Cats who teach me to fly…

Lady’s life journey ended a day ago. Mel and I were with her. I believe there are some kind of physical suffering at the end of our life. Perhaps mentally too. All these are inevitable.

ARVC ran out of interferon jab and the supplier too. We were unable to keep the virus under control without the interferon… Lady took the whole process well. Always remain chill.

Lady when we first rescued her. I actually intended to send her to the shelter and luckily I did not do so. Lady was such a good girl that she was so easy to take care of.

Lady at her peak. Fat and gorgeous!

There are so much to learn from Lady. She was always not disturbed by other cats, even from those who tried to threaten her. She would just blink her eyes and look away from the bully cat. Not moving a muscle at all.

Lady was Macaton only best friend. Lady gave Macaron lots of comfort. She changes Macaron, just like Sunshine had influenced Shunshun. After the absence of Lady, Macaron hasn’t eaten his favourite wet food. The day when Lady was diagnosed with FIP, I already started to worry for Macaron. I believe Macaron will do fine. Will give her lots of comfort.

I have learnt to accept life, nature as it is…. Always remembering each and every cat…

I want to take a little time out to talk about Lady… Lady was diagnosed with FIP positive on 29 last month. There were fluids in her lungs. It is either that I just leave her till the end of her time or remove the fluids and buy her some time. Lady was eating well and didn’t seem to lose much weight and it was hard for me to just wait for things to happen. So I decided to remove the fluids.

2 days later, Lady had her fluids removed at VES. The most expensive clinic in Singapore. If you are looking for a vet who understand rescuers or have a compassionate heart, you will not find any here. FIP! No cure and you and your cat may leave. This is reality and so be it.

My black Lady.

I moved her from Sembawang to where I am staying now so that I can spend more time with her.

I am hoping to leave an imprint in her mind by reciting sutras and chanting the mantras to her. That’s my purpose of buying her more time. Even if it means for only a few days…

5 days ago, I found her breathing hard again and I though it must be the fluid in her lungs again. My friend recommended ARVC which I was quite reluctant to visit them again. But where else can I go… Everything in ARVC has changed. The vets and nurses. The only faces that I am familiar with is Dr Ly and Dr Sabine.

This time round, the ultra-sound showed that 45% of Lady’s lungs has collapsed. And there were only very little fluid.

However terrible it may sound, Dr Eunice did not give up treating her. We decided to give her injectable interferon which is very expensive. Hoping to buy her more time… Lady doesn’t look like a sick cat at all..

Today, Lady seems to be breathing heavily again.

And this is how she is sleeping right now.

I hope she can hang on for another 2 more days for me to decide whether that is the fluid that is accumulating in her lungs or…

Macoron’s only friend is Lady. It is too late to separate them. I want both to be together.

I wish I have super power…

A recitation of the heart sutra and chanting of the medicine buddha mantra for Lady tonight.

May this be the cause for Lady to meet the three Jewels, practise the authentic Dharma, to meet good and wise teachers and be enlightened like Buddhas and Bodhisattvas.

…..in the same way, feeling, discrimination, compositional factors and consciousness are empty of inherent nature…

~the heart sutra~

The day when I brought Bliss home, I already like him very much. Bliss wobbles a lot and I hardly see him lift his head high. Bliss fur was slightly longer than any local cat. He has big bones and black in colour.

This picture was taken when we sent him to the vet clinic before giving him a home.

He was diagnosed with kidney disease and the vet was not sure if he can pull through.

Three month may not be a long time. I hope Bliss was happy with his wet food twice a day and free feeding of renal kibbles. He loved ciao ciao treat. At first he didn t quite know how to eat and he bite the packet instead. He managed to learn how to eat on his third ciao ciao. Bliss had been a good boy. He loved getting close to me when I was in his room.

This is how Bliss look when we were trying to do subcut on him. We want to make sure that we do not get bitten by him. As times went by, he had stopped biting us.

This is my favourite photo.

I wonder how he looked like when he wasn’t walking wobbly, a little fatter and a nice coat. I believe he must be a big bone handsome boy.

I really wish he could stay a little longer with us…

I will be thinking of him.

The kittens are all grown up. Jovial did not survive because of my ignorance. Ever since he left, whenever a kitten gets sick, i will send them to the vet immediately. Not delaying a treatment.

Jovial with Cashie… I have taken the kittens for granted. Thinking that they are healthy and always would be… I regretted that I didn’t carry Jovial and love him much…

He left on 2 May. Every love and care I have for the kittens will always remind me of him. Not to ever repeat my mistake again…

Hope was abandoned more than six months ago at my feeding area. His condition didn’t look well to me when I first saw him, however, he was still able to eat and run around and I decided to leave him alone.

More than a month ago, he started to eat very little and started to wobble and that was when I decided to bring him home. He was diagnosed with kidney failure. At first I thought he was a FeLV positive boy but no.

Two days later after we brought Hope home, SPCA called me and told me that there was a sick cat loitering at the corridor of some block at Hougang. When I rejected SPCA to take up the case, I thought that they would take action on rescuing the cat but no…

Bliss was also diagnosed with kidney failure and it was on 7 April that I brought him home.

Hope.

Bliss.

Mel is taking charge of doing subcut for them while I only give eprex injection. Luckily there is Mel to help out again.

I don’t how long both can live. All we can do is to give them our best. RC renal dry and wet food is given to them daily. Except on every morning., I would give them can food that they love to eat as I need to mix it with supplement to support their kidney. Evening woild be RC renal pouch. I told Mel that RC renal pouch will be their medicine dinner. Both are estimated to be at least eight years of age.

R.R.Raoul passed on on 18 Feb. When I first saw him two and a half years ago, he was so afraid of me. I had to leave his food and walked far away from him. His condition didn’t look good too but as long as a cat is still eating and active. I would probably leave them alone.

Every night I brought food to R.R. and he started to trust and rubbed against me and always run towards me when he saw me coming. How time flies…

This photo was taken two years back. I brought him home and spent the final six days with him.

Three weeks before RR left us, a lady whom I don’t know sent him to the vet. RR was ok then. It was very kind of that lady to send him to the vet, however, she was not experience enough to understand that as long as the cats are eating well and active, we will just leave them as they are…

After knowing that RR was a EeLV cat and there was no cure, the lady released him back. RR was given antibiotic but with no one to monitor him. RR was breathing heavily when I saw him on the third day after he was sent to vet. Immediately, I told Mel to informed the lady to stop giving him medicine.

Perhaps, I don’t know… it could have been the medication that could have triggered his illness. RR gone downhill pretty fast and he was gone…

So many things happened in less than two months. And my place is crowded with so many kittens. Please let all of them be adopted to a responsible home.

Regal found a new home very quickly.

He was abandoned. After waiting for one week and no one cone forward to claim him, I took him to the vet and run a few blood test. All was well and he was adopted to a really good home after one week!

Regal at the adoptet’s house. See how blissful he looks.

On the second day of 2018, Rounie was rescued from the drain by SPCA. It was informed by a feeder. Little Rounie has no where to go, even SPCA wouldn’t keep her. Since Moonie hasn’t been adopted yet, I intend to rehome both of them together.

Rounie was around one month old at that time.

On the first day of Chinese New Year, reunion dinner was at the chalet at Pasir Ris. Four hungry kittens were waiting at our balcony, waiting for barbeque food.

Billy.

Becky.

Bayley.

And Bam Bam.

They were three months old and so hungry for food. The management at the chalet doesn’t allow feeding of cats, therefore, the cats and kittens only depend on people who spend their holidays there. I can’t bear to see them waiting for another someone to stay in to feed them and on the second day of CNY, I brought them home.

There were quite a number of unsterilised cats at the chalet and I informed CWS to trap, neutered and release.

Sadly, the trapper that I know trapped a nursing mummy and sent her to the clinic. The trapper knew the condition of the cat but still went ahead with neutering her. I was furious after the nurse where the cat was sent to informed me that the nursing cat may be still nursing her kittens

Without delay, I called the management of the chalet to help me keep a look out on newborn kittens and true indeed four newborn were found two days later after their mummy was sterilised.

At first I was both angry and happy. I was angry because the trapper simply didnt care the lives of the kittens. There was no concern from the trapper at all.

We found a newborn kittens and their mummy at the chalet too. Kittens were about one week old.

I left them at my home at Sembawang with the mummy to take care of her kittens. We named the mummy cat, Carey. All are doing fine.

And the final one was a heavily pregnant cat at Hougang. She lives in a rubbish chute but were fed by foreign workers. There is no space for me to keep her. I sent her to a paid boarding instead.

So many kittens and so little time…. I believe all of them would go to a good home….

A prosperous 2018 to start with indeed!