Thursday, November 11, 2021

Second three legger

 Some months ago somebody brought in a tiny ginger kitten who I fed catmilk with a syringe (needle-less needless to say). 

Nameless kitten
It was whisked off to a foster home and is now back with us and called Dexter. I am surprised that he did not cause a foster fail. He is seriously cute.

Dexter
He was next door to Cherry who was waiting to be collected by the person who adopted her last weekend. But that person reneged. So Sophie and I moved her into the welfare cat room. Before the afternoon was over she had the "I have been adopted" sign on her condo. The people who missed her last weekend are doubly thrilled to get her this weekend. She is not thrilled.
Cherry  

And Jumi is back. The person who adopted him had a housemate (recent, temporary) who developed asthma when the cat came home. We all thought "wrong choice of whom to ask to leave, mate!"

Mayka is back but Tinker is still in foster care. I never learned who was who. I can't tell if we got the shy one back or the bolder on. And she is not telling!

Mayka

There are new cats in Incoming as well. Including Charlie who featured on our Facebook Page on Nov 8. He has had his left front leg amputated to try to correct the damage done by a car or a bus some months ago. Cats' ability to live with pain is amazing. He has been with the vet for some days.
Charlie
And there is a Stella. Don't know her story. And she isn't saying anything.

Stella

She is next door to Trixie who is keen to go.

Trixie





Tuesday, November 9, 2021

Wet outside and inside

 There was a thunderstorm this morning and torrents expected further north. But that all stayed outside. I created the wet inside by putting the emptied food tins in the sink to give them a bit of a clean before putting them into my rubbish tin for a fortnight. I turned on the tap, took the spoon back to the feeding desk and got distracted. Later when I went to go to the toilet before the vollies arrived, I discovered the sink overflowing and water streaming down the corridor. Oh dear! The floor there is now clean and my shoulders are tired from mopping. Thank goodness for the centrifugal mop!

Lots of cats were adopted over the weekend including Jumi, Sammy with Daisy, Garfield, Cherry (still with us waiting to be picked up) and Leo. I tried to get brownie points to counter the flood deficit by putting together 5 cat carriers.

Cherry waiting to be taken home

The man who adopted Jumi rang to say that his housemate (temporary) is allergic to Jumi. I did not say "Tough luck, get rid of the housemate." I said he should talk to Tim tomorrow.

Amy has a neighbour whom she loathes. That seems to be the usual reaction with Amy. She loathes us who feed her. She is sitting on her tummy so that her kittens can't feed from her while we are around. But she is not nearly as attacky as she used to be. I gave her kittens a dry bed (they made the flood by jumping on their water bowl) Two of them have claimed it. The third is on the outer.

Amy's kittens
I took this photo after I had carefully unfolded the bed that the kittens had carefully folded in half so that only two kittens would fit on it.

Amy's neighbour is Dusty. She has two adorable, friendly kittens who are grey, just like her.

And there is a heavenly kitten out back in Boarding called Lilly. It was very hard to get a photo of her because she wiggles with joy when a person is around. She has been desexed so will only be with us for the shortest time possible.

Lilly
Below her is Cookie and her four kittens who have a very strange collection of names: Bianca, Raja, Violet and Evie!
Cookie with Raja, Bianca, Violet and Evie
I now know how Scrat got his name.  He and Puss are now in the play place. They need more space than a double condo. When I swept their floor he ran off to hide in a small space. Later when I mopped the floor beside the play place he again ran off to hide in a small space. So he is a Scardy Cat = Scrat.

Sunday, November 7, 2021

Adoption Tails: Easy peasy

 Malabar was gradually introduced to Charli and had her name changed to Carlile. Now they get along like a house on fire (who wouldn't get on with Charli) and play together every night.

Carlile and Charli

Charli and Caralile
 

And Bibi settled in immediately. She remembers how good a home is.



Friday, November 5, 2021

Driving Ms Potter

 She had to go to SH to get a microchip and be vaccinated. As Bron lives 3 minutes from me, I picked up Potter on my way there early because my tennis was cancelled. Potter cried half the way there. When I turned off my windshield wipers, she stopped crying. On the way home, no rain, she only peeped once. I wonder what she can hear that I cannot. At the cattery she tucked herself into the smallest space.

Potter
One cat came in to board crying non stop. It was our Marmalade. His owner was just as upset but determined to go to the Blue Mountains for the weekend. She told me lovely stories of how happy Marmalade is at home and how in control he likes to be. His favourite toy is the feather on a string when it disappears under the edge of the rug. He has his favourite vantage points and his owner is his favourite person (everybody else gets hissed at). He settled down quietly when she left until Tim visited him when they both sobbed. . . . almost.
Marmalade
My heart almost stopped when I saw that Scrat and Puss's stand alone had a "Please Clean" sign on it. But they have only been moved to Thelma and Louise's condo. They don't seem too happy not to be able to cuddle up together in a hammock.

Puss (top) and Scrat

And Sammy has been moved to the stand alone beside Beauty who was off at the vet being desexed. I do not know where Mayka and Tinker have gone.

Sammy

Sammy is a delightfully friendly cat. But he is a bit of a chicken monster. Although not to the extent of Rebel who must have been raised on BBQ chicken from his reaction to it. Victor is much the same.

Jumi was adopted today to a young man who chose him over Daisy of the dazzling eyes.


Thursday, November 4, 2021

Foster tails: speaking of Magnus

I got this from his new owner:

Thought I’d send you this picture of Winston and Magnus for your blog. On the whole they are settling in together well -- but Magnus has proven to be an energetic, playful and vocal kitty, whilst Win is more sedate and snoozy!

Here they look like two little rescues looking to the future together…
Magnus and Winston

And when Winston was adopted from AWL Ingleside his name was Merry. So they are M & M . . . sweet.

Wednesday, November 3, 2021

Foster tails: Ashleigh, etc

 Ashleigh came to us in May last year and promptly presented us with two pretty kittens. Eventually the kittens were adopted but Ashleigh rejected all overtures of friendship despite many overtures from volunteers.

Time passed and she still spent all her time hiding in her condo until Sandy took her home where she hid in "her" room. It took months and the studious ignoring from Sandy's flock of cats for Ashleigh to come out of her room and discover that friends, both feline and human are not all bad.

Ashleigh and Franky

(Excuse the photo. Neither Sandy nor I are computer savy enough to know how to get a photo from a phone into a computer. I resorted to taking a photo of the photo she sent to my mobile from her mobile phone.)

Daisy was in foster care when she had kittens. She is taking too long to be adopted for such a sweet thing (despite her manic eyes).

Daisy

Diego was in foster but was swapped for Ebony. He is getting less hissy every week with us. So either he is mellowing with age or he didn't like his previous home.

Diego

Mayka and Tinker are back from foster care and seem much the same. . . . but may relax when they get used to the change. All cats hate change.

I am sure that Magnus is having a magnificent time lording it over his foster carers. Who could give him back?



Day Mismanager

 Everything started off well. The single bag of trash left over from yesterday actually fitted into our own rubbish bin. I eventually got to turn on the computer. And when I sat down to check the mail, etc, it had died. Frantic SMS's to Tim and frenetic head scratching at Safe finally achieved a turned on computer with the "charger" and the internet connector thingy moved from Tim's computer to the desk set up. Thank goodness for Robyn and Joy. Their computer knowledge is so much higerh than mine. . . which is not saying much.

But we have new and returned cats.

Tinker and Mayka are back from foster care. They are still shy but not as much as before.

Tinker and Mayka
Casper is back too. Not quite so retiring as she used to be but still very wary. . . so she has joined the naughty row.
Casper

We have a boarder out back. Our Miko sporting a very fancy collar with an impressive dingle dangle which clanged on her dish. So I took it off.

Miko 
There are two new cats out back as well. Not boarders.
Jackie

Sammy

And one new cat out front who will not last long: a grey, slightly fluffy, ragdoll type Cherry.

Cherry

 Bah, humbug says her neighbor Maple.

Maple

The best news of the day is that a couple came from Haberfield to adopt Thelma and Louise. They wanted a pair to replace their single cat who died aged 18. I tried to interest them in Scrat and Puss but they really fancied T& L. Which was a good thing because I had a terrible time with the Square which kept wanting to charge them for 7 cats before I figured out a work around and then it wouldn't accept anything over the internet. Tim will  have to deal with that tomorrow. I fail computers.

Amy's kittens