The two kings - Sugar & Tiger

Last night, on the way back from feeding Shiny and having dinner, we met b/w Mimi, whom we haven't see for weeks, and Kiddy.

After giving them snacks, b/w Mimi insisted on following me about. I carried her purring body...thought I'll sit on the bench with her for a while, when suddenly, a swoosh of white fur jumped onto the bench first. I thought it must be Kiddy, but Mimi jumped off my arms and ran away!

It was Sugar. Mimi sure knows to not mess with The King~!


Sugar looks good, ate a bit of dried food and still followed me about. I lured him away to a corner where we'd first met years' ago. We have yet to move into the flat then and I'd come by to see the progress of the house painting. On the way out to the bus stop, I saw this big, white friendly cat with touches of ginger on his coat. That was how I first met Sugar.


I sat with him, brushed off the loose fur from his coat and just rested there with him, but he didn't allow me to rest for too long. He gave me a couple of gentle nips on my arm and hand to remind me to get back to work - of giving him strokes and neck scratches! Haha... so adorable!


After about 20 mins, I had to go home and shoo-ed him from following me home.


This morning, I met the other King, who lives a little further away. I hadn't see Tiger for a long while, and I heard that he's somehow become a daytime house cat in somebody's home. :)


I was carrying groceries and didn't intend to call him, but he decided to follow me... he must have smelled the cat food in my bag! So boh pian lor, had to give him some food, not that he's deprived.

While he was eating, cat-friendly neighbours stopped by to say hi and to stroke Tiger.
Waa, this king certainly has more than a few fans.


Finally, he gave me a good front view shot of him.


After eating, he still followed me about. The normally aloof fella even gave me several affectionate rubs, then decided to park himself in the middle of the passageway.


A kid on his scooter and aunties pushing trolleys of groceries had to move around his royal highness, but they didn't seem to mind, and even greeted him by name. :P

Saturday morning excitement

When we went to see the cats this morning, this was the sight that greeted us.



Oops! Kiddy and Mimi (b/w) aren't supposed to be in this territory!

They must have been a little displaced by the funeral wake that is happening at their block. There have been too many wakes for the last few days - two are currently still on, with another which just ended 2 days' ago - all next to one another.

A confrontasi was about to start!!


From what I know of them, Tabby2 and Kiddy are generally peaceful cats. I have never seen either one of them fighting, but cats being cats, when threatened, must show some "action" to ward of possible enemies.

I didn't know what had taken place earlier, but by the time I got to them, I heard Kiddy starting to hiss loudly, with hair and tail all puffed up!

The not-to-be-defeated Tabby also started vogue-ing in his "acting-bigger-than-I-really-am" pose and growled back, although he still gave me his wide-eyed innocent look when I pose my hp camera at him. Haha!



Meanwhile, the bystanders, aka Tortie Gal Mimi and Blackie were keeping quiet and watching by the sidelines. TG Mimi even ate her "popcorn" before the drama had begun.

Kiddy's sidekick, the b/w Mimi still pounced about towards us, totally nonchalant about the going-ons.



I sayang Kiddy and he started to walk away, still growling. Mimi the sidekick quickly followed her leader.

At last, confrontation averted~!
:)

Community cats update

During the week, I finally saw two rather elusive cats, which I haven't seen for more than a week.

Sugar - He doesn't hang out as much at his regular place. Ms A the caregiver thinks he's hiding from her, to avoid taking medication!


He seemed hungry and came to me, wanting food. I gave him the only dry food I have, and he ate a bit. I tried to clean the debris on his chin, next to his mouth. He'd refused and ran a few feet away. When I persisted, he suddenly cried and jumped/ran off. I think his gums are still hurting.


It took some effort, but I finally coaxed him to stop running away from me, so that I can placate him and say sorry, and sayang-ed the poor boy a bit.

Saw him on another day when I came home after work. I thought wet food would be easier on his gums and have resorted to carrying a can in my work bag, but he refused to eat.



He just laid on the cool grass while I patted him, resting. He seemed like very fatigued and looked kind of down. When the SO came back after his swim, I asked him to go look for Sugar to sayang him, which kind of cheered Sugar up a bit, as he had begun purring.


After dinner, I went to look for him. After playing hide & seek with me for a while, he finally came near me and let me be near him. He didn't want any food, so we both sat there in the cool evening breeze for a while. He did act manja and rolled on the floor for some sayang, so I hope he'd felt better. I saw him again tonight, and again he refused the wet food, and ate a few kibbles. Also saw Jon-Jon tonight... he has slimmed down a little, although he ate normally this evening (not so picky, at least!).


Mimi - I have no idea where Mimi hangs out during the day, but finally saw her a few nights' ago and again, tonight.



She's grown longer, but her face is still kitten-ish. The fur has grown back on the shaved patch on her lower tummy. She's healed well from her spaying.



Tabby2 - went to feed him some wet food this evening, and saw a patch of dried leaf stuck onto his rump.


It was chewed up gum. I tried to remove it as much as I could, but it was impossible to remove it all without cutting off the fur. So I stuck a small piece of tissue onto whatever gum that remained stuck on him... will see if I can remove more of it tomorrow.

Throughout the process, the affectionate boy didn't protest at all, but kept purring and started kneading...so happy with all the attention from me. :)

Mimi gets her 15 minutes of fame

It was Andy Warhol who, in 1968, had said that: "In the future, everyone will be world-famous for 15 minutes".

Well, the time has come for Mimi to get her 15 minutes (or longer) of fame. Sharing the limelight with Mimi is Alex (Aunty G's foster), who also appears in my cat-adoption.blogspot.com blog.

It appears that both cats have been discovered and are now appearing as the new celebrity "Kitlers" on Cats that look like Hitler.

Let's hope the extra publicity will help both cats (and Ginger, another foster cat) get adopted this year. That will be my ultimate wish for the year. :)

(Picture from Wikipedia: Cover of copy no. 18 of 25 Cats Name [sic] Sam and One Blue Pussy by Andy Warhol)

Alex (ref to Kitler no. 2126)

Mimi (refer to Kitler no. 2125)

Click for bigger view

Ps: How come the Kitler site can say my cat-adoption blog does not have a name har, when the blog already has a big masthead that says "Fostercats for Adoption"?!?

*Scratches head*

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. :-(

Mimi - update

We finally got to see Mimi today. :)





The SO thought this photo of her resembles Felix the cat.

Community cats update

It was good to to meet these cats on my way home last Wednesday. I gave them a little snack of dry cat food.

Jambala, who had just woken up from her nap, under a parked car.



Tuxedo cat Timmy, looking nice and plumb and as sweet as ever



Sugar & Jon-Jon



Sugar had a bout of painful gum problem for the past weeks, and caregiver Ms A had taken him to the vet. At one point, Ms A needed our help to feed him his medication. On one night, while refusing to take his medicine, Sugar went berserk and even threw his frustration at Jon-Jon, which was shocking to us. I think he was in much pain that night to react that way.

Although he's now his usual sweet self, he's rather wary of Ms A or us, coz he thinks we may feed him with medication! We still find him very adorable. :)




I also met these cats the week before.

Kiddy who is very affectionate and gets along with most new cat that appears (now it's Mimi who loves to stick to him)



Mimi - apparently she had fever the other time (Ms A confirmed at the vet) but has now recovered.
Soon, she will be sent for spaying.




Shiny, whose eyes have recovered gradually.

We'd only managed to treat her eyes with eye drops for 5 or 6 times, coz we failed to to find her on some nights at her usual hangouts.


(Shiny, 3 March 2008)

After a few days of treatment, her eyes were no longer red or tear as much, but the 3rd eyelid on her right eye was still quite prominent. However, it went down on its own subsequently, and Shiny's bright eyes will soon be back again.

New development

It's past 10pm on a Wed night...what's happening that is so alarming to Coco?



New "business" in the fostercat household? :P



Coco: Why always like that one??? *Whines*



Hello... *Purrs*

Mimi's update

I couldn't find Mimi yesterday; she was not sleeping in the bike basket as usual.

I wonder where she's gone to? Now that she's bigger and got used to the place, she's exploring more of the surrounding, including the next block(s), and is no longer afraid of people. In fact, she's rather curious and kay poh about them.

Mimi has become friends with Kiddy and loves to charge at him in play. I've seen families stopping in their tracks (on their way home) to look at them play, with smiles on their faces. My wish is that one of these families would decide to take Mimi home and provide a loving home for her. She is a lovely kitty.


Mimi: I look like a husky dog meh?

New year, new courtship

There's a new courtship in my life right now, and the subject of my courtship is this little fella. :)



I was alerted to its presence by Ms A during those pre-X'mas rainy, stormy days. The first time I saw it - it was hiding in a small drain, being shy, timid and looked utterly terrified. I went back to check it out several times since then, but didn't see it and thought that it had succumbed to her fate.

Post-new year: Ms A told me that this kitty is still around and is very good at hiding. I saw it again, and it's grown quite a bit. Ms A thinks it's a girl and calls her Mimi.



Well, girly kitty looks about 2.5 months young and has a long tail and a perfectly centre-parted hairstyle. Heh!
She's starting to eat dry food and explore more, and I'm trying to court her to be my friend.

My only worry is that she is living too near to King Sugar. The SO is quite sure that Sugar and JonJon know about Mimi's presence. I just hoped that Sugar will be more magnanimous towards her and will be 宽容 and willing to 放她一马.



Stay safe and well, Mimi.