My Amarise giving birth~

When i took her in 5 months ago, i never thought she is pregnant. Until one day my friends Hasnan and Ash convinced me that Amarise came with a gift. At first i thought she just a heavy eater. I just moved in my new apartment and at that time i'm not sure i'm ready to have additional kittens in my furkids family~ So i just waited. I have no idea when she's going to give birth because i have no idea when she mated. Normal persian will give birth 65-68 days after mating.

But thank God, everything went fine. On 29th of November when i reached home from office alone, she kept calling me to accompany her in her room and at that's when the miracle happen!! Seriously i have no idea what to do. What i did was i grabbed some of Joey's hands towels and pet my dear Amarise. i'm called my friend and ash to come over after the 1st baby was born..

The day. The big day!!

I try to believe that she is just a heavy eater. She eats a lot and purrs all the time. I thought in the first place she may be on heat. But she did not even took a glance at my neutered prince. She just loves to eat. We feed our kids with IAMS kitten and she never left anything in her bowl. She just finished it all. We even send her for vaccinations. 


Until one day friend of mine pay a visit and try to convince me that she is pregnant! OMG! I just moved in to my new apartment and am still trying to adjust myself and the cat that i took in for less than 2 months is pregnant! i'm about to have babies of my cat! I dont know how i felt at that time.. a part of me is blooming happily but a part of me is full with worries. I have another 2 cats of mine. and i will have another kittens? So later i will have 6 cats? and i'm living in apartment! Yes I'm worried.


Day after day, and in no time her tummy is getting bigger and bigger and she become more friendly. Her appetite grew bigger and she eats more and more, until on this one Friday there was still kibbles in her bowl. Her tail is wet and i think her water just broke. So I brought her to my cat spa to shave her tummy. Back at home, i cage her with boxes and blanket to make her comfortable and feels safe. Every hour i check on her but nothing happen. On the 28th, Joey was so excited that the babies would have the same birthday as him. But again nothing happen. 


Next day, I started to worried and started doing more research. I know that she may faced a false pregnancy but the most thing i worried is if something goes wrong with the babies inside. Then after work i decide to send her to our vet for scanning but once i reach home she wanted me to stay with her in the bedroom. i went to my wardrobe but she insisted that i stayed with her.


After changed i lay next to her in my bedroom then she start to breath heavily..some fluid and a little blood started to dirt on the towel. and the first baby comes out in the sac struggling be be out. I try to calm my queen even i'm a lil panic because this is my first time faced this miracle of birth. Amarise look confuse. She even hissing at her baby. but after few minutes she smell the kitten and start to lick him up.


  My 2 other cat wait outside my bedroom. I just want Amarise felt safe and secure. Then Joey is back and come into the room. Then the second contraction is coming. She stop lick her 1st baby and she purring again. Another sac is out and Joey reach the second kitten to Amarise. 


The kitten is crying out loud and only be silent after been lick by Amarise. Amarise clean up the baby. She start to eat the placenta. I help up to cut the cord with clean scissor. We document the scene with Joey's iphone. My cat-fancy friend Ash also there for support. Amarise start to show her motherhood and start to nursing the baby. 

After 10 minutes she starts her 3rd contraction. Her breath getting heavily. She purring and this time the larger sac is out. The 3rd kitten is out. The baby is bigger than the other. She clean the baby and put the baby together with the 1st and 2nd one. 


She start to clean herself..

Yummy!! Feeding time!!

Do you choose the food for your pet or they choose their food from you? We always want the best for our pets. Be it food, toys, vet, everything. But it's all depending to what one can afford and what your pets loves~

I am so lucky that all my cats are not fussy when it comes to food. They will just eat happily whatever I feed them. Let me tell you about my cat-sitting experience. Miko, an exotic shorthair adult cat of my friends. He is so fussy. He only eat a freshly canned-out kibbles of very specific brand and flavour. He wont eat the leftover kibbles and he eats so little. Thats make him skinny. At first I thought he is stressful but it turns out he' just being a fussy brat~

I feed my monsters with the brand that I trust. When they are first handed to me they were only 6-7 weeks old and only drinks cat's formulated milk until they reach 2.5 months old. When they are able to eat by themself, I feeds them with IAMS kitten. Actually before I feeds with IAMS, I have tried some brands that were suggested by my friends. But I noticed that they were both having diarrhea. Not only after I changed to IAMS, that they turned out fine healthy and happy. They both gained about 40% of body mass when they are around 3 months! Now we mix with Royal Canine Fit 32 and they loving it!

Other than feeding them with kibbles We also treat them sometime with EVO canned food. Its high with protien for muscle development, as supplementaries I'm giving them multi mineral & vitamin paste daily, hairball control paste, as well as supplement for healthy coat. Their favorite: Greenies!!!

Besides all that, I feed them with boiled chicken too! They love it!!! and easy!! Just sliced the chicken meat into a small cube, add water and boil it until it turns white. Serve the chicken meat together with its stock and some bones! they love to lick it!! You can always try red meat too. But if you know about BARF, it will make your life easier and your pets healthier. I will tell you about BARF in the next entry.

Recently, my dear Choco started to eat non stop! I'm planing to change her diet to low protein kibbles or else wise she will turn into an obese cat~

Fighter

Yes! I added one more pet into our lil animal kindgom. But, nope! It's not a cat. We are not ready for another cat in the house yet. Maybe next time. So what is that? It’s a Siamese fighting fish! Yes. That little fish also know as a Betta fish or Plakad fish which literally means fighter in Thai local dialect. I named my Betta fish Dysabel after a famous character of Philippine’s drama series of a mermaid on television.

What influenced me? It happen about 2 months ago when I visited my friend Harris and he owns a few of Betta fishes at his house. He keep it for a better feng shui for his house other than to avoid mosquito to breed in the bowl where he kept water for his plant. Then I thought I may need one too. A few days after, I went out to accompany a friend who just moved to a nearby aprtment to visit our favourite pet shop. There I saw a lot of Betta fishes and I choose my Dysabel and bring it home. I choose Dysabel because he look so small and timid. I thought he may need me, as I grabbed it to the cash register.

While driving home it reminded me of my childhood memory. I can still remember I used to have variety of colors and sizes of betta fishes when I was a kid. I remember when I used to compare my fish with my other friends' fishes. The best part is when the fish shows the aggressive side of them when they meet other betta fish. The male betta will flare his gills, twist his body, and spread his fins in order to appear more impressive, either to intimidate other rivals or as an act of courtship.

Next day I walked to a pet shop with my partner. It's my usual activity spending every weekend to visit different pet shops at least to compare the price or to check on new product they offer. In Malaysia, cat food is not a price controlled product in the market. The price may vary depend on the shop location. That’s why we need to find the best for our money value. Anyway, once we stepped in this particular pet shop, I found a beautiful set of small aquarium and we thought it would be nice to put it in our cozy living room. So we bought it and bring it home. It’s a good set! It came together with the water neutralizer, some very small rock for decoration, food packet and the fins multivitamin for fish!! It's so convenient. All you need is to pour in some water and then, WALLAH!! Your betta home is ready!

Nobody is more excited with the new addition to our family than both monsters we have at home! Chika and Choco are so curious of the animal inside the aquarium glass. They try to dip their paws inside the aquarium! The aquarium stayed in my living room for only 2 days. I put it back in the wash room by the 3rd day.

Once in a while, I’ll bring my Dysabel out, put the aquarium in the living room, for my cats to watch and fantasize of eating it!!

Choco, Calico & everything in between~

Thanks for the support. I am more than happy if you do subscribe to this blogs. I will try my best to update it as frequent as I can. So let me introduce you to my princess. Choco. Choco is 9 months old exotic long haired cat.

Exotic longhair can be characterized by its round face and shortened muzzle. Since Exotic come from outcross between Persian and other breed, exotics may carry a copy of the recessive longhair gene. When two such cats mate, there is a one in four chance of each offspring being longhaired. Having an exotic cat means we have the same problem as people who owned a Persian cat. Due to their unique skull structure, this can bring with it a number of health problems. Their eyes may require regular cleaning to prevent crust buildup and tear staining. Long hair cat required daily combing and frequent grooming. Not only for the cat but also for our hygiene.

Me myself must be more particular on hygiene issues since I'm living in an apartment and must be considerate toward others. Some people might have allergy towards cat's fur. Take note on that. Coming back to my princess Choco, she is a calico. Calico describes a coat coloring found mostly in female cats. Calicos have coats with patches of red, brown or black, chocolate, cream, or even cinnamon. The size of the patches can vary from a fine speckled pattern int0 large areas of color. Typically, the more white a cat has, the more solid the patches of color. Dilution genes may modify the coloring, lightening the fur to a mix of cream and blue, lilac or fawn. 

Choco on the other hand is a white with black and orange patches. She is long coated but not as long as a show quality Persian. Although that doesn't mean she's less cuter.

Choco loves to eat. She eat almost all the time!! At the moment we feed her IAMS for Kitten, milk and fresh boiled water (the water bowl is to be cleaned everyday). But Choco's favorite I must say is the Greenies that we give daily for cat's oral hygiene. Upon hearing us shaking the Greenies packet, she'll jump on our bed looking all hungry and eager. That's not the only time she'll be jumping on the bed and purring begging us to pet her, she'll do that at any time she pleases!

Let me tell you guys how I got choco. Choco is adopted by us from her owner in Shah Alam, Selangor. She was around 5 months old back then. A very adorable flat face calico. She's been friendly since the 1st time we lay our hands on her. When Choco pay her first visit to our vet clinic we found out she have a bad fungus infection at the tip of her tail. It took almost 2 months to recover and for the hair to grows back after treatment with medicated shampoo and other supliment.

At first, she was supposed to accompany our lonely Chika back at home. But, Choco is more than that. She bring joy to our life. Although it's her nature being an alpha female, we love to see her going crazy.

When she plays, she will play like there's no tomorrow. She will jump from couch to couch and poke my prince Chika, even chasing her own tail!!
But when she rests or sleeps she doesn't care of her surroundings..
One more thing about Choco is that it's incredibly easy to shower her, but she can beat the 100m sprinter when she heard the sound of the the hair dryer! One more thing which is dearly about Choco, she don't opt for those expensive toys. She's a penchant for shredded papers, magazines and straws instead! Recently, due to her big apetite, she is getting bigger and bigger. She turned out to be like a cotton ball! Recently a friend came over and called her Tanglung! He said that it's the first thing that came to his mind when he saw Choco from the back sitting on the floor. I think its the time to control her diet.Sorry my majesty~

Sleazy Prince

Chika Ramika

Thanks for reading. I have two very beautiful sassy cats. Well who else will brag about their pets if not the owner itself! Chika is a Domestic Long Hair . Today he is 8 months old and weighs about 5 kilogram. Chocó is 9 months old Exotic Longhair with calico color. Let me tell you about my dearest Chika. Chika is our only little prince and he was born in December 2009. Among many other things about Chika:

• Cream shaded (some called it Smoked Red) coat
• with pink color paws.
• Loves to scratch at my couch.
• Always finishes his milk.
• His nose is always wet indicating that he is healthy and happy. He loves to play catch with me regardless what time it is.

Actually Chika was a very decent gift from a dear friend of mine, Izawati. She gave Chika to me when she had decided to migrate back to her hometown and she had more than 10 cats in her house back then. One of her female cat named Gula, a silver colored Domestic Long Hair cat gave birth to two sweet kittens. That day, we came home with two kittens, Chika & Mika. I will tell you what happen to Mika at the next entry.

My first month was a challenge. I'm seriously not really prepared to have a pet since it had been years since I had a pet. Now I have two kittens at my house to take care of. Luckily my partner is living with me so at least there are two people to take a good care of them. Surprisingly, Chika is quite easy to train. He is not fussy about his food and he knows his name and purrs when we call him!!

One thing which is unique about Chika is that he was born with one undescended testicle or cryptorchid or monorchid in medical term. What happened was, only one testicle came out and the other one was up in his abdomen. The vet said that it could be cancerous if we don’t get it removed. Some said if your cat is lucky, it will eventually came out a few months later, but you should keep an eye on it.

But I’m not going to chance it, so I have decided to get him fixed. As soon as possible.Day in and day out when we got home, while inserting the key into the keyhole, Chika will meowed from inside of the house. He will quickly run out as soon as he can fit his whole body out of the small opening of the door. But Chika never ran away. He just rolls around on his belly at my apartment lobby begging us to pet him or pick him up.

Well I guess that’s the Tail’s Tale about my Chika. Now I cant wait to go home to see them <3!!

Meooww