Showing posts with label Tar. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Tar. Show all posts

Tuesday, December 17, 2024

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




Tuesday, December 10, 2024

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