So true! 说得真好！

I fully agree with what the blog auther said about "the joy of living with cats is to see them feeling totally secure". It is so well said and it really expressed my feelings so well. The contented looks on my 2 cats especially when they are sleeping never fails to make me smile from ear to ear.

这位部落格格主所说的“根猫同住最快乐莫过于看到他们安心的莫样”。这句话真是说到我的心坎里了。每次看到我家里的那两只宝贝安稳睡觉的样子我就会笑到合不拢嘴。





See how dreamy my missy look and it just melts my heart away:)). Same goes for our community cats, I will be elated to see them all safe and contented and happily enjoying their meals. And I will be very anxious throughout the night should either of them failed to turn up for their dinner cos they are my family too.

看到我家大小姐那个陶醉的样子我的心都溶化了:))。当我看到我的社区猫安安全全、快块乐乐吃着他们的晚餐我就会非常开心。相反的，如果其中一只社区猫没有出来吃晚饭我就会非常担心，因为他们也是我的家人。

Are you still eating foie gras? 你还有没有吃鹅肝？

I don't understand why we could inflict additional sufferings on animals for so called delicacies??? Can we eat these delicacies without guilt??? I know its difficult to get everyone to convert into vegetarian immediately, I am not a vegetarian yet myself, but we have the choice to stay away from these cruelty food. We are their only hope to the end of their miseries.

[文章注解：被圈养在鹅肝农场里的鹅和鸭子必须承受被厚又长的铁管插入喉咙，一天被迫喂食两到三次。他们的食物缺乏胆碱以至其肝脏膨涨到比正常肝脏的10倍。这是非常残酷的行为，导致这些鹅和鸭子承受莫大的痛楚。不但如此，有许多的鹅和鸭子还会因为肛门出血而无法站立和行动，也有许多的鹅和鸭子死于肝脏爆裂、食物哽咽、喉部重创等等。]

我不明白我们为什么可以为了享用美食而对这些动物加以酷刑？？？我们能够吃得心安吗？？？虽然要每个人都成为素食者不是一朝一夕可以实现的，我本身也还没成功，但是我们可以自行选择杯葛这些残无人道的食物。我们是他们唯一的希望。

Missy in the house 我家的大小姐

Oreo in her "Superman" suit.

Oreo的“超人”服装

She came to our house in August 2006. She was a community cat then in another part of my estate taken care of by another caregiver. She was a complaint case and had to be removed before the town council got her.

She was the very first cat that I fostered and the very first cat in my live. She really rules the house now, a real missy and is the apple of her daddy's eye.

Her daddy aka my supporting spouse ('SS') was not very happy of her presence initially. As our house was not cat-proofed, we could not open our windows and have to close all the bedrooms doors (to deny her entry). Her shedding and acrobatic acts were also sources of complaint for SS. But being an intelligent girl, she just know whose heart to buy over. In just a few months time she had her daddy within the control of her paws hahaha, simply amazing! She really adores her daddy...she will go running to him when called and will sit near or next to him during TV time. It makes me jealous sometimes cause she don't response to me the way she responses to her daddy.

她在2006年8月份来到我们的家。那时她还是一只由另一位爱心妈妈照料的社区猫。因为被人投诉我们必须在市镇理市会捉到她之前把她带走。

她是我的第一只中途猫也是第一只进入我生活的猫。现在她已是家里的大小姐也是她老爸的掌上明珠。

她的老爸，也就是非常支持我的另一半(SS)刚开始时不太能够接受她。由于我们家没有装置养猫安全措施，为了她的安全只好把窗户关住，其他房门也必须紧闭以防他进入。她脱落的毛发和跳高跳低的本能也成为SS投诉的理由。但这聪明的小妮子居然懂得收买人心，在短短的几个月内就把他的老爸收服的服服贴贴。。。哈哈哈，真是媚力惊人！她真的很爱她的老爸，只要她的老爸一叫她的名字就会马上飞扑过来，在爸爸看电视时也会守在身旁。 这让我非常妒忌leh，因为这位大小姐对我可没这么好哦！

Another bureaucracy to tackle? 又来多一个官方机构？

HDB (which stands for Housing & Development Board) will have a new department known as Community Relations Department (CRD). This new department may duplicate the work of the National Integration Council (NIC) [what is NIC??? Never heard of it leh!!!]. This newly created CRD is supposed to help Singaporeans to develop a strong "sense of community responsibility and ownership" that extends beyond their own flats.....see how 'COOL' (bo chap) we are .

Does this mean that complainants on cats related issues will have another channel to pour out their grievances? And for the caregivers, hopefully that it will not be another bureaucracy, in addition to the town councils to tackle. Would this CRD be just an additional organisation to create more confusion and more pushing around of responsibilities?

OMG!!!

建屋发展局将会成立一个新部门叫做 Community Relations Department （直译为：社区关系部门）. 这个新的部门的性质可能与 National Intergration Council （直译为：国家联合会）相同[这是什么leh?都没有听过有这样的东西]。这个社区关系部门是为了提高新加坡公民对自己的社区的归属感和责任感。由此可见我们是多么的‘冷漠’。

这样的话那些喜欢投诉的人，尤其是喜欢投诉猫的人不是又多了一个管道让他们审冤吗？对于那些照料社区猫的居民来说，这个部门会不会是除了市政理事会以外的另一个官方拌脚石呢？还有，它会不会为居民制造更多混乱还有造成各个部门互相推卸责任呢？

我的天啊！

Dilemma 令人矛盾

Dawn recently wrote in her blog that the left-leaning government in Andean country recently passed the world's first legislation prohibiting the use of live animals in circuses (see http://fe20.story.media.ac4.yahoo.com/news/story/maple/en-US/time/20091027/wl_time/08599193234300).

For most animals lovers this is a piece of great news but the problems that ensued is where do all these animals go then? This is also a big question for many cats and dogs fosters like me. My friends and I are co-catgivers in our our HDB estate. And from time to time we may encounter abandoned kittens which were too young to fend for themselves and we were then left with the task to foster them and to eventually find good homes for them.

About a year ago, a pair of non-sterilised siblings were dumped and caught by our town council. Luckily for them, the town council's property officer was compassionate and kind enough to give them to us instead of sending them to AVA for their death sentence.

As we were short of space at that time, we had them sterilised and released them into our colony of community cats. However, they went missing thereafter until about a few weeks later the male kitty turned up suddenly near our feeding area very emaciated. He was very scared and refused to eat and drink. Fearing for the worse, I brought him home and he thrived and became very manja in a home environment.

He was then adopted by a family who has a pair of young children and a persian cat. All went well for about a year until recently. The adopted family wanted to return him to us citing reasons that he was mischievous and liked to loiter in the corridor etc.

Worried that he might be dumped again we decided to take him back and just 1 week short of the due date, I got an sms saying that they wanted to continue keeping him as their children are very fond of him.

What are we to do? We are also in a dilemma too. Where are we going to place him if we insist on taking him back, though we are worried about his well being with the family? So the best option we have now is to let him stay with his family while we monitor his well being. If we were to take him back, we will either have to release him to our colony or to put him in a shelter where his quality of life would be compromised.

This really is it!!!!!! What else can we do???

最近在 Dawn的部落格中读到一则有关安第斯左派政府通过法令禁止马戏团雇用动物表演的信息。

对爱护动物者而言这的确是一则好消息，问题是这些动物将何去何从呢？关于这个问题相信是很多中途都会遇到的。我和我的朋友都在照顾和喂养我们社区里的猫。我们偶儿会碰到一些遭遗弃的幼猫。由于小猫太小没有能力自己存活，我们只好把他们带回家照料再为他们找个好人家领养。

大约一年前，有一对还没有结紥的小猫被遗弃在我们的社区里。好在他们遇上了好心的市政理事会管理人及时把他们移交给我们而不是把他们送去农粮局毁灭。

由于当时我们以经没有地方能够受留他们，在结紥后我们就将他们安置在我们的社区猫群里。之后他们竟然失去了踪影。但几个星期后，那只公的小猫又忽然出现! 他再出现时已非常瘦削、也非常害怕不吃不喝的。没办法只好把他带回家。带回家之后，他茁壮成长还很亲人。

不久之后，他就被一户家庭领养。那家人有两个小孩和一只波斯猫。小猫被领养大概一年后，他的家人最近发短讯给我说要将他归还给我们，原因是他很调皮并且喜欢跑到走廊闲晃等等。

因当心他又在被遗弃我们于是决定把他接回来。就在要把他接回来的一星期前，他的家人忽然改变主意，要继续收养他因为他的小孩非常喜欢他，不要他被带走。

我们该怎么做呢？我们其实也很矛盾的。虽然我们很当心他在家里的状况，但如我们把他接回来能把他安置在哪呢？现在最好的方案就是让他继续留在那里了。如果硬是把他带回来的话却只能把他安置在我们的社区里或是带去动物收容所，这样他就没有了应有的生活品质。

真的就只能这样了，要不然能怎么办呢？？？

Interesting Fact 有趣的知识

I found out on Friday while playing Freekibble that Cats, Giraffes and Camels walk on both their left legs and right legs at the same time, ie. they will move both left legs and then follow by both right legs or vice versa.

This is such an interesting fact that I never notice though I have 2 cats of my own and I have been feeding the community cats for years. I bet many people do not have about this fact including cats owners like myself. Take a close look at your cat(s) now to find out the truth for yourself.

Freekibble is an online game where there is a section on questions for dog and another for cat. Just pick one of the answer which you think is correct from 4 choices and they will donate 10 kibbles to the animals in the shelter regardless whether the answer chosen is right or wrong. So please help the sheltler animals by playing the game daily. Here is the link http://www.freekibble.com/.

我在玩Freekibble游戏时才知道原来猫、长颈鹿和骆驼是两只左脚和两只右脚一起前行。就是说当他们在走路时是两只左脚向前再两只右脚向前。

随然我养了2只猫并且还喂养社区猫多年，我竟然没有发现这个有趣的知识。我相信有很多猫爸爸和猫妈妈也不知道吧。不信的话就好好的研究你的猫宝贝吧。

Freekibble是网上游戏。它分成狗的问题部分和猫的问题部分。每一个问题都有4答案供选择，无论答对与否，他们都会捐赠10粒狗和猫饼干给动物收容所。这是一项非常有意义的游戏，请大家一起来玩游戏并且帮助这些动物们。游戏连结在这http://www.freekibble.com/.