Category: Stories (Kah Yein’s)

  • Cow Mau eats and eats!!

    I came downstairs at 5.30am this morning to find Cow Mau waiting eagerly for me at the door of Bunny’s Place. He looked hungry….and he was!! I know Cindy’s pureed food will not be able to satiate his hunger as it is only 8% protein, so I took a chance and offered Coco&Joe’s, which is…

  • This is the way we brush our teeth….

    I thought I’d ask my husband to take some videos of today’s teeth-brushing with the Monsters. Lynx doesn’t quite like it; Smurfy escaped though I managed to brush his teeth a few days ago. Minnie, forget it! Well, something is better than nothing, isn’t it? P.S. Yes, I wash the toothbrush after every cat.

  • Gerald’s noisy (and loud) victory march!

    Gerald was a really happy cat this morning. Was it because Creamy did not come? Or did he win in some fight with Creamy in the back road?  We will never know. But he was SO happy, he came to eat, and then he paraded all along the ledge, went upstairs on the roof as…

  • Cow Mau bounces back!!

    By evening yesterday, Cow Mau was clearly feeling much, much better. After dinner, he was very alert and spent many hours in the living room with us. This morning, he was waiting eagerly for breakfast too and guess how many helpings of food he ate? THREE!! This is a can of tuna and sardines from…

  • Cow Mau’s first subcut – a success!

    I had no choice but to try and do Cow Mau’s subcut all by myself this evening. I didn’t know what to expect, but Cow Mau was so good. His very first subcut and it went without a hitch. We did 60ml, as the vet had advised. Because of his heart condition, the vet says…

  • Cow Mau to the vet’s for acupuncture and pain management

    Cow Mau has been pawing a lot lately. His mouth pain has been getting worse. Yet, he tries his best to eat, which is really heart-breaking. I’m at my wit’s end deciding on a suitable food because he paws even when I syringe liquid into his mouth. So I give him whatever he can tolerate,…

  • 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…