Category: Stories (Kah Yein’s)

  • Gerald and Misty’s devotion to each other

    Sometime last week, Gerald was “missing” for breakfast and if you remember, I wrote about how Misty came but simply refused to eat. She was definitely hungry, but she would not eat without her best friend. Luckily after a few hours, Gerald came back so the two had a good belated breakfast. This morning, I…

  • Indy’s crazy meal times and the new inter-catio fighters

    Why am I up at 3.30am? It’s actually been a daily occurrence. It’s due to Indy’s crazy meal times. He doesn’t want to eat with the rest for reasons only known to him and him alone. So he demands for food at the oddest hours. Yes, like at 3.00am. Or worse, at 1.00am when you’ve…

  • Jayden and Ryan’s safari viewing sessions and Riley’s grand escape

    If we have no time to accompany the boys out to the catio to play with the cats or to the front porch to feed Gerald, Misty and Creamy, the boys bring their stools and watch from inside the house! This is Jayden. He placed the stools there so that he can sit and watch…

  • Ciao Churos for feeding supplements and medicine

    I used to use Cindy’s pureed canned food for feeding medicine to the difficult-to-pill cats, namely Cleo, the queen with the golden mouth. It does work pretty well except that I only need a little bit each time so once a can is opened, the longest it can last in the fridge is just four…

  • The dark coloured drinking bowl

    Our vet was right! Riley and Tabs do prefer the dark coloured drinking bowl. On the second day, I was still putting the white bowl next to the brown bowl and Tabs went for the brown bowl! Now, I’ve removed the white bowl.

  • Cleo and Indy to the vet’s (starts on Darbepoetin injections)

    Today was Cleo and Indy’s appointment which is the check-up after 10 days of being on the CKD regimen. The result, in short: Cleo has maintained her readings while Indy has shown improvement. I was really hoping both would have shown improvement, but Cleo has been having CKD since September 2019 so she’s been living…

  • Our black-and-white warriors of the Brotherhood

    Here are portraits of our very senior black-and-white warriors! Hey, Brother Cow… My liege…(I bow down low). Senior, but still our unbeatable warriors of the Brotherhood! Warriors, yes, but both have a heart of gold!

  • Indy’s doppleganger or….?

    This is a photo from MunMun’s Furry Sanctuary, taken yesterday… Check out the black-and-white cat in the background… This one. Oh no!!!  Is that Indy??? The markings on the face is uncannily similar, right? But…aha, Indy has a tell-tale classic “ink heart” on his body. Do you see it in the picture below? It’s the…

  • The nurses on duty at subcut

    Today is Indy and Cleo’s check-up after 10 days of doing this CKD regimen. They have been on increased subcut fluids, Renal-N and Astro’s Oil’s Fish Oil and Nitrogen-Creatinine Scrub. Let’s hope there’s good news later. Meanwhile, where are the nurses for this session? Here they are!!!

  • Jayden and his No. 1 best friend, Ginger

    Ginger is the cat who Jayden grew up with when he was a little baby. Now, Ginger stays in the catio at the side of our house with Minnie and her Monsters (her four sons) who hero-worships their Uncle Ginger too. Ginger looked after them when they were young, from the day they were born,…

  • An oral drug is available for FIP now

    We are probably slow to the party, but we just found out yesterday that an oral drug is now available for FIP cats! Previously, there was no treatment and FIP was a death sentence for cats. Then, came the injectable GS 441524, initially a controversial drug and had to be purchased through the black market.…

  • Riley’s new dark-coloured drinking bowl

    Riley urinates at the downstairs bathroom drain hole, so I’m able to note the colour of her urine and even syringe it up to collect it. I’ve been a bit concerned that her urine colour is a tad too yellow. So I collect some two days ago to show the vet. The vet said it…

  • The Super Seniors’ snack time

    Cow Mau has a great appetite and his super senior status entitles him to get food whenever he asks for it. Now, Cleo’s appetite has improved too, so she also demands for snacks, which is really a good thing. It’s a bonus today when Indy too came for the snack! But when the Super Seniors…

  • Getting Indy and Akira to eat

    Getting Indy to eat involves serving him where he is. Usually he isn’t hungry enough to come down from wherever he is to join the rest. So sometimes I need to climb up to where he is, on the platforms. It’s the same with Akira and also Kai. I have to chase after them to…

  • Minnie’s intermittent fasting and other tales about dental hygiene

    We all know that intermittent fasting is now a very fashionable way of eating for humans. But did you know that cats know how to do it too? And they are WAY smarter than us as well. They know how to have “cheat days”. They don’t do it blindly. Minnie does intermittent fasting every once…