Cat Report (Friday June3rd)

A little belatedly, but better late than never, here's last week's Cat Report: 

Thanks to the deep clean this morning, Janice and I cd spend the whole early-afternoon time socializing cats. There’s been a fair amount of changes just since last week: the adoption of MYKA (to one of our fellow volunteers), the return of Mr. OTIS, and  the arrival of gentle tabby-Siamese BRIOCHE. These joined our resident bouncy bonded pair MABEL & ASHER and shy bonded pair VERA & WILLOW, for a total of six cats.

There are not many walkers among our current bunch, but good-tempered Mr. Otis spent some time poking about; it felt like he was trying to relearn his mental map of the store. Doesn’t like dogs but held his ground when one went by. We tried various things on the other cats: putting the collar on a cat inside the room, employing the cat wrap on the bench, and walking around outside the room, but with little success. We were able to get Willow (the pastel one) out of her cage, with difficulty, then sit with her all wrapped up on the bench. Somewhat to my surprise she stayed out on the cat-stand a goodish while after being released.

The last two to come out were Mabel and Asher, who had great fun tearing around in the cat-room. Catnip-sented sachets were involved. I’d brought in a peacock feather last week that was a big hit. The rather bedraggled feather was a favorite again this week, but there’s not enough of it left to make an encore. 

There were a lot of visitors admiring the cats today, and two potential adopters, one of whom filled out and sent in an adoption form, but the application form didn’t go through for some reason.