Door charm

 Lola does like having all the junk moved off "her" table. In the mornings she sits there while waiting for her breakfast. I can't decide if she likes the sun on her back, the purring noise that the air makes as it is sucked through the door gap or the breeze that comes in. 

Of course, it might just be a good vantage point for her to track my progress towards her food bowl.

Irene asked me to weight Roxy's kittens today. The ginger, named Roo has always been the runt of that family and she is just over 1 Kg. Too light to be desexed. 

Roo, Ri. .  and Roxy

We decided that the champagne's names will be Riley and Rimi. . . or Ri until they get microchips and can be distinguished.  The two champagnes are almost heavy enough. They are both girls and are identical. We tried very hard to seen some difference but couldn't. So one in the photo suffices.

This afternoon I noticed that Chester's door was open. He wasn't in his box. We found him pretty quickly crouching under the cleaning trolley in Welfare. He ran straight back into his stand alone.

Chester

 I am sure that Alex could have told me where he was, if s/he deigned to talk to a person. (We couldn't find the paperwork to find out whether Alex is a male or female). His/her cage mate  Olive was adopted on Saturday. She would have told us.

Alex

Also adopted on the weekend were Choc and Chip. And they are likely to be returned this week because Choc is too shy. BUT WE TOLD THEM! (Some people don't deserve our cats).

I am sure that the nice man who adopted Goldie this afternoon will be happy with her. 

The Planet kittens have been moved out of Isolation. They are in the Palace until Teddy moves elsewhere.

 

 

Saturn

 

Venus

 

 

Neptune

Planet litter

 For some reason the stand alone in Incoming had been rotated by 90 degrees so that the door was against the side of the desk. I moved it back to it's usual position to give them lunch. Some of the planet litter have been desexed and have collars on. The boys may well have been castrated as well. But they don't need collars so don't get the sympathy. Now I have photos and names:

Neptune, the tabby

Venus (tabby white nose), Saturn (tabby brown nose), Mercury (black girl), Jupiter (black boy)

Mateo is to go to the Cat Show at Olympic Park with Tim and other vollies tomorrow. Tim wanted him in the pink, sparkly harness to show visitors how easy cats are to train. So we popped it on and let him run around. He didn't like the lead much . . . or the harness, but got used to it. 

Mateo in pink

Don't know who else it to go. Ishi and Apricot would enjoy an outing.

Ishi, Apricot

Jasmine and Alladin would not like to go anywhere. Alladin is looking a bit snuffly.

Jasmine and Alladin

 

No bags again

 Thank you Tuesday. But I took the bags our vollies filled out before the Willoughby garbos came just to get rid of them. The first bin whose lid I opened did have some space. And also a rat. . . a live rat who scurried down into the bin's depths. Poor thing will get a surprise when s/he arrives at the landfill. But it might just be the perfect place for a rat to live.

Since last week Chilli, Mouse and Eric have been adopted. I wonder if the person who adopted Chilli was the one who initially wanted Jade. But Jade was adopted by a mum for her kids' holiday pleasure. That didn't turn out well because one of the kids developed a severe cat allergy within 2 days. He hadn't shown signs to other cats in his life. So it was just Jade. Jade is back with her fosterer. 

Pickle has been moved to Eric's stand alone. This afternoon we moved her to the play place because Cindy and Co had it overnight last night. They need a quiet night tonight.

Cindy, Rufus and Indiana (L to R)

Chilli's is empty. And Tim wants to move Yin and Yan into Mouse's condo. But they were perfectly happy to be stroked this afternoon in their separate hidey holes. Sue and I thought that they would regress if shut up in an airless condo. So we left them where they were.

And let Venus and Muffin have a night out in the Top Cat. They were delighted to have a good stretch and scratch.

Venus and Muffin

Miz and Riley came to us because their owner has a terminal disease. They don't need their privacy covering. Riley is very friendly now. Miz perhaps not so much but she will come around.

Riley above, Miz skeptical

Betty's kittens have been named Barry and Blaze (by Sue). They have ringworm and today had a ringworm treatment bath. They did not enjoy it (neither did Sue). But they rather liked being snuggled up in towels on top of fresh hotties.

Barry and Blaze

Each week Lola tries another spot. She is accepting greetings from strangers as well as vollies these days and does nose bops with anybody who feeds her.

Lola

Thelma and Louise adopted

A young couple came today because she fell in love with them on our website. And she is a twin just like they are. I hope they will be very happy. But Venus and Muffin missed their upstairs mates when I pushed the Top Cat up to their condo this afternoon.

Where are they?

 

This was after Luna tried to find a way out of the Top Cat.

Got to be a hole here.

I had moved the Top Cat away from Jane's condo (still upstairs). Geoff positioned it there because Jane had climbed up to the top of the condos and was looking anxious about how to get down. She couldn't figure out a way of getting back into her new condo via the Top Cat. So I wheeled up Yuki, in her stand alone and Jane found a way home.

I can jump down from here

Geoff installed the rope wrapped pole prototype in Prue and Trude's enclosure. They weren't pleased at the attention and hated the drill noise. They hadn't tried the pole when I left. 

Geoff couldn't stay because he has been called to fire duty in Cessnock. He shouldn't be there too long. He has 4 more poles to wrap and install.

There are strange things happening to the Morten Bay Fig tree outside our balcony.

Dexter is back

 He was adopted around Christmas last year having arrived at Safe in September, 22. Everything was going well until his owner had to move back home with mum. Mum has a spadoodle. Dexter took him on. The dog ended up at the vets. Not a happy family.

Dexter

He is wearing a collar on Better Row. As are two big cats who are in Incoming. They came from the local "pound" which is full to bursting point. They seem sweet, although shell shocked.

I gave Thelma and Louise a go in the top cat this afternoon. Louise ventured out but Thelma (the dark tortie) stayed in the bed box. She was the more outgoing when they were on Better Row. 

Louise looking

Later Venus and Muffin had a turn. Only one came out again.

And Lola wouldn't come out even though I pulled up a scratchy pole to make the jump easier.

Lola staying put, silently

Then my camera battery ran out of battery. But I did manage to take some shots of Champ and Charlie cuddled up together in bed with the Safe mobile phone for Vicky to use for their joint profile.

Talking of the phone: the wall phone rang twice. Then the mobile rang. A woman wanted to find the stairs to bring us a donation of two large, lidded litter trays. Her two Tonkinese cats recently died, of old age and she is very sad. I had to go down the stairs to guide her up to us. She tried to donate the litter boxes that look good as new, to various pet shops in the area and they directed her to us. I imagine she will be back now that she knows how to avoid the lift.

Photo pairs

Joy spent time today trying to get good photos of our paired cats. The new website only has one photo per cat or pair of cats. So it is important to have a good photo.

Thelma and Louise

Mable and Tori

The R cats in the Palace

Kate and Helena

It is impossible to get a good photo of Arlo and Annie. He is either sitting on top of her or she is behind him or squashed on the self below. Vicky took videos of me giving him a good cuddle to prove that he is an affectionate cat. All I can say is that he has very sharp claws. This was after a worm was discovered in their litter box and before they got a worming pill each. He is 5.2 Kg. Check the FB page.

I got a photo of Venus and Muffin who both came out into the Top Cat eventually.  Not up to Joy's standard!

Muffin and Venus

The bolder of the two came out first and was interested to meet Jagger (who kept looking up to his old condo as though he wanted to jump back there but he went into the supermodels condo instead.)

She came

As promised to adopt Tiger and Maxwell. She brought her partner who had to sit on a stool because Tiger was on the guest chair! It will be interesting to see how they get on together. 

A woman arrived earlier to adopt Venus. But Venus hid in her carrier. Her condo mates/sisters were friendly enough but they aren't up for adoption. So I showed all the other available cats and the lovely lady feel for Lucky boy. I am sure they will be happy together as she is an experienced cat owner.

Robyn came to entertain the cats who were out. Helena usually runs around and plays but today Kate came out too. The toy was irresistible. Jagger needed it.

Jagger and Helena watch Kate play

Simon now jumps over the low barrier. He disappeared behind Opie's stand alone and pulled down his cover sheet. . . . just to annoy Opie.

Opie ignores Simon

 

While he was busy, his mum Ruby got head rubs from Robyn and was sent into a state of bliss

Happy Ruby

 

 

 

How many canines does Ginger George have?

I finished putting pockets for nametags on all of the aprons. It really helps to know names of vollies.

One new bin collected

 The cardboard recycle bin was still full when I left this afternoon but the other trash bin was empty. So we now have 3 rubbish bins. Bliss.

Maeve was adopted earlier in the week. A woman adopted from us a year or two ago and then had a stroke and had to give her cat back to us. She is now all ready for another cat to love. Maeve will be perfect as she only wants somebody to sit beside to purr to.

Pearl would like somebody to purr to too. She is still in the heavenly condo. And Samson has moved in below her. He has come from his foster home because they are going away, on holiday. He looks very big for 6 months!

Pearl, the photogenic

Virgo's kittens love the play place. I cannot imagine having a litter of kittens at home. They would be all over the place at full speed constantly, unless asleep in a pile.

Virgo's lot play

Ronnie and Jagger learned to climb and jump in the play place too. Ronnie likes scaling the opened-out Top Cat to get on top of the condos. But he is very easy to get down because he is exceedingly fond of food.

His highness Ronnie

Luigi, Princess and Maria have moved into the main room because Hank has developed flu like symptoms. They were wheeled in their stand alones. Here they are exploring the Top Cat. They soon found the way under the stand alone to explore further. Maria was the hardest to corner. But we did it, with food in a carry cage.

Luigi out, Princess soon out

And we have Cookie, Muffin and Venus next to Chia et al. One of them spent all day tucked up in the modesty sheet. They are not allowed out.

Cookie above, kitten below the arm

Adoption Tails: Fern, Jupiter and Venus

  Fern

1 day: Fern is doing really well. Eating, drinking and use her litter tray, and playing. She only hid for a short while, then explored her room. she was a bit agitated last night, but seems very calm today. The owner just had a big cuddle on the bed... Fern came to her for it. She is very keen to explore outside her room but the owner is keeping her in for the weekend at least. They are likely to change her name to Missy but their 7 year old is being indecisive about it.

1 week: Fern has been renamed Missy. She's settling in really well. Now has full run of the house after 1.5 weeks. Transitioned well out of the one room. Very affectionate. Missy has a bit of a bad habit of climbing on bench tops though. Loves her zoomies. She seems to not be interested in wet food much at all but eats plenty of dry food and drinks plenty of water. The owner loves her to bits but unfortunately her daughter is having a hard time adjusting to having a cat. An innate fear has been hard to overcome. They are working on it and will update on it.

1 month: no response. [We hope that no news is good news].

Jupiter

1 day: Jupiter is settling very well in the study, being very playful and much adored by the family. He has not eaten very much and has had diarrhoea but behaviourally, he is very active.

1 week: Jupiter is hunting in the jungle that is the owner's desk. He is eating well, getting bolder and no runs.

Jupiter 1 week

1 month: No response. [Ditto]

Venus

1 day

1 day: The owner and her mother have renamed Venus to Bowie after the name Atticus not sticking in the mother's mind. Bowie is eating and peeing but not pooping yet. He slept on the couch last night and is getting used to new surroundings and new smells. He began talking to the owners today. His chirps are a breath of fresh air!

1 week: This morning the owner woke up with Bowie resting his head on her pillow, lying beside her. He has spent the last 3 nights in bed with her! He loves playing with his catnip filled fishing rod and red-light mouse.

1 month: Bowie completely saved the owner and her mother. The two were very depressed before he came into their lives. He has put on some weight since recovering from the flu and loves to sleep with the owner on the bed all night. He allows the owner to wipe his crusty eyes when he had the flu and loves all the affection he is receiving.

Full Friday

 I swapped my Day Manager shift to day with Tim and Katie. I usually go in after tennis in the afternoon. By then most of the cleaning is done. This morning there were 6 vollies (one of whom brought her two young kids), Rosanna training 3 new recruits and Sandy in the afternoon. Everything got done. Including the best cleaning job by Jeff who arrives later in the morning. Because we have had lots of boarders the laundry shelves are looking quite bare. And the mould on walls behind the shelves was very visible. Especially when Jeff moved the shelves out of the way.

Jeff had already swept the floor at this stage

But look at the after photo!

Well done Jeff!

And he cleaned behind the shelves in the corner which were even worse.
"Ah, how I love the smell of bleach in the morning", he said.

Luigi had to walk further to get away from the smell. He visited Beauty although you can barely see her.

Fluffy cats

Luigi needs a good brush before he gets picked up, or they won't board him with us again. I did as much as he would tolerate.

Robyn had fun with Venus and Jupiter on Wednesday. They had made such a mess in their condo last night that I threw them in the play place as soon as the coffee shop kittens were out and it was fogged.

Robyn wrote:

I discovered the 2 boy kittens of Starr have boundless energy, love wrestling and rolling around, and are so sweet!

Does anyone know who is who? The grey one was much shyer but super cute!  

I added more toys which they tossed around before getting loads of pats. 

Finishing with ?Venus chewing my fingers.