Month: August 2009

  • All in a day’s work

    The following account is from one of AnimalCare’s volunteers, Mr Lim. If you’d like to find out more about the monitor lizard, please contact him at limchinkah@yahoo.com: At 8.15am, I received a distress SMS from a friend in Kuala Kubu Bahru to rescue a mother cat and her four kittens. The SMS read “There is…

  • Where our panel vets are

    For the benefit of newcomers to this website (who might not click on our labels), our panel vets (for the spaying and neutering of stray animals) are located at the following places: Subang JayaKota KemuningPuchongSection 17Sri PetalingJln Tun RazakPlease click here to contact our representatives should you need assistance.

  • Ervina adopts Patches

    Remember the stray cat, Patches, that Ervina had rescued, and we arranged for treatment at our panel vet? Well, Patches has glaucoma in one eye. It is not serious, but he will go blind. Glaucoma, we are told, is irreversible. Patches has been given eyedrops for now, and needs further check-up to keep his condition…

  • Love us, not eat us

    The car sticker above comes from my friend, TY Lee, who hosts the website http://loveusnoteatus.com/ The other day, my husband sent my car for service, and an elderly pakcik (that’s “uncle” in Malay) saw the sticker and said he liked it very much. Since I always keep a supply of these stickers in my car,…

  • Who are the true creatures of God’s creation?

    I came across this saying in an animal hospital and I was most tickled by it:Animals are the true creatures of God’s creation. Humans are merely apprentices of the devil.And this too, by William Ralph Inge:We have enslaved the rest of the animal creation, and have treated our distant cousins in fur and feathers so…

  • Joanie…LOST! (and found…)

    I was busy doing the new AnimalCare brochure all morning and had left Joanie and Suki in the kitchen in their new home (per kindness of Vixey – it’s Vixey’s Summer Palace in the kitchen, pls see photo above). The two had taken over the palace for the morning. Whenever Suki wandered off, Joanie would…

  • Did you know elephants observe “cheng beng”?

    I sprained my ankle very badly yesterday morning. Thinking it was nothing, I went about my way, limping up and down three floors at work, and by evening, I noticed two big swollen bumps on my left ankle and I could barely walk. Still, I had to handfeed Joanie, clean up the mess the cats…

  • I want food!!!

    I spend the last half hour trying to upload individual photos, but some setting went cranky and every photo turns out being rotated 90 degrees. So here are the photos for today, pasted in ppt, and saved as jpeg. Sigh, the “wonders” of technology (or is it my ignorance?) The first photo shows Suki ransacking…

  • Thanking yesterday’s donor

    We would like to thank yesterday’s donor, Kim for her generous contribution to AnimalCare. Also, many thanks to everyone who has written to me to give me moral support and to wish all our recuperating animals well. I am very touched that many of you have been so supportive and also show a keen interest…

  • Lights, Camera….REAL action!

    A short movie clip of our second rehoming of the Ketam dogs in Bentong: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XG2ZVcujwQw Many thanks to Lim Pueh Tian, our photographer of the day, who selflessly did not include himself in the movie clip. We had so much holy fun rehoming holy beings in a holy place, on a most holy day!

  • Aww….Suki and Joanie

    A picture paints a thousand words. The brave little tyke, Suki, squeezed herself into Joanie’s cage and confidently went to suckle Joanie. Both seem very happy and contented. I hope our plan works. Although Joanie has no more milk, the suckling would give her emotional fulfilment and maybe, help her get over the loss of…

  • Joanie grooming herself

    Good morning, everyone. Ms FW wrote to ask if I could post a photo of Joanie without the e-collar grooming herself. I actually wanted to take photos last night (she spent at least THREE hours grooming herself non-stop) but each time I held the camera, she was in a most ………. position, with one leg…

  • Correcting some misconceptions

    Ever since this website came up and our work became public, I’ve received quite a number of phonecalls and emails from interested people. Some people have a misconception about who we are, and I certainly don’t blame them, because I have not really explained what AnimalCare is all about. Hence, I hope the three earlier…

  • Why AnimalCare was formed

    In response to the Pulau Ketam Tragedy where hundreds of stray dogs (including home pets) were abandoned in neighbouring islands to die, AnimalCare was formed on 31st May 2009. Its intention is to create a platform so that people who are sympathetic towards animals could come together and collectively pool their efforts to help animals.…

  • About the founder

    Dr Chan Kah Yein holds a Ph.D in Mathematics Education. She teaches mathematics to college students. With a deep passion for animals, she founded and coordinates AnimalCare, a charity that promotes caregiving to stray animals and helps in their spay-neuter and medical needs.  Kah Yein gives public talks regularly on cultivating compassion to animals, and ways…