I cannot stand the mess from the small cage of the kitten in the living room anymore. It gets really mess outside, with litter and uneaten food spreading all over the place. And I also it’s time to release the kittens into a bigger area.

So it’s time for me to clean the third unused room of my house, that I use as a store room at the moment. Phew! Seems like a lot of mess that I need to tidy up.

So the effort to clean this store room is a joint venture between me and my housemate. So we start the process, putting my stuffs in a box (and my housemate did the same thing). Take all the boxes out the room for a while, mop the floor, let it dry, put the box in, and arrange all the “furniture” for the kitten to hang out.

And walla…. We finish with tidying up the room.

Guess it will be a happy moment for the kittens too as they no longer being locked in a small cage.

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I have to agree that taming my two feral kittens with food is such a powerful thing. They tend to relate my giving food with building a trust in themselves that I mean no harms to them.

And today, it is just another momentous day when the 2 kittens start meowing when I got back from work, meaning they hungry and asking for food. So that means, both fear me no more.

As usual, at this same moment, Oyen is also meowing for food. It is just another thing that I experiment today, to let them eat together. So, I prepare two bowls of food – IAMS adult chicken flavour for Oyen and IAMS kitten chicken flavour for the kittens.

And look at them eating together. I feel like crying you know to see how both of the kittens got this far on the 4th day.

I left all of them finishing the meal, and got into my bedroom, and get ready to take shower. But before that, I went outside first to see how all are doing, when I saw this happened.

I guess the kitten said – hey bro! That’s my food bowl. LOL. It’s kinda funny to see Oyen is eating from the small bowl with kitten food, and the orange kitten is eating from the large bowl with adult food.

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Day 3 with my quest of taming the 2 feral kittens. I’m sticking with bribing them with the food, by means of feeding to their mouth using spoon. At first, both are reluctant to get nearer, so I left the food in the food bowl. The kitten came closer and eat, then I start feeding the spoon to the their mouth again, until they eat from the spoon. While they eat, I just stroke the kitten’s head, signifying that I’m not a threat to them.

Well, day 3 seems to make a big progress, especially the white kitten. He doesn’t fear me feeding the spoon in anymore, and I started to put the food on my ficker, and let he lick it off my finger. Now, if I stretch the toy into the cage, the white kitten play with me, and that is really a big progress.

Looking at the kitten used to my existance already, so lets experiment a bit by using Oyen. I guess I want to test 2 things

• How the kittens react with Oyen being nearby
• What Oyen’s reaction when left together with the kittens

My early experiment shows that, Oyen loves the kitten. And here is Oyen, licking the orange kitten.

And this is Oyen again, playing a parenting role here. Hehehe. He just looks like a mother cat (for a male cat). Yes. The cage is quite messy. But what can you expect when leaving 2 very active and energetic kittens inside a small space with litter tray and food bowl inside? They ended up messing the litter and left over food all over the place.

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Day 1. The 2 feral kittens from Perlis that brought home, they do show a little improvement. At first, I can’t even go near their cage, and they start to growl, hiss and even spit when tried to look at them.

But, I kept sitting there, and the most effective bribe in taming them is food. I want them to think, when there is me around, then there will be delicious food. And I feed them using spoon. At first, they seem so reluctant to come nearer. But I guess hunger overcome their fear.

I kept the cage in my living room, and with me and my housemate moving around a lot there, they slowly come to the idea to accept human as part of their lives, and tonight, they no longer growl or hiss whenever I set next to their cage. But still, my attempt to touch them resulting the hiss and spit.

Oyen also has been a great help. From afar, what I can see, the kittens has no problem with Oyen being around. I guess Oyen should calm them a little by acting a role of foster mother.

What can be more joyful to see my 3 cats sleeping together. I bet Oyen can’t wait for the kittens to be tame enought that they don’t have to be kept captive anymore. And I also truly can’t wait for that moment to come too.

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Feral, according to dictionary.com refers to

fe·ral
–adjective

• existing in a natural state, as animals or plants; not domesticated or cultivated; wild.
• having reverted to the wild state, as from domestication: a pack of feral dogs roaming the woods.
• of or characteristic of wild animals; ferocious; brutal.

So feral kitten is one that is born in the wild and has no human contact, and the main diference of this kitten compared to a domesticated kitten – fear of human.

My friends know that I want to adopt another cat/kitten, to accompany Oyen at home. It just happened to be that one of my friend’s mother just has something that I want. A stray female cat in my friend’s mother neighbourhood (in Perlis) gave a birth to 3 beautiful kittens.

Being a strayed mother cat, no one really fed her, and her kittens. So my friend’s mother ended up giving the food to the cat, but at the same time, really wish that someone will adopt the kittens.

My kind housemate, who happened to go to Penang, actually went to Perlis, and bring back 2 kittens to KL. The other one is MIA, and can’t be captured by my friend’s mother.

This is the first kitten,

and this is the second one.

Not much of colour variation here. All of my cats are orange on colour. LOL. But put that aside. My love for cats that counts.

How Oyen take this? Well I’m suprised that he takes this really well. At first, I thought he will hiss at the cat when seeing them for the first time. But it happened that Oyen really got interest in them, and starts to sniff them around.

From my readings on the web, it can take up to 4 weeks to tame feral kittens. I will keep the kittens in this cage until the condition improved. One may think it is cruel to leave them in there for so long. But hey, you have to be cruel to be kind. And based on my reading again, I shouldn’t be tempted to release the kittens to soon, as once released, they will hide, and continue to have their feral lifestyle in my house, and will not settle.

And this is something from the web:

How to Tame a Feral Cat or Kitten
Difficulty: Moderately challenging

With a little patience and time, a feral (or wild) cat can be tamed into a loving pet. Younger cats are more apt to adjust quickly: 6-to-8-week-old kittens typically take two to three weeks to adjust to a domestic environment.

• STEP 1: Enclose the cat or kitten in a small space at first’a bathroom or bed-room works best.
• STEP 2: Turn out the light if the cat is terrified; this often has a calming effect.
• STEP 3: Put a bed, a litter box, food and water in the room. If the cat is very young (6 to 12 weeks), put her in a large carrier with a grated door and small windows.
• STEP 4: Spend at least 2 to 3 hours a day with the animal. Just sitting quietly in the same room will allow the cat to learn that you are not a threat.
• STEP 5: Gently compel the cat to let you touch her. Carefully wrap a blanket around her if you have to, hold her on your lap and pet her. Stroke her coat and touch her ears, face and neck as you talk to her in soothing tones. Even if the animal doesn’t seem to be enjoying the attention, she is. Hold the cat by the scruff of the neck if she attempts to leave. (The mother cat will do this to carry or train a kitten’it doesn’t hurt, and it actually relaxes the animal.)
• STEP 6: Present special treats such as chicken or tuna, and leave them if the cat will not eat from your hand.
• STEP 7: Gradually allow the cat to roam about in more rooms.
• STEP 8: If the cat tries to run away from you repeatedly, enclose her in a smaller space and start again.

Well, I’m up for the challenge. Wish me luck folks!!!

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The drain of the sink in my bedroom’s bathroom is clogged like, forever. Yes. On the first day that I live at this house, the drain is already clogged. I just can’t remember how many times I pump the drain using the plunger, but the result is still the same.

Then I started to think of using chemical alternative. Here are some of the products that I use in the past several months.

The drain is actually not completely clogged, but the water runs down really slow. What happened was, the constructor that did the tiles in the bathroom actually pour the left over white cement into the sink, resulting the cement to dry in the drain, and clog the water runaway. Talking about constructor that can’t think of common sense.

The first type of declogger that I use is of gel type, which can be thought of in liquid form. But since it is not completely clogged, the gel is actually, the gel actually got drained out. The other type that I use is of crystal form, of which you pour a glass of water, and eventually becoming liquid form. So this doesn’t work too.

And yesterday, just before I got home from, I bought this foaming type drain declogger product.

And when it is in a foam form, it doesn’t really run down the drain quickly, like liquid does. So, the foam is in contact with the clog for the maximum time. I let the foam do it works for 1 hour as what said on the label. And what happened after that?

My bathroom drain is no longer clogged. Yippe!!! I’m so happy that I actually blog about my pathetic experience with the clogged drain of my bathroom’s sink.

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Allright. Going to bring Oyen to vet today for vaccination. It’s been 2 weeks since Oyen first visit vet for his diarrhea problem. Nothing serious before. He just has an upset stomach from eating dried anchovies that he found in my kitchen.

Basically, I have visitors last night. Zaif and Lego spend a night at my house last night before they heading back to Zaif’s hometown. So Oyen gets kinda excited and didn’t really sleep last night.

So this morning, kinda pity that I have to wake him up to go to the clinic before it closed. It’s rather nice that when I put him inside the pet carrier, he just sit quitely in there, and he also just sit there quitely at the back car seat throughout the jurney to the clinic.

So here I am at last, in front of Anicare Veterinary Clinic, not very far from Wangsa Maju Carrefour.

Once I got there, there are 3 more cats already waiting to see the vet. So I guess Oyen has to wait for a while. And he got bored and anxious since being kept in captive for quite a long period.

Finally, it is Oyen’s turn to see the vet. He then became grumpy and making a loud hiss after the doctor tried to push a thermometer into his ass. I guess it’s a sign of Oyen telling “what you think you’re doing doc”. Then the doctor said, it’s ok. Don’t need to take the temperature since Oyen seems to be healthy.

The doctor did explain of various vaccination that available for cat. And since Oyen is housecat and didn’t actually go out and mingle with other cat, a certain type of vacciation is not necessary.

It’s kinda pity that I didn’t have chance to take photo of Oyen got injected with vaccine since I have to hold him when the doctor giving the injection. Anyway, Feline Rhinotracheitis-Calici-Panleukopenia-Chlamydia Psittaci vaccine was given to Oyen.

Here is something from the website about this vaccine.

Felocell 4 is for vaccination of healthy cats as an aid in preventing feline viral rhinotracheitis (FVR) caused by feline herpesvirus-1, feline respiratory disease caused by feline calicivirus (FCV), feline panleukopenia (FPL) caused by feline parvovirus, and feline chlamydiosis caused by Chlamydia psittaci. Felocell 4 contains attenuated strains of feline rhinotracheitis virus, calicivirus, and panleukopenia virus (Johnson Snow Leopard strain), and C. psittaci, propagated on established cell lines. Felocell 4 is packaged in freeze-dried form with inert gas in place of vacuum.

And this is Oyen’s condition at the moment (photo taken about 1/2 an hour ago). I guess his body now reacting to the vaccine given by creating an antibody. It really look that he’s not feeling very well at the moment.

And this is something from the website again – the following reactions are fairly common, usually start within hours to several days after vaccination, and last no more than several days

• discomfort at the site where the vaccine was given
• mild fever
• diminished appetite and activity
• sneezing at about four to seven days after administration of an intranasal vaccine
• development of a small, firm, non-painful swelling under the skin at the site where the vaccine was given. The swelling usually goes away after several weeks

You see, before how I wish Oyen to be a good cat by not running and jumping all over the house or biting my hand while I stroke him or unexpectedly pouncing on my feet while I walk.

But looking at him now, how I miss his playful moment at night. To Oyen, get well soon ok. This is just temporarily while your body producing necessary antibody.

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Hohoho. I just found myself what my next phone will be. Planning on getting a new phone for myself. Decided to get Nokia N93, but lots of people said that there is software problem with this model. Saw Nokia N95 on Nokia’s website, but not yet available in Malaysia.

Saw CNN last Tuesday, and it shows Apple CEO Steve Jobs is about to kick-off Macworld Conference & Expo 2007, and some prediction by the reporter that Steve will annouce iPhone. Check Apple website just now, and walla, iPhone did get announced.

I really need to see this product in action, before deciding on buying it. But by the look of it, I tell you, I get the feeling that this will be a great phone to own. Apple products never fail me before.

I want one! I want one! Now it is just a matter of waiting for this to be manufactured. I bet it’s not going to be cheap. But why complain for something this beautiful.

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If you have seen people keeping fish, snake, hamster, turtle or lizard in aquarium, you ain’t seen everything yet. The latest hobby that have just becoming popular – keeping a cat in aquarium.

Nah. I’m just kidding. In the past, I have shown you Oyen’s favourite spot to sleep. Now he just found another one.

Anyway, I was kinda wondering what Oyen does at home during daytime while I’m away for work. So I set up 2 webcams inside my house, one in my living room, and one in my bedroom. It turned out that he did what he can do best – sleeping all day.

The new place the he likes to sleep that I mentioned is the empty aquarium that I have in my living room. So before I off for work today, I set up my 2 webcam pointing at 2 his favourite sleeping spot. And below is what my webcam captured.

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Seriously, all he did is just sleep all day long. Wake up just for a while to pee, or shit, or eat or drink, and continue sleeping, until the time I back home after work. Even at this time of writing, I can see he is still sleeping there. It’s no wonder Oyen is just so awake and so active at night, disturbing my sleep. LOL

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Oyen’s Friskies is almost finish. Guess need to go out and buy a new one.

Like always, I end up buying more things for Oyen. LOL. And here are what I bought today.

The first this is this pet carrier. I will be bringing Oyen to vet soon, and Oyen is not someone that you can just carry like that. He will start scratching you with his claw. So porting Oyen around should be easier with this thing.

I guess Oyen also would like to have variety in his meal. So I buy Whiskas this time. But he will hardly eat the dried one, and keeps meowing for food. So I just found a trick on how to get him to finish all his meal. Usually, I will mix the dried cat food a little with the wet one. In my case here, I like the Mackarel fish flavour a lot, since it is made from real fish, and you can find real fish inside, instead of processed fish.

I used to see pet shop selling bubble maker, to make you cat play with the bubble. But it costs RM40+. I’m not paying RM40+ for a bubble maker, instead I get this RM19 bubble maker from Carrefour. The idea is, to make a bubble, and your cat will play with the bubble by chasing it around.

But in Oyen’s case, something totally different happened. He seems to be afraid of the bubble, and starts running away when the bubble approaches him. Hahaha.. I guess this is just another toy that I will give my nephew or nieces.

I soon then realize, oh, the one that is sold at the pet shop is specialized for cat one. The mixture that produce the bubble has chicken or fish scent. And that makes the cat chase the bubble.

Anyway, the third thing that I get for today’s shopping is this catnip spray. How I love experimenting with new things. And this is something from the label

Cats love to sniff, roll, tread and even chew Catnip plants (a member mint family). The active ingredient in Catnip plants (nepetalactone) has carefully extracted from Catnip leaves and combined into Cat Lover Catnip Spray for easy application. Simply spray your cat’s toys, scratching post, bedding etc. and watch the playful kitten come purring out. The effect of Catnip is short-lived (up to 15 minutes), harmless and non-addictive and has been enjoyed by cats for centuries. Male and female cats of reproductive age are more sensitive to the aroma of Catnip than very young or old cats.

Also, bought Oyen a new toy to play with. And I will use this to test the effect of Catnip Spray.

Lastly, something that I bought by mistake. Cat’s flea comb. My idea of buying comb is to comb away all the loose fur from Oyen’s body. But hey. I can always keep this in case I found any flea on Oyen’s fur.

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