Category: Stories (Kah Yein’s)

  • Educating Riley or Respecting Riley? (more reflections on raw food for cats)

    Educating Riley would mean being strict in converting her back to a 100% raw diet. Respecting Riley would mean I respect that she likes junk and canned food and let her eat what she wants because she knows better. Today, I’m too tired of educate Riley, so it’s “Happy Days are Here Again” for our…

  • The Blondies’ breakfast today

    Today was a Kai-buy-lottery day! Kai ate heaps! My observation is correct; every two days Kai will eat to her stomach’s fill and heart’s content! Akira too has been eating very well these days and she no longer needs any kibble as enticement or catalyst to start her off. Cubgrub helps, though, and that’s a…

  • Porch Cats stories

    Creamy was here today, so as usual, it always starts with a slight scuffle between Misty and him. Misty isn’t too fond of Creamy, unfortunately. Gerald has decided that they will have raw food mixed with some tasty canned food. Oh well…Gerald calls the shots for everyone. If not for this, Misty and Creamy are…

  • Honouring our angels – never to be forgotten

    The Mexicans believe that we must not forget those who have left us. It is their practice to talk about their deceased ancestors and pass down all these stories to the next generation. I’ll like to honour our angels too and these are not all of them. Except for Rio, I have not included the…

  • Is the grass greener over there?

    Whenever I’m doing work at the computer or even when I’m not, Tabs and Riley like to sit here. Sometimes, they will be sleeping and sometimes they are looking at the goings-on at Ginger’s Catio. Is the grass greener on the other side, girls? No!! We would rather stay here where it is safe! Not…

  • Best friends in the porch

    Misty has given up her throne for Gerald. These two are the very best of friends. An exemplary relationship that we humans can learn from!

  • Who is left behind in the wrong place?

    I let the Monsters come over to eat grass today. And I decided to keep Stargate open to see if they would know how to go back on their own. And should a fright break out, at least there is more “space” to run! Smurfy is still hungry!! He’s eating up Indy’s leftover kibble. That’s…

  • All’s reasonably well at the porch and some thoughts about food

    Except for the occasional tiffs between Creamy, Gerald and Misty, all’s reasonably well at the porch. Gerald and Misty come back for food 2-3 times daily. They are always here for breakfasts and dinners. And nowadays, they ask for lunch and a tea-time snack too. So, sometimes they end up eating four times a day!…

  • Indy’s appetite

    It is such a joy feeding Indy these days, ever since we started him on subcut and followed by Kidney Support Gold. For months, he had been having inappetence which I mistook for him being choosy. Bitter lesson learnt: Do not assume it is the cat being choosy, even for a cat with Indy’s type…

  • Cow Mau’s mouth pain

    Cow Mau has some health issues, the most serious being his hypertrophic cardiomyopathy which is being address by blood thinners now. But besides this, he also has other more minor but not less significant and uncomfortable issues. One of these is the mouth pain. He has gone through two dental scaling and tooth extractions already…

  • The aftermath of the Robin-Smurfy war

    Yesterday morning, Robin and Smurfy were engaged in a heated and very loud war. I managed to stop the war from becoming a physical fight and I thought all was well after that. But no… I did not check on them but I was definitely home all day. By dinner time, Smurfy did not come…

  • Another Robin-Smurfy fight

    Caught in action just now. Waiting for these two to grow up…but judging from our Super Senior warriors, I might have to wait for maybe 10 more years? The Monsters are still considered much milder than the wrath of Cow Mau, Bunny and Indy in their hey day. Those fights will end up with trips…

  • The little toy thief in the house

    Kai is a toy thief. She loves to carry Jayden’s soft toys all over the house. Similarly, when Riley was young, she did that too! Children will be children! So cute!

  • SARS-CoV-2 and FCoV (Covid-19 and the Feline Coronavirus)

    Ok, what’s all these mumbo-jumbo all about now? SARS-CoV-2 is the pathogen that causes Covid-19 in us, the unfortunate humans, and it has mutated to goodness-knows how many times or whatever form, but the basic form is still there, hence, it’s still Covid-19. FCoV is the feline coronovirus that causes the common coronavirus infection in…

  • Beware of Covid-19, Part 2

    I have bad news, slightly good news and really good news on the homefront with regard to the dreaded Covid-19. The bad news and this is not unexpected: Husband has contracted Covid-19 now. Not shocking because he was the one who discovered Jia-Wen in a hypoxic state and he sent him to the hospital. There…