Champ, the leader, first one up the tree and into the basket :) Hope that Charles will find a good home, too.

Adopter came to visit and decided to give Champ and Chester a home with meshed windows :)

Will keep them a few more days because they still have a bit of loose stool. Apart from that they are back to their normal playful selves :) The vet advised to give yogurt to built up the good bacteria after the course of antibiotics. Two of them need to be syringed while the third one takes the yogurt straight from the bowl.

Trapped the two remaining kittens today, Champ seems already very comfortable while Charles is still a little nervous.

More pictures in Chester's photo album

This is one of the 3 Novena Kittens, named him Chester. Lilly helped me catch this one today.  I will come back for his 2 brothers on Tuesday. They have nice temperament and are pretty, all with long straight tails. This one is ginger, and there is one more ginger boy but with more stripes and the other one is black-and-white.

This little boy is still a bit scared.  I lured him out of the bushes and up a tree trunk using the feather toy, then Lilly grabbed him. He put up some struggle but Lilly didn't let go... then the travelling by bus followed by a short bicycle ride during heavy thunderstorm.

He has already used the litter-box... no training needed :)

I will take some better photos and then try to get them adopted.

These two cats, a young male and a young female, were sterilised on Friday.

Today I saw only  the unsterilised female, the sterilised mother cat and one of her kittens.

I managed to get the female into the carrier and then waited a while but no sight of any of the other cats. One of the guards said that he saw them yesterday, and that they will come out in the evening. I also asked about the older injured male... he seems to be better.

After some time, the young ginger-white male finally appeared and I trapped him and called Damy. Both cats will be sterilised under SPCA vouchers, boarded and returned on Tuesday.

The two sterilised female cats were returned today.

Photos courtesy of Damy

The older male who was already limping now has another injured leg...abused? I didn't see him.today...according to the feeder he only comes out in the evening.

The other bad news is that one of the residents, a Swedish lady, complained about the cats and the guard is supposed to call AVA in 2 week times to remove the cats..  She says that she will try to get the 3 kittens adopted by her friends... she will also ask the complainant to call me. Hope I can explain to her what we are doing...and that she will retract her complaint.

The security officer who covers for Lily during her leave, said that he hadn't seen any of the cats...but he saw the 3 kittens. He grumbled that he had to cycle very far to buy the can food. I am afraid he is not feeding them.

I gave all the dry food I had to the 3 kittens and the mother and another Torty, and also water. Always carry these items wherever I go... later I got some can food and went back one more time.

I was very relieved to see that the kittens are alright, and I like the mother cat very much... she let me stroke her today. 

Two of the cats at the condo

The mother of the 3 kittens

Yesterday the security guard tried to catch one of the cats for sterilisation by luring them into the carrier with some food... but it was unsuccessful.

I passed her the trap today and tomorrow will show her how it works so she can trap one of them tomorrow night. A Japanese caregiver who had earlier borrowed the trap brought it down to Novena MRT station, as she was going there anyway to put up photos of two abandoned puppies for adoption at the Cold Storage noticeboard.

We have also received some sponsorship towards the sterilisation of these cats and  they are getting better food now. The caregiver readily agreed to order a better brand of dry food when she noticed that the cats liked the dry food I gave them. In the end she will still save money because buying the food in bulk is so much cheaper than getting it from the supermarket.

Sadly, the lives of 4 older kittens under her care have been lost recently. They were trapped by the next-door church management and sent to AVA to be killed. The caregiver pleaded with the Executive to release the kittens to her  but there was no mercy...

Another  reminder here to please sign the petition, for those who have not yet done so and also forward to others : http://www.petitiononline.com/catraps/petition.html

Yesterday I noticed one skinny cat following the guard. It turns out that there are several unsterilised cats there, all females except for one male. There were three kittens hiding in the bushes, they look about 3 months old. The skinny torty is their mother.

The security guard, told me that she is feeding them and that there are no complaints because the residents also like the cats. We discussed sterilisation because surely there will be complaints if numbers increase. Her idea was to get the one male sterilised then the females wouldn't get pregnant. Told her that wouldn't work and better to start sterilising the females.

Will talk to her more and hopefully a plan can be worked out. She said she could keep the cats in the store room to recuperate after the surgery. I could lend her a cage and hopefully have some spare SPCA vouchers next month.