Category: Stories (Kah Yein’s)

  • Poor scaredy Gerald

    This is how scared Gerald is of Creamy. Here’s what happened yesterday morning. Creamy came. I served him breakfast hoping that he would go home after eating. Misty was, as usual, “serba salah” again. There simply isn’t a exact translation for “serba salah” in English, is there? Haha…. Creamy ate but refused to go home…

  • An EV’s pet-friendly under-the-car camera

    The BYD Dolphin (the electric car from China) has a pet-friendly under-the-car camera. So, if you are reversing or even going forward, you can see what’s underneath your car. The under-the-car camera is on the right. It is so, so useful for animal caregivers.

  • “Kucing yang tak suka makan ikan”

    “Kucing suka makan ikan” is a norm in Asian countries. While fish is definitely not an ancestral food for cats because cats originated from Persia which was mostly arid desert land (not much water, hence, not many fish), we believe that Asian cats have learnt to eat fish because of the influence of the human…

  • Brushing the cats’ teeth

    What a breakthrough!! This is clearly a case of “if you don’t try, how would you know?” Ming-Yi recently told me that she could brush her cats’ teeth and I wondered how. I thought it was because Dorami and Mina are such obedient cats (they were when they stayed over here during Chinese New Year)…

  • Adding more water to the cats’ meals

    I am on an ongoing quest to add more water to the cats’ meals. Each cat has a different plan because of their different dietary needs and preferences, and of course, their individual idiosyncrasies. Riley is a total junkie and if she were given a choice, she would want to eat kibble. So for Riley,…

  • More calico mother-daughter portraits

    Akira is going to be of the same size as her mother anytime now! If Samantha is a diluted calico, what is Akira then? A faded calico? From https://sports.yahoo.com/lifestyle/dilute-calico-cat-rare-130404646.html Are dilute calico cats rare? Yes. Only one in every 1,000 cats is born a standard calico and dilute calico cats are even harder to come…

  • The unresolved issue in the porch

    Creamy came at 5.30am this morning. Misty was there too. Misty lives in our porch. I didn’t have the heart to shoo Creamy away, so I fed him and he ate. Only raw food. I know he only comes for raw food. Maybe he doesn’t get that from his home. Creamy licking his lips after…

  • The fear in Gerald

    Either Creamy has developed a terrorist complex in him or Gerald is just too timid, I really don’t know. This morning, husband went out to the porch and found Creamy there. Misty and Gerald were nowhere to be seen. He shoo-ed Creamy back home. By the time I went out to feed the Porch Cats,…

  • Dateline: The 16th day, 3.20am

    Except for Cow Mau, all our other cats did not eat dinner tonight. They were too freaked out by the fireworks of Chap Goh Mei. The rains came and went off too early this evening. Even before the rain stopped, the fireworks already started. And it went on and on all night until way past…

  • Poor Tabs

    The fireworks have started and Tabs is terrified. I expect there will be the bombs and blasts tonight. Please rain. Please. A former applicant texted me to wish me Happy Chap Goh Mei this morning. I returned the wish but I added “Please say NO to fireworks”. To many, they normally will not reply and…

  • Feeding the Blondies

    The Blondies are still keeping to their pattern of eating a full meal once in two days and grazing after that. Well, perhaps the frequency has reduced to once in 1.5 days now. I was told that some cats just like to graze and do not like to eat two square meals per day. This…

  • The problem that Creamy causes

    Creamy came back again this morning. Gerald was back as well and remained only at the door mat while Creamy and Misty were at the feeding station. I quickly fed Creamy some raw food hoping he’d go away after that. Misty was eating as well but clearly she wasn’t exactly comfortable. Maybe it’s because her…

  • Jayden and the Monsters!

    Jayden loves our cats. Here he is with Lynx. But he is safest with his best friend, Ginger. Ginger has been Jayden’s friend since Jayden was 2+ months old!

  • Feeding our CKD cats and Cow Mau

    We have three CKD cats now – Indy (Stage 4), Tabs (Stage 2) and Ginger (early Stage 2). Cow Mau has hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM) or congestive heart failure. These are our senior cats. Tabs has PKD (polycystic kidney disease where her kidneys is filled with many fluid-filled cysts). PKD usually happens in pedigree cats and…

  • Why is everyone spooked this morning?

    It must be the dreaded fireworks last night. Many of our cats were very spooked this morning. Gerald was already spooked last night when he came to our window upstairs and started mewing loudly. It was at 3am in the morning and I was so worried the neighbour would complain. I opened the window to…