Clannies monthly stats (Aug 07)

In accordance with Tracking – TNRM Reimbursement from CWS:

No.
Remarks

Total number of cats
20

5 in Area 3: Marty, Hannah, Martin, Marcus, Mary
7 in Area 2: Benji, Benny, Sally, Kenji, Stanley, Scottie, Saba
8 in Area 1: Ian, Baby, Chica, Salvi (free-ranging pet cats), Ivan, Cara, Isam, Iggy (new unneutered adult silver tabby male)

Total sterilised
15

5 in Area 3: Marty, [...]

Appeal for tec clannies: Can you help these kitties?

SoS.
Can you help? tec minions are running into the rainy-day situation, what with me having no job and the slew of medical bills for both clannies and homeslackers.
We will, of course, manage the homeslacker bills ourselves, but we need help with the medical bills and monthly expenses for these 3 cats, clannies being cared for [...]

Ellie chubby love

Ellie is one of Foster Mum’s homeseekers.

Ellie hauls much luggage

Ellie flat-pack
(Photos taken on 25 Aug)

Aussie foodfare served up cat stew, Health Dept say it’s legal

So, it’s not only East Asians who eat companion animals like cats.
Cat stew has surfaced at an Australian food competition. The revolting dish may just be the next antipodean vogue. I dread the day when cat stew is mentioned alongside the koalas and the kangeroos, and Ian Thorpe as Australian’s Best.
But then kangeroos, national Aussie [...]

tight squueeeze

We got home after the cattery visit on Sat to witness this

From left: Philly, Rheilly and guest-starring Sharky Shark.
Someone needs to lose some girth.

More cattery1 cats on 25 Aug 07

Here’s a few more of Angel’s cattery mates… I still don’t know their names.

Pretty tortie

Shy blue tabby with blue eyes

Lovely calico

Tabby white

Tali on 25 Aug, Sat

This strapping boy is another one of Angel’s non-tec cattery-mates. He is also a lover and an absolute people-fan. He too is looking for a home.

Lassie on 25 Aug, Sat

Lassie is a young female cat sharing cattery 1 with Angel.

Stylishly togged out in classic tuxedo
Lassie’s a lover, gentle and polite, and one of my non-tec favourites in the cattery. Obviously, she’s named because of her dog-like nature, except she’s not a tail wagger like Cassie.

Lassie is hoping for a furrever home to go to. [...]

Angel on 25 Aug, Sat

We visited the cattery on Saturday. Pretty Angel looked well.

Angel pensive

Liking the attention
More cattery cat pics to come.

Flag day: Read the small-print before you give

(EDITED 20070831 for clarity – Singapore Zoo evil, ACRES good!)
You see them almost every weekend now, positioned round escalator landings, bus disembarkation bays, gathered around shopping centre entrances and lining the streets. The flag-day can bearers are out in force!
I would list out every way that I refute flag days now – not that all [...]

Update: Town Councils’ ZERO Stray policy – Dr Teo Ho Pin’s reply

Following Update: Town Councils’ ZERO Stray policy based on shaky logic, Dawn wrote about Dr Teo Ho Pin’s reply (emphasis mine, no strength to re-comment the fallacies of Dr Teo’s reply and assumptions):
Tuesday, August 28, 2007
Dr Teo replies
We wrote to Dr Teo this morning to ask about [...]

Time 20070823: Tainted Pet Food Vs. Lead-Paint Toys

Got this from Dawn’s blog. Very interesting to note that, at least online, people were more interested in the pet food news than the toys.
The author provided some great stats and his rationale for the phenomenon is sound. But I wager the greater interest in the pet food issue is also due to the following

Pet [...]

Chrissy on Sunday, 25 Aug

Chrissy, big improvement over the state she was in when found on X’mas last year.
It’s been almost 4 months since I blogged about the plans for her mojo-robbery. But she still has it… because she got sick and had been sick… when she gets well enough and plans are made for her mojo-robbery, she falls [...]

Table manners – Cat & Groundhog

Saw this cute pic on the Cats of Parliament Hill blog.

On the blog, scroll down to the entry on Sunday, 5 August 2007 by Klaus Gerken.

Spanish horror: bulls killed for tradition, dogs rewarded with torture and death

(If you find this post informative, you might like to check out these.)

From Dawn’s blog, a letter regarding the mutilated cat case, in praise of SPCA, but I was rather more piqued by the writer’s mention of cruelty in Spain.
Tuesday, August 28, 2007
ST (27-8-07)
I [...]