Category: Stories (Kah Yein’s)

The Blondies are 8 months 15 days old today. See how big Indra has grown, and Kai and Akira are only about just 100g lighter than Indra. And it was like “only yesterday” that I held them in my palm to handfeed them! Soon, the Blondies might be as big as Samantha already! I don’t…

Grief is something that most humans experience. In fact, if you don’t experience grief and sadness, I think there would something quite wrong with you or you are an enlightened being who possesses no more emotions! So for the rest of the ordinary mortals like me, we still experience grief, especially when there is a…

Today, Jayden INSISTED on eating Cubgrub’s dehydrated chicken treats. He wouldn’t take “no” for an answer. Luckily I know Cubgrub’s incredibly high standards of hygiene, so okay, fine, I let him try. He did. Twice. I think he actually liked it but it was too tough for him to bite off because it is too…

Pet Memorial sent Cleo’s ashes back to us just now. You will always be in our hearts, Cleo. From stardust to stardust until the next Big Bang!

Please allow me to digress a little in this blogpost to share with all of you about Jia-Wen’s Covid-19 case. My son, Jia-Wen, was tested positive for Covid-19 two days after their return from Hong Kong. Ryan and Jayden fell sick a day after their return; Ryan had conjunctivitis and Jayden had fullblown flu. Both…

On rainy days like nowadays, Gerald gets hungry very quickly. So at 3pm today, he started mewing loudly for food at our window sill. Jayden was fast asleep in the nursery (that’s our converted living room) and he was about to wake Jayden up with his nonstop loud demanding mewing. So I had to quickly…

Jia-Wen popped over to pay his last respects to Cleo. He’s all bundled up because he has Covid-19, just diagnosed yesterday, and it’s his second time. Sigh. Jayden and Gerald Pet Memorial staff collecting Cleo’s remains. Misty Goodbye, dearest Cleo. Gerald providing some comfort. Funerals and last rites are for the survivors. It gives us…

Kai and Akira with Cleo. Cleo is so amazingly clean. Since yesterday until now, there has been no discharge of any kind from her remains. This is despite the medication and subcut she was on prior to her demise. She has always been a very, very meticulously clean cat all her life too. Peaceful and…

I definitely need time to grieve and mourn the loss of Cleo. But there was work to be done last night, it is as always, AnimalCare work and I decided to do them, in memory of Cleo. There are caregivers to help, animals to help; the work doesn’t stop. There are a lot of behind-the-scenes…

Cleo was one of our Super Seniors. She had a clean bill of health all her life until she was diagnosed with early-stage chronic kidney failure (CKD) in September 2019, together with her mother, Pole. Cleo was 12 years old then. From then on, she was merely on thrice-weekly subcut and a raw diet. I…

Cleo passed away very, very peacefully at 6.23pm today. My husband and I were with her all the way. It was at about 6.15pm that I counted her breathing and it was 24, which is normal. The next time I counted, it was 15 so I knew it was slowing down. Cleo did not struggle…