CFA catshow @ The Mall 8th Nov 2009: YUMIEKO

Yay! another catshow. while I dream, wish and plan my my own pedigrees, we'll keep going for the shows with our HHP, though they might not have enjoyed it as much as we humans do, well at least not my house-bound cats. Well it's partly my fault, I've been telling each one of them, that I shall care for them with all that I have, so they shall eat proper food and they have their home, not to worry about when their next meal is gonna be, where they'll sleep when it's raining, where they can find a cool place to hang around when it's too hot.... provided with such circumstances, they should all develop themselves into elegant felines with attitude. and heck ya, they did! Unfortunately, at the time, when I decided to bring them up into arrogant little ones, I didn't know about all these cat shows and that they're suppose to be friendly instead of arrogant. huhu. a swell job indeed.

YUMIEKO, when she was not under the piles of blankie and she would stay this way, unless we left her unattended.

The 1st ring, she ranked 5th out of 12

2nd ring, she ranked 5th out of 12
The 3rd ring, she ranked 9th out of 11

and then the last ring, she ranked 5th out of 12

huhu. not bad. looking forward for a next one, I'd like to take MICHIKO. SUNSHINE might be ok too, but she hasn't settled. Actually, I would like to take BINTANG, but her arrogance just can't be challenged....Hrmmm.. what can I do about that. However, there's a certain someone that has preference over YUMIEKO and would like to take her for a CFA show again. Well, we'll see how she is after she's spayed. She's next in list to be spayed. I hope everything goes well on that.

the scratching behavior...

Oh yess... they scratch... it's not a behavioral problem itself, but it becomes a problem when they scratch things that are not meant to be scratched... what to do? hehe.. give them things that they should scratch...

When I started with 2 cats.. I had this.. It has a scratch pad in the centre, a ball that goes around and a furry thing... I still have this til today, and they still use it.... but the scratch pad of course had been replaced more than just a few times by now.

When the number of cats increased, I bought these. I had 2 of this thing at any one time. I don't seem to have a picture of what it actually looks like, but the material is exactly like in the previous pic (the scratch pad in the center), in a long rectangle shape. Which eventually will be left with small tiny pieces (due to the scratching) and several small pieces... because not only do they scratch on it, they also bite on it and tore them apart. and so a vacuum cleaner would really come in handy.


As financial condition permits, and because I got tired of the mess that came with the above scratch pads, I got this.

We also have a few more along the way and more to come =)

Seniors VS Juniors

The Seniors (BULAN, BINTANG, MICHIKO, YUMIEKO) vs the Juniors (SUNSHINE, SUNNY, BELLA, MJ, DONNA)

BINTANG getting close.. Look at her eyes..

Look at how attentive they are... I have no idea, why BULAN is in the cage.YUMIEKO hates SUNSHINE most. The two of them really fight, maybe because these two are the only ones that haven't been spayed, apart from the kittens of course.


And just look at this sweet friendly MICHIKO.
He peeked into their room..

Though, he could smell their scents..
Look at his face, as he sit so near to MJ.
MICHIKO vs MJ... can you see, why the name (Michiko Jr.)?

Introducing:SUNNY,MARBELLA,MJ,DONNABELL

SUNSHINE and her kittens at 2 weeks

1st born: SUNNY

2nd born: MARBELLA

3rd born: MJ (Michiko Jr)

4th born: Donnabell

At age 3 weeks, from left: DONNA, MJ, BELLA, SUNNY

At age 6 weeks, from left: DONNA, MJ, BELLA, SUNNY

Kittens asleep (6 weeks)...

what's goin' on with those two

SUNNY: does that look comfy to you?

MJ: who cares about him, I am fine here!

kittens in action (6 weeks)

no pics of MARBELLA in action, for whatever reason, she has yet to learn how to stop. If she doesn't learn how to stop soon, we'll have to learn how to catch up with her!

Reality hits after SUNSHINE actually gave birth to 4 kittens. So what's next? How am I suppose to manage with a total of 9 cats in the house. Giving them away for adoption was an option. but thennn... looking at how SUNSHINE cared for her kittens, how she responded to their calls, how she has been protecting them... haih... the motherly act of a cat... she had gone through all that, got 4 cute kittens, and here I am wanting to get rid of them.. but what can I do? Soooo.. when's the right time to give the kittens away? answer: after about 3 months, which is when the kittens wean off and cat eat kibbles. 3 MONTHS? 3 WHOLE MONTHS?! no way. that's not gonna be possible. by the time, I would have already gotten used to their presence and I would love them too much to part with them. So final decision. I now have a total of 9 cats.

I was in the midst of preparing myself physically, mentally, financially and etc to bring home maybe a Maine Coon. But now, maybe I'll have to hold that plan. Let's get these 9 settled, and let's move to our permanent home first, before we get anymore cats join in the family. So I'm gonna have to shut both eyes to anymore cats out there. no more cats. maybe I can take 1 more, make it 10. but NO, because after that, another one more won't hurt, then just 1 more won't make a big difference, then what if this 1 more happened to be pregnant. so NO. In our current situation, we'll make sure that there will only be 9 cats in this house. We will have to wait until all 9 of them are settled, meaning after they are all neutered, or at least after all adult cats are neutered and all 4 kittens are done with their vaccination. That means, we shall revise this decision on getting another cat at the end of February 2010. Until then. there will be ONLY 9 cats in the house. Reasons being, I need to make sure all of them are in the best of health, all their needs are taken care off, I don't want to add stress level among them (and in me!), I don't want anyone (including me) to be overwhelmed.

catshow 1 November 2009 @ midvalley : BULAN, BINTANG, YUMIEKO

~BULAN signing in~

*yaaaawwwnnn* Yeah, it's another cat show. I've been to so many and after not winning on the previous show, I thought these humans would give me some peace and let me stay at home. But NO, they want the entry gift so much that I had to tag along with BINTANG and YUMIEKO. I know I'm all cute and playful at home, but don't even hope on me entertaining all those people. huh! it's better that I sleep so I can save energy to play and run around at home. Oh.. should I mention that she didn't feed us this morning, because you didn't feed me, I will not be nice to people as you would hope! With cool air and my blankie....aaahhhh... I shall complete my beauty sleep. Careful people, I may be cute, but I know how to bite!

BINTANG was about 4 cages away from me. BINTANG, you should do what I do, SLEEP and ignore those people. When you respond to them, they like you more and you do not want them to like you. It's good that you bite them, but the thing is you don't bite hard enough. But I think you shouldn't bite them. God knows, how clean their hands are. Anyhow, I think BINTANG hated it more than I did.

YUMIEKO was placed further away, across the hall, but from where I was that's what I could see. Hehe.. do you see YUMIEKO in cage #72. Great job!

We're not used to being inside prison, but I got used to it after all these cat shows. For YUMIEKO, this is her second time and this time no one is nearby to comfort her, so she screamed for help, but people thought that was cute, and you do not want to look cute at a cat show. Oh yeah, if you happen to stop by her cage, give her a kiss, she would be glad to return you kiss with free signatures, and if you're lucky you'll get signatures from both paws.

YUMIEKO found out that she was just too cute to be seen. She didn't like the spot lights, and I think she really meant it. So if you came to see YUMIEKO but didn't see her, that's because she looked like this.

YUMIEKO felt better when she was placed next to BINTANG though, I think it's because BINTANG did the biting and chased people away.

Gosh, I was sitting quietly and they took me out for a while, they messed up my cage and I couldn't get myself back under the blankie nicely. I managed to get my head underneath, but I could feel people poking me on my back. That was irritating, I don't want to be touched by their dirty hands because I don't want to have to bathe again! and their hands smell! I gave them my sharp looks, but these people just didn't understand. Serves them right, I bit a hand, and I bit him hard! I hope he went around and told everyone that it hurt!

Anyhow, glad it was all over. none of us won anything, but of course everyone got the entry gift. but NEWFLASH! I won't eat that. I don't care if it taste good or if it's good for my health, I don't want it, I don't want to take the risk of getting upset tummy. MICHIKO can have all that, I know he eats just about anything and he doesn't learn from experience, he eats anything even when it made him come out with watery stool. yuck, then the room would be smelly because he got that stinky poo stuck on to his fur. You see, how all these new brands can cause me trouble even if it wasn't me that ate them. btw, those new types of food weren't even served for us, but MICHIKO is such a hardworking boy when it comes to food that he helped himself to them.

*sigh* I'm home. hah! the human is tired, but I got enough rest! I shall run around now, make some mess. so that she realize how tired she is that next time, she won't go for the cat shows anymore. But somehow, she's just like MICHIKO, I think she doesn't know how to learn from experience. lucky me.

~BULAN signing off~