Keeping cat as pet is not for everyone, especially to those with asthmatic. Cats groom themselves very often, and in the process, at the loose hair will fall and starts collecting on the furniture or wherever they landed. And they just like a fur producing factory, where those fallen fur got replaced so quickly, and the process go over and over again.

Still remember the red Bastis Pet Bed that I got from Ikea, which I converted to free flow bed?

Well my cats just know how to fully utilise that, especially Oyen.

This bed has become a place for him to day-dreaming,

and also having a good afternoon nap.

Well, once in a while when Oyen is not using it, Uneng is also using it for resting,

and what other best thing to do than to sleep in this soft and comfy bed.

Here is Oyen again enjoying his sleep in this bed at different occasion than before.

With this frequent usage, this is what happened. The bed is so full with cat’s fur.

And every people that have cats for pet really know the nightmare of removing those fur from cloths or furniture. Vacuuming it doesn’t help as the static charge of the furniture surface sturdily hold cat’s fur to it.

Well tonight, I want to introduce you to my best friend when doing the chores of removing cats fur from cloth, something that I got from Mong Kok’s Ladies Market from my visit to Hong Kong 2 years ago.

Do you see the slider next to the handle? That slider determines in which direction that you should brush. If the slider at this position, then you brush up.

And if the slider at this position you brush down.

With the brushing motion you made, it will pick up the cat’s fur along the way.

To clean the brush, I just wiggle the slider up and down several time, and eventually all the cat’s fur that are picked up by the brush will be collected in the container.

After several round on brushing, and emptying the container when its full, this is the result. I have to warn you what you are about to see is quite disgusting. LOL. See, I can built another kitten with that amount of fur.

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What a slow weekend for the human being in this house and other creature alike. Just spent the whole of yesterday and today at house. I receive No Hari Raya open house invitation yet for this year. Hhhmm…

Been accompanied by Oyen now, which I hardly can see my monitor screen as it is blocked by him. Got nothing to do, just doing a few photo snaps of Oyen sleeping in front of me.

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This is actually a long lost draft post that I just found from digging my draft folder. Didn’t really know why I have kept it there for quite sometimes.

In the past, I have blog about planting grass for my cats. But the kit given usually is quite small. So I decided to plant grass at larger scale this time. So I get the following garden pot and soil from Carrefour.

This is the compressed soil and seed given in the grass kit that I bought.

First, I need to prepare the pot,

by putting as much as soil in it.

I don’t really want to waste the compressed soil that comes with this. So I get a saucer of water.

This is how the compressed soil looks like.

Once I place that in the water, it expanded twice its previous size.

Not the soil is ready to be used.

So next, I sprinkle the seed on the soil that I prepared earlier in the pot,

and after that I cover the seed with the compressed soil.

And after 1 week, my cats are ready to enjoy the grass ;)

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I just finished downloading Full HD 1080p IMAX Coral Reef Adventure (again, courtesy of my beloved friend – Mr. Torrent), and it is really a time for me to enjoy the content on my HDTV.

But it seems that I’m not the only one enjoying this. There’s a silhouette of something else in front of the TV.

Lets turn on the flash on my camera. Oh. It’s Oyen. I don’t blame him. The image of fish on this TV is so realistic, just like looking through the window of aquarium.

Oyen is still fascinated by the fishes dancing around on the TV screen …

… and still, he can’t take off his eyes of the TV screen.

Ebot joins Oyen after that, and the same thing happened to him.

Ebot. That’s not good. No scratching of my HDTV please.

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I still can’t sleep at this moment. Don’t really know why my sleeping time has gone hay-wired lately. I guess it’s due to the Bulgaria trip last 2 weeks. One thing that I notice about me, I have a very sensitive sleeping pattern.

Anyway, Oyen is asleep on my computer table next to me. Been snapping photos of him sleeping on the computer table for a past few days, and I guess a blog entry of that would be nice.

Lately also, I noticed that Oyen really likes to sleep on my computer table whenever I’m here to play game or surf internet. I guess the heat from monitor and my presence that he will always get a stroke from me makes this his favourite sleeping spot.

Remember my Bastis Pet Basket and Bed that I bought from Ikea last time?

Well, I got the replacement for the bed already. The red one last time is a bit small for Oyen. So I bought the blue one which is bigger.

So what do I do with the red one? Since everytime Oyen tried to sleep on the computer table, he always struggle to find the comfy spot for him to lay down. So I have an idea of leaving the red bed on my computer table, which happened to be a very good spot for Oyen.

2 more photos of Oyen enjoying his sleep in this bed.

Sorry. Photos are a bit noisy this time. I was just using my iPhone to snap the photos. Just too lazy to take out my Canon DSLR from the camera bag.

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Just before I went to Bulgaria last Sunday, I noticed that Oyen didn’t walk properly. From looking at his paw, I can see there’s some sort of cut, and I thought it is just a normal cut that will heal in a day or two.

But coming back from Bulgaria, it seems that it’s getting worse. Oyen can’t even put his front left foot on the floor. From looking at the paw, the cut seems healed already, but every time I touch there, Oyen quickly retracts his paw. It must be painful. Poor Oyen has to bare the pain for almost 1 week. I feel so guilty about it.

So went to visit my usual vet today – Anicare at Wangsa Maju.

Oyen waiting patiently in the cage as there are 2 cats already there before him.

So it’s Oyen time. After inspection, his pain is due to something injured him, maybe during his usual scratching, and the thing broken and left inside his paw’s meet. Doctor tried to pull it out using tweezers, but I guess it must be really painful that Oyen starts hissing madly.

There’s no other way around it than to give anesthesia to Oyen. 5 minutes after injection, Oyen flat out. The main part of removing the debris from the meat of Oyen’s paw I was not looking. But the doctor said, after it has been removed, she can still feel something inside the meet, and has to bury the tweezers deep inside the meat. And another piece of debris is taken out. I can imagine that cannot be done at all if Oyen all awake.

Oyen may look all awake below, but he is actually unconsciousness already. It’s quite scary to see him dead-alike like that.

But it’s kinda a mystery of what the thing that got into Oyen paw. It doesn’t look like wood at all. It’s kinda soft like plastic. Also, I can’t really see where Oyen would get that.

After a thorough inspection, the doctor said that it is unsafe to bring him back in his condition now. She suggested that I left Oyen there, and pick back later today. So Oyen being moved to a big cage, as when he’s awake, he will be so stressed from the anesthesia process. The big space should give him enought room to calm down. At this time, he is waking up a little. It’s quite a relieve to see that he starts licking his mouth already. But his body is still paralyzed.

4:30pm, went to pick up Oyen. Oh, didn’t I tell you that I’m on leave today? As expected, anesthesia costs the most. As usual, a little reading that I did on Internet reveals that anesthesia can only be done by certified vet. It’s also quite a risky process, and mishandling it might cause the life of the cat. I guess it costs more for the price of the skills of doing this.

But the after effect of anesthesia is something that I can’t bare looking. Once I got home, Oyen is so wobbly. He can’t stop shaking his head, can’t really walk properly and all of his senses are all over the place. But the doctor told me that it is normal and will normally worn out completely in 24 – 36 hours. After 3 hours in that condition, he’s finally fall asleep (and still sleeping while I’m writing this). Hope that he feels better once he’s awake.

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Happened to be in Penang again, and went to this newly opened Jusco, so close to where my friend lives at Bandar Perda.

This Jusco has quite big pet section compared to others that I’ve seen so far, and this thing attracts my attention.

Even tough it’s been sold under the name of “Dog Tent”, well, I want to call it Cat Tent.

This is how the packaging looks like, and it requires virtually no installation at all. Can be used straight away out of the casing.

As always, I am accompanied by my loyal product tester – Oyen.

All of Oyen’s favorite thing as 1 package – blanket, Bastis Pet Bed and Cat Tent. Life is heaven.

And 2 photos of Oyen fully utilizing this new toy for them.

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It’s the last day of the New Year holiday before we all start working again tomorrow. Sigh! Before my Penang friends embarking themselves back there, they decided to stop by at Ikea first to buy a thing or two (well, one of them bought full load of trolley. LOL)

I didn’t notice that Ikea has a section for pets as well. For the trip this time I’m getting Bastis Basket for Pets and Bastis Cat/Dog Bed.

If you’ve been following about my cats, you should know by now which cat is the first one to test any new things that I bought. Well, it’s none other than Oyen.

Placing this on my bed would be a good sleeping spot for him. No more of him sleeping on my blanket I hope ;)

See the damage at the back of my bed? That is all Oyen’s doing from his scratching.

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Nepeta is a genus of about 250 species of flowering plants in the family Lamiaceae. The members of this group are known as catnip or catmint because of their famed effect on cats—nepeta pleasantly stimulates cats’ pheromonic receptors, typically resulting in the animal temporarily exhibiting behaviors indicative of being in an induced, euphorically giddy sort of state. The flowers are tubular and spotted with tiny purple dots. The scent of the plant has a stimulating effect on cats.

Source: Wikipedia

Well, I manage to find the dried catnip sold at the pet section of Jusco. I’ve been hearing about catnip for so long already, and rather want to find out myself of what is claimed is true or not.

This is how it looks like. It does have some sort of nice smell if you try to smell it yourself.

Catnip and catmints are mainly known for the behavioral effects they have on cats, particularly domestic cats. When cats sense the bruised leaves or stems of catnip, they may roll over it, paw at it, chew it, lick it, leap about and purr, often salivating copiously. Some cats will also growl and meow. This reaction only lasts for about ten minutes before the cat loses interest. It takes up to two hours for the cat to “reset” after which it can come back to the catnip and have the same response as before. Young kittens and older cats are less likely to react to catnip. Approximately two thirds of cats are susceptible to the behavioral effects of catnip.

So it really means that, it’s experiment time again. I’m so excited. First, I rub catnip in between my hands to release the oil, and I sprinkle on the floor like so.

Then I release the subject. As always, it will be Oyen. Yeap. Oyen starts sniffing it, pawing on it and even licking it.

But, will he roll over it as claimed?

Oh my! It’s so true. Oyen starts rolling on it over and over again. So I guess it’s not fair for Oyen alone to share the fun. Ebot joins after that.

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Feel like taking photos of my cats tonight. So I brought out my camera, and my flash, and start snapping those cats of mine.

Why Episode 1? Well, I think I will be doing this again in the future, by putting the latest photos of my cats.

Oyen

Let’s look at the awake Oyen first. Not really sure what he’s thinking when I took this photo.

And this is the photo of Oyen about to get up and came towards me. I guess my camera neck strap attracts him.

Now getting sleepier.

Remember how Oyen loves tunnel (blog entry here). Well, not just tunnel, as long as the place has some hidden opening, he surely will get excited. Here is sleeping in my laundry basket which I put a blanket on top to make the inside dark. Guess what, it became a sleeping place for him.

And another habit of him is, he likes to sleep at someone’s feet.

I call this Emily Rose pose. Hope you get what I mean. Well. I don’t want to elaborate more on that. Thinking of that movie gives me goose bump.

Ebot

Ebot relaxing under the dining table.

Ebot relaxing again on the bed.

I promise to take more photo of Ebot in the future. Kinda hard to find him sit still for me to take photo.

Uteh

I like this photo. It’s very contrast – Uteh in the dark side (Note: Uteh is mispronounced word for Putih, which means “White”)

Wow. Uteh looks so fierce. Maybe he thinks that I want to steal his food. Nah. My camera just to happen to snap while he’s about to blink his eye. Sigh! My cats always make a mess after meal. I got to sweep that leftover each and everytime.

See, how nice Uteh is.

Uteh sleeping.

Uneng

Uneng playing with Oyen’s tail.

When the time is right, let’s bite Oyen’s tail. Just pardon the red thing at Oyen’s ass. He was having diarrhea and his testical has swollen for excessive licking and rubbing.

Uneng caught red handed trying to peek what’s under the “saji”.

As a punishment, he has to give the coolest pose for this photo.

Ok. Now you can sit still on the chair.

Oh dear. I guess I am colour blind now. I see orange everywhere.

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