Saturday 19 October 2013

..cats who disappeared..

.,.there must be a place where cats go..

..we, the missus and I,  rear our cats free ranged..feed them twice a day, once in the morning and again before mahgrib..but every so often they will take their leave and disappear...always singly and never in pairs... sometimes to return after a few days, to be fed and rested,  only to disappear again...after Itek, my first tom, and Mekbu, Ayam's blind kitten, I did not anymore make searches...Itek disappeared on the day his molly, Ayam delivered a litter of seven..days of frantic and systematic searches never found him...we only learned of his death from a neighbour, the late Pak Heng,  from across the road...of drowning during a cat fight...he was fished out of the watering well and thrown into the Kemasin River...I went to the spot where he was thrown but saw no signs of him..we shed some tears, my wife and I...missing him like a family member that he was..

..Ayam, the queen is still around..

..later Mekbu left.. she's a blind molly and searches failed to find her..but more than six months later she turned up, with two a month old kittens in tow...like the rest she was fed and attended..but less than a year later she disappeared again, and has not turn up until today....my thoughts are always with them..they who left the cosiness of home and the predictable food served, of rice and boiled ikan selayang...

..Rocky Bubu when first found, crying in between two rotten planks..
 ..molly Maddyna and tom Dagu were kittens from my neighbour's molly...I adopted them and Maddyna was duly spayed...they were comfortable both in my compound as in my neighbour's kitchen, with Maddyna the only one who would follow me in my evening jogs around the kampong...the rest would only followed just up to the outside road...last year they disappeared just a few days apart...Maddyna returned a few weeks later looking gaunt and hungry...she stayed for a few days and left with no signs of returning along with Dagu not returning at all...

..Dagu..
 ..Myteam, a tom, left, too..long after he pierced his face with a loose end of the fence and I had to cut off the steel with a cutter to set him free...his wound healed..but not his wander lust..one morning I opened the door to find him gone.....

..Maddyna..
 ..my thoughts are always with them..they who left the cosiness of home and the predictable food served, of rice and boiled ikan selayang...to feed on a need to wander, and find a mate, maybe...

..attending to an ailinmg Bubu..
my thoughts are especially with Rocky Bubu, who was nursed from a worm-infested disease to health...who grew to be a handsome tom with a character of his own...who would take every opportunity to plop on my lap where ever and when ever he found me seated...


..the irreplaceble Itek..

..Mekbu and her first litter..
  ...there must be a place where cats go...but where ever they are, a little bit of pakmat is with them..

14 comments:

naniasda said...

there must be a place where cats go...we make sure our cats go to cat lovers Pakmat! We (hubby and I) had to part ways with Cindy and her kitties due to insufficient time on our part. Occasionally we do get to see them and glad that they are well-cared by their new owners :)

Anonymous said...

we rear our cats free range also, Pak Mat, and sometimes one or two would disappear. we just pray that they are in Allah's care...

:)

Anonymous said...

I know how you feel. I have been taking care of 14 cats, who come and go. Some still do this even though I have spayed/neutered them. It makes me so worried whenever they disappear for days. I've concluded that the non neutered males go away to mate in another neighborhood as for the neutered ones, who knows. But the worry is always there when I don't see them for sometime and I too pray that they are alright.

Ju

Unknown said...

..thank you for your comments..and, yes, pakmat misses them..very much..

Sir Pök Déng said...

Abu is my silver shaded Siberian cat. Bought him from nearby local pet store. He was a fluffy ball of hair when he was a kitten almost two years ago. Now he's a Don Juan de Marco. He's too busy with his wives, only appear at house in the morning for breakfast and during maghrib for dinner.

Sheikh AL Zarafee said...

Semalam -untuk kali pertama saya mencari kucing kesayangan keluarga yg tidak muncul muncul apabila di panggil. Tak pernah sebelum ini rasa sedih sangat . Kini tahulah saya bagaimana perasaan pemilik binatang peliharaan@ kesayangan apa bila "mereka" hilang...

saya sebenarnya bukan lah peminat kucing . tak pernah pun membela kucing . tapi semua perasaan itu berubah apabila anak perempuan kelima saya yg berusia 2 tahun begitu asyik dengan kucing .

Satu hari Isteri saya membawa Pulang Kucing Anggora berusia 2 bulan yg di beri oleh kawannya . sejak itu kami memeliharanya dengan penuh teliti ....

Melihat baby kecik saya bergurau dan bermain main dengan "Pea" (nama kucing tersebut )...akhirnya membuatkan saya merasa ekhsan dan perlahan lahan turut menyayangi....

Nama "Pea" sepatutnya adalah "Miow" satu ajukkan bunyi kucing . Tapi kerana Baby saya tidak dapat menyebut "Miow" dengan betul sebaliknya "Pea" ...kami sekeluarga memanggilnya "Pea"...

Pagi tadi selepas subuh saya mencarinya lagi ... hanya untuk menemui PEA yg berada dalam keadaan keletihan dan tidak bermaya setelah hilang seharian ....

kelihatan matanya berdarah dan mulutnya terluka ....tak dapat saya bayangkan perasaan sedih dan hiba didalam hati kami sekeluarga melihat Kucing kesayangan kami berada didalam keadaan tersebut....

Pea adalah seekor kucing Betina yg manja ..mungkin dia diserang oleh kucing kampung yg ternyata lebih garang dan tangkas....

Hari ini saya ambil half day ..untuk menguruskan PEA .... itulah kisah saya drp seorang yg tidak pernah suka kepada Binatang kepada seorang yg mencintai kucing sebagai makhluk allah......

Unknown said...

God created to be just like that..eduring, loving and don juans..hehe..take care, sir..

Unknown said...

as salam Sheikh..petandanya Pea telah diserang..mungkin oleh betina saigan..kucing jantan biasanya tidak mengganggu betina selain musim mengawan..kucing betina yang telah dimandulkan selalunya garang sesama sendiri..they became loners...terbaik ialah potty train your cat dan kurung dia waktu malam dan lepas waktu siang..:)

Sheikh AL Zarafee said...

Walaikum salam Pak Mat -terima kasih diatas perkongsian tersebut .

Pea telah kembali pulih setelah mendapat rawatan selama 2 Hari di bawah kawalan seorang pengamal Vet.

Pun begitu selepas pulih Pea mengambil masa lebih drp 2 hari juga untuk mula makan makanan biasa (Friskies).

Saya terpaksa membeli makanan lembut bagi memudahkan nya.

Kelihatannya Pea agak gementar untuk "cross border" selepas melalui pengalaman Pahit tersebut ...

ada cadangan untuk "mengkasi" kan nya . Tapi saya berpendapat eloklah sekurang kurangnya sekali ...Pea menunaikan Fitrah dan melahirkan anak anak yg tentunya comel seperti ibunya juga...

dan betul pak mat ... Pea kini di "lock Up" masa malam dan lepas bebas waktu siang.....

Thanks

Good aspirin (doc) said...

My sympathy with your loss.

I have too recently loss a friend, barely 1 year old. She got hit by a car. My family is devastated.

Salam.


Kak Teh said...

I have lost all my seven cats - sometimes, at a supermarket, I stood in front of the catfood shelf and then wonder what I was doing there.

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