Category: Stories (Kah Yein’s)

  • Juno is spayed!

    The short version: Juno is spayed and all is well! 9.00am this morning I’ve been nervous for the past few days ever since I set the appointment for Juno’s spaying last week. The appointment is today. This afternoon. I know the spaying has to be done, the benefits far outweighs the risks of the surgery.…

  • Happy Meatless Friday with a moringa breakfast!

    I’ve learnt about the bountiful benefits of the moringa plant so we managed to get two saplings about a month ago and planted them in pots. They are both growing very well. After learning to identify the leaves, we noticed at least five moringa trees in our neighbourhood, by the roadside. They aren’t very tall…

  • The second review of PledgeCare products (meat toppers, freeze-dried cod, air-dried fish)

    This is my second review of the PledgeCare products. Our cats weren’t exactly interested in the two Meat Toppers, so I decided to try again this morning. I topped the Blondies’ buffet breakfast of wet food with the Fish Topper and as usual, left the food in four bowls for them. Being the most fussy…

  • Pilling Robin and giving Orozyme to the rest

    I wish someone could take a video of Robin running to the table to be fed his daily Cystophan. He’s just so, so good. He’s already jumped up the table to wait for his Cystophan, followed by Orozyme. Ginger’s Kidney Support Gold and Hyaflex (both liquid), followed by Orozyme. Orozyme for Lynx and Rey (halfway…

  • Gerald and Creamy after yesterday’s fireworks

    Last night’s fireworks was really bad after midnight. There is a law against lighting up after midnight, despite the legalisation of the dreaded materials. I didn’t manage to get Gerald back yesterday evening. I got him back in the afternoon, but he was yowling till no end, wanting to go back out, so I let…

  • The Bai Tian Gong war zones…everywhere!

    My neighbourhood started quite early tonight with the firecrackers and fireworks, but thank goodness that family that lights up right in front of our house probably aren’t Hokkiens (?) and are not celebrating this festival. In most towns that I know, non-Hokkien Chinese also join in the fun to celebrate, but please…could you spare us…

  • Trying out another Malaysian-made pet food, PledgeCare (meat toppers, air-dried and freeze-dried treats)

    About three weeks ago, Julius Sondergaard, co-founder of PledgeCare, wrote to me to ask if I could review their cat food. PledgeCare was co-founded by Julius and his partner, Louis Tan, in 2018. You can read all about this Malaysian company here: https://pledgecare.org/ Here’s a little background about the company, from Julius: We started as…

  • Do your cats play “musical bowls” while eating together?

    If they do, here’s an idea shared by my vet-friend: Or, if you have cats on special diets whose food should not be shared by other cats, you can do the above too! This would be a case of “sharing is not caring”! Happy hunting for cardboard boxes to do it!

  • Samantha’s great escape…to upstairs

    Samantha seldom ever escapes from the room, but she did just now. I was just putting their dinner bowls inside when she suddenly sneaked out and dashed upstairs. Luckily the whole house is escape-proof. My only worry is the front door when someone opens it. So I wasn’t unduly worried about it, just that it…

  • The Blondies’ news

    A truly rare occasion where Akira the Junkie chose raw chicken over her favourite kibble. I really must increase the Blondies’ consumption of wet food. But what can I do when they would rather starve than eat wet food? Recently, Samantha has been going back to Cubgrub, which is a good thing. Kai likes canned…

  • Robin completes his antibiotics and the scare by Ginger

    Robin completed his antibiotics for the FIC yesterday. That’s a course of Baytril for 10 days. But he had already recovered 24 hours after starting treatment, actually. Still, the course of antibiotics must be completed. He is still on Cystophan, twice daily for two weeks since the start, and after that, once daily as maintenance.…

  • The web of life and selfish humans

    They did it again last night, with the same fervour: The deafening fireworks and firecrackers, close to midnight. In the park, right under the trees. So, as expected, my appeal fell on deaf ears and hearts devoid of any compassion for the little birds and tiny critters. There will always be such people; people who…

  • Bracing ourselves for the next night of the “war zone”

    We were at the park this morning and had the sheer pleasure of sitting quietly and peacefully watching so many different types of birds flying around from tree to tree. It made me think of what the birds had to go through the nights before when those firecrackers people lit up and converted the park…

  • Gerald, Creamy and the “war zone”

    Last night, I didn’t manage to get Gerald back on time before the playground in front of our house was turned into a “war zone” with that one family lighting up fire crackers and fireworks. I could only hope that Gerald was hiding somewhere safe. The noise was thunderous, so loud that we could not…

  • Our neighbourhood – a “war zone”

    Last night was terrible. Our otherwise peaceful neighbourhood was turned into a “war zone” because of fireworks and fire crackers. Every year, it would be this same family doing it. But what can we do? This government legalised it. Under previous governments, I could call the police and they would actually come around albeit very…