Introducing Little Vesak

Rememeber Cat No 1 - the black cat that was abandoned two weeks ago. She was found missing for two days(missing on Tue) before she reappeared today. I happened to call sister before she came back home and sister told me that she saw little blackie. Mum asked sister to bring blackie home as another auntie had planned to place this new cat in a cattery. At that time, we do not know how lucky blackie was to have been rediscovered by us.

When we took her back, we found that she cannot walk. Both her hind legs are very weak and she can only dragged her body around. As u can see from her photo, her eye is slightly closed. This is the eye with eye infection. We had treated her for 4 to 6 days before she went missing. Sister will bring her to the vet tml. We suspected that Vesak is another victim of Koala, the male unsterilzied male cat that we seldom seen. So far, fat koala had attacked 4 cats in our area - Pipa, Vesak, Wangzai and Wangwang. All of the cats have small and big injury on their body with Pipa and Vesak with more serious injury. Koala had also attacked ginger before and caused mimi to climb up the tree to hide from him. We do not know what to do with Koala - of course we wished to sterilize him asap but the main problem is we do not know his hideout. So far, we had not seem him for 4 days. We may needed to ask for professional help in trapping him once we get to know his hideout.

Mum had decided to call little blackie 'Vesak' after a long list of what names is suitable for her. The most comical name that mum thought of is "Hei zhu" (Black pearl). I thought in hokkien, it sound like 'Black pig'. Since today is Vesak's day, we though Vesak is a nice name for a sweet tame girl. She did not protest, did not meow, did not attempt to escape from her cage - she is a 100% true tame cat. When i touched her body, i can feel her purring.

Yesterday, another idiot dumped a new male kitten near our block again. The new kitten was crying real loud when we found him. He seemed to have a eye infection like Vesak too. He even poo on the floor and i had to remove the poo. Sister was saying that he may not be healthy as normal cat will not poo on the ground just like that. I wonder if the new kitten and Vesak belong to the same idiot family. Mum told that auntie of the new cat yesterday. We only know that that auntie had taken the kitten home with the intention of bringing him to the cattery.

That auntie and uncle that we get to know from our cat-feeding session loved cats a lot. They had rented a space in pasis ris cattery just for those homeless cats. As much as they loved cats, their daughter-in-law disliked cats so both elderly are not allowed to have cats in their cats. Their daughter-in-law is also the one whom complained to TC for removal of cats. What to do when u live with ur daughter-in-law whom disliked cats? Everytime when there is a new cat abandoned at our area and we saw the auntie, that auntie will tell us to take the kitten home. But she, herself had mentioned that u can never bring all the abandoned cats home - it is an endless task - take one home, few months later, another new cat down the block. Well, our home is now like a mini cattery with 11 cats - of them, 5 including Vesak are temporary residents.

Hopefully, little Vesak will recovered asap. Pray for this little fellow.