Chen Chen and her apartment friend, Connie, and Connie’s two young children look after the community cats in their apartment area. Unfortunately, there are two animal-hating neighbours in their block and one of them traps the cats and dump them elsewhere.
Recently, Ofie, one of the community cats looked after by Connie and her two children was trapped and dumped by one of these neighbours. The neighbour has refused to reveal where he has dumped Ofie despite the children’s pleas.
Please read Chen Chen’s account below and let’s all collectively do three things:
1. Pray for Ofie to be safe, wherever he is.
2. Help look for Ofie, if you stay around those two areas mentioned below.
3. Pray the neighbour will reveal the location AND stop trapping cats and dumping them again.
Of course, we also hope Ofie could come home, but that would be a hazardous journey back.
Please help, folks. Please forward this link, especially to your friends in these areas.
Hi Kah Yein,
Remember I told you about my cat-hating neighbour who set cat-traps and sneakily dump the cat in another location. Well, he caught one of our community cats called Ofie a few days ago. We have told him that cats with collars are cats that some of us are taking care of and have asked him to spare them, but he ignored our pleas and Ofie was caught and dumped somewhere. Only today via talking to a woman who knows the wife of this man, Connie (the main caregiver of this cat community) found that there could be two possible places that he could have dumped Ofie. One is SS24 (Taman Megah, PJ) around Fatty Crab and the second place was “near Ong Ka Ting’s house” which we deduced to be somewhere in Damansara Utama near Atria area.Connie does not have good pictures of Ofie. Attached are the best she got. He was wearing a bright/light green collar when he was caught. Can you please blog this to ask the cat feeders and cat caregivers around Taman Megah and Damansara Utama to keep a look out for this cat? If you see a light ginger male tabby with a light green collar, please email to Connie at nconnie@hotmail.comor call her at 019 355 6818? She and her 2 children are worried because Ofie is a gentle cat, and they would like him to come home.Thanks a million,Chen
My heart really goes out for Ofie, Connie, her children and Chen Chen.
This is where one of our readers was right – that the idea of community animals may not work at times. All it takes is one animal-hater who does this kind of things to get rid of the animals.
But it goes back to the question of how many animals we can adopt and rehome. We all have a limit and the no-kill sanctuaries are full. Where can we put these community animals so that they would be safe from animal-haters who are bent on getting rid of them?
If you have an answer, please do share.
Meanwhile, please pray that Ofie is safe and will soon be found.
Comments
7 responses to “Please help to look for Ofie (Ng Chen Chen’s)”
My suggestion is to use the power of the community. In the positive way. USE all you can to shame the person. ONE of the most effective way is to put poster all over the area with the pictures of the cat that is missing with message such as HAVE YOU SEEN THIS CAT? .. especially the area where the man lives. LET HIM SEE THE poster wherever he goes .. and I am sure he would get the message THAT THE COMMUNITY knows what is going on. Every time a cat is missing, do the same. This is what I called SILENT PROTEST. Confrontation would only increase friction and the animals would suffer even more.
I suggested the same when Sunshine was badly beaten. Put posters out. Let them see what they have done to an innocent life. Some might not get the message, but many would.
Do not despair. Change is never easy. You have only been busy with this activity for the past few years. It will take a long, long time before the number of strays begin to lower. Do not look at it as impossible. You guys are doing great job.
Hi KY,
Only one cat-hating neighbour set the trap. The other one once in a while throw “pop” “pop” crackers at the cats to frighten them.
Such an evil and intolerable man. Not sure if the poster idea might be a good idea in case he retaliates against the cats further… He seems unreasonable as it is. However with these sort of people, it’s worth getting society to keep them in check as the more people who speak up, the more he knows he’s being watched. Hope Offie’s ok.
Been thinking on-and-off about your question, KY, what to do?
I am absolutely, 100%, not joking … I think you should start thinking of forming a political party for animals. The problem in Malaysia with animals, whether stray or not, needs some political power. NOT depending on other political parties, but a political party that speak for the welfare of the animals. For instance, in Kamunting, Taiping, I saw a garbage dump covered with more than a hundred monkeys, many of them are so young. The problems is with housing developers. The monkeys no longer have fruits to eat when most of the jungle removed for houses. As long as there is money to made, animals and others who cannot speak and defend themselves, get abused.
I live in the Netherlands. Since about 5, 6 years, we have the very first party, in the world, for the animals elected into the parliament. Only 1 or 2 seats out of 150, but there is a CONSTANT voice for the animals. AND that I think Malaysia absolutely needs one. And you can do it KY. Or perhaps I should say you should think hard about it.
What you are doing now, is great, but without voice inside the parliament, you cannot push for anything big and nationwide.
IF you are interested, I will try and see if I can find someone from this political party to get in touch with you etc. And I really, really, really think you should.
Thank you, Cindy. There are many, many other animal activists out there who are very vocal and actively involved in speaking up for animals. They would be far better candidates than me. But thank you all the same. Someone suggested it to me a few months ago, too. I am not well-versed in the political world at all. The unruly, unpleasant and very unrefined debates in our local parliament is enough to scare me, I don’t even want to watch them!
I don’t want to waste too much of your valuable time as you have so many urgent issues right this moment. Just want to follow-up with my comment.
Well, I hope to see a Party for the Animals (in Holland is PvD) soon in Malaysia.
Politic is dirty. I understand. Some of us are front runner, others are followers. Let’s hope some brave front runners would come together/forward for the sake of the animals in Malaysia.
i really feel for Ofie, Chen, Connie and her kids in their ordeal. but i am very grateful for the community support that has come through so far for everyone involved. and it is truly very encouraging to read and see for myself the support and cooperation to find Ofie because it’s given me hope to find my own boy Ozee who is missing too. i am hardly around the area which is mentioned so i dont know it well enough, but if they need some push-comes-to-shove support around that poopsnot in human skin, i’ll be too happy to come by and give him a real hiding.
it’s really intrusive of him to dump Ofie although he already knew it is being cared for and it didnt even mess up his living area. i love animals and even reptiles (unless they are pests) but i particularly dislike people who intrude like this so i wouldnt be gentle.