Stray pets
Thursday, November 08, 2007
It’s a peculiar thing to realize that there will always be fresh supplies of stray cats and dogs adopting our home, before the last of our own pet die.
After the death of my beloved cat, Snowy, in 2004, I was crushed and thought not to keep any new cat for a while. But 2 weeks later, a cousin brought home a stray tabby kitten (whom we call Mew) inside his knapsack. The poor thing was mewing pitifully and we gave it a bowl of milk. From then on, the late Mew (died 4 months ago) stayed with us, gave us much cat-love, her fierce loyalty, and gave birth 4 times to provide us with more darling cats.
And now, as the number of cats begins to dwindle again, a new marmalade coloured cat has come to adopt us. We call him Oren for his colour.
When our 3 dogs died, leaving only Scoopy, two new stray dogs came to stay at our home to keep him company. One is Mr. Two-colour, and the other Miss Brown. Soon after, Miss Brown gave birth to a chubby white coloured pup. We should have known, with new stray dogs coming home to us, this probably hinted that Scoopy would be leaving us soon. And sure enough, last month Scoopy died, leaving the other 2 dogs and a pup in his place.
The chubby little pup is in dire need of a good bath, but its protective mum (Miss Brown) does not allow any of us to come too near her precious one… *GgRRrrrrrrrrrr* we get her hint.
Well, there is a belief that when animal comes to your home, they bring lucks to the family they adopt. In a way, it is convenient for us never having to go around looking for new pet as they’ll always come to us instead.
The question that comes to my mind is that, who were the strays' previous owner? Did they even have owners before coming to us? Is there someone missing or looking for them? Anyhow, they are ours now as much as we are theirs ...
Labels: cat
posted @ 8.11.07,
5 Comments:
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At November 13, 2007 at 8:14 PM,
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I think a more suitable name for the white puppy is 'PEPPER' like in Salt & pepper. Gapas is alright but when looked closely at the picture i think of pepper. What do you think?
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At November 14, 2007 at 10:55 PM,
FloDawn said...
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Hmmmm ... 'Pepper' or 'Gapas'? He looks more like a Gapas to me. I'll let the pup choose then... see which name he response to better hehe. Will let u know :)
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At November 18, 2007 at 8:33 AM,
Deana E said...
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snow white?? he he
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At November 22, 2007 at 10:42 PM,
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I heard that GAPAS is dead and Miss Brown had been mourning for him/her. It is so sad...
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At November 22, 2007 at 10:53 PM,
FloDawn said...
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KadazanMonk;
Yes it's true... poor little Gapas accidentally sat on a nail. Pepito tried to play doctor and well... hmmm he didn't have the healing hand. I only knew 2 days after Gapas died. Didn't have the heart to blog about that... so sad :-( Miss Brown's mourning sounds sooo eerie and very heart-breaking at the same time. Only after seeing her pup's corpse did she accept and stopped her pitiful howling.
