Tuffie's Reaction

This is a bit late, happened 2 weeks ago, lol. But I've been too busy with my website to update this blog. Anways, speaking of websites, winniecheng.net is finally up. Has all me art stuff, feedback and comments are most welcome!

Back to the topic at hand, Tuffie wasn't too pleased to see Abbie around the house. She was reclining on the bed, and when she saw Abbie she got up and veeeery slooooowly made her way to the hidey place...

Here she is pausing for a look.

Zoom! That face is bad news...

Seriously, she was mooooooving sooooo sloooowly, as if to say, nothing threatening here...just a blob of a cat slooooowly making her way to hide. I'll try to embed the video once I figure out how to do that.

And the object of Tuffie's ire is chillaxin' on the cool parquet floor...

Abigail is looooong. Much like Rover.

Catching sunbeams

Before we forget who this blog is originally all about:

Tuffie glowing in the morning sun.

Zzz.

Simple pleasures are the best. :)

Up next - Tuffie's reaction to Abbie! And long overdue are the pics of the kittens!

Abigail is cured!

Went for a follow-up visit to the vet today, and he was surprised by how much she's improved in one week. Her upper respiratory infection is gone, and so are the fleas. The reddish dots still in her coat are in fact dead flea bodies and eggs. So all I have to do is give her another bath tomorrow when she is less stressed. She still has a scab on her head that has not healed, so we've got some cream and antiseptic stuff to put on it.

Munch away! Her tail is quite the banner.

Top view. Her fur tends to fluff and so hides her scrawny frame well.

Front view. Face blur action.

Full tank! Then she flops.

Still wants some more food!

I guess I've been lucky so far with rescuing cats...Tuffie was no problem once her leg healed, the kittens did fine once the worms and runny noses were taken care of, and Abbie is doing well now that the fleas, worms and assorted bacteria have been eliminated. I asked the vet about her missing teeth and he suggested that it could be her baby teeth being replace by permanent ones. Lets hope they grow back. :)

Her Name is Abigail

Say welcome to the newly-christened Abigail, or Ah-Bie for short. Tuffie is Ah-Fie...hope they can keep their names apart :P Status update:

Abigail sez, "2 bowls of food ain't enough, please can I have some more?"

Actually the white saucer is for her meds, mixed with some canned food. Though she is fed twice a day she gets double portions each time. You can still feel the spine and ribs, but it's not as painfully obvious as before. She now has a nice padding of soft fur :) She's even growing fuzz on her bare butt! Her nose is entirely cleared up now. We still have to do something about the remnant fleas and that scratch though. One more visit to the vet this Sat I suppose.

New Cat Alert! Found on Halloween.

So me and Sophia were going for lunch in Gadong on Friday and we heard this mewing coming from the rubbish dump. This emaciated cat was crying with all its might, trying to get noticed. Well, we noticed. I didn't really think of bringing it home with me yet, but the idea just grew on me during the day, and at 5pm I decided that if I can still find the cat I will take it home with me.

Well, as luck would have it, it was still there. We confirmed it was a she and Sophia helped commandeer a box from the office to bring her back in. This was a truly miserable looking cat, she has been starving for a while and was all bones and skin. She was even skinnier than Tuffie was back then.

She was quite filthy and besides the skeletal appearance she also had a few missing teeth, sniffles with yellow-green snot (eew) as well as ear mites (double-eew) and a whole host of crawlies in her fur (eew-ack). Oh not to mention internal wormies too.

Day 2: Look at that bony leg! When we got home she just kept crying...definitely was one sick kitty. Before I brought her to the vet I gave her a dose of de-flea and a quarter of a de-worming tablet. She was as light as the kittens so I decided to go with a kitten dose. The vet suggested to dose her once every week for 3 weeks. He also prescribed 2 meds for her runny nose.

I decided to give her a bath after the visit to get rid of all the grime and crawlies on her...that was quite the experience. I've never given Tuffie a thorough bath as she was always very clean, but this was different. So I ran some lukewarm water, grabbed the flea shampoo and the cat. There was quite a bit of yowling and wriggling, and when I cracked out the hair dryer she flipped out. The sun chose that day to hide in the clouds, so there she was sitting in the shade shivering :( She had not eaten much during the day and her body temperature was a bit low while at the vet...

...but once she settled down, she managed to get the appetite for food, and I was much relieved. This pic was taken just after she got dried off. What a difference clean fur makes. :)

Day 3, Sunday: Starting to get a bit of caturday on us, eh? I guess she felt way better, as she could stretch and roll and yawn. She got rid of a huge worm and seemed much relieved by it ;)

Despite this I had to give her another bath, but the sun was out and it was nice and hot. I also made sure the water was warmer this time, as I want to really get rid of all the fleas. So ensues the second round of yowling and splashing, and the dreaded hair dryer again. But the second round was worth it, got rid of most of the fleas.

Well, here we are at day 4, still skinny, but her fur is finally fluffy and clean. :D Also eating for 3 cats apparently. She's got a lot of weight to catch up.

Caturday Gets A Facelift!

It's been a while since I've been itching to redesign the look of this blog. Looking back, this is what the top banner looked like:
Not too catchy, and kinda boring. It's been up for almost a year and it was high time to get a change. I also wanted to use some of the free vectors I found at this site: www.bittbox.com
Definitely check out BittBox for loads of fantastic free brushes, textures and vectors for download. I composed the new title banner with a few decorative ornaments taken from there.

I was spoilt for choice as to which photo of the sleeping Tuff I should use, but this one was still my favourite by far, with her legs stretched out over the backpack. Utter contentment. :) Quite liked the way it turned out, so I went ahead and redid the avatars.

Old:

New:

Well, hope you guys like the new design, I had a lot of fun playing around with the decoratives, and I think definitely this is an improvement over the old look. :D

Making up For Lost Time

Whoo, haven't had caturday for like, almost 4 months -_- Now that is sad. So to make up for lost time here's a whole slew of the Tuff doing what she does best:
Yep. Current desktop at home, soon to have another version for work :D Definitely brightens up my day. :) Here's a 1024 x 768px for anyone craving some caturday in their lives:
Another reason for the lack of updates is that I'm currently fostering 2 kittens...a mom cat had a litter of 4 downstairs. Unfortunately the most adventurous one, a ginger colour, was run over. The tabby one was quickly adopted, leaving 2. One day I went down to feed them and found them cowering in the rain. This won't do so I brought them up. I guess the story has to be followed up in another post, but here's a photo for the meantime:
Do not be misled by the innocent looks, I've already lost 2 rolls of toilet paper to these little buggers (they are living in my washroom). Well, more to follow next time.