Category: Medical

  • Indy eats!

    Indy ate his dinner!! That’s AD for Indy. After finishing his food, he went to eat up the remnants from two more bowls!  Yay for Indy! Indy had a temperature of 39.88 degrees this morning and also elevated white blood cells. He had no appetite then. The vet gave him a Clavomox injection and I…

  • Indy has a fever

    Was it due to yesterday’s scuffle with Vincent and Mr Zurik? I doubt so, but this morning, Indy refused to eat. The moment I saw him sitting at the window sill, looking forlorn, I kind of knew something was not quite right. Indy never refuses food. He might walk away from dry Primal or even…

  • Tiger Day 69

    I haven’t been able to check on Tiger’s sporo sores for a few days now since he is so strong and he doesn’t like being “handled”. It needs two people to hold him down especially when he resents it. But today, I managed to examine his (former) sporo spots – they are all gone! Completely…

  • Urgent: Help and adopter needed for paralysed puppy (Tang Wei Hao’s)

    Updates at 10.18pm: Wei Hao has just informed us that he is located in Ipoh. We are currently still waiting for more information before proceeding to arrange for help. The original post: I received this email from Tang Wei Hao, 17, yesterday, after I returned from the Wesak Eve event. Since there was no photo,…

  • Rosie’s three suppers and breakfast

    Last night, Rosie asked for supper…three times! Looks like she is making up for that one missed dinner on Saturday (when she had fever) and that’s indeed a good sign. This morning, Rosie was waiting for breakfast at the patio with everyone else. Ginger already had breakfast in the kitchen with Tiger and Tabs so he…

  • Rosie eats her breakfast (“I protest in the strongest terms at being caged”)

    Last night, Rosie was whining most pitifully in the cage. I was a little worried that she was holding her urination as the vet had said her bladder was full when we were there (which was at 7pm) and it was approaching midnight. Holding the urination for so long isn’t good, I thought. There was…

  • 11.10pm: Rosie eats!

    So Rosie was making a racket in the cage for quite sometime and I just had to let her be. It wasn’t Ginger or Daffodil accompanying her, but Timmy. But we did wonder whether Timmy is accompanying Rosie or just staking a claim on his cage… By about 11pm, I went to check on Rosie…

  • Rosie has a fever

    Rosie did not come for dinner today, and I thought she was holed up somewhere due to the rain. I went to look and found her inside the big box in the porch. I thought she was afraid of the rain, so I brought a bowl of food to her but she wasn’t interested. After…

  • Tiger Day 63

    So far so good. No new sporo breakouts….(keeping fingers crossed!) Peek-a-boo, Day 63! 1st June, here I come… I’d decided to bring the chair in for Tiger now. For his “maintenance” treatment, Tiger is still on the following: 1. Sporonox (1/2 cap daily) – will cease on 1st June 2. Vetri DMG (1 tablet daily)…

  • Updates on Poppy (previously known as Bumblebee) (from Marina Mustapha)

    Poppy has come a long, long way and is today a healthy and happy cat! He was Bambee when first rescued, then renamed Bumblebee and now he is Poppy! When first rescued in August 2013:  http://animalcare.my/2013/08/30/medical-subsidy-for-bambie-rescued-cat-marina-mustaphas/ From: marinarocm@yahoo.com Date: Sun, May 4, 2014 at 6:25 PM Subject: Updates – Poppy aka Bumblebee To: “chankahyein@gmail.com” <chankahyein@gmail.com> Dear…

  • Tiger Day 58 – the 30-day countdown begins!!

    Today, we begin the COUNTDOWN of 30 days to the end of Sporonox!!  Sporonox will end on Day 88, which is 1st June!! Counting….

  • More feedback on the pet spray

    My friend, JC, adopted an abandoned poodle some years back. She named the poodle Siew Mai and Siew Mai is pampered to the core. Recently, Mai-Mai had a fungal skin problem and JC was at her wits’ end trying many products, but all to no avail. JC sent me this photo of Mai-Mai, shorn like…

  • Tiger Day 56

    Tiger loves sitting on the grass and the soil. I guess this is also partly how he contracted the sporo fungi. And he also loves the Clubhouse chairs. He may have accidentally poked himself on the plastic strands. But the sores are getting lighter every day, so this is good. The other sores (non-sporo) on…

  • Tiger Day 54 – the sporo story (a library of sporotrichosis stories)

    Disclaimer: This post is only a sharing on home caregiving and does not contain any professional advice. If your cat has sporotrichosis, please consult a vet and follow the prescribed treatment. This sharing is intended as an encouragement to sporo-cat caregivers not to give up on their cats and that recovery is possible with proper treatment…

  • Tiger Day 50

    Today is Day 50 and we’re still waiting for the stubborn original sores to disappear. We will get there soon… Play time this morning. Can you find Tabs? See her now? Me is here!!! Don’t get pricked by the twigs, Tabs…. Careful now… And the two best friends play in the morning sun. Nature is…