Some enlightening..

Had a talk with this lady,
very experienced with cats
who told us this (rather candidly) when she heard
about the cat's non-fixed meal routine
(such as Miaomiao eating 4 pellets and strutting off
after miaowing pitifully for food)

"The cats are smart. They are training you already"

Oh no! We must not be trained by them!
So we are restarting fixed meals.

Miaomiao just got angry with us for not feeding her,
when it was feeding time
she sulked in one corner and refused to come out to eat.

And another thing is,
we should really try harder to cut Momo's weight,
or he would suffer from health problems in the years to come

We sort of tried,
but maybe we need to look at how to do it better.

Just that the part where she said
they should eat raw meat,
I think we wouldn't go into that.

It was interesting to hear what is different from what I always knew.
Dry food might not necessarily be good
despite "Vet's recommendation labels"

And cats are not lazy! :)
It's just an evolutionary thing
since their ancestors being hunters
nap in between hunts,
explaining why they sleep so much.

And today I learnt that our three cats
are real gentle creatures
who put up with lots of my senseless crap
and sometimes my off-tune singing
Their temperament is really very good compared to others,
so I should not keep saying that Miaomiao is a sulky cat

loving them to bits :)
But of course fixed meals must still go on (hopefully)

Just set up mobile blogging so i can blog more conveniently! :)

Our second elitist cat

Ougwee got this set up for Pepper,
the second elite cat who doesn't like to bend down to eat

So far Momo is the only cat who doesn't act all elitist

Example of Momo's highly unelitist character

What a Cat Thinks

1. Toilet rolls are EVIL. Destroy them at all costs.

2. Miaomiao: "Girls rock. Guys are bad"

3. Momo: "I must be in the limelight all the time"
(He who always plant himself in front of us and visitors)

4. Pepper: "When in doubt, HIDE!"

5. Cats must be resourceful. When the scratching post
is in too bad a condition to be used, try elsewhere, such as
the altar. The bicycle cushioned seat is also a good choice

6. When no one pays attention to you, you make sure they
pay attention to you.

7. Cats must be adventurous creatures. They should not only
keep to boring Science Diet food. They must venture out and
try food that their mamas eat. Fried fish, fruit, little bread crumbs etc.
The trick is to look cute.

8. If you vomitted on the floor, quickly disappear from the scene
of crime so that no one knows who is it
(However more often than not, Miaomiao is the culprit. Even if
the culprit is not Miaomiao, we kind of assume it's her.)

9. If Mama looks like she is bored of doing homework,
you should walk over, sit on her homework, look cutely at her.
This will help cheer her up and moltivate her to do more homework.

10. To ensure that our Mamas do not go astray outside,
we must smell them the moment they reach home,
to check if they are doing any suspicious things outside.
After smelling their legs, we must also not forget to stick our
head into their shoes and smell. All evidence must be checked.

11. Cats are extremely intelligent. So not everything that we
(Miaomiao, Pepper and Momo) think of can be written in pointers.
That's all for now. *Miaomiao shakes paw in a disgusted manner*

On the car ride

Today we took Momo for a spin
(on a normal car, not a convertible like on TV)
(actually we wanted to take Miaomiao,
but she sensed the evil aura
and quickly hid under the table,
so we took Momo instead)

Our big mistake was not letting Momo
use the litter tray before taking him out

During the car ride,
an odour wafted in the car.
Momo shifted,
showing the two pieces of newly created treasure,
then he started meowing sadly.

We were feeling quite frantic
that he also needed to pee,
but was holding in his bladder.

Emily found a plastic bag in the boot,
and we quickly placed the plastic bag
under his butt.
No pee.

We thought of finding some grass for him to pee on,
but that was a little dangerous
as we did not know how he would react
when out in the open.

So after that,
we used the basket (for the cats to sleep in during car rides),
placed a magazine paper in it,
put him inside and told him to pee.
No pee.
And Popo kept adding tissue papers into the basket,
in case the urine spilled out onto me.

So after that on the car ride home,
we kept telling him to tolerate a little more,
we would be reaching home soon!

His tail was stiff and curled in to cover his butt,
so we thought he must be feeling very very urgent...

As soon as we reached home
I quickly let him into the litter tray.
It turns out that he doesn't feels like peeing.

Perhaps he was just embarrassed
for pooing during the car ride.

Viral Infection

Ougwee appears to be infected by the cats' virus
and gets very excited whenever
she hears the crinkling sounds of plastic

Toilet!

It would be nice if the cats could use the toilet bowl like this cat.

Personal Note to Linda

"As much as it is cute to hear Pepper "Wruhh!"
when I suddenly kiss him on his back without warning,
I should resist the temptation to keep scaring him from his back"

Insurance for Momo

We should have insurance for Momo.
Which insures against the furniture
he causes damage to.

The beds are shaking,
the table is shaking
and the roof of the closet has collapsed in..

sigh.

The balloon murderer

Yesterday Ougwee brought home
a pink heart-shaped balloon

After a while it got a little deflated
and wasn't floating anymore,
so we put it in the bicycle basket.

Momo, who was on the chair next to the balloon,
used his paw to whack the balloon

*whack*
*whack*
*whack*
Ougwee:"Like that don't know if the balloon will burst or not"
*balloon burst the very next second*

We thought Momo was so brave
that he remained at the same position
after the balloon burst so loudly

Then after that we realised
that the whole line of fur on his back was raised.
I prodded him in the side,
and he got startled with a jump.

He's probably guilty for murdering a balloon...

The analyst at work

Ougwee's analysis on why Momo lies under the table instead of somewhere else:

"He probably knows that he is blocking our way

with his lie-in-the-middle-of-nowhere stinct

so he now decides to lie under the table instead"

Bar soap analogy

The scratching post on its first day of work

                                                             The scratching post now.


It's just like using bar soap...



Pepper turns 2!

Pepper is now approximately 2 years old!
Somehow it feels that he has been with us
for more than 2 years already...

10 May 2011, around 12:15AM

The weather is so hot that
Momo decided to sleep under the table for the night,
instead of on his favourite chair.

His favourite chair is simply any chair
occupied by a human10 seconds ago
(and the human still intends to return to that seat)

The cat who doesn't like to share

Miaomiao really hates to share the television with Pepper

Her very smelly face

The patriotic Pepper

Everyone is quite excited to know the GE polling results.

Pepper is even MORE excited,
he's blocking our television

Necklaces for the cats!

Momo with his green necklace (gift from Ryan's mum)

Actually the cats each have one.

But Miaomiao freaked out when we put hers on

and ran around the house like some crazy pretty cat

So we had to remove hers

and put her collar back on her

(She can't stand it if people doesn't know

her name and telephone number)

And for Pepper,

he's a little out of sorts

so we thought better not to let him

wear it for the time being.

WARNING!!

WARNING: DO NOT WATCH PEPPER SLEEP OR LIE BESIDE HIM

WHILE HE TAKES HIS AFTERNOON NAP, OR YOU COULD END

UP SNOOZING YOUR AFTERNOON OFF, LIKE HIM.

(Speaking from my personal experience)

What to do?

(Emily away at camp)

Miaomiao (who loves to do her face-to-face stunt to Emily):
 "Mama is not here in bed today... Who should I ~~~ to?"