By the way, Ms A confirmed that Jon Jon (JJ) is a boy, so I'm glad that that gender issue was finally cleared up! I've been confused about JJ's gender because some folks called him JJ, while Ms A calls him An An, which is a gal's name. Furthermore, JJ does not have the alpha male look at all, but have facial features similar to those of a gentle female cat, plus, his ding-dongs seemed to have shrunk so much that it would be too easy to mistake him for a gal!
(Photos from early Dec '06; JJ looks cleaner nowadays)
I asked Ms A whether JJ has chronic or acute kidney failure, but she didn't understand those English terms, and could only tell me that JJ is in the middle stage of the disease, which was what the vet had told her. It didn't help that my spoken Mandarin, though passable, does not extend to more complex medical terms! My question sounded totally out of the blue to Ms A, so I suspect that the vet had not mentioned this point to Ms A. Ms A mentioned that the vet seemed so busy that she didn't even have a chance to talk to him much (Well, that's one reason why I never like to go to that particular animal hospital, if I can help it).
JJ didn't like K/D wet food, so Ms A had been cooking fresh fish for the fussy eater. Apparently, his royal highness the fussy eater would eat the fish if it was freshly cooked, but not if it had been cooked hours before. Poor Ms A had to coax him to eat the home-cooked fish as well as the antibiotics twice a day. Looking at her, one really has to admire her patience and dedication to care for such a difficult cat - one that cannot be touched too much, cannot be held for flea medication to be applied or for oral medicine to be administered.
What can I say about JJ, except that he is such a diva! Although they are buddies, JJ and Sugar are so very different in terms of "catsonalities" - one is difficult while the other is easy to care for. One is generally boh chap, while the other simply loves cat-friendly humans.
I've informed Ms A about the information which was kindly provided by Moglee and Calsifer such as adding cod liver oil and vitamin B to home-cooked fish, chicken, salmon, etc. which would be suitable for JJ. So, we'll have to see how things go, in view that JJ's diet is easily jeopardised by other cat-friendly passerbys who tend to feed them cats with junk food.
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