Category: Stories (others)
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Happy Wesak 2025!
“All living beings, whether large or small, whether two-legged, four-legged or many-legged, whether swimmers, crawlers or fliers, have a right to live and to receive kindness.” Happy Wesak!
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Happy Mother’s Day 2025!
Happy Mother’s Day to pet-mothers everywhere! Throwback to 2012 with Bobby, Bunny and Cow Mau!
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Bar urges AGC to review legality of Negeri Sembilan’s stray dog culling plan
There is a glimmer of hope for compassion: https://www.freemalaysiatoday.com/category/nation/2025/05/07/bar-urges-agc-to-review-legality-of-negeri-sembilans-stray-dog-culling-plan
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Petition: Demand to halt the culling of stray dogs in Negeri Sembilan
Please sign and share widely. Thank you. Sign this petition to pressure Negeri Sembilan government to halt any decisions pertaining to mass culling of stray dogs! The strays need YOU now, more than ever! https://www.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/616/840/980/
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Honouring the animal relief volunteers at Putra Heights
The news: https://www.freemalaysiatoday.com/category/leisure/2025/05/01/honouring-all-who-helped-with-animal-relief-at-putra-heights Kudos to all the volunteers and may the lost furry ones rest in peace.
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Happy Workers’ Day 2025!
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Carry on neutering…as many street animals as you can
We are deeply saddened by this news: https://www.freemalaysiatoday.com/category/nation/2025/04/30/negeri-sembilan-to-cull-stray-dogs-in-malay-majority-areas According to the above news report, the state assembly has unanimously agreed that some stray dogs in predominantly Malay-Muslim residential areas should be culled to address safety concerns. This means not even one single ADUN voted with compassion for the street dogs? Not even a single human…
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Rumah Kucing Ifan, Palembang (a cat house in Palembang)
It looks like a one-man show. Such a lovely human being! May he be healthy and happy and may all his cats be healthy and happy too. Do watch the video and be inspired! The video: https://www.instagram.com/reel/DHnVEIFyB_z/?igsh=M2xvczJwbXc3cHM1
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A street puppy finds a loving home! (a sharing by Lee Soo Farng)
Let’s be inspired by this lovely story! On 24/3/2025 about 11am, as I was going out for my morning errands, I noticed a small little black thing further up along my street. Upon close up I realised it was a little puppy, barely 2-3 months old in the middle of the street! My heart sank…
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One cat caregiver’s battle with a python
This is a follow-up story on Ms Jo-Ann Koh Mei Li’s battle with the python at her housing area. You might remember the incident in February 2025 when Ms Koh literally and physically fought with the python to free her cat, Jerry: https://animalcare.my/2025/02/17/this-lady-fought-off-a-python-to-rescue-her-cat/ The reptile is still at large. In her own words: Yes, this…
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Happy Vaisakhi and Happy Puthandu 2025!
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How much deception and inauthenticity is AI creating?
Ever since ChatGPT came into play, we have stopped receiving requests written in Malaysian style broken English. All requests were then written in grammatically-perfect English but in a very robotic voice. But the requests were still genuine. In the last few weeks, we have received two ridiculous requests. The first was written using a lot…
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Ban fireworks!!
We call for a nationwide ban on fireworks. It is too dangerous, causes too much risk and harm to animals and humans. It is unnecesary. The news: https://www.freemalaysiatoday.com/category/opinion/2025/04/09/bang-goes-the-proposal-for-ban/
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A chance encounter with a rescuer
I was at the vet’s yesterday with Kelly and I saw a lady bring in eight dogs for neutering. There were also two other ladies who were ahead of us and they had brought in a tortoise. I learnt a lot about compassion yesterday, from these three ladies. And I am truly thankful for the…
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Kudos to Sri Maha Kaliamman Temple for extending shelter to rescued cats from Putra Heights inferno
To the temple and its management committee, kudos to all of you for your compassion! The news: https://www.msn.com/en-my/news/national/putra-heights-temple-extends-shelter-to-rescued-pets/ar-AA1Ckq2l?ocid=nl_article_link