Month: March 2024

  • About IV-hydration in hospice care

    This is a very eye-opening article shared by Cow Mau’s vet: https://envisionhospice.com/considering-iv-hydration-for-your-loved-one-heres-what-you-need-to-know/ Please do take your time to read it through if you are in the position to give palliative care to your animals or humans. It talks about the pros and cons of IV-fluids for end-of-life care.

  • Cow Mau drank some Japanese food!!

    I sensed that Cow Mau wanted his RetroMAD1 and some food. I don’t know how it works, but I just sensed it. So I tried. He willingly took his RetroMAD1, and then I managed to syringe-feed him 4ml of the Japanese liquid food!! I almost cannot believe this! He was sitting in his favourite spot…

  • Another “gift” from Misty

    Misty brought back a dead lizard to our porch today. No wonder both weren’t very hungry this morning. Sigh… Gerald called for a mid-morning snack later. I doubt they ate the poor lizard, though. It was intact. Maybe the hunt itself was satisfying. And only Misty hunts, not Gerald. But both decided they weren’t very…

  • Testing a new kind of toothbrush

    I bought these toothbrushes from Shopee. They are Japanese-made. It claims to have a rotating brush, but I doubt it rotates when brushing. It’s just a 360 degree brush, that’s all. Riley is the most obliging cat. Akira doesn’t like it. But she was okay with the rubber brush earlier on. Indra and Kai didn’t…

  • Cow Mau, watching the Blondies’ antics

    Imagine how quiet it would have been in Bunny’s Place now if I hadn’t brought in Samantha to let her deliver safely in the bedroom. Then, we wouldn’t have the naughty Blondies. And it would only be Cow Mau and Indy left in Bunny’s Place now. It would have been very, very quiet. The Blondies…

  • 6.25am – Cow Mau is at peace

    About 40 minutes after the Furosemide injection, Cow Mau was not at where he was earlier. I had placed a liner under his bottom half in case he needed to urinate, but instead, I found him walking outside. Then I saw a long stream of urine in the pantry so I suspect that must be…

  • Cow Mau, calm and at peace

    I got up at 3.25am this morning to check on Cow Mau. Yesterday, after being on the oxygen, I think he felt better and he got up and walked to the garden to sit in his favourite spot. Whenever he was in the room, I did my best to follow him around with the nasal…

  • An rented oxygen concentrator for Cow Mau

    I finally managed to get the oxygen concentrator for Cow Mau despite the horrendous traffic jam. This is the difference between an oxygen tank and an oxygen concentrator: Oxygen tanks or oxygen cylinders are metal tanks containing pressurized oxygen. To use these tanks, a line of tubing is connected to the tank at one end…

  • Helping Cow Mau with his breathing

    We made it to the vet’s and back. Luckily we didn’t have to wait long at all. I’m so grateful the clinic slotted us in. The vet said Cow Mau has deteriorated and the priority now is to take care of his breathing. When we reached there, Cow Mau was struggling with his breathing. It…

  • Cow Mau has visitors

    Lunch break visiting. Little Jayden visiting after his Playgroup. We’ll be going to the vet’s this afternoon. I will ask if it’s possible to do some acupuncture to give Cow Mau some comfort and wellness.

  • Iron Cat got up and walked!

    After lying laterally recumbent for about 4.5 hours listening to soothing chanting, with laboured breathing, Cow Mau started lifting his head a few times. And then he sat up. And stood up. So I decided to take him to lie down at his favourite place for some morning sunshine. But he decided he wanted to…

  • Cow Mau is very weak

    I am writing this in the dark with Cow Mau lying beside me on a pillow. In the past few days, he had actually been getting weaker. Sometimes, he would just lie laterally recumbent for a long time, sleeping. He already has trouble walking as his hind legs are very weak. While we were concentrating…

  • Who is being nebulised?

    Who is inside the nebuliser carrier? It’s Indy. He’s been having some runny nose for a few mornings now, but it is only in the mornings and it didn’t seem serious. I gave him Cetirizine and Vetri DMG and he seemed fine. But the runny nose started again yesterday, today and even this evening, so…

  • Neutering aid for 2 dogs in Shah Alam (Flora a/p G. Daniel’s) & Updates

    We have provided an aid of RM400 for the neutering of these 2 female dogs, Whitey and Blacky. Updates on all previously-claimed animals are below. Brindy and Brenda are now completely under the care of the workers in the construction site. They do not come out daily anymore. But Mdm Flora calls one of the…

  • Cow Mau starts on RetroMAD1

    How could I not have thought of this? Way back in August 2011, we were the first organisation to use RetroMAD1 a year after it was developed by two Malaysian scientists: https://animalcare.my/2011/08/03/meeting-up-with-the-scientist-himself-retromad1/ Now, RetroMAD1 is under a Singapore vet and I contacted him today. He says they have used it in FCGS (Feline Chronic GingivoStomatitis)…