Adoption fervour

 By Tuesday all the cats on the website had been adopted including Marigold and Miko. So Blacky, Ganda, Archie and Maranda were posted on Tuesday night. This evening only Maranda is left.

It was a busy afternoon. I didn't get lunch until 4pm. Archie went to a young couple who just loved him on sight. She has a lion tattoo on her left forearm so I think he will be forgiven any sins. She just wants to cuddle him and he was perfectly happy with that and the bloke looked as though he could afford any vet bills if the heart murmur gets to be a problem. 

Then a single woman who has just moved into a larger, cat friendly appartment arrived to choose between Ganda and Blacky. She chose Blacky because. . . 1) Blacky the smooch and 2) she wanted to adopt a cat who would be more likely to be overlooked by others. I think they will be very happy together.

Then an older couple arrived looking for an older cat to settle into retirement with. They had hoped for Archie but their meeting ran later than they expected. But they were happy with Ganda who really does have the most rumbly purr. He will have the rec room all to himself and, eventually when he has settled, will have the choice of a sunny deck or fenced back yard. 

 And the woman who adopted Shadow 2 yesterday picked him up. She was so excited I carried him down to her car in his cat carrier. I was afraid she would drop it she quivered so with joy.

Bronwen discovered a bare patch on both sides of Tori's rump. It doesn't look like ringworm.

Tori with bare patch between the orange spots

Petal is still wearing a collar. It is difficult for her to eat with it on because her neck is not long enough to reach the bowl.

Petal

 

Thelma and Louise will go to be desexed tomorrow. They have got much more relaxed with people and lean into your hand for pats now.

Thelma and Louise

Cathy's family is being caught one by one. One arrived this afternoon. The organiser, Michelle couldn't tell if it was a female (the mother) or a male (the brother) from the photo sent to her. I couldn't tell either because the cat was more interested in trying to get away from me than to make friends. But from the size, I imagine that it is the mother. In which case we might have a pregnant cat on the premises because the brother has been desexed. Cathy, by the way, is due to have another ultrasound to determine if she is pregnant.

Ellie stars

 I had three calls about Ellie before 10am because she was posted on our website yesterday evening. Talk about Miss Popular. But we don't reserve cats over the phone. It is a matter of first come, first served. A local woman arrived with her three school aged kids at 1:30. Good thing that she is a teacher so can decide what is most important. . . . lessons or filling the gap in the family that can only be filled by a cat. They came to look at Petal who has been desexed and is not quite ready yet. The eldest daughter used to be allergic to cats but has got better since getting bigger. They all loved Petal but she isn't ready yet. (The mother/daughter team who fell for her last week called later this morning to see how she was getting on and were hoping that they could be first to get her.)

The mum used to have a Persian cat. They knew about Ellie and asked to meet her. Ellie behaved beautifully. The oldest daughter didn't show any signs of sneezes or itches. They were tremendously excited about having her. So they took her. 

Later a woman arrived to meet Ellie. She had phoned earlier. She showed me a photo of the cat that she had to leave behind in China. He looked just like Archie so I introduced them. It was a case of mutual love at first sight. Archie has the best purr! And he has a shaved portion of his tail . . . . don't know what happened there. She will keep her eyes glued to the web page for when he is available. She lives just down the road so I invited her to come visit.

I was too busy to take photos but Robyn took some.

Nada is the new girl in Incoming. She is recovering from having her tail amputated. Why?

Nada

 

And we have a second Shadow. This one is a boy too (as is the companion of Ellie and Sasha) but he looks like a female: very fine boned. It was very clever of Robyn to include two shadows in her photograph.

Shadow 2

Robyn also took a photo of Tiger who never moves. But the food disappears from his bowl.

Tiger

 

And she had a chat with Buddy. Pete doesn't usually get involved with conversations. (I still think we should change Buddy's name to Dud so that we can call them Dud and Pete but perhaps I am the only vollie old enough to remember Peter Cook and Dudley Moore.)

Buddy (Dud)