The hocus pocus girls went back to the shelter on Friday. Winifred was adopted that same day and the other 2 are still available.
Since mom was there, she of course came back with more. These tortie girls are Jupiter, Mars and Mercury. They have kitty colds so will be here for about 10 days.
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Mom also has been working on her Christmas shopping.
She ordered some cat toys from Keep Up Creations as gifts and of course some for us.
If you missed it on social media, the girls are back for a week. The shelter does a really good job trying to juggle intake, surgery dates, and adoption space. With the ringworm adding 5 weeks to their time in foster, it messed with the schedule. So to get space and also hit the outside 21 days on the ringworm test, the girls came back here.
The girls are getting some time loose in the house. First time they spent hours investigating everything.
The permanent residents are too sure, but that is typical for here.
Right now their tentative return date is Friday.
Well, some good news for the girls. No more meds for the ringworm. They are scheduled right now to go back to the shelter on Thursday for surgery. Not sure if they will go up for adoption after that or come back for final test results. But the shelter staff didn't see anything so hopefully they are clear. Turn mom will need to deep clean the room again.
This hard been kind of hard in a different way since they are friendly but couldn't be handled much for risk of spreading ringworm. Ugh
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Over the weekend mom and a friend built a nes TV stand then mom built us a new cubby/window stand. Boba and Chanel were lots of help.
The cat stand actually is now turned 90 degrees and mom left one side off the cubby. It wasn't very expensive and was pretty easy to put together.
It's been checked out and mom is pretty happy with it. She's going to buy another for a different space and they have some other very nice pieces as well (find it here)
The girls are looking better but still on meds and being lyme sulphur dipped. (For those not familiar, they are dipped in a dilution with water and allowed to dry. And they smell terrible until they dry - think rotten eggs times 100). Hopefully this will be the last week of dips. Meds will be over shortly too then just waiting for a negative test.
Getting pictures is hard since mom isn't spending a lot of time with them to avoid spreading the ringworm spores.
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There has been some cursing here. Mom switched cell phone carriers and had to get a new phone. The switch wasn't terrible but she is still getting used to the new phone.
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Boba remains quite the ham. She can be a bit much at times...she is pretty smart and gives mom a run for her money.
For our US friends, have a nice holiday week.
Well it turns out the girls have ringworm. They are on meds and have been Lyme sulphur dipped twice (once more tomorrow). And they are obviously quarantined in the foster room since its contagious. They are displeased....haha. The bath was bad (and stinky) but they really hate being pulled twice a day.
But they get run of the foster room which is better than a cage for 3 weeks minimum. Though mom does wish Sarah would learn to stop yelling during work meetings.
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Speaking of work meetings, Boba has decided that is the best time to play her favorite game -fetch. She taught herself and mom is slowly working on targeting to get her to drop the ball in a better place than under the office chair. Despite given options, her favorite toy is a very beat up green foam soccer ball. Mom has thrown a couple of others, but that one is Boba's favorite (she will also chase a spring toy but that is down the hall not down the stairs). She starts the game 3-3 tines per day and will chase it several times.
Mom picked up 3 kittens from the shelter last week. They are about 6 weeks old and needs to get a little bit bigger for surgery. They were treated at the shelter for a lot of fleas so they are free of those now.
But they had a lot of fleas dirt. Mom tried to comb them out but it wasn't working so they all got a bath on Sunday. Cats are normally self cleaning but it's better for their health to have the dirt gone.
They do have some crusty scabs on their tails. The shelter vet took a look and the tuxedo is on meds for a wound on hers but they aren't sure what caused the scabs. Mom tried to get a better look but the girls don't want them messed with. So for now the shelter is saying let them heal up and see what happens.
Winifred is the snowshoe, Sarah is the tabby and Mary is the tuxedo. Welcome girls
