Foster Tail: Felix

 Irene and Peter took Felix to the vet on Tuesday and he had ear infections in both ears and needed 9 teeth out. His gums are so bad that the vet had trouble closing the wound of the canine that needed to come out.

 Poor baby. But today he seems lively, and has for the very first time shown interest in exploring outside his 4 walls and was super cuddly overall. 

 He is such a beautiful boy. Irene hopes SAFE can find a home for him as he will make someone a lovely companion. 

 

Mahem and Murder

 I arrived in the middle of morning cleaning. There were people everywhere. Rosanna was training a group of new vollies. Robyn is back from her skiing in Canada. Geoff was discussing jobs that need to be done with Tim.

One job is to fix the Palace Door. Those kittens can shake the door open at night. Last night they had a poo party in front of Max in the Play Place. No wonder he wouldn't come down from the highest shelf to have lunch with me. Tim thought one of the Palace crew had escaped and was lurking somewhere behind the laundry shelves. . . . unless it had squeezed through a partly open window. But when it came time for me to hand out the Friday chicken, there were three interested faces in their cat carrier. They must have staggered home to the Palace after their night on the town.

The naughty row loved their helpings although Rufus was more interested in being patted than the chicken. And now that Duke is next door to him we really can't call it "naughty row" any more. Even Amy came out and blinked for chicken.

Amelia hissed then smiled

                                    Ziggy couldn't decide between a stroke or the chicken 

Tabitha just wanted strokes

Peanut is always good for cuddles

Rosanna had brought in some chicken necks that I distributed to the kittens earlier. Sasha's lot loved theirs.

Sasha plus

When I got to the four kittens below Zoe, I noticed that their bedding needed to be changed. I added some chicken to distract them. Pulled the dirty towel out which caused them to do a washing machine impression in their outer condo. Two of them were spun into the bed section and out the door. I grabbed one. The other took off out the door with Tim close behind it. 

The one I grabbed put up a good fight but I held on until I could put it back with its siblings. On the way, a claw or tooth snagged a small artery and blood spurted out of my hand. I applied pressure while Tim caught the runaway who had exhausted itself by running to the other end of the corridor and back to Unit 20. A woman came up in the lift just as it turned to do another lap and Tim grabbed the kitten. The woman, when she saw me covered in blood must have thought that murder had been done. Katie thought that cleaning up after a murder might have been easier.

So I spoiled their plans to get off early while I fed the cats their dinner. I went to the doctor to get a decent pressure bandage and a tetanus injection. By the way, if you have some spare absorbent pads, elastoplast, pressure bandages, etc our First Aid Kit needs them.

Adoption tails: a mixed bunch

 Irene forwarded me photos that new owners had sent her. I just have to share.

Cookie, 835 adopted Feb 1, 22
1 week: Cookie, renamed Chloe, has settled in beautifully. She seems to be relaxed, watching the world from behind the fly screens and has many spots to do so. She is not very keen on playing. Her owner says she answers to her name with a ‘Mau'
1 month: Chloe is very settled, loves her food, loves playing with the ping pong ball and is just a lovely girl.

Cookie

Storm  767 adopted Feb 5, 22
1 day: Storm’s new owner called to say that Storm seems very relaxed and is settling in. She ate food yesterday but not today and has not been to the toilet today. The owner was also worried that she isn't drinking enough water. Sue told her that it might take a few days for Storm to settle in and have regular habits and to call us back if she had any more questions/concerns.
Storm spent most of Saturday night and Sunday morning hiding in a drawer, then she finally ventured out last night and started walking around the room while her new owners were in there! She ate well yesterday afternoon and night and also went to the toilet and drank quite a bit of water."
1 month: Storm is right at home and well settled. 

Storm

Goldie 725 adopted Feb 24, 22
1 day: Goldie had flu symptoms after being taken home. His new owner collected 7 days worth of Doxycyline from Tim on 27/7. On 28/8 Irene spoke to his new owner and he reports that Goldie has responded really well to the meds and is still eating and toileting etc. He has even had a few cuddles with the new owners.
1 week: Goldie is doing great. Happy cat, happy adopters 

Goldie from up and down

Sunny adopted Feb 20, 22
1 day: Sunny is a sweetheart. Her new owner tried to keep her in a separate room but she was keen to get out and have more company. They sent photos and a video. She is a complete purr machine.
1 week: Sunny is settling in super well. She is just an easy kitten and the new owners love her to bits.

Sunny

No lift, again

 Yesterday's torrential rain not only flooded Roseville Bridge, burst Manly Dam, broke through Narrabeen Lagoon but flooded our lift. . .  again. I remembered the last time and thought it must have been about 2 years ago. Rod thought it might have been 15months ago. This blog tells me it was on March 24, 2021. Not even 12 months ago. It has been a long year.

This morning I had vollies who weren't on the roster yesterday for one reason or another, but it all worked out very well and smoothly despite having to walk up the stairs. (I walked up them 15 times, but I was counting).

Yesterday cats were moved because we have boarders coming in. Tommy and Mia were moved to the Berry's stand alone because Blackberry got adopted. Tommy is delighted to be back where the action is and demands to be let out to wander. 

Blueberry still has a touch of flu under treatment. She didn't seem to mind having all the food to herself.

Blueberry

Valentine, Augustus and Darcee were adopted over the weekend so their condos have been taken by Kitty, Blueberry and Gracie (who hasn't come back from foster quite yet. They are going away.)

Kitty

Below Kitty where Lee Lee was is Honey who spent all day on her litter. I hope she can gather up the courage to eat her breakfast tonight.

Honey

I had lunch with Max, as usual. He was very friendly so I picked him up and put him on the shelf by the window. He got to see some sun.

Max vs sun

While I sat to eat with Max on my lap, Adelaide watched us from her Palace. I looked up the Database to find out her name and discovered that two of this litter were born last March and two born last April. Strange.

Adelaide, the only grey and white

Coco and Lily are available for adoption. They are cute bunnies. Perfect for Easter. Tell your friends.

nose to nose with Coco

Adoption Tails: Faith and Bud

 Not much news on recent adoptees. Folk are getting too busy to answer our text messages/phone calls. Pete and Bud were doing OK after one week. We will have to wait a week to see if their owner has more to report on their 1 month report card.

Pete and Bud 1 week

In the meantime, Faith and Bud are coming in to board this weekend. Unfortunately I won't get to see them. Give them a cuddle from me.

Faith

Bud

Last weekend adoptees

 Terry brought back Bonnie and Lemmy from the vet this afternoon. He figured out how to send the photos he took on the weekend of Sephi and Goldie's adopters to me. CLEVER Terry

Goldie

He said that Goldie will be spoiled rotten. Couldn't happen to a nicer cat!

Stephi

And that Stephi's adoptee spent a motza on Stuff for her.

A kitten was adopted from a foster home. And Magnus was adopted from his foster home as well. Imagine anybody giving Magnus back! Impossible.

Magnus

Sick kittens galore

 I was too busy to count the number of cats this morning. Amy's wheely is filled with a mum [Sabrina] and her 6 kittens one of whom has a UTI, 5 have the flu and one, smaller than the rest and a smooth haired tuxedo looks perfectly well. He sticks close to the mother. I wonder if he is her kitten? 

 [Later Irene added: Lulu, the black and white tuxedo kitten in the glass cage is not Sabrina’s kitten. The lady who rescued Sabrina had trapped a spare kitten and just added it to the family.]

And Wanda's little grey adoptee (named Midsommer) has stuck-closed eyes that need to be bathed open and ointment applied as well as an eighth of a pill given. And there are two kittens from a foster home with ringworm. The friendlier one isn't as badly affected. It is the shy one that has to be ointmented. And they both have to have nasty medi. 

Bonnie and Lemmy were taken off to be desexed.

Bonnie came back shattered.

Post op Bonnie

Bonnie last Friday

Lemmy was full of beans and ready to PLAY.

Lemmy

Lemmy last week

We had a delivery of 20 litter trays. They each came in a separate cardboard box wrapped in two pieces of bubble wrap. Luckily, the bloke down the corridor spotted the flattened boxes and took them all plus the bubble wrap. He is the nice father of the girl who loved Chris and who has two dogs in his office all day.

A woman came to meet Romeo and Juliette whom she rather fancied from the web site. 

Her partner fancied Ziggy. We took videos of her relating to those cats. Then she spotted Augustus who is a kiss magnet and she went away without a cat.
 

Augustus

She did buy a T-shirt and gave us a donation. I expect they will be back on the weekend.

I introduced her to Max. He bit her when she got too friendly.

Max