Month: June 2011
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Jenny (injured puppy) is transferred from PJ to Subang Jaya
Today has been an incredibly hectic day for me. The dumping of the 5 kittens really threw me off balance and upset my entire schedule for the day. I had sought a second opinion about Jenny from our panel vet and was told amputation would be the better choice for Jenny. Another option is to…
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Comel (market cat) spayed
Comel is the last of our 11 market cats caught this Monday. She is the last to be spayed because she was having the flu. She’s okay now and has already been spayed. Comel will return to the market and the company of the pakcik tomorrow. Comel’s spaying and medical treatment is sponsored from our…
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Mdm Yap’s female cat spayed
Mdm Yap texted me yesterday. She had read about our work from the newspapers. She lives in an apartment and had just caught a female stray cat. When first caught… The cat was brought to our panel vet for spaying this morning. After being spayed this afternoon. Mdm Yap will release the cat back…
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Amy Thum’s female cat spayed
Two nights ago Amy borrowed one of our traps and managed to catch a female cat in her neighbourhood. She has been trying to catch this cat for two years….so, finally!!Apparently, this cat was so aggressive she climbed all over the clinic! And vet had to sedate her quickly and get her spayed. She was…
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One-Street CNRM on SS18/5A (Francis Tze Chuan Chee’s)
Francis Tze is doing One-Street CNRM on SS18/5A. This morning, he managed to capture one female cat to be spayed. The cat has now been spayed, and she also has mange, so an Ivermectin jab has been administered. Francis will foster the cat until full recovery and release back to the street. …
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Peggy’s male cat neutered
We have FIVE cases of CNRM today itself….more people are doing it and that’s good news to us. But it also means we need to raise more funds!The first for today is Peggy Tiong’s captured male cat. Photo sent by Peggy the day before. I visited the cat just now and he is fine. Peggy…
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The five kittens are active and very much alive (dumped in styrofoam box)
I had to arrange for boarding for the five kittens that were dumped in front of my gate (in a styrofoam box this morning) because they have diarrhoea and the flu. Here they are at the first clinic. Our vet has already dewormed all of them. Hopefully, the diarrhoea is due to worms…
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This is what some “humans” do – kittens in an airtight styrofoam box
This morning, while I was at work, my husband called to tell me someone had dumped a box of five kittens in front of our gate. The five kittens were placed in the styrofoam box you see in the photo above, with a big rock on the lid. How can they breathe in a…
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Reprinting Pawprints on My Heart (my first book)
Pawprints on My Heart was written in 2008. It tells the stories of my childhood pets and my rescue and caregiving work. It is my first non-academic book (there have been five more after that, and no more academic books!!). Since then, a total of 12,000 copies of Pawprints have been published, all for free distribution, and…
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Playtime for the Sunny Kittens
This morning, I tried to teach the Sunny Kittens to lap milk from a dish. After all, Rex has stopped sucking from the bottle. And this morning, Honeybear (!) did not want to suck as well. Come, kitties….it’s milk. Nah…they weren’t interested. Honeybear tried later, and splashed the milk all over the floor, and then…
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Emergency – puppy rescue from Puchong to PJ (fosterer needed urgently)
I met Koo and Mei Leng as they brought the rescued puppy from Puchong to Subang Jaya. Then, I led them to the clinic in PJ where there is an emergency call-up service. Koo and Mei Leng bringing in the puppy. Here’s the puppy. Gosh, she is so tame. Koo said she barely put…
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Market CNRM – Return to Market Day 2
Ah Fatt helped pick up the 6 cats (5 females and 1 male, all spayed-neutered, but this includes 2 previously-spayed females whose ears have now been notched) and sent them back to the market at 8pm this evening.We met him there. Here are four of them. Another two. This little boy is Ah Fatt’s…
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Bushytail is doing well (and so is Sudhamma!)
Updates on Bushytail by Sudhamma: She ate fish and dry food. She can walk but I don’t let her walk so much. Still keep in cage. Already taken antibiotics. Done warm compression, applied Flavin on her leg and changed her pad. The stomach wound looks dried up. She did not make a noise; she is…