Names . . . . we need more

 Robin came in this afternoon with a bag of mice to share. 

Robin with mice

She watches a show about a bloke who rehomes African lions. They all have names, African and otherwise which we could use for our cats this coming kitten season. I have asked her to make us an alphabetical list. They can't be worse than the names we got today: Scratch and Itch.

Scratch

Itch is the shyer of the ginger pair. David tells me that these names are famous for characters in some cartoon/TV show that I have never come across.

They are where Nala was. So Panda has a neighbour now and Autumn can chat to them across the way.

The A kittens have come back from the vets except for the two "wildest" ones who have gone to foster. So we have the boys in the stand alone in the Transit lane: Atlas and Apollo are both black and Adonis is black and white. They are all shy.

Adonis in the middle of Atlas and Apollo

Artemis has relaxed somewhat since Wednesday. But her sister is very nervous and all by herself, for now.

Artemis

Fraidy A

Peanut went to the vet and had all her teeth removed. Her new owner will never have to pay for veterinary dental bills, which must be a relief. She is still keen to adopt her. I found some glam mousse for Peanut tonight which she enjoyed. She is upstairs in "boarding".

Princess Peanut

Just across the aisle from Teddy who looks slimmer today because I gave him a good combing after his brushing. He has an undercoat of grey, white tipped hair that comes out in handfulls.

 This morning's vollies all said goodbye to Alex who will be adopted tomorrow afternoon!

 

 

 

Archie drooled

 Archie has a visitor who is determined to find him a foster home. She has worked with AWL for many years (knew Peggy mum) and has a great touch with cats. Archie was in heaven. She is going to drop by to spend 15 minutes with him frequently

Teddy has been adopted. . . already.

Teddy

And so has Moo Moo. . . thank goodness all the cow names have gone.

And Saturn's sisters vanished over the weekend. He feels lonely and cries for somebody to come play with him.

Saturn

Talking of things celestial. I went out this afternoon to take the paper to the Cozen's paper bin and there was a vapour trail from behind our building, over the top way high and extending to a thin line in the direction of Parramatta, probably. It was most impressive.

We had Peter and Brock out to play. And Ravyn for a while. She was more interested in food. (Not surprising as she looks quite thin when walking around).

Ravyn

Irene did a fabulous job on the medicine cabinet last Friday.

And I got enough hair from a scratchy pole to make a kitten.

Teddy moved

 He has moved into Will's enclosure because Will was adopted.

Teddy

Not only Will but Dawson as well.

But Dawson is still with us because he is boarding while his new owners organise their lives around his coming. They adopted him on Monday. On Sunday another couple came, saw him, liked him and took home the folder contents to see if he was the right cat for them. Today they noticed that he was no longer available on our web site. Rang and found that he had been adopted from under their noses.

And today, a man came and adopted Choc and Chip. I hope this one sticks. They walked into a large-ish cat carrier with a small bribe in it I had put their bed in it before and quickly covered it over with their blanket when the door was closed. Don't think we checked the microchips this time. But we know they are right from the last time they were adopted.

The young man who fostered Eli came for another visit. He showed me all the photos of Eli playing at home with him. Said he would forward them to Safe. He smears the wet treat all over the plastic pad and Eli spends half an hour licking it off. 

Eli

Moo Moo is happy that Humphrey has been adopted and she has a double condo all to herself.

Moo Moo

Such a stunning looking cat should have a better name.

Sue found a 2024 Safe calendar, cut it up and I stuck the pages on the wall by the front desk. The only cat still with us is Lola who is featured on the small grey picture at the top of the display. She looks better now than back then.

 

Lola

He has arrived

 Giovanni. With a scratchy pole, a bed and a brand new cloth cat carrier. The telephone is already ringing with enquirers for this ragdoll. 

If only folk will phone for the Planet kittens who are now available. Mateo is booked into the Palace in 10 days or so. It would be good to say bye-bye to them before then.

Saturn giving Neptune a neck rub (with hiertongue)

 

Teddy doesn't seem to take any notice of them, in their palace, across the way from his play place.

Teddy

 

I got a shot of boarder Estelle's lovely green eyes because she had discarded the puffer jacket. . . . probably in disgust that her owner hasn't picked her up yet. I think she will take a while to forgive that owner for deserting her.

Estelle

Bissie was up and about this morning. Long time since I have seen her feet. She is shedding masses of hair. What a pity she will not tolerate being brushed.

Bissie

But Callie is getting more interactive. Don't think it will be long before she likes to be groomed.

Callie (Joy's photo)

Mike doesn't look like he will ever need to be brushed. . . I can do it myself
 

Mike

Roxy's champagne twins curled into a heart shape in a hammock. Forehead to forehead.

 

Her ginger wasn't invited.

 

Mateo has gone home

 His person is absolutely bespotted by him. He has the biggest cat carrier. We formed a farewell queue to see him out. He will be back.

I made it to Safe before the Willoughby trucks did. So there are no bags on the balcony and room in one of the Cousins bins. Because I was so early I got to see the full moon setting on my way to Safe. And I saw it again rising on my way home. How often does that happen on a Wednesday?

We had visitors this afternoon. The sons of the family who brought back Teddy visited to say goodbye properly. Their explanations about why he was returned were more along the lines of "realized that we need to travel, not a good time, etc, etc". 

But this afternoon he was adopted to a woman who visited yesterday and left her T-shirt in his hammock for him to get used to her smell. (I didn't know about that and had chucked it out by the time she arrived because I thought one of the sons had left it). Never mind. He has gone to a better home.

A couple rang to say they wanted to meet Pirate Pete and came in about 3pm. P Pete wasn't very friendly. Charlie dropped off her foster kitten Mylo this morning and said that he was super cuddley. He didn't want anything to do with this older couple.

Mylo

So I introduced them to Emma. I had to drag her from her upper shelf. But she soon settled into my arms and when I handed her over to the woman, she started to purr. They have gone away to think about it and may be back tomorrow (at 10am).

Emma

Then another couple (mother and daughter) came in. They had phoned after looking at our website and wanted to meet Pikachu. They spent quite a bit of time with her. And she liked them. They are both dark skinned, dark haired women so perhaps she can see them more clearly. They will be back tomorrow to adopt her.

Pikachu

And another woman came in to adopt Alfie, a kitten from foster.

Recently Lola has taken up residence on Tim's chair or on his desk. Not exactly convenient for Tim. But good for Lola to stroll over to the feeding station. Today one of the vollies suggested giving her a box. There was a black box that looked conveniently small. I put it behind Tim's screen. And she climbed in, curled herself into a tight ball and went to sleep.

Mateo is boarding

 He was very pleased to see me. And got lots of cuddles from his faithful admirers. (After they F10'd themselves, of course).

And Teddy is back. It didn't work out in his new home. The teenaged son was very sad to loose him but the mum wasn't coping at all. Teddy looks thoroughly pissed off. He is in Prime's stand alone so will probably enjoy the attention and busy-ness once he gets his equanimity back.

Irene was in this afternoon and made up the files of all the potentially available cats. There should be lots more posted by tomorrow. We were down to just over one page of available cats. She spread herself all over the desk so gave me the phone to answer. I popped it in my pocket where it stayed quiet. Eventually Irene got suspicious and realized that it was out of juice. . . flat as a tack. Hence it was a quiet afternoon despite the lack of Janine and Geoff. 

You'd think I'd have time to take some photos. But I didn't. So back to Joy's of last week.

Darcy always appears when he hears Irene's voice. She intends to take him home when they get back from their next trip.

Darcy

Flynn, Greta, Ebony and Frankie should be on the available list this weekend. They were vaccinated this afternoon.

Tommy will be happy when Geoff gets back. He needs another bath.

Tommy

Geoffless Friday

 As will be the next three. Tommy is sulking.

I didn't have time to take any photos today so will use some of Joy's from Wednesday.

Yahtzee has become much tamer

And her kittens are healthy and playful

Their names are Battleship (brown tabby), Dice (white tail tip), Scrabble (black) and Bopit (all cream).

The photo of Pikachu on the Safe website is not good. She is getting more confident now that she is not in the busy lane. I am not sure how much she can see.

Pikachu

Lola's stand alone has been filled by a cat called Aldi. No prizes for guessing where he was found. He was brought in by one of our cat "rescuers" who is going to retire.

There may be a couple of adoptions tomorrow by separate women who came in to scout our collection. One was looking for a kitten for her 5 year old son. Then she met Shadow and fell in love. I could almost hear the thump as she fell! It was mutual too. Shadow even got out of his bed box to continue their love-in. She will be back tomorrow so that the son can choose the cat.

The other woman will be back as well. Good luck.

 I changed Trude and Prue's upper hammock for a clean one without the damage on the underside. They were not happy to be disturbed. I wonder how long it will take them to try the new one.

Teddy the cat who was surrendered on Wednesday and put in the celestial condo has been moved to where Raven was below Peaches in Welfare. If cats get adopted over the weekend, there will be more movements.

Lilly + lot have left

 A woman came in this morning. She had come in on Monday to adopt Lilly but she had already been adopted. She came back today to adopt Tinsel. But he doesn't want to be a cuddle cat. And as soon as Lilly's last kitten Milly was put into the adopters arms is was mutual LOVE. The woman's pug will have its nose out of joint (! if a pug's nose has a joint!) but only until Milly wins him over. . . .. three days, max.

We have some new cats on Boarders Row.

There is an unfortunate fellow, Brandon who has had both of his eyes removed. He seems to find the litter box, definitely finds his food bowl (especially if it is put up on an upturned bowl to make it easier from him to get his cone around) and his water. He enjoyed being brushed for a little while.

Brandon

 His neighbours are the four Scaredy kittens. They are getting settled and I got to pat each one this afternoon with no hisses. Names L to R:

Flynn, Greta, Ebony, Frankie

Greta is the friendliest. Should they be the Geff litter?

And a new Teddy arrived this morning at 9:45. He is a bit shell shocked at being surrendered but will be a love bug soon. He has the celestial single in Boarding.

Teddy

His neighbours are still not happy.

Minty

Rascal

But around the other side on Better Row, Willow seems to be settling back into her old digs.

Willow

More adoptions

 A busy weekend. Not only was Mia adopted but her next door neighbour Harry was adopted too. And so was Felicity the kitten.

Felicity

 And Teddy and GiGi have been adopted by our Natalie.

Lola is doing well. She is in a small condo and has a huge plastic cone on. But seems to be happy to be home. (The pain killers probably help). There is a fund raising effort on Facebook to try to recoup the price of her operation.

Cordelia was sent to the vet to be desexed. And they discovered that she is pregnant. So she is back in her condo, enjoying the pregnancy rations and looking as slim as she was last week.

Cordelia

She came in at the same time as Zoe did. Zoe is younger.

Zoe

 We had a new kitten for a short while. Choco was whisked off to be fostered.

Choco

And Mateo is back in a hard collar for another week. He bumped his wound in the soft collar . . . . probably when racing around like a mad thing. He had a turn in the play place where he can't get up to full speed.

Mateo

Aziza's kittens (in Isolation) are very interested in eating her food. Unfortunately the crunchies make them vomit. So we separate Aziza in a carrier to eat her crunchies with a side of wet food while the littles have just the wet food. They love it.

Aziza's 4

Fun with the bins today included magots! Somebody filled the Willoughby bin in the basement and it was left there yesterday because two others were taken out to the pavement (including the cracked one that I had left upside down in the basement to NOT be filled).

That cracked bin will be collected by Willoughby council within the next three working days. It is on the sidewalk. . . . upside down.