Other area's community cats - update

Since the deworming mission, I went back the next day to check on Shiny. I was afraid I might have inadvertently overdosed him a little on the deworming tablet.


During the deworming, I had to carry him to the mosaic bench so that I could cut the tablet into smaller pieces, and I'd only realised how light he is after I'd came back and carried Coco. Shiny was lighter than Coco!

I was glad that that he seemed well. Shiny was waiting at the doorstep of the feeder, who hadn't yet fed him, as evidenced by the presence of the Sunday papers sitting on their gate in the typical Singaporean HDB style. Shiny ate a small can of wet food, plus some dry food.

Jambala came by to wait for her breakfast - that's my chance to deworm her!


I had one more deworming tablet, but I didn't have my knife with me... squatted in one corner and tried to break the tablet into quarters with my fingers (with partial success), then hid the tablet into the wet food and gave it to Jambala. The gal is smart - she must have bitten on the half-tablet, found it distasteful, and refused to eat any more of the wet food. Can't fool her. ;)

Attracted by the smell, the noisy Humm Humm came by in the midst and very loudly demanded for a piece of the action!


I gave him the leftover half can of wet food, with a quarter of the leftover deworming tablet. So at least Jambala had three-quarters, which was probably insufficient for her weight.

I walked over to the blocks across to try to find a dustbin, met this guy who came over to sniff the empty can, and started clamouring for some too. Aiya, no more already!


I'd seen him before years' ago, and thought he belonged to the Malay residents of that home (can see the dish of dry cat food beside the dustbin). I gave him some dry food, which he ate in an extremely noisy "nom, nom, nom, ngow, ngow, chomp, chomp" fashion...very amusing! I turned around and understood why...

BT was standing stealthily right behind me. The empty wet food can was a cat magnet!


BT is really quite chubby now. I brought him further away, gave him some dry food, and went on my way.

Mission de-worming

Mission: To de-worm Shiny who lives almost a 15-mins walk away.

The domestic helper of the family that feeds him told me Shiny still get fed with his regular bowl of wet and dry food twice a day. Despite that, he always seem to be hungry and would come to us for snacks of dry food whenever we happen to meet him. Though he seems to be eating a lot, he was losing weight and has become rather skinny.

I thought we should try to de-worm him.


Friday night: Getting ready the feeding apparatus, with a couple of extras, just in case we didn't succeed on the first attempt or if he refuses to take the de-worming tablet. If we succeed, we shall try the 2nd tablet on Jambala, if we happen to meet her and if she's not yet been fed by then.

The idea is to get to their location by 7.30am, before the cats get their regular breakfast, so they would be hungry enough to eat our food.

All packed in the cat-feeding bag and ready for the mission.



Saturday morning: Unfortunately, it poured cats and dogs. When the rain abated, we went out but could not find the regular community cats downstairs. Hopefully, they were hiding somewhere dry away from the heavy rain.



At Shiny's location, we first saw Jambala, then Humm-Humm who was scooting away. We realised BT's presence nearby and he was starting to growl at Humm-Humm. We gave BT some dry food, which he agreed to eat only after he's gotten a few strokes on his head from me. *roll eyes*

We turned around and Jambala was gone. There was no sign of Shiny. Anyhow, we went to eat breakfast, after which the SO went back to office to clear work.

I walked back and tried to find Shiny again - he was sitting right at the door step of the feeders' home all alone, probably having missed his morning breakfast call, which was just right for my mission!


I fed Shiny half a small can of wet food, followed by another quarter can, just to hide the little bit of leftover de-worming tablet. He ate them all, but was becoming less enthusiastic with each mouthful of food as he got fuller. Anyway, it was mission accomplished!


On the way home, I saw a resting Jambala, and gave her a few kibbles.


Also met this golden retriever, which of course I could not resist making friends with. :) Like most GRs, she was very sweet, and made me happy with her attention.

Her domestic helper minder was very kind to take off her leash and asked her to sit for this photo. What a charming sweetie!

Community cats update, etc.

I thought we had sensational weather 2 days' ago, on Tuesday. The whole day was cloudy and I didn't realise there had been a slight drizzle in the late-afternoon, until I stepped outside on my way home.


There was a nice ,cool breeze and the temperature felt like 23 to 34 degrees - it felt like a temperate country! The SO was somewhere else and he too, thought the same.


Shiny from another area, in a photo taken in mid-June. He had lost weight, and lately, is sick and has eye discharge. He is still eating lots though.

I have been missing this boy and last week, was just wondering what had happened to him, when lo and behold, he appeared before us yesterday!


BT has returned! He wasn't in a sociable mood, although he did come to headbutt my legs initially.


He has put on some weight and has a slight bulge at the tummy. Hmm...perhaps someone took him in? His coat doesn't look as smooth as before though... poor food is suspected. I hope he hasn't been thrown out now.

I went to the pet shop to get some canned food for Coco. As usual, Milky the chihuahua now knows how to seek me out, whether by the sound of my voice, my scent, or by whatever means!?!


Pet shop aunty said Milky only does this to 2 of her customers, and one of them is me.

Wow, I'm so honoured! She will make some odd noise until I stroke and carry her, and she will give me her specialty - doggie licks! I love to see her, as she 's so small, round and cute, just like a small roll of honey-baked ham. Best of all, she makes me feel so well-loved. :D



Here's Mimi Tortie Gal, happily being cuddled in the arms of her Singapore Idol... purring away like an engine.


Here's Tabby2 aka Azmi, being held against his/her wishes. All along, we'd thought he's a boy, but recently, we realised he/she really has got totally "no balls", so the SO suspect maybe he's a she!

Haha! Just like we've always thought Shiny was a she (due to the small size), until one day, we realised maybe Shiny is a he! Anyhow, it doesn't matter. We still treat them the same.

Mimi & Kiddy update

We saw Mimi yesterday, sticking close to Kiddy, who has become Mimi's de facto albeit unwilling playmate!

(Kiddy & Mimi, Feb 2008)

Poor Kiddy must have had too much from Mimi already, such that when the SO held him, Kiddy was growling!! Oh my, the sweet, affectionate and manja Kiddy is actually growling in anger!?! What a shock to us!!

Kiddy's body language says it all


We tried to pacify Kiddy and hope he would calm down. The SO put him down and true enough, Mimi went close to him to play, and immediately got a pawful from the exasperated Kiddy *Smack!* :P

We hope Mimi is learning proper lady-like feline behaviour from the very fed-up Kiddy. Heheh!


(Mimi, Mar 2008)

Mimi: Just like my Kiddy khor-khor, I too, have got a tipped ear!

Mimi used to play with another humm-humm "no-ear-cat" tabby, i.e. a broad-headed, unneutered male (with receded ears), who had strayed into the territory. I heard he can be dominant towards the other cats at mealtimes, but somehow, he tolerated the nonsense from the naive Mimi. We have seen the way he allowed Mimi to paw his face and body during play, and he remained rather nonchalant throughout. What a gentle cat, despite his garang looks. :-)


Humm-Humm Tabby: Yeah, I'm cool.

Speaking of community cats, we haven't seen BT for more than 2 weeks.
I suspect he might have roamed to other territories. :-(

BT is a kneader

It was raining on Sat morning when we tried to look for Shiny for her dose of eyedrops. We failed to find her but met BT instead.

After some sayangs, BT climbed onto the SO's lap and began his bout of kneading!



He's rather tame; I pushed his back downwards and told him to sit, and he did.



The SO also thinks he looks like a cat from the wild.



Giving us his blur, innocent look.



He also automatically came to snuggle beside me.


I think he displayed all the familiar signs of a typical home pet cat that's very used to humans.

BT & Gym-Garfield

Recently, I fell in love with two very lovely community cats. One of them is BT.

BT stands for brown tabby, a big cat with a long body, which appeared in the far vicinity recently. His very manja and docile character towards humans means that he is likely to be an abandoned cat.





I hardly know him, yet he did this to me when I first saw him.

Gym-Garfield (from Chinky's adoption blog) is a super cute ginger cat and is up for adoption. You can read about him here.