from us, to board while she goes to Canada for a holiday. Somebody had left instructions about the eardrops to be applied to a boarding cat called Epsilon. Turns out they changed her name. She might be the same Molly who might have been adopted on the blog of September 1, 2023. Her name has been changed to Epsilon. (Google definition: Epsilon: the fifth letter of the Greek alphabet (E, ε). the consonant sound represented by this letter. Mathematics: an arbitrarily small quantity, used to indicate that a given quantity is small, or close to zero. 

She will be with us for three weeks. She is not close to zero.

Epsilon

Later, after letting Seb and Pebbles out into the Top Cat (which they love), I noticed that Dexter's window was covered in snot. So, as he had been happy out wandering with other cats before, I let him out and cleaned his perspex. Then the screaming started. He went for Cooper. I went for him. Used my foot to separate them. Shepherded Dexter back into his condo with the rubbish tin lid and retired for bandaging.

Cooper afterwards just wanted cuddles

Dexter afterwards (when my camera went on the blink)

Ignore the blood smears on the floor. They are either mine or Adrians who got smacked by Billy earlier in the morning or Azar's who got chomped on by Betty yesterday.