Last of a trio of head-butting community cats: Kunyit left

Last of the head-butting trio: Kunyit

Panther-2 missing since last year
Mui-Mui missing since last month

2 left of a head-butting trio

Kunyit and Mui-Mui
Panther-2 remains missing

Once upon a time, there were three best friends

Oreo is not head-butting with Kunyit and Mui-Mui

Oreo filled the "vacuum" left the mysterious disappearance of Panther-2 a few months ago.
Panther-2, Kunyit and Mui-Mui were head-butting best friends.
Will Oreo be a head-butting buddy too?



There is still an ache in the heart, watching Panther-2 in this video clip shot on 01-10-2008.
What has happened to Panther-2? No record of him being "surrendered" to the AVA. Was he relocated by pest controller? Did he "oversleep" in a pickup or lorry and was transported to a strange place? Was he killed? Is he in any pain now?

Remembering Panther-2: "You were NEVER a nuisance"

3rd June 2006, "The new arrival black cat with the right torn ear-tip has escaped the wrath of Tom-King by moving to level 2. I am “priming” him for his sterilization by feeding him with yummy food. He is no long hissing and I might just get him to walk into a carrier next week."




































12 December, 2006:

At about 6pm, I was at the carpark when Panther-2 suddenly shot out between two cars across the drive-way to come towards me. A car came by and in the panic rushing forward-backward, I heard sounds and I saw him galloped off into a nearby cluster of shrubs. As I searched for him, he shifted about within the shrubs. I caught a glimpse of his face with a the tip of his tongue sticking out when I moved asides the leaves. I reached out to him but he moved away.

I will search for him again tonight and see how I could get him to trust me enough to transfer into carrier for the trip to the vet.

Below are photos of him I took this morning. He has a patch of scabbed wound on his back and I think it was due scalding, likely from a hot exhaust pipe of a car.

21 December, 2006

I was video-ing Panther-2 and Mui-Mui when I heard the voice of a lady calling to the cats. It was the same lady I spoke to on the 11th. (Since then, I had seen dry cat food placed a piece of tissue paper in the recess area rather her previous way of scattering the dry food onto the concrete floor of the void deck.) I went up to her and told her that the cats have been fed. She opened up a small yellow plastic bag she held in her hand. It contained cooked rice mixed with brownish cat food. She said she would leave the food at a corner of the void deck. I believed she might have just “plonk-ed” the rice on the concrete floor. What a mess it would make! I said that these cats wouldn’t finish up the food and that the leftover would attract pigeons. I insisted that she did not feed. She walked off to the next block. A glimpse of this lady can be seen in the video clip below.

Why is such irresponsible feeding so difficult to stop?

Is it because such irreponsible feeders did not “invest” in the welfare of the community cats with payment for the sterilization?

See the amount of “human” rubbish in the video and yet cats are being killed over complaints from residents of cat-food-mess from irresponsible cat feeders.

19-12-2006

9 January, 2007
morning entry: "Panther-2 missing for 2 days"
evening entry: "I was happy to find Panther-2 at the block adjacent to his usual one. I had thought this was Panther-3 but I recognised the torn right ear. He was with the tuxedo black-n-white unsterilized cat! Today it flipped up its tail as it rubbed round the pillar as it to make a statement that “I am a char-boh (’girl‘)”

30 April, 2008
7.30am : I was concerned with not seeing Panther-2 with his head-butting buddies, Kunyit and Mui-Mui, for the past one week, when the trio was at the usual place this morning. I noticed a few wounds on his trunk that I suspected were due to scalding by cars’ exhaust pipes. I went home to bring down the bottle of antibiotic powder to sprinkle on the wounds as he ate away.

2nd February 2009 - This was to be the last video clip of Panther-2

MISSING SINCE JULY 2009

3 best friends amongst community cats

2 best friends amongst the community cats - Kunyit and Panther

After so many years of acquaintance, Kunyit allowed me to touch him only recently.
Panther suffered many burns on his back from taking shelter under cars with hot exhaust pipes.

Panther-2 burnt from lying under a car with hot exhaust pipe

3 best friends

Two best friends in a void deck

Will Kunyit and Panther-2 accept Doggycat?

Will the happy head-butting trio accept a fourth?

An auntie-caregiver named him Doggycat because he would go running to her like a dog whenever she called.

The happy trio

The friendly temperament of these community cats is indication that they grew up with human but were abandoned for "some" reasons. May they be safe from human who simply hate cats, children who are not taught by their parents that cats, too have feelings, pest-controllers, town council officers, cars, drinking from drain water laced with anti-larval poison, misplaced "well meaning" feeders who are irresponsible by not cleaning up the leftovers and who are dangerous by feeding whole fish with small bones that can pierce into a cat's throat or intestines, resulting in a slow painful death.

Two best friends sharing a bowl of breakfast

More of the wonderful trio