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Tuesday, July 21, 2009

A GREY ENTRY

ADOPTION POST FOR A GANG OF CATS
[ They all stay in a rented one-room flat in Toa Payoh with an old lady. She brought these cats home, picking them up with a number of places. Lots of them were abandoned. She did not spay them, and they hence reproduced. She did not bring them to the vets either, leading to many of them falling sick.

Volunteers went in some time ago and brought all the sick cats and kittens to the vet, cleaned up the place which was full of faece, and also taught the old lady how to keep the cats safe and healthy. Now that lots of them have been nursed back to health, they would need a home-sweet-home to belong to.

The 6 kittens needs home urgently. A place for them to wrestle and grow healthily into fine cats. Adult cats are also looking for home!

Kittens include: Black ninjia and sibling, Challenger(white) and siblings, Mixed Ranger.

Names inspired by the way they speed around the apartment and wrestle.
View them here!
http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid...

email me at doletart@yahoo.com for adoption.
Please entitle subject of email "A gang of Kittens and Cats up for adoption"

*refer to http://pawpledge.wordpress.com/ for background story. ]


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Ok, and so, I went to the apartment to take videos of the cats and volunteers at work. And I have to say, this gang of cats are SOOOOOOOOOO soulful and interesting! My fave couple has got to be this pair of adult black and white who chill out together on dining table all the time.

Black is always giving gazy eyes, and can get paranoid at times. White looks TOTALLY LIKE BRAIN in Pinky and the Brain!!! lol. in cat form though. looks fierce but when you sayang it, it purrsssss like a baby.

THE DOORMAN
Found abandoned at Nicoll Highway.

The Wise Master

Always looking at the kittens wrestle with a wise I've-been-through-that look.


Greedy Ginger
I forgot this one's name but it is half blind, with the working eye not working well. Full Ginger.
Despite the blindness, EXTREME GLUTTON!!!!
eateateateateateat........amazing!

THE LOVING COUPLE

White nice tail walked over and carefully detoured to go to the side of his partner, machiam dun wanna wake her up. She woke up and looked up at white. White gently lick her nose and neck. Not those agressive cleaning style, but seriously gentling and slowly, which I have never seen.
In a corner of the one room apartment they layed, grooming each other and napping together. Simply sweet. Sweetly simple.



2 RANDOM CATS

THe left one is to me the most GORGEOUS CAT I've ever seen. got biege patch design. Light crystal blue eyes. Extremely Shy. Belongs to the being-the-cupboard gang.

being-the-cupboard gang

Juxtaposition of the Junior B&W with the senior B&W.
The black and white kittens are constantly in a battle. I named them black ninjia and challenger.




BLACK NINJIA


CHALLENGER


CHALLENGER'S SIBLING

MIXED RANGER


Challanger and the other kittens were sent to the vet some time ago to be treated for various sickness, eye infection etc, and are now healthily(tribute to jasmine er) ninjia-ing around.
However, Sick grey was too ill and has yet to recover. Today when the volunteers come in, Sick grey is looking sicker than alive.


SICK GREY


Volunteers immediately phoned Super Mario the taxi driver to come over to pick up the kitten and send it to the vet. Although everyone knows that it's not going to make it, we're justa group of humans who believe in hope (I mean look at what we're doing, trying to rescue animals and rehouse them. there's so many of them out there.) So the volunteer funding this rescue decided to send it to the vet. I went along to jaga Grey and interviewed Mario while waiting for our turn.

Mario with Grey at James Tan Animal Clinic

Mario is a 64 years old taxi driver who has been volunteering to shuttle sick strays to vets. He started keeping his first cat 10 years ago. Since then, he understood how these animals do have a soul and mind just like ours. He then started picking up unsterialized strays while he drives around the island and send them to the vet. He is also a caregiver of his region. He feeds the strays there and currently has a few cats and 2 dogs in his family. He shared with me so much tips, how to get SPCA vouchers for spaying strays, free diagnose every saturday at SPCA etc.

Soon, it was Grey's turn and we went in. Head shakes after head shakes. Body temp too low, too skinny for drip, way too weak to survive. Grey was hospitalised with the team promising to "do their best". And we did what we were suggested to do, "expect the worst".

Hence, I wasn't totally shock when a call came the next day to tell me that Grey is not going to make it, but it still hurts.
Cause where you placed hope, you cared and prayed. And it sux when after all that you've put in, no magic was granted.

Grey has left us but remembering it's painful meows in the vet's while looking into my eyes, I'm glad that it's off pain now.

This post is hence in loving memory of Grey

[photo taken before going in to see the vet]

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