{"id":324,"date":"2006-01-29T13:42:34","date_gmt":"2006-01-29T05:42:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.janleow.com\/life\/?p=324"},"modified":"2006-01-29T13:42:34","modified_gmt":"2006-01-29T05:42:34","slug":"alley-cats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.janleow.com\/life\/alley-cats.html","title":{"rendered":"Alley Cats"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/blogger\/4903\/1303\/1600\/P1070063_400x300.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;\" src=\"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/blogger\/4903\/1303\/200\/P1070063_400x300.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"The light grey stray\" \/><\/a>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&#8217;s attention or crossing path with other dominant males. Seems like Casper was able to hold his own ground. I didn&#8217;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&#8217;s it! He will have to settle his hunger with the premium food pellets. <!--more--><\/p>\n<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/blogger\/4903\/1303\/1600\/P1070073_300x400%20Shelly.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:right; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;\" src=\"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/blogger\/4903\/1303\/200\/P1070073_300x400%20Shelly.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Shelly, the tri-colored female feline.\" \/><\/a>Seems like Shelly the tri-colored cat is the only female feline around the back alley. She must have really turned on every Tom cat around the area. I now see new cats coming from nowhere making all the cat calls, howling and hissing at each other.<\/p>\n<p>I didn&#8217;t really see Casper until this hot Chinese New Year afternoon. He seems to be able to hang on around and the other cats are wary of him. I guess the extra weight that he gained sure paid off some dividends. They will snarl at him and he will snarl back! Deadlock stalemate which neither wants to get into a sore fight. Well I hope it stays that way!<\/p>\n<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/blogger\/4903\/1303\/1600\/P1050536_400x300.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;\" src=\"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/blogger\/4903\/1303\/200\/P1050536_400x300.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Cika the cool orange ginger cat\" \/><\/a>The orange ginger cat, Cika was the coolest cat around, so I guess they were quite chummy with each other. Though I have splattered Cika with water whenever he strayed into the house. No way am I going to let that fella come in and eat up the entire food pellet meant for Casper. Now he is rather wary of entering the house!<\/p>\n<p>Now there&#8217;s another silver cat coming into the house too! Just my luck, my toy water pistol was broken. I think I would need to get another one. Comes in real handy for precision shot at them!<\/p>\n<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/blogger\/4903\/1303\/1600\/P1070062_400x300.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:right; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;\" src=\"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/blogger\/4903\/1303\/200\/P1070062_400x300.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"The Silver Haired Cat\" \/><\/a>The back alley was beginning to become a cat community with all the cats about. Hope good old Casper can stand his ground with the ever encroaching cats!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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&#8217;s attention or crossing path with other dominant males. Seems like Casper was able to hold his own ground. I didn&#8217;t see him running away like he used to. Casper had &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.janleow.com\/life\/alley-cats.html\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Alley Cats<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[10],"tags":[42,118],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1bS5F-5e","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":301,"url":"https:\/\/www.janleow.com\/life\/kitten-growing-bigger.html","url_meta":{"origin":324,"position":0},"title":"Kitten Growing Bigger","author":"Jan","date":"15 August 2005","format":false,"excerpt":"I have decided to call him \"Casper\". Much like the friendly ghost, Casper has a knack of disappearing in the house! Hiding around corners and bushwacking ankles when walking by! Sometimes hiding under tables... hide and seek! I've been trying to train it to stop biting my hands and legs;\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;House Cats&quot;","block_context":{"text":"House Cats","link":"https:\/\/www.janleow.com\/life\/category\/house-cats"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":314,"url":"https:\/\/www.janleow.com\/life\/casper-on-the-road-to-recovery.html","url_meta":{"origin":324,"position":1},"title":"On the road to recovery","author":"Jan","date":"4 January 2006","format":false,"excerpt":"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!\".\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;House Cats&quot;","block_context":{"text":"House Cats","link":"https:\/\/www.janleow.com\/life\/category\/house-cats"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":312,"url":"https:\/\/www.janleow.com\/life\/casper-visiting-the-vet.html","url_meta":{"origin":324,"position":2},"title":"Visiting the vet","author":"Jan","date":"3 January 2006","format":false,"excerpt":"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\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;House Cats&quot;","block_context":{"text":"House Cats","link":"https:\/\/www.janleow.com\/life\/category\/house-cats"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":306,"url":"https:\/\/www.janleow.com\/life\/casper-miss-me-much.html","url_meta":{"origin":324,"position":3},"title":"Miss me much","author":"Jan","date":"2 January 2006","format":false,"excerpt":"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\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;House Cats&quot;","block_context":{"text":"House Cats","link":"https:\/\/www.janleow.com\/life\/category\/house-cats"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":248,"url":"https:\/\/www.janleow.com\/life\/requiem-for-cika-the-cat.html","url_meta":{"origin":324,"position":4},"title":"Requiem for Cika the cat","author":"Jan","date":"17 August 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"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\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;House Cats&quot;","block_context":{"text":"House Cats","link":"https:\/\/www.janleow.com\/life\/category\/house-cats"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":326,"url":"https:\/\/www.janleow.com\/life\/cats-can-catch-bird-flu.html","url_meta":{"origin":324,"position":5},"title":"Cats can catch Bird Flu","author":"Jan","date":"1 March 2006","format":false,"excerpt":"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. 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