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Mencari Ah Beng

by chics on 28 January 2010 · 8 comments

I got home about 8 last night only to find Jesse and Ah Lian waiting for me. No Ah Beng sight to be seen. The bedmate will not be coming home since he got futsal and will be spending the night with his friend.

So anyway, it is common for the cats to go out so I wasn’t really worried. Toasted two slices of bread for myself and enjoyed it over legally blonde.

Tapi halfway cerita aku rasa tak sedap hati. Dah berapa lamala dia ni keluar? Hari dah makin gelap ni, apsal tak balik-balik. Tau tak kat luar tu ada kucing jahat yang anytime je standby nak belasah dia?

Dengan berbekalkan sehelai T shirt I went to the front door and called his name. Takde jawapan pun so jalan depan-depan sikit, still takde jawapan. Kucing yang tak berkenaan pulak yang datang menyahut.

Walaupun aku menggelupur I told myself to calm down and carik dekat pintu belakang pulak.

Ah bengggggggggg bengjii ngiau ngiau tsk tsk

Takde jawapan.

Eee mana pulak dia ni pergiiiiiiiiii? Selalunya panggil mesti menyahut

Tah tah dak kene belasah sampai lembik dengan kucing jahat tu tak? Lepas tu terdampar dalam longkang keseorang berdarah-darah.

Demmitlahhh, dahla aku sensorang ni kann. Nak tak nak I put on my jeans and made my way to the ditch area belakang rumah.

Masa tu adalah gelap ok, cuma diterangi samar cahaya dari rumah jiran [chewah!].

Sambil berjalan aku memanggil-manggil lagi

Ah bengggggggg… Ah Benggggggg.. Bengjiiiiiiiiiiiiii. Ngiauuuuuuuuuuuuu Ngiauuuu Cingg tsk tsk tsk

Tapi kali ni kuat sikitla sebab gelap kan walaupun aku tak tahu apa motif aku kuatkan suara bila keadaan menjadi gelap.

Yet no respond from Ah Beng yang ada hanyalah beberapa ekor kucing jalanan yang ketakukan kerana tetibe ada seorasng manusia katik memasuki territory mereka sambil membuat bising.

Sambil-sambil tu aku jenguk-jenguk dalam longkang walaupunnnnnnnn aku harap sangat aku tak nampak Ah Beng dekat dalam tu. I mean what should I do kalau dia ada situ? Hari dah malam, vet komfem dah tutup and what if he tak bernafas lagi?

Shit. Shit.

Tapi kalau tetibe kucing ni yang keluar lagi shitty ok!

Tiba-tiba

“Cari siapa kak?”

Adala pulak seorang gadis [ok aku tataula dia masih gadis ke tak tapi she's a womanla] keluar dari belakang rumah and tanya. At the same time aku perasan dua tiga dapur rumah orang lampu diorang dinyalakan.

Ah sudahhhhhhhhhhhhh kenela pulak aku menjawabbbb. Dan masa itulah aku berasa keji, yela orang risau gila dan memanggil-manggil tengah malam bila anak hilang tapi akuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu?

Mengganggu ketenteraman awam bila kucing aku hilangggg. Hohhhhhhhhhhh

Nak takk nak dengan shy shy pig I told her kucing saya hilang and she replied with oooooooo and lepas tu memerhatikan aku dalam gelap.

Terasa diri ini seekor saiko ok!

Anyway I continued my search sampailah tembus ke depan and eventually sampai ke pintu depan rumah aku.

Still no Ah Beng.

Being me aku dah hampir nak menangis and I was thinking to call him walaupun seboleh-bolehnya aku tak nak call sebab it will only ruin his night. Mesti dia sakit otak and terus balik rumah dan terpaksa cancel plan-plan dia.

For one last time, depan pintu rumah I called for him.

This time, sayup-sayup aku dengar satu nyahutan dari pintu belakang.

Could that be him? So I called again and ada lagi satu nyahutan .

Please say it’s him, kalau bukan dia tapi kucing lain yang gatal nak menyahut mungkin aku akan melelehkan cairan nanah dari otak.

But when I came closer to back door I saw him, takut-takut nak balik.

Hohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh nasib baik kau balik Bengggggg kalau takkk mungkin kakak kau ni menggelupur sambil tak tidur satu malam.

Pengakhiran cerita- chicsinred adalah gembira sebab bukan sahaja Ah Beng balik tetapi Swirly juga turut balik [walaupun aku tak call dia pon] sebab dia tiba-tiba nak balik.

So yeay!

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Jesse is home

by chics on 12 November 2009 · 6 comments

in Pets, life, worries

I finally fetched Jesse from the vet yesterday. Initially I wanted to go with emak but since I had to go KLIA I decided ah aku pergi sendiri jelah, such a hassle to patah balik and ambik emak and go all the way back there.

Sebenarnya adalah tak reti nak pergi tapi ikut jela GPS, tu pun nak tunjuk pandai gak tu, GPS cakap lain aku nakk gak ikut cakap lain last-last agak sesat haha.

Actually I called them 2 days earlier to ask how was he doing and to know roughly how much will it cost, so senangla nak bawak duit. Dan masa tu hati sangat rasa tak sedap memikirkan how is he doing? Adakah dia ok?

The hospital told me they’ll call the next day with the total cost.

Yang menyebabkan aku nak termuntah nanah. The moment I heard the total rasa nak terlepas je telefon tapi while driving, I thought about it. Tak pelah kot, he has been with us for more than 10 years. Redha jelah. Plus takkanla pulak tetibe aku keji tak nak ambik dia kan?

When I got there I feel cheered up seeing him healthier. Dulu masa hantar dia nak mengiau pun tak larat, baring je but when I came he mewed gaily and his tail was up

The Dr told me that his eating habits has increased and berak semua ok. Cuma ada dua bendalah, his skin is still yellow [he got jaundice] and he might develop liver cancer later

Yellow skin

Since emak’s house banyak kucing, I have to bring Jesse to stay with me much to Ah Beng’s and Ah Lian’s anger. They hissed and growl the moment I let Jesse out.

And being Jesse, dia tak buat apa-apa. Maybe I seldom talk about him tapi dalam banyak-banyak kucing, dialah yang paling baik sekali. Tak pernah bergaduh, kalau makan bagi kucing lain dulu makan and kalau kucing lain marah dia hanya akan walk away.

I am sick, kakak

The Dr told me that Jesse tak boleh stress so I decided to let him stay in my room supaya senang aku nak monitor dia. Oh she also told me to feed him his medication

ubat-ubatan

Two of the medicines adalah agak besar. I had some difficulties feeding him, boleh guna macam satu tube ni tapi aku prefer guna tangan lagi senang nak budget. Tapi sebab besarrrrrr agak susah dan sekarang tangan aku adalah calar balar sebab kene cakar.

Dan oh, he had to rely on his medication from now on, to survive

Sampai hari ni 2 ekor tu tak ok lagi, merajuk ada, they don’t want to go near me. I am trying to make them accept slowly and it’s quite a tiring process. Nak kene pujuk sana, nak kene pujuk sini. Haih dahla penat semalam kehulur ke hilir tak hilang ->Ini bukan whining, just nak mengadu haha

Hopefully soon they’ll be oklah. Risau akula tengok diorang macam tu.

Jesse on the other hand is ok, cuma semalam agak restless aku dibuatnya. Dia ni manja sikit, suka nak tidur kepala atas bantal and tangan mesti nak sentuh orang, kalau sentuh je takpe mesti nak cengkam.

And because he is still not strong enough, nak panjat katil pon tak lepas, I had to wake up sekejap-sekejap to help him.

Although, it was a bliss to have him curled nest to me sambil kepala dia landing atas tangan aku, purring.

Cuma I can’t help wondering, what will happen if he don’t make it nanti?

Part itu yang aku paling benci

Tagged as: cat, hostile cats, jaundice, Pets, UPM Vet

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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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