Everyone stared at her and came up to sniff...could this strange creature be Nush???

Mirko will be next :)

Saw small spots of diarrohea at different places on the floor this morning, and Nushi also feels slightly warm. She ate 2 pieces of her favorite salmon snacks and then vomited. I am very worried that she has another blockage…There were also some hairballs recently although I gave her special hairball control food and in addition hairball medication and some laxative for her hard stool once a week, also brushed her often.

I will wait a day or two to see if she can recover on her own...if not I will bring her back to see Dr. Goh.  Hope she will recover and then I get her fur shaved to the length of a shorthair cat. Should have done that earlier…

There was a very heavy downpour yesterday. Was he caught in the drain and swept away? I am still hoping that he will be back today. The 3 kittens were always together.

Romeo had survived the rain and is hiding under a car. Juliana called SPCA again to help catch him...so that she can bring him to the vet.

Penny rescued an injured kitten...one of the legs had to be amputated...no photo yet. The kitten is now in foster care.

Nushi had blood in her urine this morning. Luckily she is bathroom-trained! Would be hard to notice the blood in the litter box as the wet paper pellets turn very dark grey..... I have boiled the gold coin grass for her and will wait and see if it helps.

Nushi gobbled up some Fussy Cat tuna today. Brought her for check-up yesterday and the vet found that her gums were inflamed. No wonder she kept pawing her mouth and refused to eat. She had not been given any anti-inflammatory medication because of her sensitivity to nsaid.

I finally decided to get one of those Pill Poppers and found it a very useful little gadget. So much easier to pill her and without irritating her gums when she tries to spit out the half tablet of antibiotics…

This morning she actually couldn’t wait for me to get up and give her breakfast. Kept walking over my body, meowing and giving me massages. Poor Nush has lost quite a bit of weight…and my savings have also shrunk a little with that huge medical bill. The operation itself was only $320, - but there was a long list of other items so in the end with consultations and everything the bill came up to 1.150. -  my most expensive cat so far...but all that matters is that she is well again :)

 

A long cut at Nushi's tummy

Nushi had a hairball blocking her intestines. The vet managed to remove it by massaging instead of cutting the intestines.

I stayed with her for an hour after the operation …she didn’t move much but seems all right and actually managed to stand up once…The vet also said that her liver and kidneys looked fine but the panaceas was a little inflamed, probably due to the blockage and should recover. 

Sky, Dawn, Nushi & Mirko

Photo 1: Sky is less shy now and has a better appetite

Photo 2: And here is our heavyweight champion! Look at that belly

Photo 3: Grandma Nushi and newly adopted Grandpa Mirko 

Nushi had some bloodstain in her urine a few days ago, so I gave her a little vitamin C and the Chinese herb "gold coin grass" for 2 days. The herb was recommended by a volunteer from Ang Mo Kio and it is supposed to help with kidney problems. I boil it and give a little to my community cats (especially the older ones) about once a week, always reserving a cup or two for myself...

It has been raining almost non-stop for the past few days.  As I was going to feed the cats yesterday night, neighbours told me about 3 large dogs. Shortly after, I saw some policemen and then the dogs. Two of the dogs were big while the third one was HUGE! Reminded me of a calf, but bigger…I have never seen a dog this tall.  Anyway, I was worried about my cats who would be waiting for their food. True enough, the huge dog went after one of the cats, but he gave up the chase as the cat hid under a car. The dogs were not afraid of humans, so the policemen just kept following them and calling for back up.  I am quite sure they managed to capture them, as the dogs seemed to be friendly.

When I was finally ready to go on my feeding round, it started to rain again, quickly escalating into a heavy downpour. I gave up halfway as the cats would either not be there or come running through the rain and get all wet. My poor Pebbles, who has been coughing for a few days, rushed out into the rain when she heard me. Then she sat there meowing and looking confused before hiding under a car.

I brought Nushi to the vet today, probably a urinary infection. She will have to take antibiotics for 8 days, and I am adding a little Vitamin C to her food. Later I went to pick up Pebbles.  She is now happily snuggled up in a soft towel in the cage. I also started her on antibiotics and give her Nutri-plus as she is not eating.

Nushi has been getting more and more aggressive towards Shasha and chases her when Shasha makes a wrong move. I don’t think that Nushi is aggressive by nature but perhaps she is just curious and wants to follow Shasha wherever she goes. Nowadays, we keep the two cats in separate rooms at night, in hope that more personal space and freedom for each of them would help them to get along better. Shasha has become more timid ever since we brought her in. I think that it’s because she feels attacked and had become more defensive. She bites rather hard even when we stroke her gently! Nushi watches Shasha’s every move and does not even allow her to do her business in private! Nushi would be staring at Shasha intensely! However, once its time for their favourite ‘snackies’, they have no qualms sitting side by side and eating their tidbits.