Month: May 2011
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Working together for Amber
Krystal was waiting for the loan of a cage before she could bring Amber for boarding and subsequent treatment at our panel clinic. I had told her a 2ft X 3 ft cage should be able to fit right into any MyVi, but not her bigger cage (that’s why she needed the two boys to…
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The Feline Art of War
My family alerted me to this late last night as I was still busy doing the tshirt accounting in my room, in between typing lecture notes for a new semester AND replying emails! Apparently, there was an impending feline war outside in the living room. Come quickly, come and watch, they said. Tiger had just…
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Books to South Africa
A friend, Mr Lim, has recently posted some of my books to South Africa. Here’s acknowledging, with grateful thanks, for his efforts to spread the message of kindness to animals all the way to South Africa. Mr Lim has frequently helped some of the rescuers we have featured here in this blog, too. AnimalCare records…
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Ginger’s last mange jab
Alex brought Ginger for her last mange jab today. Our vet had asked Alex to keep a record of Ginger’s water consumption for a week. This, Alex did. From the daily amounts of water consumed, the vet did some calculations and based on the fact that Ginger consumes double of amount of water of a…
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What Mary did….for Amber
Ref: http://animalcare.my/2011/05/amber-emciated-dog-has-tvt.html As a follow-up to Amber’s case (she has severe TVT and requires the chemotherapy injections), Krystal had requested for a fosterer and transport for Amber. Currently, Krystal cannot foster or confine Amber (a dog) in her house compound because Amber’s presence scares her cats. However, Amber has TVT and should not be allowed…
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The long-awaited BLACK AnimalCare tshirt!!
The stocks have finally arrived!! Been waiting all day for this. Drove to the supplier, loaded my little Kelisa with 7 boxes of tshirts and brought them home. Then, I found that the “Ladies” labels had fallen off, so I had to open up each pack and check which are the Ladies’, buy masking tape…
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Boy Boy, neutered
Steffie Chong, who is just 19 years old, wrote to me last week, requesting help to neuter a stray dog whom she and her family had taken in from the streets in their neighbourhood in Taman Tun. Steffie’s family has adopted Boy Boy already and he has been with them for 2 months now. I…
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Suhaida’s kitten spayed
Updates: I have just been informed that this spaying has been postponed because just prior to it, the kitten had diarhoea. Nor Suhaida, a worker at FRIM, wrote to me last week, requesting help for a female kitten, estimated to be about 6 months of age, who was thrown in front of her house. Suhaida…
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Happy Mother’s Day 2011
As we humans celebrate Mother’s Day, allow me to wish all of you out there who have acted as surrogate-mothers to the many kittens, puppies, cats and dogs (and other animals) whom you have nursed as preciously as your own children. Many of the little ones would not have survived out there in the cold…