Cats who teach me to fly…

I don’t know if it is the same Grace I saw 10 months ago. About 3 weeks ago when I saw her, I thought that she was pregnant. She was looking for food at the multi storey carpark. I offered her some food. The next day I tried to get a closer look at her and I realised that she was actually sterilised. So it is impossible for her to get pregnant. What happen to her unusual bloated stomach must be serious.

I planned to send her to the vet this weekend, however, she had a flu last Monday, therefore, I sent her to the vet earlier.

Grace had a seriously distended stomach and the vet said that she is not looking good. Anyway, I am going to let Dr Tham take a look at her during our next visit.

This is Grace.

The vet said that she is old, estimated to be more than 7 years old.

What I can give Grace now is my care and love.

It is 15 mins to 11pm now. We had a long day today and yesterday too. I woke up at 7am yesterday and started cleaning the house cos we have visitors coming to give shooting to our cats. And at 2.30pm, there was this sweet Malay guy who came our house to visit Shunshun. He wanted to adopt him. Mel and I are happy. We hope it will be a successful one.

Today we brought the Yellow family to the adoption drive. They were well-behaved. Many love to see them and some just want to carry them. I would stop those who just want to carry them cos the kittens were sleeping and I don’t want them to be disturbed unnecessarily.

We left home at 12.30pm and reached home at 9pm. The kittens must be hungry, so did the Mummy. I was all so tired and so did Mel.

I prepared food for them immediately. They ate all and played for the next an hour and a half. Right now, they are sleeping at the scratching post. Mummy is there too. See if you can spot the cats.

Of course, my handsome Cashie can be easily spotted:). There are five cats on the scratching post. They are all sleeping. Usually they sleep at the service yard. I can’t bear to wake them up.

Yellow is a responsible Mummy. She watch them sleep. Lick them and make sure that every one of them is safe. She seems to be staying awake and protecting them.

There is no suitable adopter today. Even the most suitable adopter is unwilling to mesh up their windows. Meshing up of windows is very important. We don’t want to see any accident happen to any cats.

Now, Hero is joining them on the scratch post.

Looking at them make me forget how tired I am…:)

Yellow is a female community cat in Hougang. I didn’t know how she got there. I think she was there for quite some time and I just didn’t notice her.

When I saw her perhaps about four to five months ago, I was surprised that she was so skinny and hungry. She is just next block to where I feed. Perhaps this is the reason why I did not notice her. She was so afraid of humans. I had to place the food and walk away and she would then come for her food. There were so many times that I wanted to take her for strerilisation, however, I just could not get closer to her and she was always hiding at the construction site.

One day, I finally saw her pregnant and it got me so worried about her. I fed her both wet and dry food with supplements everyday. Hopefully, her delivery would be a safe and smooth one and her kittens and her will be strong and healthy.

However, I felt it is just not right and safe for her to give birth at the construction site. I discussed with Mel and we decided to hire a trapper to trap her.

We managed to trap her in May. Since I am so scared of seeing her give birth, we temporarily placed her at the cattery for twenty days. She didn’t give birth immediately after she was sent to the cattery.

And so, this is the Yellow family.

This is a boy. He is popular cos many are interested to adopt him and we named him Sparkie.

He is friendly, playful, active and adventurous.

Another boy is named Vanilla.

Vanilla is gentle and calm.

A boy too, named Hugo.

Hugo loves to play fight a lot.

This is the only girl, named Minnie. She is an imprint of her Mummy.

She is gentle and calm. Just like any other female cat.

And finally the queen, Yellow.

When I first fed Yellow, she was still a kitten. Guess she was about six or seven month old. She is around say ten months now.

We are trying to find them a good home. Hopefully they are adopted in pairs. I also hope that Yellow and the kitten/s can be adopted together too.

We brought Bluey to the adoption drive on 8 June. A really nice chinese family of four approached Bluey and expressed their interest. From the looks of it and their conversation, they really were a loving family. So we decided to let them have Bluey.

The mother texted us to check what food Bluey was eating. We told her and i thought to myself that this family was anticipating for Bluey to be part of their family member.

On that very Sunday, 15 June, we brought Bluey over. To my surprise, they did not mesh up their window grilles and they also did not prepare any food for Bluey. We brought Bluey’s food that could last for a few days for them.

We sat in their house for a while to observe how Bluey behaves. She loved the place and I could.see that she was comfortable. We had a conversation with the family. It was their 17-year-old girl who wanted Bluey. Her parents were cooperative. They sounded perfect to me and I was happy that I thought I have found a loving home for Bluey. We left Bluey and promised to visit her again.

The next day, i saw the girl’s mother replied her friend on the Facebook that the reason they allowed her daughter to adopt Bluey was for her to learn to be responsible and to be compassion. Hmm…I was touched at that moment when I read it. I thought to myself, what a wise mother she was and Bluey has finally found a good home.

After four days, the mother texted to tell us that the family have no time for Bluey and their daughter was not ready for Bluey. I was driving at that time. I was not angry but felt cheated. Before adopting Bluey, we have made ourselves very clear to them that Bluey needs attention and love and they said they had no problem with that.

I told Mel whatever reason that they gave us were all excuses. I told her not to entertain them and quickly made an arrangement to bring Bluey back.

To me, they were only using Bluey for a try out. That was why nothing was prepared for Bluey on the day we sent Bluey to their home. No window mesh, no food…

I felt stupid but I learnt from mistake. So much for their responsibility and compassion.

My heart ached when I brought Bluey home. Her behaviour has changed. A little aggressive and angry. I promised I will love her more :). We have two adoption drives coming up but we are not putting her up yet. We need her to settle down first.

Will keep praying for Bluey….

The day before we claimed Hero from AVA, AVA called me and informed me that they have Baby. I reported to AVA that Baby went missing at Hougang on December last year. I was so happy that I was able to see Baby again. Mel warned me that it may not be Baby. However, I still carried the hope of seeing him.

An appointment was made to claim Baby at 2pm. With the silly regulations that AVA had imposed, we can only claim him with a private residential address. Since we are living in a HDB flat, we have no choice but to ask CWS to help us.

We managed to get in touch with a volunteer and she was there to claim two cats too and she helped us. Hmm…true enough, that was not Baby and my heart sank immediately. We can’t just walk away. If we walk away, the little innocent life will be put to sleep. We claimed him anyway.

He hissed at us but he never scratches or bites. We thought he was an aggressive cat but we see none in him. He has lots of fear and he is always crouching.

When I was at AVA, I can feel a very strong ‘ying qi’ all over. I couldn’t breathe and I felt so heavy in my heart that I had to get out of the place.

I always ask Mel what could Hero have done that people would want to trap him and send him to die.

I am glad that we claimed him. Whenever I remove him from the cage, he would tend to jump back into the cage again. If he doesn’t return to his cage, he would cling tightly to me…

What did he do wrong? What is happening to man…?