Remember those three custom cages that I built and was stuck with when the buyer flaked out? The last one sold a few days ago! Who-hoo! Now I have room to set up, clean, and offer for sale some of our other used cages (that were previous blocked in by those custom cages).
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You know how I'm always talking about how volunteers are great... when they show up? Tis the season! I had someone email about volunteering (need to get back to them), and also, two people call. The one called and wanted to come as soon as possible, as she has 40 hours to do and wants to get them done sooner rather than later. We agreed that she could come the following morning (she called in the evening) and I would have preferred a little later in the day, but she said, she'd be here at 10. 10 goes by, 10:15 goes by... about 10:30 she calls and says something went wrong with her phone, and she needs her phone charged while she's here (cause apparently I have no plugs? you all can charge your phones while you're here, in case that needs clarification), and so she's gonna finish charging it and then walk here, and it's about a 30 minute walk. Assuming she was charging it from dead, I'll be generous and say ok, maybe that takes 30 mins, plus the 30 minute walk, so she shoulda been here before 12 noon. As I write this, it is 5:45 pm and she never called or showed up again.
I did get another call though from someone else who has court ordered community service they need to do. I told them they would have to start next week, as I have stuff going on this weekend, and they said they will call me back next week and we'll work something out. They were thrilled that they could come potentially in the evening, so hopefully this one will pan out.
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Two of our long-term residents at the rescue were adopted. And even, TOGETHER! Chili Mac (who has been fostered in Island Lake for awhile now) and Layla went to their new home together, a few days ago. Their new mom, Katelyn, had intended to adopt Chili Mac back in April (both have been here 1.5+ years), but then found some other needy chins to adopt, and knew that ours would stay in good hands, while those chins, eh maybe not. So, she took home the other chins... but then was an awesome person and contacted us when she wanted to open her home to even more chins! Yay! So she contacted us and asked about Chili Mac and also asked about other potentially difficult to adopt out chins, and that's where Layla came up (if you're not familiar, she was the 10 year old hetero beige culled breeder with the watery eye), and she ended up taking the two home! She's hoping to bond them, with very slow intros, but if not, not the end of the world. Yay for those two girls finding homes!
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Another success story is ChiChi, now known as Buddy. ChiChi was an 8.5 year old standard grey fur chewer. Very sweet chin, but the young standard greys aren't super desirable, much less a senior one. Well, one of my previous fosters (turned foster failure... twice... so they don't foster any more haha) occasionally would ask me about if I had a chin that I thought would pair with their Benny (one of the foster failure chins). This time when they asked, ChiChi came to mind. They brought Benny over, we did a quick intro to see that the two wouldn't absolutely hate each other (they didn't) and then the family continued the intros at home, and now a few days later, the chins are sleeping cuddled up all together. Let's hear it: awwwwwwwwww.
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And lastly... that same foster failure family, Claire & Paul, asked me if I had an air purifier, when we were talking about rescue needs. I specified, I have an air scrubber (basically, a commercial unit... cost ~$1800 a few years ago.. for a refurbished one... so a very nice unit), but the sterilizing bulbs burnt out and my last filter finally went out... right in April after all the money was stolen. So, it's been sitting like a big paperweight, about $300ish short of parts, since then. Well, Claire and Paul are awesome, and wanted to contribute, so they donated $300 towards us getting the parts! I have since reached out to the company, and they got me a new estimate today (see below), and we will be getting the parts and the air scrubber back up and running soon! YAYYYY!!
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