Last (of) Tango in Roseville

 A couple of women came this afternoon to adopt a pair of kittens. One of the two has just moved to Sydney and was the primary adopter. She looked at everybody until she got to Tango and then fell deeply in love. It was mutual, of course. Tango is a loving fellow. They decided to come back for a companion for him when he, and she, settles down in Sydney. (They rather liked Mia!)

Within half an hour somebody else rang to ask about him.

And within that half hour we had cleaned/sterilized his condo and moved Leo into it. He was a bit startled but willing. Perhaps he was thrilled to move away from the lingering smell in his condo in Incoming. That has been taken care of as you can tell from his shaved rear. His place as the love boat in Incoming has been taken over by Storm who was brought in today by a fosterer. She said that he is as easy as pie. She trimmed his nails at the stop lights on their trip to us. He put his paws towards her out of the carrier and she snipped.

Leo

 Mateo was picked up at 8am (thank you Kym) for his three balls operation: one eyeball and two testicles. The planning for his pickup went array so I got to leave early to go to Manly Vale to collect him. He was as good as gold in the car and is in Boarding above Ashley.

Mateo

His four siblings will go down the Boarding row when they have had their desex ops. The stand alone in Incoming is needed for another group.

I moved Tulip and Tilly to Better Row because a family of possibly ringwormy kittens was expected at 11:30am. Thank you Sophie for scrubbing the stand alone in Isolation. The four kittens did arrive and look exhausted. We will see how they progress. And Tilly says that she will regress while Tulip is just fine with the new digs.

Tilly

Tulip

On my way out (the second time) I spotted Lola making love to her fluffy blankie. She stopped, of course, as soon as I pointed my camera at her.

Lola

Adoption Tails: Micky, Rainy, Henry, Fluff and Tango

 Micky 

Micky  at Safe

1 day: He’s settling in nicely. “Very gregarious and already keen to play and explore.” He’s eating and drinking but ignored the litter box in favour of a quiet corner of the room for a poo. They’ve moved the litter to that quiet corner and he managed to find it for a second poo earlier in the afternoon. He slept under the bed last night but is already coming out as soon as anyone goes into the room.

1 week: Micky’s still a bit shy about leaving the room but probably because there’s an exuberant puppy wanting him to play. “Micky doesn’t seem to bothered by him but at the moment not keen to play!”

 1 month: All is going very well. Micky is quite comfortable around the entire house and also with their dog. The next step is to explore outside but he seems pretty happy still inside.

Rainy, now Lizzie

Rainy at 6 days

6 days: “Rainy is doing very well. Very settled and very playful. My kids love her”. She is toileting and eating fine but they’ve realised she can be quite fussy with meals. They bought kitten Dine and she didn’t like it but she loved Purina kitten wet food.

3 weeks: Rainy has been renamed Lizzie. She’s doing very well and is part of the family now. She goes around the whole house and up and down the stairs like her own home. “She jumps around quite a bit too!” She is very attached to the owner’s daughter.

Rainy now Lizzie

5 weeks: “She is very good. Getting mischievous and pretends nothing happened… super cute!”

Henry

 

1 day: Henry is settling into his safe room at the moment, he's eating and drinking, quite a hungry boy. The owners are sticking to 1/8 cup of dry food 3x a day and 2tsp of wet food. He's using the litter tray. He'll be keeping his name. The owners will be going to NZ for 10 days in roughly 1 month, they are trying to see if they can get someone to house sit so that Henry doesn't feel displaced but may end up booking in some boarding with SAFE since he is familiar. They don't want Henry to feel like he's being returned. He has started to come out to eat and will even come up and purr for pats and things.

No 1 week response. 

1 month: Henry is fantastic now! He has opened up so much since the owners first brought him home.

Henry

Meatball, now Pippin

1 day: Meatball is doing well. He did not toilet until the second morning which was a relief for the owner. He is eating well, eating dry food slowly but loves the raw chicken. He also loves cuddles and be around people. Enjoying the cat bed and pet heated mat as well. They've decided to rename him Pippin from Lord of the Rings.

Meatball now Pippin

 1 week: Pippin is happy and playful. He loves to roam around the apartment. He has a big appetite and tends to inhale his food so the owners need to be careful not to overfeed.

 1 month: Pippin is happy, healthy and such a good eater. He plays with all his toys, climbs the cat tree and sleeps in the human bed at night. His ear yeast infection shows signs of returning so the owners will take him to the vet. Other than that, Pippin is loved and full of life.

Fluff, now Gatsby

 

1 day: Fluff has been renamed Gatsby and he’s settling in very well. “He plays with us, and even lets us pet him already”

1.5 weeks: He has been very confident. He has been playing around, jumping on every cupboard, biting all the plants and getting zoomies. “He’s loving life - he’s also eating, drinking & sleeping well. And enjoys his cuddles”

Fluff

1 month: no response

Tango, now Hanae

 

1 day: Tango was really scared for the first few hours but has since settled in well. She has been eating, drinking, toileting, and playing a lot. She hasn’t met the resident cat as they don’t seem happy to see her.

Tango day 1

1 week: Tango has settled into the unit very well. She runs around and plays a lot. “She seems to be very comfortable in the new environment.” The resident cat has not adjusted to Tango yet. Tango tries to get along with the resident cat who gets scared and runs away. Her owner thinks it will take longer for the resident cat to adjust to Tango. She had her 3-month vaccination this morning. She was a bit scared and the nurse needed to help but it all went well.

1 month: “I renamed her Hanae (which means flowers & smile). She is very active and loves playing with toys, running around a lot. She seems to be more comfortable now. My resident cat is not able to adjust yet but I can see her slow improvement. Hanae has brought a bright light to my life and now she is my loved family member”

Tango and resident cat

 

No Chicken

 I left it in my lunchbox on the kitchen bench. Had to go out to get something at Sonia's for lunch. She didn't have any chicken. There were disappointed cats. But Lola was too busy snoozing to complain. (I don't think she feels well.)

I let Le Clerc out for a wander. The H kittens were fascinated. And LC played touchy paws with them through the bars.

Le Clerc, playing with a bit of litter, being watched by Harry, Hobs and H . . .

Julie likes her gold fish box.

Julie has a place to hide

The woman who adopted Suki Sioux last week returned the cat carrier that she borrowed. She brought her sister to meet cats. Suki has settled in very quickly and has won their hearts. She was in her safe room for one day before taking over the rest of the house. They say that she has only sounded like a Siamese once.

The "Siamese" on Better Row has been moved to Chad's condo. He is friendly as can be. He has a blue card but isn't on the web site yet. Might be a nice surprise for a visitor tomorrow?

Tango

Suki Sioux's "aunt" was interested but now is not a good time for her to get another cat. But she might consider volunteering with us. She has just retired from an IT job. We could use her skills.

I should have listened to Catsie

 Everybody else came early today so by the time Catsie arrived all the best jobs were taken. I had filled the sink in the kitchen for the empty cat food tins to soak in. So Catsie got to clean them and put them in an empty, large plastic bag for me to take home to my recycling bin. She said, when I arrived with more empty tins, that she should have a second bag because the first was full. I shaked the tins down and said "She'll be right, carry on".

On the way out this afternoon, I was toting that bag, a full bag of washing, my lunch box, hand bag, raincoat, etc, etc . . . . . and the inevitable happened. I dropped the tin bag and out at least half of them leaped and clattered joyously. Fortunately there was a small crowd of young men from inside the car shop and loading zone to rush to this old lady's aid. 

They are safely in my recycle bin now and Ella, the dog next door stuck her nose under the gate to say "Thank you" to Catsie for the not too terrible smell of cat food.

Apart from that is was the usual busy day. Forgot/didn't get around to taking any photos. The exciting thing was a woman who came to check out Mia. I emphasized how much she had improved over the (years) time she has been with us. But Mia was sitting on a top shelf. She is not so amenable to pats up there. The lady met all the other older cats. Chad behaved splendidly. Robbie cried piteously that he was a stolen cat and wanted to go HOME. And she ended up cuddling a pair of boy kittens next door to Mia. She has gone home to check out the website and think about it. 

The flood of boarders is about to start. I moved Bissie into Welfare so her condo can be used for a boarder. She behaved herself well but is not happy.

Some of Joy's photos from last week.

Tango's sore leg is all better. She alternated between almost drowning in the big fluffy bed and leaping around her condo.

Tango (was Duff)

If Mia's lady comes back in a month or so Tar will be ready.

Tar

And to prove that you don't HAVE to be pretty to get adopted. . .  . Polly was adopted over the weekend.

Polly

Teddy's eyes

 After weeks of various treatments which he suffered with great patience and purrs, Teddy has finally had his ingrowing eyelash problem operated on and solved (we hope). He came back from surgery this afternoon quite wobbly and with a plastic cone. But Gigi was there to look after him.

Gigi and Teddy

Tango wasn't leaping about. Her right front leg still hurts. Or maybe she is missing Fluff.

Tango

Sheridan brought in Savannah and her kitten. A vollie sent her bloke in to adopt the kitten. Sheridan trimmed his nails and had a really good, farewell cuddle.

Savannah didn't seem too upset to loose that big boy.

Savannah

Polly enjoyed her chicken but still doesn't want to be brushed.

Polly

The stand alone in Incoming has been repopulated with kittens and mums. This lot came from a fosterer. And also had a poo fest in the carrier during the trip.

There is a mother cat who is very friendly and her 7 kittens. And the mother's now grown up offspring, and her single, medium haired kitten. The daughter mother is wary of people, as is her kitten. But the other kittens didn't mind having their poo'y feet cleaned. No names so far. Granny A and the little A's, Daughter B and the B-son?

PS: Either Elsie or Eliza was posted on the website and adopted today. She lasted 10minutes.

Maggot season

 Has returned. There were 14 rubbish bags on the verandah this morning. When I moved them into the rubbish bins across the road (all the big ones were full) I uncovered a mass of moving maggots. Tuesday folk need to be reminded to take the oldest bags out first.

It is also kitten season. We have a new one where Vader was. (Vader was adopted.) No prizes for guessing what colour a kitten called Tar is!

Tar

And Fuff was adopted today. The kitten he came with whom I called Duff has been renamed Tango. She has been desexed but is still wearing a collar. And she has a sore front right leg. She doesn't put any weight on it. She is in the Welfare area all by herself now.

Tango (was Duff)

Joy wanted to take photos of Ginger Roger's kittens but we decided that it was easier to take a group shot of them. (Ginger Roger has been renamed to something like Rosin . . . Irish for red headed, perhaps)

Ginger. . kittens

And in Isolation, Mateo's siblings are growing up fast. They know where their food comes from now and squeal for it.

more squea kittens

PC has a bare patch behind his left ear and on top of his head. I wonder if it is a side product of the special diet. Aslan seems to have bare patches as well and he is on the same diet. As is Tommy but he doesn't seem less hairy!

PC

We left Teddy and GG in charge in Welfare.Teddy's eyes are both squintty. It is ingrowing eyelashes rather than a curable infection. . . unfortunately.

Teddy, Gigi