Month: December 2022

  • Adjusting Bunny’s supplements from day to day

    Bunny had constipation for months before suddenly “switching” to diarrhoea. When he was chronically constipated, I tried everything I know of, and I finally had to resort to daily Cisapride and Lactulose for him. After being “stable” for months, suddenly it switched to diarrhoea and this became a bigger problem. With the diarrhoea, Bunny started…

  • Samantha and Creamy

    Creamy doesn’t come daily nowadays. I think Gerald has taken upon himself to be the prime CNRM-cat on our street. He (Gerald) comes several times daily making his Ah Long-demands for food. I am actually worried it will be only a matter of time before the neighbours complain because he is oh-so-loud! So very, very…

  • Who’s that nibbling at my toes?

    Last night, I was awakened multiple times by someone nibbling at my toes. It was little Riley! Each time I got up, she hid but I saw her. It was her game and it was incredibly cute!! Riley’s pattern is now to come downstairs to play all night. She is still very nocturnal. Day time,…

  • A wonderful sharing by a dog adopter, En Romie

    I particularly like the last part where he says not to harm dogs even if you don’t like them. Leave them alone, please. “Karma is a bitch.” Oh yes, it is, it is.  More than that, it is also a boomerang!

  • Riley is a nocturnal cat

    Since yesterday, Riley suddenly became very sociable. And I realised now that since Riley had grown up as a street kitten, she is totally nocturnal. Last night, she came downstairs to play at midnight and was playing until 3am. She went into Jayden’s cot and selected two soft toys to play with – Tweety Bird…

  • Jayden, our little street cat feeder

    Jayden has been watching me feed the cats for many weeks now, and today, he decided to do it himself. Samantha, Gerald and Creamy drop by very often to eat at the “cat canteen” in our porch. We offer kibble, canned food and even BARF, if they would have it. I tried this morning, Samantha…

  • Riley Day 15, Gerald and Samantha

    It’s as though Riley read my mind and that’s not surprising because cats can definitely read minds. Whether they want to respond or not is a totally different matter, of course. So yesterday, we were a bit worried about Riley holing herself upstairs for two weeks, barely coming downstairs at all. Is she happy being…

  • Neutering aid for 2 dogs in Balakong (Tong Yut Fun’s) & Updates

    We have provided an aid of RM300 for the neutering of these 2 female dogs. An extra RM200 is gifted by Ms Jasmine Ee and Mr Kok Khee Wee to help with the costs. Ms Tong does her CNRM work with Mr Wong Woi Kan. Updates on all previously-claimed dogs are below. Antibiotics were given…

  • Riley Day 14 – domesticating Riley?

    It’s easy to remember how many days Riley has been with us. We lured her into the house on 1st December. But the process of domesticating Riley has been quite challenging. Until today, which is already 2 weeks, Riley still prefers to be upstairs. Ginger urinated on her TV two days ago and she migrated…

  • Tabs is finally friends with Jayden!

    It has taken months! But Jayden never gave up trying to be friends with Tabs. It was Tabs who used to be afraid of Jayden, always running away when Jayden approached her. They say that cats are very patient? Jayden is even more patient! It has really taken MONTHS and finally, he succeeds in befriending…

  • Daycares in Finland built a “forest”

    The story: https://www.sciencealert.com/daycares-in-finland-built-a-forest-and-it-changed-kids-immune-systems My takeaway from this article is that ultimately, we humans are animals. Like it or not, biologically, we are animals. And as animals, we belong in Nature. So as smart or intelligent as we always claim to be, building concrete jungles to live in probably wasn’t exactly the wisest thing we humans did…

  • Memupuk masyarakat penyayang melalui pendidikan perikemanusiaan (surat terbuka kepada YB Pn Fadhlina Sidek dan YB Pn Lim Hui Ying). An open letter to the minister and deputy minister of education on including humane education into our school curricula

    Dear Friends, We have written to the Minister and Deputy Minister of Education to suggest the inclusion of humane education into the school curricula. The English version is below the one in Bahasa Malaysia. If you agree with us, kindly help us share this open letter widely. Thank you. Chan Kah Yein <chankahyein@gmail.com> Date: Wed, 14…

  • The agonising 30 mins when Riley was “missing”

    I was busy drafting another letter this morning when I decided to do a quick check on Riley upstairs. So I went upstairs to her usual spot behind the TV but she wasn’t there. I looked in all the other possible hiding places in her room but she wasn’t in any them. Our bedroom door…

  • Riley eats in the kitchen and some other reflections

    For the benefit of new readers, Riley is a little street kitten whom I first started befriending in mid-September this year. All in, it took about 2 months of building the friendship and trust before we finally managed to catch her for neutering. Little did we know that she is just small-sized and is already…

  • Controlling street animals – Thank you, TheStar

    The online version: https://www.thestar.com.my/opinion/letters/2022/12/12/controlling-street-animals This is our original version sent to TheStar: https://animalcare.my/2022/12/10/an-open-letter-to-yb-nga-kor-ming-minister-of-local-government/