New hammocks

 Last week Katrina brought in her mum's old quilt for me to make into hammocks. I did that over the weekend because Katrina intended to come back in today to pick up the painting of cats she bought from us last year some time. And she was going to bring her mum. So I put up some of the hammocks downstairs in the hope that the cats would smile at the visitors. 

Only Katrina came. And she was delighted. Roxie posed so beguilingly on her new hammock thata Katrina may just adopt her. 

 She also fancied Cindy. Who liked her back and performed very well despite not having any hammocks in her condo. Katrina will return.

Salt and Pepper got one of the new hammocks as well. (They have been using theirs since we moved to Mona Vale and they were dirty.)

Salt and Pepper

 

Truffles and Oreo love their hammocks.

Truffles and Oreo

 

As does Oreo next door

Oreo

Bree, not so much.

Bree

 

I found time to brush Teddy. For a very black cat, it is surprising how grey the brushings are from him.

 Teddy has been moved downstairs into Bassuria's enclosure. Bass has been fostered-to-adopt. Hurrah!

 

Adoption Tails: Snuffles, Truffles and Leo

 Leo

1 day: He is a gorgeous boy. He’s a little bit shy and hasn’t eaten the food yet but he has eaten some treats from her son’s hand. For renaming, it’s up to her son, but they currently call him Leo.

 1 week: He has been exploring everywhere very curiously. “He is such a sweet and adorable boy. Everybody loves him now”. Her son has decided not to change his name.

1 month: “He is such a gorgeous loveable kitten! He is getting more comfortable day by day. Everybody is in love with him. And he is my favourite boy”

Truffles

1 day: She is doing really well and they are keeping her name. She has used the litter and is eating and drinking. “We are very happy to have her in our family.”

1 week: She is going very well and explores everywhere now. They got another kitten who’s 3 months old and they are getting along really well.

Truffles 1 week

1 month: She is doing really well, relaxed and happy to roam the house.

Snuffles

1 day: She has been renamed Zoe. She is going well and is still getting used to her new place. She is eating and drinking and has used the litter box.

1 week: Zoe is going really well. She is very confident now and walks around the house. She’s a lot more settled and has improved a lot from last week.

Snuffles, 1 week

 1 month: They got her a climbing tree which she loves to play on. She is very cuddly at night.
 

Thank You Helen

 I slept in this morning and arrived at Safe a little late. But, thank goodness, Helen had taken home all the poo bags yesterday so I didn't have any to schlep down to the bins. I could get straight on to feeding our 62 cats plus four boarders. There will be many more boarders next week. But our Daphne (now Tilly) goes home tomorrow. She was really happy to see me today having got over her disgust at being sent back to lock up land last Friday.

Daphne/Tilly

Yin had tossed all his bedding into his litter tray which was in his tall space. So I tossed the blankets onto the upper shelf to get it out of the way of his breakfast. Later I found him wrapped up in his blankies.

Yin

I put the red and black spotted rug thing in his sleeping room because it might be more difficult for him to dig it out of there and into the litter tray. Later he went into that space and I removed the dirty blankets. Cats have strange ways of relating to two leggeds.

I demonstrated the erection procedure of the Top Cat play place to Terry who came by with a load of litter. (If the person who overfills the litter trays on Tuesday will stop doing that, the litter will last much longer). So now he knows how to do it.

Kiki enjoyed it. But later when we moved it, Diego escaped through the gap at the bottom.

Kiki kinda likes it

Kiki preferred being in the proper play place. A couple of blokes came to find a friend for their ginger, 1-2 year old boy. They rather fancied Duke on line. (What's not to like!) But I thought that two bossy boys was not such a good idea (especially in view of the nasty pee smell that came with Duke and Bowie when they arrived) and suggested that a female cat would rule the roost and everything would smell sweet. So they looked at all our single girls. Couldn't decide between Courtney and Kiki. I put them in the play place with each, successively, for a good while. .   for them to get to know each other. They went off for a cup of coffee and a talk. They came back and chose Courtney. 

Courtney's new best blokes

Enzo and Cleo are in Truffle's stand alone. The daughter of the house is doing her HSC and doesn't need the distraction. But said daughter and sister arrived to have a kitty cuddle today. I put them all in the play place. (I had a struggle getting the kittens out of the high-rise-hidey-hole when they left).

Enzo and Cleo's girlfriends

Later their mum and brother arrived to have their cuddle and discuss other cats that need to be rescued. 

And another woman came in to see one of the Supermodels. She will return on Saturday, perhaps, when she makes up her mind about her first ever cat.

Head to head super models

Luckily, Ann baked a banana cake this morning and brought it with her. Thank you, Ann. There are left overs.

Nada doesn't need cake. She has been on weight reduction crunchies for ages. It is not working.

Nada

And a fortuitous kitten photo. (Thanks Robyn)

Cleo plus 4

The portable play place

 It now has a framed top (rather than a bit of netting to throw over the top with lots of gaps for clever cats to crawl through.) Geoff tried it out on the AWL condos as well as the Palace condos.

Duke looks like he wants out

Dora and Diego love it

Rosie and Callie were amused

 

I managed to install the new play place, named Top Cat, single-handedly. Swinging the top frame (which makes a roof for the enclosure) is a bit of a trick because the hinges are double hinged. (Who Knew!) So if you push the top frame up a bit and notice that the hinges are pointing to the ceiling, just nudge them down. That will give you the necessary ceiling clearance. This needs to be done when Top Cat is perpendicular to the condos otherwise there is not enough room to swing up the top frame. Geoff has also installed a solid hinged section on the outer edge of the top frame that reaches to the top of the upper condo when you want to let out a top cat into the Top Cat. He was organising a nifty securing mechanism for that section this afternoon.

Yesterday the family with twins who came on Wednesday looking for a pair of cats came back and adopted Truffles! That poor cat is going to be pulled in three ways. And she will love every minute of it. Perhaps it was dad who said "one cat at a time". It is a pity for our pairs.

Opie was enchanted by the prospect of chicken. I think he is rubbing his nose between his wires. Each side looks a little bloody.

Opie

Thank you Gulia for giving Kit Kat's condo a thorough scrub today. He was pleased to see me (or the chicken).

As was Ziggy who even came out of his hiding box when he heard the chicken commotion from Kitty above. He went back into his hole as soon as he had gobbled it up.

Ziggy

A woman came to do the paperwork to adopt Scotch. She was delighted when I said she could go pick him up from the foster home. She thought she would have to wait until the council did the paperwork! Heavens, we would never get any cats adopted if that was the case.

Empty boarding row

 Look at that! Completely empty after Wal-E went home today. All ready and waiting for the deluge (20 bookings) for the coming holidays. What a good thing, for me, the folk didn't realise that tomorrow is a public holiday and extend their vacation by two days. (They probably were not able to change their bookings!)

 After I finished feeding the Incoming cats their breakfast I went out back to find Cyber on top of the play place crying to be helped down. I thought I had put the clip on their condo after I fed them but can't have done it right. Where was Sammy? Not down the corridor, thank goodness, not under the merchandise shelves, not on top of the condos. Eventually I found him under the dirty washing tub shelf. . . . close to the food, of course. As I had helped Cyber down into the play place, I enticed Sammy with some food, picked him up and put him in there too. Too much excitement before 9am!

Star and Truffles had a turn in the play place too. Geoff has fixed the giant scratchy pole which Star really appreciated.

Star

Truffles

 There were three sets of visitors this afternoon, all female. The first older woman came to look at a replacement for her British shorthair who died a year ago. She wants somebody who will not sit on her too much because she has a bad back. A very experienced owner, she rather liked Duke. . . . what's not to like! She will come back in a few days when she gets back from babysitting.

Prue helping the new vollie by holding Duke

Then a young woman came looking for a friend for her 12 month old boy cat. She did fancy Pearl who is a loving armful now that she has got over the indignity of being surrendered. She needs to talk to her partner.

Pearl

Then a mum came in with her 3 daughters including twins who want a cat each. It was nice to be able to show the pairs. They had a good cuddle with Linda but Yoko didn't play nice. They will be back. The younger daughter liked Pluto but she doesn't sound at all well. . . . she gasps when she purrs. And Truffles loved the girls.

Pluto

Cleo is getting that  exhausted new mum look and eats everything given to her.

Cleo plus 4