Adoption Tails: Tina and Timmy, Wilma & Wendy, Pixie

 Tina & Jimmy

1 day: They're quite OK. Running around the apartment at the moment. The owner's daughter had the two stay in the bathroom for a couple of hours to get used to the set up.

 1 week: They're really good! So happy with them, everything is okay.

1 month: No response.

 

Wilma & Wendy

1 day: The girls are going well! The owner noticed that they have started to explore during the night as all the pillows on the bed were moved!. They have had water but no food and yet to toilet.

 

 

1 week: They're really good! They have been exploring and getting more confident! One of them slept at the end of the owner's bed last night, he just was not sure which one. Wendy has been eating the wet food from the spoon but Wilma is the first to come up for a sniff and smack the ping pong ball at the owner.

 1 month: Girls have settled in really well!

 

Pixie, now Peaches

1 day: The owners have decided to call Pixie Peaches. She is settling in very well. She's eating and drinking and has used her litter tray. They are all very happy, she's a very fun cat.

 

1 week: She's wonderful, very fun and affectionate. She follows the owners from room to room and likes to participate during the kids' story time.

1 month: no response

 

Bos at home

The folk who adopted Bosley sent photos to show just how easily and well he has settled into their family. His favourite pose is to stretch out, full length on his back on somebody's legs with a beatific smile on his face. Ask Tim to show you the photos. And to show the photos of Lynette in her new home. She seems very happy watching squirrels and birds on the computer and cuddling up to her man on the couch.

Adam was collected. Eve cheered as he left. I moved his toys to her wheely cage and moved his cage away. 

Eve

A woman came in to compare her and Kimmi as a suitable companion. She chose Kimmi and will be back on Friday to finalise the deal.

A pair of cats, Fred (shorthaired ginger at rear) and George (outgoing, medium haired ginger at front) were surrendered. I had a call from their previous owner who passed them onto a friend when she moved but now that they have been surrendered to us, she worries that they might be separated, or unhappy, or lost track of. She will visit next week.

George (and Fred in the background).

I removed the handbags from Cookie and TIm Tam's condo because they were flat and the cats were sitting on hard, cold shelves looking soulful. I added a nice big bed. But should have put a rug in it because the Burmese has disappeared.

Cookie and Tim Tam

Wendy was brought in to have her stitches removed. I remembered how to do it from Peggy days. Although, the method of stitching has changed to a double twist so I had to learn on the job, so to speak. She is much loved. Her new name is Suki.

I carried her to Willow's condo. Neither was impressed. Why does Willow still have a collar? Because it suits her?

Willow

Lily's babies are getting bigger than her. Her appetite is growing as fast as they are.

Lily

Just as I was about to leave (a couple of minutes after 4pm), Steph arrived with her four cats. She is to go to Tweed Heads and we get to meet her fur babies. Two boys and two girls: in the corner beyond Nom. Steph wondered if Linda would remember them and be comforted by their presence. Perhaps she could be moved to the condo above them to receive their rising auras. Linda had an enema yesterday because she hasn't poo'd for 6 days. She hardly ate anything today. But she did get lots of love.

Missed one

I sterilized six vacated condos this afternoon.

Two were in boarding. One cat stayed three nights but another condo was only occupied by a pair of cats overnight. They were driven up from Canberra the afternoon before for an 11am appointment next door. (?No good vets in Canberra?)

Then I cleaned the condo that Willow moved into last week. That was much easier than the condo where she and her kittens lived. She was desexed yesterday and has moved to Lynette's condo.

Willow

And the condo where Wendy recovered from her desexing. It is below Lily and her babies.

Lily and No 1 son

Then I cleaned out Buffy's condo because she has been adopted! Lucky Buffy will be so happy this weekend.

 Buffy

And I cleaned the condo where Adam and Eve were because they are happy in separate wheely cages. In fact, I think Eve is much happier not to be living with Adam. He is rough and tumble and she is a gentle purr girl. Clyde delivered their previous cage from the nursing home. I dismantled it and cleaned it too. We will need to refer to the photo of it set up in the home to get it back together again.

Adam

 Eve

But I missed Milky's condo. He was adopted too. No surprise there as he is so beautiful. Cookie and Tim Tam got out of their handbag to see what all the fuss was about.

Cookie and Tim Tam

Revolving door

Walter was adopted today. He is the first of Willow's kittens to go, at last. Of course, he is the grey.

Walter and Wendy (pre ring worm)

And Milky came in. He is less than 12 months old and was found wandering by a couple who fed him. Eventually they realised that they couldn't keep him. But they must have treated him well because he is very relaxed.

Milky

A man came in to adopt Harold and Haley but they are already promised to go to Chinatown next Tuesday. So he chose Lynette. He seriously wanted a timid cat, or two. She will reward him with devotion.

Lynette

And Lola was surrendered by a family who can no longer keep her. She was adopted as a kitten from Ingleside in 2012. I don't have a photo of her from then. Perhaps "before my time".

She was not in a good mood. I had to clean the condo next to her's and she kept up a snarl every time I passed her.

Lola

And Charlie went to the dentist. He had all but his canines removed. He teeth were a mess. Perhaps that is why he was a grumpy cat. Now he just looks sore mouthed and is on soft food only. (Don't tell the other cats, they will be jealous).

Charlie

RIP Chester

As I drove to Oz-Pet in the west I followed a car, for a while that had a cat escaping from it's boot.

When I arrived at Safe Haven, Chester was on his final journey. I will forever think of him as the car boot cat.

We named kittens. The last lot were G's and then there were Jaffa's. Jaffa's two grey kittens were adopted this afternoon by a mother and son who is a JJ. .. .appropriate. They got full instructions about how to tame nervous kittens.

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The new mum of 5 kittens was named Harriet. She has been moved to the main room. Her kittens are
Henry: white and ginger
Harold: ginger and white
Heidi: calico
Horace: brown tabby and white
Haley: champagne ginger

Lucia's kittens are both boys:
Leonard with the shorter hair and Larry with the longer fluff who seems mostly to be outside the maternal carry cage while Leonard is inside with her.

Larry

Willow's kittens are:

Wendy: the grey tabby

William: the tabby and white

Wal-E: the black and white

Walter: the grey

Wal-E, Wendy, WIlliam

Walter

And Tessa's are 

Tommy: black

Toulouse: dark tabby

Tobias: white face

Tinkerbelle: light tabby.

Next is I . . . . . Ian is an awfully prosaic name for a cat.