Candy's Adoption

Since our cat brought from Canada passed away in March, 2009, our cat (Lang) has been lonely. No one fights with him any more, no one squeezes into the same bed with him any more, and no one lets him play with the tail any more. Lang is sleeping too much due to not much challenge in life.

We started to think about getting a companion cat for Lang who is now 6 years old. We wanted to get a girl cat who is also a British short hair background because Lang is a Scottish fold. We thought a kitten a bit too young for Lang, so we aimed at finding an adult cat of a few years old. We visited a few SPCA centers and also looked around on various websites, but did not find any suitable cat.

Eventually we found a very suitable candidate cat on the Hong Kong Alleycat website. That’s how we found Candy, who is a blue-gray British hair girl. We’ve had Candy for less than one month and things will get more smooth as time goes. Lang is less hostile towards Candy. Sometimes they still hiss and slap at each other when bumping into each other, but they seem to find their own space to hang around. Hopefully one day Lang and Candy will hang around and sunbathe together.

For us as Candy’s new parents, we are happy with her so far. A very playful and smart cat who can eat a lot. She put on more than one pounds already within one week after coming to our home. We want to see Candy get fatter, ideal weight around 10 pounds for a girl. Then she will have enough muscles and weight to fight with Lang for playing time. We thank Hong Kong Alleycat for connecting us to Candy. Someone was stupid enough to abandon Candy at AFCD, shame on them!! After a few years, we will bring the two cats to Canada when we are ready to move back there. We encourage people to contact Hong Kong Alleycat’s Michelle for adopting cats and we are sure Michelle will be able to help out a lot.

Since our cat brought from Canada passed away in March, 2009, our cat (Lang) has been lonely. No one fights with him any more, no one squeezes into the same bed with him any more, and no one lets him play with the tail any more. Lang is sleeping too much due to not much challenge in life. We started to think about getting a companion cat for Lang who is now 6 years old. We wanted to get a girl cat who is also a British short hair background because Lang is a Scottish fold. We thought a kitten a bit too young for Lang, so we aimed at finding an adult cat of a few years old. We visited a few SPCA centers and also looked around on various websites, but did not find any suitable cat.

Eventually we found a very suitable candidate cat on the Hong Kong Alleycat website. That’s how we found Candy, who is a blue-gray British hair girl. We’ve had Candy for less than one month and things will get more smooth as time goes. Lang is less hostile towards Candy. Sometimes they still hiss and slap at each other when bumping into each other, but they seem to find their own space to hang around. Hopefully one day Lang and Candy will hang around and sunbathe together.

For us as Candy’s new parents, we are happy with her so far. A very playful and smart cat who can eat a lot. She put on more than one pounds already within one week after coming to our home. We want to see Candy get fatter, ideal weight around 10 pounds for a girl. Then she will have enough muscles and weight to fight with Lang for playing time. We thank Hong Kong Alleycat for connecting us to Candy. Someone was stupid enough to abandon Candy at AFCD, shame on them!! After a few years, we will bring the two cats to Canada when we are ready to move back there. We encourage people to contact Hong Kong Alleycat’s Michelle for adopting cats and we are sure Michelle will be able to help out a lot.

Creating your own masterpiece - Canvas Art

As I have an obscene amount of photos at home, I thought I could start putting some of them to good decorative use (particularly the animal ones). I never get bored at looking of my animal photos (or anyone's) and spend most of the day looking at them on my phone anyway.

After seeing on TV how easy it is to turn your favourite photos into wall art (don't you just love home edition makeover), that I thought that it might be a good idea to generate some extra funding for the pussycats.

I will be posting more details and samples of some canvas art that I am having made myself for you to have a look at shortly once they arrive (so watch this space).

If you would be interested in having some of your favourite photos turned into fabulous canvased wall art, then please get in touch with me to start ordering.

All you need to do is send over a high res image over to me with the dimensions that you are looking to have printed and your delivery address which will take approximately 1 week to process.

If you are like me and can't afford to spend thousands on any type of art, then this is really a personalised inexpensive way to showcase your photos and give some life to your bare office & home walls.

I've also realised that with the digital camera age rife nowadays, who really prints out any of their photos? All your fabulous photos end up getting lost on your hard drive, or you use all your computer memory. So hopefully this will encourage people to have a look through their albums and get some of their favourite photos on display, and don't forget the proceeds will go towards the hefty medical expenses that are ongoing in order to help more abandoned animals in need.






If none of your photos jump out at you enough in order to get them printed, don't worry as I will be providing an album link with photos for you to choose from (coming soon!).

For more information how to order the canvas and size dimensions, please contact canvasart@hkalleycatwatch.com or call 93100744.

If you have an image that you would like to process immediately, you can upload the image to this link:


QUICK IMAGE UPLOAD, CLICK HERE

Pricing Guideline:

Dimensions/ Prices
12x16 - HKD400
16x24 - HKD600
20x30 - HKD800
24x36 - HKD1000
30x40 - HKD1,200

* $50 delivery (within Hong Kong).

Please note the quality will depend on the resolution of your digital file.

Your Digital Camera
2 Mega Pixel 8x12"
4 Mega Pixel 12x16"
5 Mega Pixel 16x21"
6 Mega Pixel 20x26"
7 Mega Pixel 24x32"
10 Mega Pixel even larger...

Place your orders now and help us with our ongoing medical expenses!

http://hkalleycatwatch.com/

Adoption Drive for this Weekend

Our Adoption flyers for this weekend, please help us circulate and distribute to your animal loving friends. See you on Sunday, 24 January 2010!

Herbie

I decided to dedicate this blog to Herbie. My Herpes virus kitten, I call him kitten but he is now 10 months plus old. He is such a love, he bounds around the flat, sneezing everywhere. His sneezes aren't snotty, but they are pretty loud!

He came to me in March, he was about 4 weeks old, he looked fine, I should have known better. I had a nursing mum, Jazz at home and I thought she would be able to cope with one more, as she had only given birth to 3 kittens of her own.




Herbie at his worst around 6 weeks old. I've never seen as much puss and blood spurt out of a kittens eye. Even the vet was completed shocked. I was extremely surprised his eyes were still there after seeing projectile puss & blood coming out.


Unfortunately within a week all the kittens and mum came down with herpes. Herbie seemed to be affected the worst, so the vet and I assumed that he was the carrier. It's hard to say, i hate to place blame. Of all the litters of kittens I had, I really should have known better than to introduce him straight away. I'm not sure what possessed me, but I did (which was the wrong call). Either way, he could have ended up in the same condition (but wouldn't have passed it on), so I feel slightly responsible as Jazz and her kittens would have been fine if I hadn't of introduced him straight away without quarantining him. Anyway to cut a long story short, I had one fatality, another orphan who came in who was much smaller, he was the 5th kitten. The rest all survived included Jazz and apart from sneezing they are fine. Herbie unfortunately is another story, I'm having to keep a close eye on his "eyes". I've been to the clinic and it had seemed at that time his eye had possibly ruptured, so I discussed with the vet about having his eye removed, which would stop it weeping and perhaps make him more aesthetically pleasing for rehoming. I wish I wasn't so cynical sometimes, I don't pretend to know about medicine or more than a vet. I just know cats, I spend enough time with them, day in and day out. I am optimisitic for Herbie, and I do believe that he has sight in both eyes at the moment, however limited and fingers-crossed he's not at the eyeball removal stage just yet.

I didn't want to make such hasty decision with his eyes, which I may have done in the past (i.e one of my permanent foster cats Callie). I know he has some vision and really just wanted to wait. The following week his eyes seemed to be a little better, so I'm actually relieved I didn't get his eye taken out straight away. I just personally think that removing an animals eye or anyone's eye is huge decision that shouldn't be taken so lightly ...god gave us one set of eyes, it's something that you can never replace once they are gone. Sight and smell to any being is so important. Although blind cats can adjust well as they still have a keen sense of smell, but taking out a cat's eye to me is something that curls my stomach.

So we'll continue treating him with anti-viral medicine and drops, which at $400 a bottle for the anti-viral turns out to be an expense medication. It would be okay if it actually showed some results, but at this moment, I've not noticed that it really has made much of a difference. He's on lysine from Nature's Health & the Olive Leaf extract. He's easy to give pills to, but doesn't seem to like eating canned food as much, so we're sprinkling the lysine & Olive leaf extract into the general bowl of biscuits so all cats will be getting a dose.

Me and Herbs are holding out that there is someone special out there who will see that beyond all this caffufle is an extremely loving, hilarious one of a kind kitty and he is worth all of this. I just wish he didn't have to go through this. But honestly if Herbie could talk, he would tell us that he's the happiest of kitties. The fact that it hasn't affected his appetite leads me to believe this is true. As unhappy kitties will stop eating if they are in pain or discomfort. That's generally a tell-tale sign.



If someone decides they would like to adopt Herbie, I will be over the moon, but to be honest they would have to do alot of convincing that they could love Herbie as much as we do!!