More than one month since Pong Pong cross the Rainbow Bridge

This is pong pong before she was sterilized and very active. She was climbing the window in my mum's room when brother took her 'notty' pictures.

pong pong in memory - in our house on 3 feb to 12 feb 3.55 pm

pong pong had been our cat on 3 feb to 12 feb. Brother and sister took her to the vet for stay on sun, around 3.55 pm. Pong first appeared a few day before CNY. That time, pong went to the ten floor and kept meowing. Then she appeared down the malay family whom is living in the ground floor unit. Sister took pong home on the fifth day of CNY, that was 3 feb.

Usually when a beloved pet died, ppl have regret,me too.. i am thinking of the :what if" questions to myself..

1) what if we did not send pong to the sterilization, will she be still alive today?
my answer: it not possible not to send her, she already in heat and was meowing extremely loud in the middle of the night at 3 am.

2) what if we delay the survery till she is off heat?
my answer: same as q1, we are afraid that residents will complain since her meows is quite loud..(noted how i still used present tense, i like to remember her as alive)

3) what if we took her to the vet rec by auntie linda in mt pleasant in serangoon north?
my answer: i think dr au from pet clinic has try his best, it is not really the problem with the vet but pong pong's own health.. even if we bring her to mt pleasant, she may ended up in the same fate.

4) What if i see pong yesterday?
my answer: i really had regret for this... but as sister mentioned yesterday, it will be sad to see pong and not able to bring her home with us.

5) what if i allow pong to sleep beside me on my bed?
my answer: pong used to sleep with mum but mum complained that she is too notty, keep jumpin up and down so we locked her in dd's basket and allow DD to roam my bedroom. we had not much choice as Pong is quite "hyperactive". Actually today before i knew abt her death, i am thinking of allowing her to sleep beside me and lock sweetie in mum's room...mum even suggested that pong can sleep at my feet...sadly this can never happened..(OMG, i am crying again)

6) What if we never pick pong to our house?
my answer: she can be taken away by pest control, bully by the malay family's black cat or taken away by evil resident. It a rumour told by auntie linda that cats are taken away from our area and dumped elsewhere so that we cat feeders cannot find our community cats. So our final 'verdict' is pong is best left at our house. I know that we cannot pick every strays that we found back home but pong is really pitiful. She used to be a house cat but was abandoned. And the malay family down our ground floor unit do not really let pong into the house.

7) What if pong had any virus that can be passed to DD or sweetie?
my answer: obviously, pong may have unknown virus but she may also died because of the sterilization. Auntie linda said that the vet may had not done the survery properly..i think this is not the reason as vegancat has also send lots of cats from bedok to Serangoon garden to be sterilized. I believe virus like FIV may be the main cause of sudden death. i am really worried abt sweetie and DD..i will take them for injection against FIV soon..DD going for sterilization tml, i hope she will be fine..most probably YES since DD is in our house since she is one month old.

finally as so much of my "what if" qns, you will find that i do not regret having pong in our house.. i will always remember her...at least she is leavin this world to a better afterlife..that is what i think when my fav terrapin xiaofei died also in march on 2003.

Pong Pong visit to the vet

Jennifer say:


Today, sister and I took Pong Pong to the vet. Sister put her inside the cat carrier before taking the bus to SN to meet me. Pong Pong seems fearless, she did not meow and was very curious of the outside world.

Now the reason why we send pong to the vet is because yesterday, pong had bloody stools - real bloody and the worst thing was she shit at my study table and messed up my bag. Sister forgot to let pong into the bathroom to poo and locked her inside our room so pong poo on my table. This was the second time she poo on the table messing up my bags both times.

Anyway, i am glad today's vet treatment turned out to be fine. We arrived for our appointmet at Mt Pleasant Animal Clinic (North) at SN at 3pm. While waiting for our turn, we chatted with two nice malay aunties. The malay auntie said she send her cat for op for a fee of $800 as her cat got something in the bowel that need to be taken out. She is quite nice, we chat abt our cats..she had 4 cats in hougang, today, she visiting the sick cat that need to be in the clinic for observation.

Our turn came....my sister gave the vet pong's feces from this morning...YES, sister took pong's shit and travelled by bus( luckily only one bus stop from our house) to the clinic. The vet( a young lady called doc tan) seem afraid to touch the feces , we also gave her the digital camera to look at yesterday's shit. The vet listened to pong's heartbeat and proclaimed that everything is fine with her heartbeat. Then the vet said she need to get some fecus by inserting a tube to pong's bottom. So she took pong to the lab. We waited and pong came out. Again waiting time...we continued our chat with malay auntie. After a short while, we were called inside. The vet said pong did not have any worms or any serious condition, she had bloody stools because her lungs has infection from the food she eat - senitive stomach. We spent $69 on the treatment that included mediation.

Then both of us carried pong back home where we walked all the way back home. Both of us supported pong's carrier, she is very heavy.

Pong is so clever. She did not meow till she reached our doorstep..it seem like she know she was now home..home sweet home...

War of the World

Pong Pong and DD are becoming good friends..Good friends, still a long way to becoming best friends but at least, there are some progress between them - less hissing and more play. It is quite fun to watch them play. Both will jump in the air, box each other and once DD boxed pong pong's head while pong was eating before DD ran away to hide.

Sweetie is still very angry with Pong Pong whenever pong tries to approach her. When i feed sweetie, pong also try to come to eat but is scared to move closer because of sweetie's hissing. Sweetie will take at least two weeks to 1 month to accept pong pong.

Yesterday, sweetie bite DD's neck for no reason till DD meowed in protest. I think sweetie was just playing. Normally, both sweetie and DD will groom each other's head and ears.

Progress of Pong Pong:
So far, I have locked pong inside DD's old basket when i was out. She protested loudly but i needed to lock her in case she get into trouble. Today, she climbed out the window and we almost had a heart attack.
If pong poo or pee, she will meow for us to help her.
For food, she eat everything that i offered her - chicken meat, rice, biscuits...
She has a musical meow..very soft and gentle.
She will response if you call her name.

Caught in the act

This is Pong Pong yesterday evening. See how naught is her face.

Caught in the act 2

This is Pong Pong on top of my mum's room aircon. She is rather naught yesterday.

Caught in the act

This is Pong Pong caught in the cat by my brother. See how naughty she is. This is the main reason why we need to lock her in the basket. If left alone, she can be quite 'destructive'.

Pong Pong as our third cat

Pong pong has been living with us since the fifth day of CNY. I think i am adopting her as she is an extremely sweet cat.

She love to rub her head against you when u lie on the bed to watch TV. and she sleep beside anyone. She is also toilet trained.

Unfortunately, she has a bad case of ear mites where my sister has treated her using ear lotion. For her fur mites, i had spray her with frontline spray that kills mites effectively within five days. Last time, i also used it on sweetie whom got her mites from the grass. She got rather soft stools. Today, mum said her stools is normal but smelly.

Mum has been asking if i want to keep Pong Pong in the house, i do not really mind as she actually quite obedient except for this:
1) jumpin on the kitchen counter when i prepared her breakfast
2) jumpin on mum's plates that dropped to the floor, luckily no broken plates
3) meowing at us to let her out (we need to keep her in mum's room as she's not on good terms with sweetie and DD yet)
4) hiss like a snake at Sweetie and DD whom hiss back too
5) putting her paws inside the rubbish bin for extra food..yucks

Other than this, she is quite ok. Tonight, we let her out to hiss with sweetie but this war of the world is ok. No major incident happen like cat fight or bitting. So i guess sweetie slowly accepting pong pong now.

'The Kidnap' of Pong pong

Today, sister asked the malay family if she can bring pong pong back to our house to play play and she agreed. Poor pong pong, i think she has ear mites as her ears are very dirty. Just now, we had clean her ears using ear lotion. This ear lotion really worked. The last time DD has ear mites and ear infection, we do use the same lotion for 1 month and now she has recovered. We feed her rice and she seem very hungry. The malay auntie said that she only fed her dry food. I will either return her later at 9 or tml early morning.

Pong Pong house visit

Yesterday, new year eve, pong pong visited us again. This time, we allowed her to stay at our house for one night. Pong Pong found sweetie's favourite sofa to sleep. We released pong pong back to the malay family this morning.