Jan’s blogs about life

We lost another cat again. And this time Cika was not even a full time cat for us. He was our neighbour’s cat, and he always drop in for hello. A nice long 5 to 10 minutes of patting and a bowl of cat food, with two shakes of a tail, and off he went for stroll into the outdoors. Read more »

It was four days before Christmas, the day before our family vacation trip to Kuching, ironically a city named as cat in the Malay language that my pet cat Casper has gone missing.

He has not been eating well before his disappearance, having had some diarrhea and loose stool. He must have eaten something incompatible with his stomach during one of his adventurous romp in the house backyard and outdoors. He was quite a hunter able to catch many insects, roaches, lizards and rats and any other creature that arouse his curiosity. But his favourite prey has always been the lizard. Despite the fact that some lizards were out of his reach high up on the wall, he manages to catch them somehow. Read more »

LIFESTYLE Focus

Signs Your Cat is Ill
By ELLEN WHYTE
Saturday May 13, 2006

When properly inoculated, fed and cared for, cats tend to be healthy creatures.

Many only visit their vet when it’s time for their annual booster shots. But many die from disease when their owners don’t recognise they are ill, or because of delays in seeking medical attention. Read more »

Oh, boy! Cat owners beware! Just recently this news atricle caught my eye, “Cat found with bird flu.” Now that’s a thought. With my pet cat, Casper roaming all over the place I wonder it would be wise to confine him in the house instead. Not easy considering he is such hyper active little fella. Read more »

There seems to be many cats around the back alley these few days. Cats growling and howling at each other probably vying for a female’s attention or crossing path with other dominant males. Seems like Casper was able to hold his own ground. I didn’t see him running away like he used to. Casper had been his premium cat food pellet which the vet says will definitely give him bulk as compared with tuna can food. I guess he was right. Casper is a little bit bigger now, but he still demands for his tasty Japanese Careline tuna fish! Well once a day every evening and that’s it! He will have to settle his hunger with the premium food pellets. Read more »

I suppose all cats hate bath. Mine is no different, but I do need to give him a shower once in awhile at least to clean him up a bit, and wash off any potential ticks or fleas. Considering that he likes to roam around the neighbourhood a lot.

With the hot weather today, it seems like a good idea. After one of his afternoon romp, I took him into the bathroom and showered him as usual. Nope, he didn’t like it one bit as usual, but it was necessary. And I think he hated it even more when I toweled him dry. He made lots of growling noise and tried to run away from me. Just needed to dry him a little and he can lick dry the rest by himself.

With the hot sunshine, I put him out on the front porch. With the hot sunshine combined with his licking, I guess he would dry in no time. Guess what, even before he was dry, he decided to go gallivanting around already! No amount of calling him would get him back!

Oh well, hope he won’t soil himself unnecessarily otherwise another shower when he gets back!

I woke up this morning to the gentle sound of Casper’s morning meow at the door. Sounds good to hear his morning greeting, saying in the cat languange, “Rise and shine!”. Or perhaps it was, “open the door and give me a good pat on the head, then feed me!”.

Well, whatever, it still sounded good that his was on his way to recovery. After cleaning up myself first, I open the door to see good ol’ Casper waiting patiently. I’m sure he was pretty hungry as I lead him down to the kitchen. Read more »

Casper was still feeling under the weather. Not in any mood to eat or drink. My wife wanted to help out to take him to the vet, but there was nobody to hold the fort in her office. It is the start of the first day to work for year 2006, but looks like I have to take the day off to take him to the vet.

No problem. After consoling Casper, he was making lots of meowing noise. I guess he needed to use the litter but with the hurt leg, had trouble walking over. Gently as I could, I carried him over. Casper made a meow of protest as I lifted him up and settled him down, but he needed to do his business. Read more »

I was expecting my usual morning call from my pet cat, Casper. But today it was silent. Well it is not uncommon because on some days I don’t hear his morning meows anyway. So I didn’t think much about. I woke up did the usual morning routine and had to dump the laundry into the washing machine.

The morning was very cool with the previous all night long rain. The sky was cloudy and still a bit of drizzle. Well there goes my hot sunshine which I need to dry up my clothes. Read more »

Boy, this will my first trip away from home leaving my pet cat under the care of my brother. What with his odd working hours, I guess Casper will have to wait till my brother returns to get fed.

It’s been awhile since I blog about Casper. He has grown since I first found him on the streets. A young scared little kitten then, he is now pretty big, and much wider than my computer keyboard when he stretches! Read more »