Update on Chocolate Boy

I sent a SMS to Vegancat this afternoon to ask about Chocolate Boy. He is better but still sneezing, and will be observed at the vet for another day or two.

Get well soon, Cho-Boy!


Chocolate Boy is all chocolate and mocha, even his paw pads look like chocolate chips


Looking like a teddy bear

The aftermath

Chocolate Boy has been collected and sent to the vet. My kind neigbour who helped to open the door to my home for the pet taxi to collect Cho-Boy SMS-ed me at 2pm today:

V just collected Chocolate. You'll need to wash the burberry basket coz it pooped in it.


*Sigh...*

Chocolate Boy goes to the vet

Things didn't go well last night. For reasons unknown to us, or perhaps due to his illness, Cho-Boy decided to pee and poo on the bed. We discovered this just before our bedtime (about 10.40pm), and spent the next hour cleaning up the soiled mattress and bedsheets. Cho-Boy got a scolding and a light smack on the rump from me, after which he seemed to look sheepish. After cleaning up, I made up with Cho-Boy and gave him some food, which he ate, and was his purring self again.

As I had noticed he was having little spasms - his head was like nodding backwards constantly, and he had difficulty breathing, I SMS-ed Vegancat my concern at a quarter before midnight.

Later, feeling uneasy in bed, I went to check on him again at midnight, and found him hiding under the chest of drawers. I updated Vegancat with another SMS. Seriously, I was quite worried that I might wake up to find a cat that's suddenly conked out on me! I had seen a sick cat gradually dying before my eyes and I would not ever want it to happen again. :-(

This morning, Cho-Boy looked slightly better and was still eating, although both his eyes had some discharge. Vegancat gave the green light to send him to the vet, and arrangements were made for the pet taxi to pick him up early this afternoon. Let's hope Chocolate Boy hasn't pick up any serious virus and that he recovers soon.

I am Cho-Boy

Chocolate Boy came to live with us last Sunday afternoon. As I wasn't going to call him by a 4-syllable name, I nicknamed him Cho-Boy, which made uncle S laugh, because it sounded like the male equivalent of Chiobu, i.e. the Ah Beng term for good-looking woman.

Saved from cat-killers in the nick of time by Vegancat, Cho-Boy came to be fostered in a single-cat household to help him get over his traumatic ordeal and to make him feel safe again.

Uncle S finds Cho-Boy very cute-looking, and affectionately calls him Tua Tao, which means 'big head' in Hokkien. :P We'll have to ask Vegancat why he thinks Cho-Boy is a 'himbo'. :)

Nice pose taken with the HP







This means that our dear community cat from downstairs, Sugar, will lose his weekend chalet which comprise of the lovely bed in our "cat room" and unlimited amounts of yummy cat snacks. Sugar had been coming to his chalet where he would do his sleep-eat-sleep-eat-sleep routine for the past couple of weekends.

Sugar: I'll be baacckk !

So far, Cho-Boy has been very well-behaved. He has a good appetite and used the litter box on his own. His litter box habits are so neat that I've counted like, only 3 pine pellets that had strayed outside the box.

He is also a gentle boy, and right on the very first day, has allowed me to trim his front claws, wipe his running nose, wipe his ears, massage his body (actually I was playing with him) and give him headbutts without fear.

The only thing he doesn't like is being carried, and he gets startled by loud/sudden noises from outside.

"Mama mia!!" Cho-Boy trying to become the window accessory?

Cho-Boy's scratch mat

No longer afraid of the camera



So relaxed, then...

He heard a noise coming from the neighbour

Shooshhh!! Gone in 5 seconds!

Cho-Boy's idea of hiding


My head is big meh?

Snooze...ZZZzzz...

Yawnzzz...

I may be big, but I'm gentle. Please take me home.

Cho-Boy has a running nose since Sunday, which I suspect kind of made him drool at times, since it was difficult for him to swallow the liquid that came out of his nose (I can understand the gross discomfort as I suffers from a sensitive, watery nose!). His right eye has started tearing last night.

Vegancat thinks he must have caught the viral infection while being kept at the AVA. So far, the liquid that runs out of his nose is clear. I shall keep monitoring Cho-Boy's condition.

Who am I ?

It's no secret. *grin*