Month: August 2011

  • People, people….

    It’s 12.45am now, and I have just finished reading, replying and responding to all the emails in my mailbox. This is a daily affair, besides visiting the animals at the vet’s, etc.  I overheard someone say that there are people badmouthing AnimalCare at other forums, saying that Kah Yein only talks but never does anything.…

  • A side story about Citta’s escape skills

    I was at the vet’s yesterday and was told a most interesting story.  Apparently, Citta is quite an escape artist!The vet trainees found she had ESCAPED from her cage yesterday morning and was running around the ward (which is enclosed). How did she escape for her cage?  Nobody knows. She must have kangaroo-jumped out of…

  • Doby’s skin problem

    Doby is one of our Klang rescues who was initially staying in Lotus Life, Bentong, in 2009. When Meiji visited the place, she found that Doby was kept in a cage and did not look good at all.So Meiji brought Doby back to her sanctuary in Raub and since then, Doby has been with Meiji…

  • Mr Wong’s rescued dog spayed

    Mr Wong texted me last week to say he had just rescued a mother-dog and her four puppies, and asked if we could sponsor the spay-neuter.The dog and puppies were brought to the vet in Puchong and the vet said the puppies are still too young, so only the mother will be spayed. The mum-dog…

  • Puppy is doing well too!

    Today seems to be a great day for us!News from Penang, on Puppy, the little puppy who was down with tick fever a few days ago and could barely make it through the night.From Janz:Gd Morning Dr Chan / Huey, Dr juz called and said Puppy can be take off the IV drips already. He’s…

  • Super Brownie!!

    Great news from Winnie:Hi Kah Yein,Visited Brownie. He is more energetic today. He even bit & punctured the drip tube. Naughty boy : ) may be he knows he is getting better & throwing tantrum, wanting to go home. “Get the tube off me”. Then I spoke to another vet as Brownie’s vet is in…

  • Mr White, caught and neutered

    Last night, Cathy, who lives down my road, sat by the drain with the cat-trap (borrowed from us) in her ongoing attempt to catch the two (intact) male cats on that part of her road. These two fellows have been terrorising the other cats in that colony.Mr White, as he is known, had actually walked…

  • Karuna goes to her new home!

    I spoke with my mother this morning, if there was any possibility that she could foster or even adopt Karuna. My mum had helped foster Tara and Sean last year – both had distemper and were our rescues from the Klang Dog Pound. Tara and Sean have since been adopted into good homes.I was worried…

  • Meeting up with the scientist himself (RetroMAD1)

    Ever since Brownie started on the experimental drug, RetroMAD1, I had been communicating by sms and phone with the biologist who co-developed the drug. Mr Huan invited me to visit his lab and meet up so that he could explain to me how the drug works. So, I went to his lab today. Mr Huan…

  • Our YELLOW tshirt orders

    Ref: http://animalcare.my/2011/08/animalcare-celebrates-merdeka-with.htmlDue to the very encouraging response to our Yellow tshirt, the many pledges to help us collect orders AND Kean-Joo’s and Jessie’s pledge to help us sell (no matter what!), I’ll be closing the special size orders (that’s the tiny sizes of 24, 28 and 32 and the prosperous sizes of 48 and 50) on…

  • No Black Gold….just Yellow!

    Ref: http://animalcare.my/2011/07/animalcares-black-gold-tshirt-new.htmlOn 21st July, I publicised that we would be producing a Black Gold tshirt (a black version of our Gold (first) tshirt) because my college is holding a charity drive in September and the committee has requested for a Black Gold. However, the response (from the blog readers) to this Black Gold has been very poor.…

  • Karuna has a surprise visitor

    Adelyn Yap wrote to me offering to help look in on Karuna as well so that it won’t be so taxing on any one person to keep checking up on her. So, Adelyn went a-visiting this evening, after work:Hi Dr. Chan,I went to temple ard 7pm just now. Did some praying and then went to the…

  • Updates on Puppy (Penang case)

    Puppy is the little puppy rescued by Janz from Penang. Puppy has tick fever and was in dire straits last night. He was given a blood transfusion and the vet wasn’t sure if he would pull through the night.He did.My friend, Huey, is helping Janz by visiting Puppy and in other ways as well.  Updates…

  • Updates on Brownie – blood count is 2.8 (that’s good!)

    Winnie visited Brownie again this evening. The blood test results are promising – Brownie’s white blood count is now 2.8! That’s quite significant, but it still has to normalize to 6.0. Brownie ate by himself again this evening, which is really good.I’ve just checked with Dr Tan and he said he had given enough RetroMad1 for…

  • Taking Karuna for a walk, etc.

    After visiting Brownie, I drove back to Subang Jaya to visit Karuna.The temple administrator said Karuna has been barking all day yesterday. And, apparently, a wild dog had come into the temple grounds yesterday. Harsha said that was the dog who had bitten Karuna. Harsha will keep an eye on this.  I cleaned up Karuna’s…