Cordelia is a mum

 I could tell that something was going on this morning when she wasn't waiting anxiously for her breakfast. I had a quick peak and saw one baby. Later on I saw another. Don't know if she had them today or I just missed the second one on my first brief peek. Later I got photos:

Cordelia with white with black kitten

Cordelia with white and ginger kitten

 We will have to read up on our Shakespeare to get names for them. There may be more by tomorrow.

Bree is getting more relaxed. We need names for her great gingers.

Bree and her ?boys

I tried to make friends with Shadow. He was not thrilled but submitted to being touched, briefly. Charley made real friends with him earlier so perhaps he was sick of the attention by the time I got to him.

Shadow

The other girl Shadow, on the other side of that condo block, renamed Codie, has got the sloppy, smelly poos. She may have got it from Peaches. Peaches and family are at the vets for tlc.

Zoe and Maddy are available for adoption, separately. One of them had inappropriate urinating problems in the home that she came from. So we have not labeled them as a bonded pair. Often two females together, if they are not related, have dominance issues that result in inappropriate peeing. 

Zoel and Maddy

The other Zoe is ready to a proper home, she tells me.

Zoe

And Wolfie has gone to his home. A young woman came in to adopt him from the play place. It was a wonderful opportunity to have a final cuddle. I quickly trimmed 6 of his nails before he realised what I was doing. I gave the trimmers to his new owner to finish off the job. All his daughters have been adopted as well.

 

Adoption Tails: Venice, Muffin, Ella, Jorge and Gingerbread

Venice & Muffin

 Venice & Muffin were still quite shy when adopted and the owner has been very patient and has continued to work on their confidence. Venice & Muffin were rescued with another kitten named Cookie, now Umami, Her follow up is here: https://safehavencats.blogspot.com/2023/12/adoption-tails-chessie-cookie.html

1 week: They are super shy and still very scared. The owners are going slowly and giving them plenty of space.

 

1 month: Venice and Muffin are still very shy. The owners try their best to give some love and cuddles. They will need more time, especially Muffin. They're hopeful that the two become more comfortable and confident in the future.

 Ella

 

1 day: Ella is still very reserved as the owner expected. She is mostly just hiding under the bed but has eaten and used her litter tray. She's all set up in her own room. The owner is keeping her name.

1 week: Ella is going okay, still a bit shy but she has started coming out of the room and coming into the owner's room. She's been slowly approaching the owner but has yet to allow petting. She is eating well.

Ella in foster

 No 1 month response.

 

Jorge

 

1 day: Jorge is very well and is staying on just one side of the house from the resident cat who is aware of his presence. They have yet to meet each other. Jorge is eating very well, toileting and sleeping very well. He plays a lot and is very affectionate with the owners.

 

1 week: orge is doing very well. He is so playful and naughty. He is so affectionate. The owner's older, resident cat is already getting more friendly with Jorge, the two will smell each other.

 

 

1 month: Jorge and the resident cat are good friends now. They are so cute together!

 

 Gingerbread, now Maya

 

1 week: She is slowly settling in. Doing very well now. She is a very playful kitten and is so adorable.

 

Gingerbread (Maya)

 

1 month: Gingerbread is now called Maya. She is still growing and very well adjusted in the apartment. The owner took her to the vet for a flea treatment. "Thanks for introducing Maya in my life."

Rebagged

 On Wednesday I left Safe with a huge bag of washing. Somebody had sewn a pretty print of cartoon cats into a laundry bag that would have been big enough for Santa to deliver presents to the Old Lady who Lived in a Shoe. Sue thought I looked hilarious. The bag held four loads of washing. I cut it into two to make two laundry bags of a more reasonable size.

Cody approved

Mateo was collected yesterday so his small condo was free. We moved Prime into there. He is the biggest of the kittens in Mia's condo and added greatly to the havoc of feeding time by greedying as much tucker as he could get his paws on. Moved into his own condo he hid in the hammock. And wasn't interested in his dinner! He is available for adoption.

Prime

As are Prue and Trude. Irene took lots of cats to the vet this morning. It is great to see their name cards changed to pink!

Prue and Trude

Also good to see was Archie out of his Pub Box. His face is cleaner but he needs to work on his body.

Archie

And also great to see was Shadow in Incoming responding to occasional visitor Christine.

Shadow

Now we know that he likes pats, we all need to give them to him.

Aziza and co were moved out of Isolation because a small kitten with ringworm was moved in. A and the little A's are in the Palace. I moved one of the Lola anointed stratchy poles from the front foyer into the palace so that the kittens could move vertically to get to Aziza. (My chosen names have been approved).

A visitor came to choose a second kitten to go with her boy kitten. She fell for Hui Hui because Tim W has her trained to be carried around lying on her back in his arms! She may well be back tomorrow at 10am to adopt her (after consulting her mother).

Split bin gone

 So we are back to 2 Willoughby bins. But they only emptied one of them this morning. Tim W phoned the council and they promised to empty it in the next day, or so. What a relief. Because I had schlepped out 22 bags of poo from the balcony, with their resident maggots, into other peoples bins there was only enough trash from today to fill one Cozens bin. I didn't fancy having to transfer bags from the Willoughby bin to the other Cozens bin. It would have been way overweight.

 No surprise, Mateo has been chosen. He will be picked up tomorrow. The woman who adopted him came for two kittens. Why didn't she choose Hui Hui and Daisy May? Put it down to Mateo's charm.

Irene wanted a photo of him for social media. He doesn't stand still long enough for a good shot.

Mateo ignoring Tim W and Sue

Wolfie sat still and watched. He had a wander time out today too.. . . . we still hope he will become an old persons' home cat.

Wolfie

So did Hui Hui and Daisy May. That woman should have chosen them.

Hui Hui and Daisy May

I think we should swap their stand alone position with Wolfie's so that they are nearest the front door and get seen by the incomers.

Wolfie only has two daughters left on the premises. I got the job of holding them while their condo was cleaned (because we were short on vollies this morning). A hard job but somebody. . . .. (gets lucky).

Wilhelmina and Wanda

Violet is off "wet food only". I think she likes the full tummy effect of crunchies.

Violet

Grumpy cat faces:

Greta in Incoming.

Greta

Mickey in Welfare

Mickey

Zoe, is more confused than grumpy now that she has moved from Incoming to Welfare. This is last week's photo of her in Incoming. Today, she wouldn't stand still for a photo.

Zoe

Iso family

 I looked up Egyptian names a couple of weeks ago and wrote them on a plastic sheet to blue tack to the wall beside their stand alone. Nobody has moved it. Or changed the names. So, perhaps they have been accepted (or nobody has noticed.) But I will introduce the Iso family who came in with a couple of moslem dressed women who had been looking after them somewhere in the western suburbs. The women were lovely and the cats have turned out to be lovely too. 

The mum is Aziza. You have to feed her in a carrier on top of their stand alone because the kittens were vomiting after scoffing her crunchies. She happily climbs onto your shoulders after meals to get back to her family. Here she is with Adom (ginger male) and Aki (tabby: I couldn't pick the sex a fortnight ago).

Adom, Aki, Aziza

The other tabby is ticked. His/her name is Anat. And he/she wouldn't stand still for a photo. 

Anat

The calico is Ava.

Ava

Lilli has one chunky kitten. Perhaps his/her name should be Larze.

Lilli and Larze

Zoe has moved to Welfare. She is newly desexed. And not only did they cut her tummy. . . they cracked one of her whiskers!

Zoe

More adoptions

 A busy weekend. Not only was Mia adopted but her next door neighbour Harry was adopted too. And so was Felicity the kitten.

Felicity

 And Teddy and GiGi have been adopted by our Natalie.

Lola is doing well. She is in a small condo and has a huge plastic cone on. But seems to be happy to be home. (The pain killers probably help). There is a fund raising effort on Facebook to try to recoup the price of her operation.

Cordelia was sent to the vet to be desexed. And they discovered that she is pregnant. So she is back in her condo, enjoying the pregnancy rations and looking as slim as she was last week.

Cordelia

She came in at the same time as Zoe did. Zoe is younger.

Zoe

 We had a new kitten for a short while. Choco was whisked off to be fostered.

Choco

And Mateo is back in a hard collar for another week. He bumped his wound in the soft collar . . . . probably when racing around like a mad thing. He had a turn in the play place where he can't get up to full speed.

Mateo

Aziza's kittens (in Isolation) are very interested in eating her food. Unfortunately the crunchies make them vomit. So we separate Aziza in a carrier to eat her crunchies with a side of wet food while the littles have just the wet food. They love it.

Aziza's 4

Fun with the bins today included magots! Somebody filled the Willoughby bin in the basement and it was left there yesterday because two others were taken out to the pavement (including the cracked one that I had left upside down in the basement to NOT be filled).

That cracked bin will be collected by Willoughby council within the next three working days. It is on the sidewalk. . . . upside down.

Moving Mia

 There was a note on the desk on Wednesday to say that Mia was going to be adopted and picked up on Thursday or Friday. 

When I arrived on Friday afternoon, Mia was still in her enclosure. And nobody came to finalize the adoption. 

But they came on Saturday and Terry did the adoption. To these lovely people from Narrabean.

I asked if she was hard to get into the carrier and Terry replied: 

They brought a big soft carrier and when it was time to put her in it, I gave her a few treats and then Mia let me pick her up without any fuss and put her through the top. One of the easiest I have done. Mia must have thought ’now it’s my turn to get a home.’ So lovely for her.

 Have a wonderful life Mia.