Yahtzee adopted

 A mother came in to buy her son (grown up and in his own apartment) a cat for his birthday because his previous cat recently died. They were lovely. Irene sold them (on) Zahtzee. I think they will be very happy together. The mother is going to tell all her friends about us.

Yahtzee

This is one of Joy's photos (as you can tell). Her others this week were mostly of our white cats:

Will

We had Will out to run in the Top Cat in Welfare space this afternoon. He loves to chase anything. But I noticed that his claws keep getting caught on whatever he was chasing.  I managed to trim two on his right front paw. Feel free to try any of the others!

Minty

Rascal

 The plan is to have Boarding and Better Row emptied out before the boarding season starts at the end of November. What will happen to R & M? Will somebody foster them? I can recommend fostering. Aslan is very easy to live with and his poos are not as sloppy/smelly as they used to be.

Aslan keeps my chair warm 

 Because Goldie got adopted, Alex (male) was moved into her condo. Which left that enclosure empty. So Roxy and her three kittens moved into it, after I cleaned it. I cleverly positioned hammocks close to the ground so that the kittens wouldn't have to climb. Of course, the first thing they did was to scramble up as high as they could. Their names have been reverted to the first decided upon names: Riley, Rosie and Rachael. As they still don't have microchips only they know who is who.

Roxy Enclosure

 The empty stand alone by the door which used to house Licorice has a new black, female cat with a sparser patch of white fur on her chest. She came from a foster home and her name is Ravyn. But I think some folk might assume that Licorice has returned.

Ravyn

 

Geoff is home

 He had trouble getting home after 6 grueling weeks living in a tent and fighting fires in a very small town in Saskacthewan (300 residents plus 60 Aussie fire fighters). They were out fighting not only burning trees but burning ground under the trees every day. Only the heavy snow cover of winter will put the fires out permanently. The trouble getting home was Air Canada. Don't use it. His is the second disaster I have heard of recently. They did get home eventually though and Air Canada will be charged for the excess baggage that United Airlines charged them!

I did the quickest adoption this afternoon. A woman came in to adopt a cat from foster home for herself. She had previously adopted a cat for her mother. So she knew the routine. 

I asked Rong to count the carriers and the condos. We have 122 carriers and 61 condos. So even if there is more than one cat in a condo there will be enough carriers if we have to exit in a hurry. 

I didn't take any photos because Joy spent time photographing cats on Wednesday and her photos are beautiful.

On Better Row: 

Yahtzee plus 3

Geoff was very impressed with the blond kittens. (He has a weakness for Burmese-ish cats).

Willow

Geoff was delighted at how clean and relaxed her downstairs neighbour Archie looked. He promised to make Archie a new box/bar. Even Tommy looked sprucer to Geoff. But not as sparkling as Archie.

In Boarding: 

Bree

Who looks as though butter wouldn't melt in her mouth but she has a very solid right fist full of claws.

Callie

Who is getting more used to people now that nobody is trying to give her medicine.

New in the Enclosures:

Sterling and Dorian

Who used to be on Better Row and then went home to Irene for some months. They are still shy.

In Welfare is Cody who has magnificent furnishings but is not availble yet. . . still.

Cody

And Rain who came in as a possible pregnant but failed to deliver

Rain

Is Autumn in Incoming going to be another?

Autumn

Thanks Joy for the lovely photos. 

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.

Moving kittens

 Six kittens arrived this afternoon with black robed girls. One was thought to have possibly had ringworm. It was inspected and passed inspection so all were accepted.

In anticipation white mother (Lily) and her the kittens (3 ginger/whites and two white) had been moved to an enclosure in  Welfare. As soon as they are desexed they will be adopted. The 4 boys will go quickest.

The new kittens need names. They already have much better manners than the previous lot.

 

Cordelia's kittens are out of the sleeping box all the time now. They need names too.

Cordelia's kittens

Cordelia looks a bit sick of being a mum.

Cordelia

While Yahtzee is still looking after most of her kittens with Tim's help with the little tabby. They need names too.

Yahtzee and co

Aziza's Aki was desexed and is in the condo next to Cordelia. Don't know where Panda is.

Aki

I moved Tank to where Alaska was, he has been adopted. Irene moved his mum Lilli  and got scratched.
Aimee who I moved earlier to the condo above will have fun downstairs neighbours.

Four adoptions = no time for lunch

The first one was done and dusted before I arrived. Storm has gone to his happy place. And every person who came in the afternoon was looking for Storm!

The first woman works from home, is a beautician as well as an internet person, wants a friendly cat. She eventually chose Bonnie. While she was deciding three other groups arrived (to adopt Storm) and spent time with the cats either inside the straight Top Cat enclosure or watching. So I had a good audience when I went to put Bonnie into the stylish, black, cloth carrier, kitten sized. She objected . . . strongly. But I held on and we popped her into the carrier that was in her enclosure. Her new mum will bring it back. 

Bonnie (sorry old photo, no time to get my camera out

 

Although I had an audience for my bandaging, I think it is a match made in heaven.

Next to go was Zoe. Her new family knows all about arm biting cats. We gave them her "distraction" toy as well as a sparkly wand. Tim vaccinated her before putting her into their carrier. No fuss, no claws. . . which proves that she will grow up to be a sweet thing.

Zoe

 Valentina will enjoy not having a noisy upstairs neighbour. (Her pillow needs to be washed. . .or chucked)

Valentina

Then it was Koa's turn to join a family with four kids, 2 dogs and 4 female cats. (They have been in before to meet and play with cats so this was a very considered choice -- of second best after Storm).

I wish somebody would choose Roisin. She put on a great show chasing after a ping pong ball. Even better than playing with Janine last week.

Go Ro!

One of Yahtzee's kittens is very thin, all gummed up with the flu and has been taken home by Tim for bottle feeds and fluids. The others seem to be OK.

Z and her kittens before the little tabby got sick

Happy Easter.

More adopters tomorrow!

Incoming flu

 There may be some sneezers in Incoming. 'Tis the season!

Yahtzee couldn't get up to eat what was just outside her bedroom. But stood up to eat when I put it in with her and her kittens.

Yahtzee plus 4

And Cordelia left food in a bowl. Although her two kittens seem fine (so far).

Cordelia plus 2

Bree's kittens seem fine too as does she (on the other side of the aisle). They are venturing out of the "birthing box" while mum stays inside.

Bree's three

All these kittens need names.

I talked Tim into changing Oscar, in Boarding although he isn't a boarder, to a wet only diet. He doesn't eat his crunchies and is soo hungry all the time. Look at his long socks and his fabulous furnishings (hairs in his ears)!

Oscar

Another non-boarder has been moved into Welfare: Bonnie. She was hiding in her carrier because nobody had installed any hammocks. She is very friendly. And has lovely green eyes.

Bonnie

I put the small, triangular scratchy into Pikachu and Blaze's condo . . . just to get it out of the way while moving scratchy poles around so that kittens could play within the Top Cat boundary. And Pikachu immediately adopted it. And after running around she went straight back into it. I wonder if triangles appeal to cats?

Pikachu in triangle

Blaze (? her brother) is perhaps trying to make the box into a triangle?

"Two triangles when I get more food"

Fun was had by Roisin and new day manager in training Janine.

Go Ro!

Balls galore

We had a visitor this morning on her second visit. She has three adult (6, 11 and 12) female cats at home as well as 2 doodle dogs and 3 kids from 12 up. The house is currently being worked on so her husband has said "Not this week!" and also "Not a kitten". A pity because she likes Rose ( in Incoming or Rosa in Welfare who was adopted over the weekend). She also likes Mallee. Who doesn't really like people yet but I am sure she will learn to love the person who feeds her. 

We were keen for her to like Storm. A boy, young cat would be a good idea to go with all those females and he probably met some dogs while he was living at large. 

Storm

So we opened up the Top Cat and let him out to play with Petal and Koa (Ziggy was adopted over the weekend). They had a fabulous time chasing ping pong balls. Eventually they chased them into the space between Pepper's condo and the wall. I sent Tim W to get them out. He found 11 ping pong balls there!

Later, after she left and Storm went in for a rest, we added Prime who had a fine time. 

Then added Zoe who really wanted to play with all the balls by herself but not with any other cats, thank you. I eventually put on the blue gloves to put her back she was having such a bolshie time.

If you notice a pink washer rolled into the space beside  Pepper's condo, it is to keep the ping pong balls out.

Pepper wanted to play too.

Later on Helen and I rotated Hiccup and Turbo's carrier so that the larger "window" could be opened. They are very friendly cats (especially if you have something delicious to temp them). Now they can't hide so well.

Hiccup and Turbo

Two of the stand alone kittens in incoming have been desexed. Their collars were off and wet. So I put on clean collars. I think that wink says that the collars will be off as soon as I walk out of the room!

There is another new mum in Incoming. She had four kittens yesterday. Her name is Yahtzee. What are we going to name her kittens? Yvette, Yves, Yvonne, Yosef, Yale, Yasmine. . . . not Yoel!
 

Yahtzee

And Peaches is all alone in Isolation. She has been since March 24 when her kittens were sent to the vet.

Peaches not happy