She is less scared now and has put on some weight. This will be the next one to be tipped.

Another young Siamese-x (female) from Blk *17 Area 1 has been sterilised and released back. Will name her Pretty. She is whitish with seal-point markings, long straight tail, blue eyes... no photo.

This cat (tipped-ear male, about 8 years old) was trapped and went to the police station and later to the vet to be scanned for microchip. See this posting:

 http://meowies.multiply.com/journal/item/803/Stretched_to_the_limits....

One is a black pregnant female from blk *12 near area 1 and the other a new white young female with a cute bob-tail. She is from Area 2... I call her Snowy.

The mother cat walked straight into the trap and  then even finished her food not knowing that she was  trapped.

The 2 new kittens  were put together in one carrier and then I called a taxi to take them to my place... all three will be done tomorrow at the nearby clinic.

The kittens are very tame...they are just about 6 months old - I think.

All done now... except for the older ginger male.

I had not seen the new female tabby for the past few days, then just before leaving the area I saw her running across the car park chased by the new Siamese male.

Brought her home and returned to continue feeding the community cats at area 1. There was another new cat.... but she looked familiar. Felt her tummy...she was in late pregnancy. No choice... had to get her right away. I am quite sure that she is the kitten that was put downstairs by a Malay man some month back. He took her back after I told him what happens to such little kittens in the streets. Apparently he kept her in but not all the time and didn't' bother to sterilise her... I did offer to bring her when she is old enough.

Luckily the vet accepted the additional female... I had booked only one slot.

Tammy is a ticked tabby with a hint of rust colour, long straight tail.

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.

A caregiver told me about a lady who wants to bring a sick stray cat to the vet but has no experience with cats.

From her description he seemed to have flu and also seemed to be quite friendly. I told her there was probably no need to bring him to the vet but it would be good to bring him in for a few days…especially since it was raining. I was happy to hear that he was actually a tipped-ear community cat. Could this ginger boy be one of Anna’s lost cats? Could there be someone doing TNRM in this area?

When I went there it was raining quite heavily and he was hiding under a car. He really didn’t look sick, perhaps a bit of a sore throat. While we were feeding him and trying to coax him out from under the car a Chinese lady approached us.

She is a feeder and we talked for a long time, the younger lady acting as interpreter. She said one of the other feeders had sterilized this cat and also another few cats in the area and she seemed eager to help but didn’t know how to go about it. I offered her one or two of my SPCA vouchers for this month…

She also told us about cats being rounded up and an abuser who killed a cat and broke another’s leg, a mother cat with kittens on the 2nd floor of one of the blocks and about people scolding her for feeding cats…

I urged her to get in touch with the TC.  She thought her cats would be safe because they wear collars... 

The young lady actually intends to adopt this ginger boy and I gave her some tips on care and food and especially the importance of installing wire mesh to prevent falls. The feeder will help her catch the cat later...he trusts her and will let her carry him.

There was also another tipped-ear wearing a collar, a very friendly female tabby.