“Birthday” Treat

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Two adopted cats with clipped ears

Simple fun for 2 adopted cats

Adopted kitty: Kitty-Chan

Kitty-Chan

Adopted by Kevin and Runbin on 05-03-2010

Cat naps

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Cats love the sun

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Siesta

Who needs decorations at home when you have statuesque furry friends?

Saturday, January 30, 2010

Statuesque

Who needs decorations at home when you have statuesque furry friends? :)

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Napping on a raining cold morning 22-01-2010

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"A dog will flatter you but you have to flatter the cat."- George Mikes

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Zacky and BlueBell

Zacky And Bluebell Sharing New Beds

Zacky (then known as Gym-Mee) in a shelter on 28 October, 2006

I am but a dwarf
If you look at me way up high
With a mind cleared of unfounded fear

I am like you
Yearning for affection
The pats on my head
The nibbles I get

I am lonely
Wanting to follow the people I love
Why do none stop and stay?

I am just a little cat
With a big heart
For someone who will stop
And bring me home to love
For the rest of
Just one of my lives

A lovely couple have visited Gym-Mee this morning. They have three cats in mind. They have gone home to ponder about which cat to adopt, this being their very first cat. Next week, they will return to pick up the lucky cat.
Will it be Gym-Mee? I think he certainly hopes so.

Update on 2 adopted kittens (who were abandoned and rescued)

From: Justine

Sent: Thursday, January 07, 2010 8:38 AM

Dear ****,

I attach a couple of photos of the “the Ginger Boys” (aka Tomas and Neu-Neu). Curly (Tomas) is the one with the bat ears. He had an infection in his belly area from a scratch hence you note it was shaved by the Vet – he is totally fine though now. You see that Rufus (Neu-Neu) and Curly are close, and this continues to involve Rufus washing Curly before sleep every night.

Happy New Year!

Justine

Tomas (aka Curly) on the day he was rescued (11-03-2009); someone cut off part of his whisker and dumped him into a recess area of a HDB flat.

















Neu-Neu, now named Curly, on 31-01-2009

KaJi (now named Megum1): From being community cat in Singapore to a home in Sydney!

18th April 2007 (before she was trapped for sterilisation)

Sterilised on 8th May 2007

Adoption's video























Adopted on 11th November 2007 and named Megumi



Now living in Sydney
Megumi Dec 2009

Quah See Mee!

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Zacky’s New Bed

Zacky’s New Bed

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Zacky’s New Bed

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Zacky decided on this – which is what we thought he prefers. Sometimes Bluebell also sleeps in this when Zacky is not using it.

An adopted community cat called Billy

Tipped ear cat hit by car, rescued by caregiver and adopted by caregiver 7 years ago - called Mao-Mao

The car accident broke Mao-Mao's jaw that was mended by surgery. The metal wire is still in the jaw.
Rescuer and now guardian, spent $1k on the surgical fee.

An adopted community cat called Bengal Boy (almost KILLED by AVA for "wrongful" capture by the town council!

Story of Bengal-Boy

30th December 2003: Bengal-boy was sterilised this morning. The staff of the clinic said he was a bengal-cross. He was released back into the community.

5th April 2004: Tommie and Bengal have gone missing for the last three days. I hope they were adopted. This is the inescapable impermance of all phenomena in this existence. I will live with the joy that our connection, even if it were only for a few month, will continue into a future time. We will meet again.

8th April 2004: Last evening, Sharifah told me that clip-ear cats surrended to AVA by Pest Control companies were keep in the holding room for some time. So I gave AVA a call this morning and to my horror, two cats in AVA matched the description of Bengal and Tommie (more certain was Bengal with his distinctive strips). They were caught from around Blk xxx, xxx and xxx. I was told that a Malay family would be going to claim 5 cats from this area. When I arrived at AVA, Pasir Panjang, two youngish elder Malay ladies were waiting there with a young man in his 20s. I identifed Bengal Boy easily. Tommie-boy was kept with two cats in another cage. I wasn’t so sure of Tommie and a staff of AVA had to bring him out to confirm his sex. The Malay family told me that 3 cats have already been brought back to xxx and they had prepared to bring back these two as well until they were told that I would be coming to claim them as well. The ladies said that their daughter was very upset when the cats were missing and she kicked up a row with the officers in the Town Council. I was shown a letter written by the Town Council to CWS that the 5 cats were caught around the blocks indicated above could be released back to the estate “provided they do not become a nuisance”. My guess was that the complaint on which Town Council had acted was not traced to the blocks where the cats were caught! Hence the cats were allowed to be released back to the place where they were found, rather than be microchipped and released to a “private residential address”.
Without the law protecting the cats, they are constantly at the mercy of human beings who do not care a hoot of any cat. Tame sterilised cats are easy “sitting ducks” for the pest control workers to finish their task fast so as to collect $20 per cat.
I wrote to the town council to “thank” them for releasing the cats and to avail myself to their service in meditating any complaints of the cats around my block and the next.
I left some dry food at the usual feeding place at about 6pm. Patchie and Dolly were around. Bengal-boy and Tommie did not appear until I brought down some wet food at about 7.15pm. I fed Bengal and Tommie again at about 10pm. Bengal was sneezing but he was eating.

22nd April 2004 7pm: Bengal still sniffles. I saw him scratching himself more than I would expect of a healthy cat. I saw a small bald patch on his head.
When I reached the car park at Blk xxx at about 9.45pm after the Yoga Class, Bengal and a few other regular cats were at the feeding area. He responded to my call and came to sit beside me on the edge of the drain. I fiddled with the Revolution before I managed to plunged the cap into the vial to break the nozzle. I caught hold of Bengal by his nape and he went into a submissive crouching position, long enough for the whole content of the vial to be squeezed onto the skin.

29th June 2004: 7.45pm: Got him into a carrier after his “makan”. From the backseat of the car, Bengal-boy meowed softly in protest.
8.00pm: Adopter arrived and we set off for xxx. Bengal-boy was quiet from xxx to xxx. 8.30pm: He meowed softly as he was coaxed out of the carrier. He hid beneath the bed.
8.45pm: Adopter sms-ed to say that he came out from beneath the bed and was exploring his new environment.

30th June 2004: Bengal gave a welcome puddle on the bed after controlling for more than 12 hours! The FIP test was very weakly positive. Vet explained that this meant the chance of Bengal having FIP was very remote. So Bengal is not going back to the streets! Hurray!

3rd July 2004: Bengal received his vaccination.

From: adopter
Sent: Tuesday, July 13, 2004 2:06 PM
Hi:)
I’ll pass u some when i get a digicam but no worries yea!! he’s loved by both of us:)
i’ll tell u some funny incidents ya so that u won’t lose contact with him.
Lately, he’s been sleeping on the bed at night and sometimes on top of us. I love him so much until I cannot tahan. He so smart and handsome:P
He pees and shits only when i’m at home..and he makes sure that all the stuff is covered b4 he leaves the litter box.
He likes to sleep on the cabinet by the window and suns himself. And he stops climbing grills now. His favourite pastime is looking down on the street from the window. Did i tell u he likes to kiss us in the morning? When i leave for work I have no worries abt him misbehaving cos he is never naughty.
ok enough abt my baby.

From: ST (another cat-giver)
Sent: Wednesday, August 11, 2004 7:42 PM
I’m so relieved to know that Bengal Boy has been adopted by a good family! I call him Pringles, and he has always been one of my favourites! You see, whenever I go to the other blks, he would follow me. Except when I go to xxx as I do not allow him to cross the road. Apart from that, he follows me around everywhere and more than often my fiance, Jason and I spend hours playing with them in the night. I really miss him very much and must admit that it is truly heart wrenching to see his pix. He truly is a lovely cat, active & playful! We were planning to bring him and some others back home with us once we got our own place in two years, but now he has all our well wishes. It is not easy for me to let him go but part and parcel of life…..sigh
Yes indeed when he returned from AVA, the two (Bengal-boy and Tommie ) had a nasty cold. I fed them cough and cold syrup daily. I was cuddling them both for a good week in the nights till wee hours of the morning as they seemed so insecure and scared. I too attended to that bald spot you mentioned. I really miss him!

Thx for letting me know his whereabouts!
Recently I have had a pretty bad scare! After one of my babies died and seeing Dixie aka Billie-boy (the white with gray patches) & Patchy got sick. They must have taken something poisonous! (Dixie is male but I mistook him for a female but somehow he doesn’t want to respond to any other name.) I wasn’t gonna take it lying down especially when I just lost a cat 2 days piror to that! So I fed him charcoal tablets and it worked! 2 days after, I found Hobbles(Patchy) sick too!!! After 4days of medication, they finally are eating as normal now. Maybe you can inform the other feeders about the remedy of charcoal tablets. The pet shop has confirmed that those we buy at the pharmacy and pet shops are of the same make. After watching many documentary films, I am even more convinced that charcoal is a natural remedy that animals take for posioning and indigestion.
So honestly, some selfish side within is extremely reluctant to part with Dixie. I understand that you are trying to re-homing him. However I recognised the fact that it would be dangerous not to as it will be 2 yrs from now till I get my own place. My parents are totally against the idea of me bring them home. Especially after my dog’s demise as my mom do not wanna go thru it anymore.

From: Diane
Sent: Wednesday, August 25, 2004 9:02 AM
He doesn’t struggle when I bathe him. He did when he had his 1st bath in my home but now he’s so obedient and just lets me scrub him clean. He, however, hates it when i scrub his hind legs and his bum…he’s quite anal about me touching that part of his body.
I noticed that Bengal-boy is quite territorial recently tho. Lately, he’s been very vocal abt my landlady’s cats coming into the room. He used to let them but now he swipes them especially when they climb onto the bed to be with me. They also like to use his litter and eat his food u see. So i think, he has tolerated enough.

Here’s his latest photo taken on 24th April 2006 (the feline family has grown!)

An adopted tipped ear

It doesn't matter if the ear is "deformed" due to tipping. Unconditonal love will "blind" the genuine guardian.

If we cannot accept such a minor "imperfection", how are we going to accept the inevitable "imperfections" that accompany aging, sickness and finally death?

From a "stray" to being a "home companion" - The Story of Stripes, aka Short-Tail

22nd May 2004: The frisky kitten appeared at my “old” block ***. He roamed around and I had to bring him back a few times from the next block. He looked for playmates like a ginger kitten at the next block. I called him Stripes. He disappeared a month or so later




7th August 2005:
I moved to another part of the estate and one day, I thought I saw a cat that looked like Stripes. If it were Stripes, then he had moved about 500 metres and across a major 2-way road!! He was around Blk **/** and only made occasional appearances at the “downstairs” Later I met Carol who had been feeding him on the way to work and on the way home from work. Together we managed to trap him and brought him to a cattery. I took photos of him and studied against the photos I had of Stripes. And indeed Short-tail (named by Carol) was indeed Stripes!


7th August 2005:
After a few months of boarding in the cattery, Short-tailed was adopted by Elaine who was fascinated by “fat cat”.

MMS photos received today of Stripes aka Short-Tail aka Astro