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Why you should spay your cats

by chics on 2 November 2009 · 24 comments

in Pets, deep thinking, life, personal opinion

Remember the headless kitten entry? I fed the mother after clearing the body. Also found out the mother adalah bunting. Gila aktif emak kucing ni kan. I don’t think she still breastfeed the remaining kitten tapi kitten tu tak makan.

Lepas makan minum air

Dia just duduk in one corner sahaj bila mak dia makan. I have a bad feeling about this, I sensed that the kitten will not live for long.

Tanak makan

Yesterday, I confirmed it was not just a bad feeling. I opened the grill to see if the mother was still there, kalau ada aku nak kasi makan but she was no where to be seen.

Instead I saw a stiff body lying on the cement.

The kitten was dead.

Not too long after I disposed the body, I heard the mother kitten crying, calling her baby.

So sadlah. Heartbreaking if you hear her cry

This is the reason why I always tell people to spay their cats. Ada yang kata aku kejam, menidakkan nafsu binatang, tapi siapa sebenarnya kejam?

Mula-mula aku pun kesian tapi bila tengok every yearrr kucing aku beranak sampai dia naik letih, badan pun kurus je. Tak pon yang jantan berlubang-lubang muka I decided to spay them. Not melah but emak aku.

Ok let’s see some scenarios.

Scenario A

Kau kata kau sayang kucing so pergilah beli kucing harga RM6K sebab ala tak bestla kucing biasa ni[which is nothing wrong kalau kau layan semua kucing sama] lepas tu tetibe kucing tu terberanak pulak, every year 2 kali beranak. Nak spay macam kesian la pulak.

Kucing kalau dah 6K, expensesnya tinggi, nak deworm lagi nak vaccinate lagi. In fact semua kucing kosnya tinggi. So bila dah beranak, separuh kasi separuh simpanlah, sayangla kata kau. Nakla simpan zuriat dia jugak.

Lama kelamaan makin banyakkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkk dan kau pun pening kepala, ada yang dah termengandung dengan kucing luar -bulu dah tak berapa chantek, ada yang dah meliar- makan sampah pegi mana-mana ntah.

At the end, kau dah malas nak layan. Yang jaga bebetul adela 1 dua je kot.

Yang lain tu tak kesahla, pandai-pandaila jaga diri,ulat dalam batu boleh hidup inikan pulak kucingggggggg, tak pon letak je dekat pasar – jadilah stray cats

Dan lama-lamaaaaaa jadilah dia macam ibu kucing and kitten in this entry.

Scenario B

You love cats and you really take care of your cats. Semua tip toplah. Tapi ada satu masa dia gatal nak mengawan kau bagi dia pasangan, kucing betinala yang dicarikan ni.

Tapi entah macamana satu hari dia terlepas dari rumah bila balik dah luka-luka sebab bergaduh dengan kucing luar. Mula-mula luka sikit je, tapi least that you know kucing luar tu dah pindahkan kuman.

Few months after that your cat died due to certain virus contohnya cats HIV.

Jadi siapa kejam sebenarnya?

Tujuan kita nak spay kan kucing bukan nak seksa dia, bukan nak sekat nafsu tapi sebab sayang, because we don’t want bad things to happen to them and because even as a owner we have responsibilities towards our cats and the society[ wahh tetibe aku feeling buat karangan BI SPM haha]

Some people thought it’s haram, mind you, with the correct intention it became harus

Below is the “fatwa” issued by JAKIM (July 2002):

“All pets like cats and dogs are allowed to be neutered or spayed in order to maintain the health and welfare of both the animals and the community.”

“Bahawa mengembiri binatang kesayangan seperti kucing atau anjing hukumnya adalah diharuskan dengan sebab-sebab tertentu iaitu bagi menjaga muslahat ummah.”

After studying the messages of the aforementioned “mazhab”s and the medical viewpoint, ‘JAKIM’ has decided that neutering of cats for reasons of ‘maslahat’ is acceptable. It is in agreement with ‘qaedah’ (way) Fiqhiyyah which states “To choose the lesser of two evils”.

- taken from here and here.

In fact, kalau pergi vet, most of the vets have this information in their clinics. This includes UPM vet.

Unless you think you are capable to take care of every little aspect, memastikan kucing-kucing kau tak selongkar tong sampah rumah orang dan buat sepah, tak kencing sana-sini dekat selipar orang sebab nak mark territory then by all mean, keep them as the way they are.

Anyway you know kan what SPCA did to stray cats? They put them to sleep.

So dari membiarkan diorang terpaksa ditidurkan, why not we spay our cats?

Tagged as: cats, kembiri, neuter, Pets, spay

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Maggots

by chics on 22 October 2009 · 32 comments

in I don't know, deep thinking

I woke up this morning and wanted to berak. So went down to my mum’s kitchen to use the toilet there, tetibe aku terpijak benda keras. When I looked down taburan garam kasar merata-rata atas lantai.

I was like. apahalla ni.. Ni mesti kucing tumpahkan, in between those garam I saw some maggots or ulat sampah. Disebabkan aku tak tahan nak berak I just ignored them.

When I went up back, I saw my emak pakai telekung. Dia memang macam tula, selalu sembahyang apa ntah pagi-pagi [gila ignorant kan aku, sembahyang apa pun tak tahu hehe]. And then she said

Emak: Did you see the salt down there?
Me: Nampak

Emak: Jangan sapu, mak sengaja tabur
Me: Apasalla pulak?

This is when she put down her telekung and sit in front of me on her bed.

Emak: This morning emak bangun, mak terkejut banyak gila maggots dekat dapur, mak sapu and mop.
Me:Lepas tu?

Emak: Few minutes after that they came back again! Banyak, mak mop lagi and letak clorox
Me: Ada benda mati ke sampah ke tak?

Emak:Emak dah check, buka kabinet semua, takde, sampah pun dah buang. The thing is they came out bukan dari satu sumber, they came from everywhere tau tak

Me: Huh?
Emak: Bawah washing machine, belakang fridge, bawah cabinet, bawah sink, selalunya diorang akan datang dari satu sumber je kan. I was trembling so I called Shafie ¹

Me: Lepas tu apa?
Emak: Dia suruh mak tabur garam tunggu dua jam, and then he asked me to call him, he will explain.

Ni dah dua jam, aku turun bawah tadi, all the maggots are gone tapi tak pulak aku nampak bangkai [bangkai ke?] maggots tu bertaburan.

Emak tak call Shafie lagi, tetibe dia nak ajak aku pergi SACC la pulakkk, nak beli tudung baru katanya.

Despite all that, emak remained calm, so do I.

Because this is not the first time such keadaan yang memelikkan berlaku dalam rumah ini.

This guy.. has helped my family a lot ↩

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Nostalgia chapati dan ikan tamban

by chics on 21 October 2009 · 14 comments

in deep thinking, food, life, mellow, nostalgia

Today while making chapati ¹, I was brought to the time that was almost forgotten.

chapati

It was the smell of ghee.

My father’s side was the common malay family, breakfast will always be nasi goreng, roti canai, ubi kayu and so on. Differed so much from my mother’s side yang lagi suka breakfast dengan roti bakar with marmalade or dorina. Sometimes we will have nasi lemak from pasar dekat bawah.

What many people may not know is, despite my hatred for curry and Indian food there is the ‘khan’ blood that runs in my vein.

My late grandmother’s adik beradik and sedara-mara on my father’s side can be easily spotted with their sharp nose, brown eyes and some of them with strong pakistani features. [ You can even spot Nasir Bilal Khan during kenduri haha nak name drop jugak tu keji haha]

So it was no surprise that they can cook pakistan-related [seriously aku tatau camana nak describe sebenarnya] food well. In fact, they cook well lah senang cerita. If we hire caterer for weddings and such they still do all the cooking and believe me, they make the best-est ayam masak merah ever.

They even made a special maruku for my family during my er..err..cough wedding. Setap gilo I tell yew, sampai aku tak malu bila jumpa diaorang suruh buatkan haha.

Which bring us to my point, yang makcik aku suka buat chapati untuk breakfast. Although you might want tosnicker and said eleh chapati je, stop. I have never taste chapati yang sesedap makcik aku buat.

Seriously.

So when I smell the ghee blend with atta flour, I immediately can smell of my late atuk’s kitchen.

There was this small gobok kayu yang pakai selak kalau nak tutup – ada jaring-jaring sikit, a manually defrost refrigerator yang satu masa dulu tah sapa pegi toreh ais yang berkumpul tu pakai pisau lalu menyebabkan rosak. Lepas tu menggelupur takut kena marah.

And there was an old dining table, made of wood yang tak berapa nak wood because I can see the top of the table nak tercabut-cabut. To cover it, someone put a plastic table cloth on top of it. A blue printed table cloth with red flowers.

My atuk’s family was not rich, he was only an ex army but the food that we had on his table adalah sedap, full of flavour. Full of love.

Usually Mak Mi will do all the cooking. Her cooking is the bestlah. Pedas semua cukup.

Whenever she cooked chapati, she will never forget to cook sambal ikan tamban as well. It’s the dry ikan tamban, kira ganti ikan bilislah. Sebab ikan tamban lagi besar dari ikan bilis, the taste is more sedap.

I never had chapati cooked back in my house back then, we always eat things that I don’t like , sometimes we have sardine and bread but never chapati, jauh sekalila ikan tamban.

So whenever I wake up smelling ghee, I will get excited.

Yeay, hari ni makan chapati dengan sambal ikan tamban!

While biting the crunchy yet lembut chapati [crunchy bahagian tepi, lembut dekat tengah] dan di cicah dengan sambal ikan tamban yang gila pedas, I will berborak dengan dalam bahasa orang kampung sana, much to my mum disapproval. ²

Lopeh ni nak buek apo?

Dak Senaaaa [budak Sharina], meh kat pacik ni haa

Ku dukuih kepalo tu taula kao

I think you get itlah.

Dan keadaan akan menjadi riuh with my uncles yang suka nak usik aku and adik aku, suka kan nak kasi budak kecik nangis. Bila dah nangis menggelupur.

And atuk macam biasa akan marah-marah siapa-siapa yang kacau kitorang hihi.

Despite the simple dish, we always enjoyed ourselves and sometimes I had to control myself sebab ada orang tak makan lagi, so kene tinggalkan untuk ‘orang belakang’ , quoting my late atuk.

While we kids getting ready to get ourselves into trouble, I can see Mak Mi and my late Mak Su [ I miss her!] washing the dishes dan disinari cahaya matahari yang makin naik. The klentang klentang pinggan berlaga sound juga akan kedengaran.

It was such a simple panorama yet it was something.

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I almost forget all about it.

I almost forget the once chaotic moment that used to make me feel so happy.

Today, while I was eating my chapati, I realised I have never felt so lonely.

Suddenly I miss my late atuk and maksu

I had it with sambal jering, no it was not odd at all just slice the jering into small pieces ↩
She wanted us to speak proper bahasa when we were small but now we already passed our secondary school, cakapla bahasa apa pun ↩

Tagged as: atuk, chapati, ikan tamban, nostalgia

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