Adoption Tails: Sabrina's litter

 Sabrina, now Muffin

2 days: She’s settling in really well. She has been eating, drinking, and using the litter tray. She’s also been moving in and out of her safe room into another room and she seems comfortable. They’re thinking of renaming her Mushroom from her colouring but are still tentatively considering other names.

Sabrina = Muffin

1 week: She’s been renamed (again) to Muffin which her owners think will be her forever name. She is doing really well. “She’s exploring most of the house now and seems to be very comfortable with us.”

1 month: Muffin is doing well! She is super active and energetic. She’s very comfortable at home now. Her eating, drinking and everything else seems to be normal. She seems to have a bit of an itchy ear so they will take her to the vet to see if that’s an issue if it doesn’t get better. Other than that, she seems to be very happy! They’ve also found she loves watching TV (cat videos on YouTube). 

1.5 months: “We’re very lucky to have her. She really loves watching youtube videos of birds and squirrels”

Sandy (6605)

No response from owner. 

Sandy at Safe

Stevie aka Willow

1 day: Stevie has been renamed Willow. She has been great! “She was a little spooked the first few hours but has really opened up.” She has gone pee but hasn’t gone poo yet. She has been eating and drinking. She prefers wet food over dry and normally leaves some dry food leftover but eats it after more playtime. “We have been playing with toys quite often too.”

Stevie now Willow

 

9 days: “Willow is being a very good girl. She’s getting more confident exploring outside the safe room now (sometimes a little too confident!)” She inappropriately toileted in the laundry basket last week but has been toileting normally/properly since they added a second litter box.

1 month: “She is doing very well. She’s become much more confident and she’s adapted to our routine. She’s been very good with new people around too. She’s grown a little as well - she’s growing up too fast”

Sierra & Sully, now Jesse & Kion

1 day: Sully and Sierra are doing great. The owners have changed their names to Kion and Jesse. After 1 day, they started leaving the room by themselves and are getting much more comfortable. They are using the tray fine and are both eating and drinking. They are playing and wrestling all the time. Sierra was more shy while Sully was going around exploring but they are both more comfortable now.

 

Camera fail

 I took some quick photos late this afternoon to remind myself of new names. And the camera is on the blink. I will have to use my iPhone, I suppose. Or rely on Joy's photos which are much better than mine anyway.

Was delighted to find that Magic has disappeared. She has gone back to her foster home. Strangely enough, Willow, who is in the next door condo to where Magic was, was much more outgoing (or outcoming as she has consistently hidden in her cat carrier in her condo until today). She must have got some "keep away" vibes from Magic.

Magic's condo was occupied by four pretty kittens that I drove to a foster home in Avalon on my way home this evening. The fosterer lost her Burmese beloved over the New Year and is pining for more kitty love. These four should do it. The calico is reluctant but the others were friendly.

Stevie has been declared recovered from her desex wound (or from the treatment of iodine and honey). She is back with her brothers. Sabrina, their mother has disappeared from the Adoption list as well as from her condo so she must have been adopted!

And Gemma got adopted.

And Dexter got adopted. 

    But Tim was a bit dubious about that adoption. With good reason it transpired because Dexter came home to a beautifully spring cleaned condo this afternoon. The bloke who adopted him said that his flat mate really wanted a dog not a cat! 

And we got new cats as well as the 4 kittens for foster. There is Mouse, a small, 3 month old, all black boy. He adapted quickly to his new spacious digs in Gemma's stand alone.

Mouse

And Violet who is wearing one of our collars. Which is strange because I can't find them and Elsa has been desexed and doesn't have one on. (She would have had to be under anaesthetic for me to attempt to put one on her!) Likewise Gracie in Isolation has a new desex certificate and no collar.

Violet

And today two of Pickles kittens, Brine and Dill were adopted . . . to two separate families with (not too) young children. They are lovely kittens. But perhaps it is their catchy names that appeal. Geoff came this afternoon and installed a scratchy pole in their enclosure. Which meant that they had to be taken out of it, put into a carrier, entertained with bits of my lunch, until all the screws were tightened, the enclosure was reclad with cloth and put back in its cleaned position such that the litter tray fits. . . . Geoff is a treasure.

Pickles in the before enclosure

 AND, there was a telephone enquiry about Yang! . . .. or Ying

Boarding sparkles

 Coco came in to board this morning. I think it is this Coco, https://safehavencats.blogspot.com/2022/06/adoption-tails-coco-again.html

When she was brought in Boarding Row was being scrubbed, bleached and F10'd because Katie's cats all went home last night. It required two vollies. . . one short and one tall. And took ages. 

Only Ashley left in Boarding.

So I popped Coco into D4 which is on Better Row beside the fridge. It should be nice and quiet there. 

Should be but:

Dancer escaped during the cleaning and ended up under the far end of the food shelves. A bowl of milk placed outside the shelves on the floor didn't entice her out. So I put some smelly food in a bowl up the feeding table end and she migrated there. I blocked off her escape back to the far corner with towels and gradually narrowed the gap. I put a cat carrier in her escape path out from under the shelves and put the food in there. Eventually she came out. Not into the carrier unfortunately. But to a place where I could grab her and take her back to her home.

Pretty entertaining for Coco to see me crawling around on the floor.

Stevie, one of Sabrina's kittens from the play place has an infected tummy wound and has been moved to the condo next to Tommy. She spends her time screaming for attention when any person appears. I thought it was just Sabrina's black and white boy who screamed. But now there is a chorus!

Stevie

Poor Coco.

Shortly thereafter, Sue said "Why did you let Callie out?" .. . . . . I was on my tummy in Better Row! Somebody else didn't shut her door. Callie, of course, was under the merch shelves. In the very area that Sandy and I blocked off with cardboard after fighting to get out a pair of very frightened cats during their adoption last year some time. The cardboard has gone. Callie is much friendlier than those kittens were but she is still too canny to let herself be caught after only one mouthful of lovely wet food. Eventually I dismantled the corner shelf and grabbed her. She forgave me. The wet food helped.

Callie

Tinkerbelle appeared on the For Adoption list on the Safe website briefly over the weekend. We thought that she had been adopted. A family came very ready to adopt her but she wasn't microchipped and didn't have any paperwork so they will have to come back. Tinkerbelle isn't in a hurry.

Tinkerbelle

And a lovely family came to check out our cats. They have just moved back to Oz from Shanghai/Taipei and have moved into a pet friendly apartment block. It will be a couple of weeks before they are ready for a pet. But the boy loved Martin and the girl loved Gemma. (I didn't show them Tinkerbell). They will be back.