Month: April 2011

  • A glimmer of good news

    Hi everyone!  http://animalcare.my/2011/04/poor-poor-facebook-doggie.html My daughter heard that the facebook doggie who was captured by DBKL has now been adopted (!!) by someone.  Apparently someone went to DBKL and retrieved the dog. If that’s true….YAY!! Three cheers for that super someone!  Bless him/her. 

  • A Burmese village trick

    I was e-talking to my spiritual teacher (in Taiping) the other day and the subject of their temple cat came up. He told me that some of their previous cats tend to run away after sometime.  There is a residential housing area nearby so perhaps some of the cats went to live there. Then, he said the only cat left at the…

  • Meeting Alex and Ginger

    Alex came to collect the cat-carrier from me this morning and by afternoon, she had managed to get the cat with mange (whom she now calls “Ginger”) into the carrier.  Ginger is a stray who lives on Alex’s road.  I met them at the vet’s. The mange is pretty bad.  But no worries, it should…

  • Petfinder’s 3rd Anniversary Charity Fair

    Petfinder.my 3rd Charity Fair 23rd & 24th April 2011, 12noon – 8pm @ Orange Wing, LG2, Sunway Pyramid, Selangor (next to Harvey Norman) PetFinder.my will be turning 3 years old in April 2011! To celebrate this joyous occasion, they will be organizing a fun-filled charity drive to help raise funds and awareness for 7 of…

  • Best Friends Animal Society

    My friend, Chen, sent me this link: http://www.bestfriends.org/ It’s really cool….take a look. For all those aspiring to set up an animal shelter, you may wish to look at it for ideas. 

  • Mimi and Manja’s updates

    Last night had been quite hectic and tiring for CP and her family.  It’s their first time handling the post-op care for two spayed females, Mimi and Manja.  Apparently, Mimi is quite an escape artist.  Despite reinforcing and fastening the cage with wires, she managed to squeeze out of the cage twice and that really caused…

  • A kitten-S.O.S at midnight

    Yesterday evening, I was in Klang to give a public talk.  I do not have blackberries or internet facilities on my phone, so I have no access to emails whenever I am not in front of a computer.  When I reached home at almost 11pm, I found three emails from a young lady named Jess. …

  • Help for a cat with mange

    I received this request from Alex two days ago: Hello Dr Chan, A friend of mine recommended me to contact you for help with this issue. The cat in question is actually my neighbor’s cat, when they moved in a couple years ago, the cat followed. She is orange, medium long haired and looked quite…

  • AnimalCare is NOT a shelter

    I received an email yesterday, from someone who asked if I could give her advice on setting up a dog shelter. Apparently, she had heard that AnimalCare is a shelter.  I’d like to clarify here that AnimalCare has never been and is still not an animal shelter.  I also do not foresee us becoming…

  • Tina’s cat, spayed

    I received a call yesterday from a Mrs Tan who asked for help to spay one female cat.  Apparently, there is a Malay lady by the name of Tina (or Lina, I couldn’t quite hear properly on the phone) who is a cat-feeder.  Tina has been feeding stray cats for many years and lately, she…

  • Mimi and Manja spayed

    CP and her family did not have any prior experience in handling cats until….Mimi came into their lives.  Mimi had given birth to a litter of 3 kittens in CP’s house compound and thus started CP and her family’s wonderful learning experience in looking after and caring for stray cats.  Two weeks ago, CP brought…

  • A heart-warming story – Amy, the cat rescuer

    My friend, Mary Yap, has been dropping in regularly these few weeks ever since our latest tshirts arrived.  Mary is, by far, our No.1 tshirt-seller!  She really goes all out to help us sell to friends and relatives, and I cannot thank her enough.  First of all, Mary was also the one who got me…

  • Japanese risk radiation to rescue stranded dogs

    My friend, Barbara Yen, alerted me to this news:Source: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110414/ap_on_re_as/as_japan_earthquake_dog_rescue By RYAN NAKASHIMA, Associated Press Ryan Nakashima, Associated Press – Thu Apr 14, 4:13 am ET TOKYO – When Etsumi Ogino saw a news photo of a pack of shelties wandering through an abandoned town near Japan’s tsunami-damaged nuclear plant, she thought of her own 13-year-old canine Kein and jumped…

  • The delightful little girl writes again….

    Remember Andrea?  The ever-delightful little 12-year old who started writing to me last month after reading all my books?  http://animalcare.my/2011/03/black-olive-and-cow-junior.html We had a wonderful whole week of emailing where she asked me about puppy mills and everything else.  Such an intelligent and completely adorable little girl… Well, here’s another email from her…. 14/4/11Hello! I’m not sure…

  • Help for 10 dogs in Klang

    I received this from Joanne Lim, from Klang, last night. Hi, Dr Chan I’m Joanne Lim from Klang. I’ve come across your website and your work in helping strays. I have always wanted to spay/neuter the stray dogs in the factory area where I work (Batu 7 1/2 at Jalan Kapar) but could not come…