Current foster boys and officially adopted foster failures, Winnie and Tinker

Pictured here are Dune and Duke also called Herby and Valentino by their former foster mom.  They  are Dory's aka Tinker Belle's brothers.  the only way to tell them apart for me is that Dune is slim and Duke not so much.  Duke likes lap time in the evening and Dune in the morning.  Good thing, because when they sometimes do pig pile on together, I have to wrap my arms around them to keep them from oozing off!.

Dune

Duke

Duke

Dune

They both like to sleep under the pillow sham on the card table chair like their sister did.

Dory, now Tinker Belle sleeps anywhere she gets a nap attack.. She feels perfectly safe until the doorbell rings and then she heads under the couch.    Here she is with Winnie the Poo.  They are grooming one another on one of their sleeping perches.

Winnie grooms Tinker

Tinker grooms Winnie

Passion: Marge Adoption

Marge was adopted Saturday!  I was so happy for her.  I never did get a good picture of her with her darling little round face and big round eyes.  Still, the little motion machine captured the heart of a young woman, shortly after we arrived at Petco.  I'm sure they  will be very happy together and I am freed of feeling sorry for her not having her very own cuddle person for when she does nap.
Now it is just Valantino and Herby (Duke and Dune) in the cat house. Poor Valentino hates being transported and messes in his crate even on the short trip from my house to  Petco, I dread this week when I have to take him for a rabies shot preliminary to his going out to Petsmart for 2 weeks, and an adoption hopefully.These 2 very loving boys are Tinkerbell's brothers.  They do not resemble her.  They are both tabby cats, and she is a tuxedo.  However, they are as large as she is:  not small and dainty like their little sister Daisy.

Time flies by when you foster cats.

A month plus has passed and spring has moved in to stay.  Romeo and Honey Bee were just adopted after being a Petco for the past two weeks. Here are photos of those two.  Golden eyed Romeo and his sis Honey Bee.  They went to the same home with a very nice couple who will be able to revel in their loud and comforting purring.

Dory has been renamed Tinkerbell, because she responds to that name.  I am fostering her two brothers Herby and Valentino aka Dune and Duke, so they do not have to commute from Sacramento to Stockton for showing at Petco.
My perpetual  motion machine, Marge,   Homer's sister, was all by herself in the Cat House  when Romeo and Honey Bee went to  Petco, and I worried about that.   She still is in constant motion, but sometimes maintains a single activity for a whole 30 seconds at a time.  She is definitely an ADHD kitty.  I never find her napping when I go over to visit.  She is always up and about.  I remember when I worried about her because she stayed in the carrier until she heard me enter. Silly me. Once she was oriented to the new placement, she never sleeps, it seems. And it turns out the constant motion was not due to loneliness.  She continues to be in constant motion  even when Valentino and Herby are napping! She has the biggest roundest eyes which I have not been able to capture in a photo because of the auto flash on my camera. She is a very pretty girl, and will make someone a wonderful companion. Here are the pics I did get

.Marge during rare moments of quiet

I am also fostering a little black 10 year old kitty named Sweet Pea.  She pretty much stays in the lanai at my house,  because she and Winnie have not hit it off.  She is OK with Tinkerbell now, as long as tinker isn't romping around.  Sweet Pea does not take well to romping around. She has a safe place under the antique desk and she heads there when scared, but otherwise hangs out on the storage cabinet,on the memory foam pillow.  
 Since I started this post, Sweet Pea has even been brave enough to wander into the den.  She still runs away the moment she sees Mika, even if Mika is not on the run.  I got a great shot of her:

Sweet Pea

She resembles Dinah, but has a pointier face.  She is  a light weight, too.  She weighs only 6 pounds, just 1/2 of the weight of Tinkerbell and Winnie the Poo.

Catch up

It is time to  catch up  with  all the changes at the Cat House and beyond. As noted, on the 11th, Dory  moved to the big house, and in short order has become very comfortable, laid back and confident in her new surroundings. Her is a series of pictures that tell the story.

Dory  before the move, shown in the first photo.  She hung out in the lanai for a couple of days, and then began her relentless take over of the house, and her conquering of Winnie the Pooh.  Tentative at first, ...opposite end of the couch from Mika, she has now become the ultimate couch  potato...(see below). The first photo  shows her playing with her fave toy, and then her current preferred site for vegging.  Whe I am there she is on me and Mika has finally begun to clean Dory's ears just as she did Winnie's. 

  I have been so busy observing Dory's acclamation  to  the house and medicating and  watching the quarantined two, Honey Bee and Romeo, at the Cat House that I have not blogged or downloaded photos or taken any new photos of the quarantined pair. 
In between cat things, I have paid bills, supported Ron through his burglary aftermath, attended the Furr Ball and even gotten in a few yoga asana practices.  
Romeo and Honey Bee seem to be fine apart from the diarrhea which has shifted from  Romeo to Honey Bee and has not improved even after antibiotic, yogurt, and Albon.  They are very loving.  Just as I was thinking that Romeo did not have a purr box, and that Honey Bee had gotten his as well as her own, he has begun  to  be just as loud as she is.  They are not the players that Chuck and Homer were, but they are wrestling and tearing up the room with romping around now, which suggests to me that they are feeling OK.

Passion:Happy adopotions

This was such a good week  in adoptions for Animal Friends Connection.  Bugsy, a long time foster found his own permanent home where he won't have a family cat harassing him as the cat did  in his foster home.  Daisy, whom I took in went  back to her previous foster parents who adopted her.  And, last but not least,  Homer and Chuck went together to a very nice family.  That left Dory all alone in the Cat House so I moved her in to the main house where she is trying to adapt while avoiding grumpy Winnie, who hisses and growls at docile little Dory.She has explored the den, kitchen and has her folding chair with sham that she uses as a sleep hide out.They are  both napping now  and I think will make their peace in a couple days. Dory has been very loving and affectionate since she has been alone, and vocalized this morning for the first time that I have heard.

I will  be getting Honey Bee and Romeo, two kittens needing gastrointestinal assessment..  They are currently at Petco, but are having extreme diarrhea.  I tried my hardest to   get a stool sample today but  was unsuccessful. It will be easier at the Cat House where there will be less traffic.It was very busy at Petco this morning.

Gentle Peeve

After complaining to Marian abut Daisy really disliking Homer, I went to crate Homer to take to Petsmart for adoption display this morning and there he was under the chair sham sleeping with her!! He was so good at just ignoring her hissing and swatting that he won her over in the end and made a complete liar of me.  That's why I love cats. When you   think you have them figured, they surprise you.  Needless to say it was difficult to take Homer and Chuck to Petsmart after this discovery. However, they are there and I hope they find a purrfect home.  They are both so cute, charming and loveable that they  will make the right person  purrfectly happy.  Chuck likes to suckle on the palm of my hand and Homer loves messing with my hair. Though they complained about going once there they  were at home and when   I left, Homer was trying to turn the donut bed over so  he could crawl under it and resume his nap which I  so rudely interrupted. Chuck just plunked down and seemed right at home.  No tugging at my heart strings by reaching out of  the cage to touch my leg, as he did last Saturday at Petco.

Passion: A vegetative rainy day.

Today was my idea  of a perfect super bowl  Sunday.  I caught up  on all episodes of Downton Abby and snacked on  an  artichoke, cheese and crackers and olives and  V8.   I enjoyed my Winnie cat and Mika dog snuggled up next to me on the couch. I also visited the Cat House of course.  Daisy still growls  and hisses at the others if they approach her, but she did not grumble at me when I   approached and petted her.  She is now totally out and about in  the room and not huddled in the condo.  She now likes to perch on  top of the condo.  The boys go to Petsmmart on Wednesday, so Dory and Daisy will have the Cat House  to themselves and I can  focus on  interacting with   them.  In  between  episodes of  Downton  Abby   I  listened to classical music and totally  avoided news and analysis.  Very  good for the soul  and spirit.  It was just a  perfect day.  And we certainly needed the rain.