Greetings, FeLVie Fans!

Get out those engagement calendars and save the date!  I’d like to formally invite you to the Grand Opening of Quinn’s Corner on Saturday 10/7!  From 12-4 p.m., we’ll be celebrating Tabby’s Place’s expansion for FeLV+ cats, and we’d sure love to have you with us. We hope you’ll attend if you live reasonably close by, as our Quinn’s Corner expansion is definitely worth seeing.   The amount of care and planning that was put into this expansion still amazes me every time I see it.  We’ll have tours, speeches, activities for all ages, and of course visits with our sensational cats! We’ll be emailing you further details soon, but please mark your calendars for this fabulous moment in feline history.

Question: What is better than having one of our double positive (FeLV+ and FIV+) crew adopted? Answer: Having two of them adopted together! And that’s exactly what happened over the past month. Our beloved Ponce de Leon was adopted with suitemate Andy. If you don’t remember seeing Andy’s name before, well, you didn’t. He was in Ponce and Durin’s suite for just a few weeks, and I didn’t even have time to introduce him to you. He’s a beautiful silver tabby with only three legs, and, in the words of a staffer, “a big mush” in personality. The boys are now living in Michigan with their new double-positive (that’s what we call a kitty that is both FeLV-positive and FIV-positive) brother Tolstoy. Everybody is getting along nicely, and their new Mom is delighted.

In other news, double-positive Durin is still scratching at his ear at times, but he does not have an active infection there, at least for the present. Despite Ponce and Andy’s adoption, Durin does not live alone. His new suitemate is Tortellini (I promise that’s really her name), a pretty tortoiseshell about four years old. She’s a little shy at present, but we expect that to wear off gradually, and I know she’ll come to love her solarium just as much as Durin does.

Arthur was worrying us considerably. We believed he needed more interaction with people, so he was moved to the Adoptions Office, where he is the only cat. This guarantees him near-constant human company during the working day, and the staff has set up his chair so he can watch people coming and going in the hallway. We also changed up his medications. Arthur likes these changes; he seems much brighter and has even gained a little weight.

Hoopla Green is still very timid with us, but she’s been seen out of hiding in her new solarium a little more often, and she did not hide when one of our volunteer photographers was in the solarium with her. She is not living alone, either, as she has two new suitemates.

Sammy is a medium-sized tortoiseshell who seems to have her fair share of tortitude, but in fairness, she’s still very new in that suite.

Lovebug, a brown “mackerel” tabby, is busy living up to her name. She is exceptionally affectionate with people. She showed no hesitation in walking back and forth in and out of my lap when I sat down in her suite, purring loudly, even though it was the first time she and I had met.

And of course, we cannot forget the boys. Charles got the green light to discontinue his ear medications once again, a decision of which he strongly approves. You can often see him passed out on the solarium floor on nice afternoons.

Oram and Tucker are looking good. The former came over to see me for a little attention when I was in his suite a couple of weeks ago, something that surprised me, as he had not done this before. Tucker might have done the same, but he was too comfortable in a sunny patch.

And little Derby found a fly in his suite. You could almost see the “Best. Toy. Ever!” thought bubble over his head. He leaped after the fly multiple times, twice jumping so that all four feet were in the air. And eventually, he caught it. Don’t ask me how; I’d have said it wasn’t possible. But I turned my head for perhaps 15 seconds to make sure that Tucker wasn’t going to bother Charles in the solarium, and when I looked at Derby again he was eating the fly.

We’ve started a new enrichment program for our Quinn’s Corner crew. The Quinn’s Corner lobby is completely enclosed. Every afternoon, one of the three suites adjoining the lobby is opened up so the feline residents can come into the lobby, enjoy the sun from the wonderful skylight, and climb the structures there. Of course, we take turns opening up the suites, so everyone gets their fair share of lobby time.

That’s all the news for the time being. Thank you so much for helping us care for our wonderful crew!

Your correspondent,
Stephanie