Jomo, Jambo, Shaka, Thembi

also known as... the dubai cats! they are well, so well.

greetings from dubai

the fantastic flotsam foursome takes to the land of wadi, souk and dirham in fashionable style!

fantastic flotsam foursome

after a long dry spell, 23, blackie, mackie and zidane discover a lush new habitable planet. so their time on ours end.






it really is a stroke of good luck. our four youngest cats have been adopted as a foursome. somewhere out there, they are still a family.

see you, you will be missed.

zidane mania

now that zidane is a little bigger, it seems 'he' may not be a he after all but a she. or is he? darn those undeveloped genitals.

tortoiseshells rule!

mackie and 23's twin charm grows. we have enquirers and we might actually be losing them soon - to a good home.

world cup kitty

the man and woman go to bugis to watch football and comes back with a grey and white kitten. kitty was screaming his lungs out in a fire hose box at bras basah complex and the man sleeping under the stairwell said this had gone on for hours. it is filthy dirty.

now, he is Leafty's new favourite friend. we hope this one will have better luck on the adoption boards or we are so screwed.

the adventures of blackie & mackie

wow, it's really been quite a while.

animal family was hit by an insidious strain of the cat flu and almost all feline creatures in the household were down for the count one after another. 'cept me.

so i played nurse while the man and woman juggled grumpy cats, work, trips to the vet and sick bay administration. it's a thankless job. all i got was a faceful of mucus from Rosie.

i am happy to report that all's well again. so for those of you suffering from animal family withdrawal, here's an extra big dose of kitty love.










oink

new encounters II

the kittens get several hours of playtime with us everyday now. its nice to have other things to chase around the house besides the bugs (cheshire grin).

we love them. nothing like a couple of kitties to liven things up around here.





Fruity and Leafty rediscovers the utility room and each other.

new encounters

kittens let loose

the kittens have recovered from their flu. i can see their eyes at last, not stumbling around with eyes glued shut by mucus.


gingin, as victor tabbycat predicts, is the first to get adopted. his adopter will be picking him up tomorrow. the rest of you, buck up and put on your best doe face!



blackie is still very tiny for being the last to recover. but he is a speedy one and dashes for the heavens every time the man and woman opens the utility room door. keep your germs behind the yellow line, buddy.

back in business

after months of nothing, we are back to a double digit feline population in the animal family.

besides the 2 Hwa Chong charges, a caregiver managed to help us catch a mother and 3 kittens from an adjoining estate. the mother cat is a high priority in terms of sterilisation because she is very very fertile and has had a couple of litters before. but every time, the litter will mysteriously disappear leaving her screaming for her babies and dripping milk from her full tits.

maybe the mother gotten smarter at protecting her brood because when these kittens surfaced, they were quite big already. right now, they can actually eat solids and are about ready to be weaned.

they are however, a little under the weather, sniffling, with mucus around the eyes which will hopefully clear up soon with medication before the first adoption visitors drop by.


Update: neo23 is starting to get the hang of sharing her space with so many other cats. less growling and hissing all round. woman is just waiting for us to start playing together. one thing at a time, woman.

thank goodness man has some time on his hands now that the animal family has to ramp up full gear once again. The Hwa Chong teacher, who has 3 cats of her own, has volunteered to pick up the tab on the sterilisation of neo23 and her sibling which is wonderful. the man will take them all down along with the mother cat at the end of the week.

hopefully, the phones will start ringing soon with potential adopters for the kittens, neo23 and her sibling. the mother cat will be released back to where she was found.

new kitty in the house

neo23 here is a refugee from Hwa Chong School who is in danger of being trapped and sent to AVA. she has a sibling that is still on the run from the well meaning hands of a teacher and some boys who are trying to get them relocated asap to be rehomed. hope they have better luck with the other kitten next week.

neo23 is around 5 months old, extremely affectionate but very much a prima donna like Suede was when she first came back to the animal family. she loves to cling to the man and perch on his shoulder like a parrot. this and her big round eyes endear themselves to him so she gets his pillow at night, which means, none of us get to be anywhere near all night. give me back my man!