FFRC Weekly Blog Week ending May 18th, 2024
Adoptions:
Zorro was adopted on Saturday by a very kind couple who are very excited to take him home. Zorro was one of the two ‘dumped’ cats that were found on FFRC driveway.
Health Updates:
Scotland is progressing. He still has worms but the level is coming down. He had surgery on Monday to close and fix his rear area. The area looks better but he still has diarrhea and we are working to get that under control. He is on quite a few meds and things are improving each day. He still has a long road to recovery.
Anony has made significant improvement. We were worried about him but he looks so much better after his trip to the vet and being on meds for almost a week. He is still being closely watched but may be able to go back to the Cove soon.
New Kitties:
There were no new kitties this week!
Other Updates:
The stray female, approximately 6 months old who came in last week now has a name! It’s Juniper. She is brown/black and white. She was a neighborhood stray that a neighbor was shooting at. Thankfully he’s not a good shot and the kitten was saved and brought to FFRC. She needs to be spayed. She does have a URI that is being treated.
Brandi’s 4 remaining babies now have names:
Apple is a black with white tummy
Elm is all black
Birch is a grey tortoise
Maple is a tortoise
Boadie is doing well. Brandi has taken him in as one of her own. He has actually started nursing on her. Brandi has been so good with him, bathing him, cleaning him.We are still supplementing with syringe feeding. He still loves to bathe in food but is getting better.
The MI Boys:
Chowder continues to improve on human acceptance. He is actually coming to the cage and is asking to be brushed.
Gordy isn’t advancing as quickly, but there are signs of hope that he may be at the tolerating stage but seems sad.
Both boys are still hissing when you go near his pen. But the hissing is getting less and less.
They still must be quarantined as they are still not tested.
Our Kabana cam was down for several days. Special thanks to our cam experts/cam mods VRS and Stan who spent hours (all volunteer, all remote which makes troubleshooting that much harder). They got it up and it’s now working. Without them we’d all have to use our imagination, now we get to see cats playing, bird watching, sleeping and most importantly, evidence that Peacocks can be really mean to cats. Bully birds!
The match donation that started last Friday continued until Wednesday. We received $2,838.54 in donations. Add the $1,000 and that’s $3,839.54. Someone in chat then donated $160 to make the total $4,000.54. Thank you all with a special thanks to the $1,000 match donor.
Garage sale was postponed last week and will now happen on May 23rd, 24th and 25th.
Holds:
Waldo will be adopted next week (day not yet determined)
Meatball
Baloney
Achoo
Grammy
Once days and times are confirmed we’ll pass the info on.
Enjoy your week and remember, without our Friends where would our cats be?
