tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-242350372024-03-08T17:12:06.216+08:00purrsNswipesIf we had a calling-card for what we do outside of the moola-getting stuff, it'd likely read: ARMCHAIR advoCATS & HUMANITY CYNICS @ Kitty-Grub Delivery * Feline Mojo Robbery * Cat Rehoming (outsourced foster-care) * Home-Slacker Coddling * Petition Signing * Bureaucracy Rattling (Part-time) * Word Spreading - Because People Need To KNOW @ Members of "Listen To The Earth - We are not Cassandras for telling you there's only one Earth!" (Powered by mental-brainjuice of 2 two whacked-out sibs)calsiferhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00300302802931707601noreply@blogger.comBlogger167125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24235037.post-1150857816839317122006-06-21T09:34:00.000+08:002006-06-21T10:49:38.713+08:00Buzz-out. Greetings from Cyber PurgatoryHi to friends, and regular readers! (We keep getting a steady, if teeny, number of hits throughout this blacked-out period, so I figure an update's in order, because even though I cuss readily, my cuss ratio is situational, and being a cusser doesn't mean I forget my manners.)
To state the obvious, we've been out of commission. Before we go on, a very very brief update on the gangs: there's beencalsiferhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00300302802931707601noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24235037.post-1149148493332805802006-06-01T15:43:00.000+08:002006-06-01T16:24:12.583+08:00TNRM: Grab that mojo!Simple is as simple does, and what could easier to understand than this: Take away cat mating = cat boom stop = piggy bank safe from being broken by cat food bill (protection against other causes not covered).
Here it is in pictorial form, courtesy of Dawn:
Scenario A
Scenario A : You start with two cats & Sterilise Sterilisation stops breeding
Scenario B
Scenario B : No Sterilisation calsiferhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00300302802931707601noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24235037.post-1149143855748599122006-06-01T14:08:00.000+08:002006-06-01T14:37:35.816+08:00The Body Shop has L'Oreal-ed. Where do we go from here?The Body Shop, in the general public's eye, has represented a commitment to promoting community trade, non-animal testing and environmental friendliness.
The Body Shop was, in short, a godsend to women who were aware and sickened by the horrors of animal testing in the beauty trade, and didn't want the guilt of needless deaths on their vanity. In short, they did not want to have blood in their calsiferhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00300302802931707601noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24235037.post-1149130171913465782006-06-01T10:30:00.000+08:002006-06-01T14:41:15.100+08:00Homeseeker: Cassie[photo pending]
Cassie is a slender 6-8 month old female black and white kitten, with a perfect tail. She is gentle and quiet, but very affectionate.
Cassie has been sterilised-she turned up with a tipped ear. Her vaccination and litter-box training status unknown.
If you or anyone you know is interested to take away Cassie's bewilderment, and give this affectionate young girl a home, please calsiferhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00300302802931707601noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24235037.post-1149128920374676062006-06-01T10:12:00.000+08:002006-06-01T10:28:40.393+08:00Samia and Izzy PhotosMore phone cam pics taken on 30 May.
Samia and Izzy, sharing grub with Cari.
Izzy and Samia - tucking in together
Izzy, after food
Samia's beautiful side profile (don't mind the food)
- Go to Pawprints: TNRM
- Go to SINGAPORE UGLY / Casefile: Cruel Singapore. Hack-care Singapore.
- Go to HDB bans cats - government body chronically misconceived
- Go to Singapore's Love-Hate calsiferhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00300302802931707601noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24235037.post-1149127943974680432006-06-01T10:04:00.000+08:002006-06-01T10:12:23.990+08:00Cari's cute looksPhone cam images of Cari on 30 May, while she was dining with Samia and Izzy.
At food
Covering all bases
Attacking with gusto
Finally, rest! All in a day's eating
- Go to Pawprints: TNRM
- Go to SINGAPORE UGLY / Casefile: Cruel Singapore. Hack-care Singapore.
- Go to HDB bans cats - government body chronically misconceived
- Go to Singapore's Love-Hate Relationship with calsiferhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00300302802931707601noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24235037.post-1149079268581807012006-05-31T20:28:00.000+08:002006-05-31T20:41:08.600+08:00Cari - MIA todaySo Cari didn't show today.
If she continue to be a no-show, we'll see if we can find her over the weekend.
- Meet the Street Gangs
- Go to Pawprints: TNRM
- Go to SINGAPORE UGLY / Casefile: Cruel Singapore. Hack-care Singapore.
- Go to HDB bans cats - government body chronically misconceived
- Go to Singapore's Love-Hate Relationship with Trap-Neuter-Release Management
- Check out the calsiferhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00300302802931707601noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24235037.post-1149078107998695262006-05-31T19:54:00.000+08:002006-05-31T20:21:48.016+08:00Angel - updated Adoption notice
ANGEL is a friendly female, about 1 yr-old, with classic black and white patch patterns and a perfect full-length tail. She is sterilised, vaccinated, and litter-box trained. At an age where she's more sedate than kittens, but still young enough to adapt quickly to new situations, she will make a great house-pet. She is suitable for single or multi-cat families. Will you consider giving this calsiferhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00300302802931707601noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24235037.post-1149075577714096742006-05-31T19:29:00.000+08:002006-05-31T19:39:37.730+08:00CWS Adoption Board Parade of KittensIn the last few weeks, going to the CWS adoption board could have you think it was a kitten nursery. There were postings of kittens, kittens, and more kittens.
In the best of situations, even tweenagers stood little chance against the boisterious, irresistable, littel furries, what more mature and older cats against a whole horde?
Our lot's adoption notices were pushed off rapidly. And since, calsiferhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00300302802931707601noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24235037.post-1148998448150062822006-05-30T22:03:00.000+08:002006-05-30T22:14:08.166+08:00Never crash diet the moggie eitherThough Roly poly isn't cute, unless you're a whale stocking up for summer, never allow your cat to starve/fast, unless under a vet's instructions, for example in cases of diarrhea, soft stools or in preparation for surgery.
Why?
Because of the risks, like hepatic lipidosis (fatty liver disease), where the liver starts to function abnormally. This might result even after just a day or two of notcalsiferhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00300302802931707601noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24235037.post-1148997338654273002006-05-30T21:44:00.000+08:002006-06-01T10:14:18.553+08:00CariJust now, a new kitten popped up at the Street Gangs' Areas 1 and 2 buffer zone as btmao was getting around to dinner service for Area 1.
She was probably about 4-5months old, wearing a white coat accented by grey tabby patches, and a short clubby tail. We've named her Cari.
Cari is very friendly and loving. btmao lured her to Area 1 proper and served dinner to her, and the resident Wunder Duo,calsiferhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00300302802931707601noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24235037.post-1148995985897753132006-05-30T21:11:00.000+08:002006-05-30T21:57:14.546+08:00Salvi (free-ranging pet)
Salvi - 17 May 2006, PM (Phone Cam)
First sighted in the night of 8 Jan 06, in the Street Gangs' buffer zone between Areas 1 and 2, Salvi was estimated to be between 6 mths to less than 1 yr old at that time.
She was very thin, and wore a worn red collar with a bell. Bt she was not interested in food - dry only, wet only, dry and wet... nothing interested her.
We assumed she was a calsiferhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00300302802931707601noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24235037.post-1148978849686214452006-05-30T19:47:00.000+08:002006-05-30T19:50:40.610+08:00Extremes (Dawn, 20060530)This is positively the final installment in the Animal Rights/Animal Welfare debate of the day.
I managed to hear a recording of the segment. It was... interesting, and of course showed that there's still work to be done to make people AWARE of what's wrong with the current situation.
Dawn has also, once again, put into succinct words, her thoughts in the aftermath of the radio segment:
calsiferhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00300302802931707601noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24235037.post-1148976627305366032006-05-30T16:08:00.000+08:002006-05-30T17:09:10.543+08:00Roly poly isn't cute, unless you're a whale stocking up for summerReally, only marine mammals, like whales and walruses own the bragging rights to blubber-bulked physiques.
Otherwise, like humans, overweight animals are prone to health risks.
Some interesting reads about the situation elsewhere:
Porky pets warning for British
"Feeding your pet full English breakfasts, chocolate, chips, burgers and too much pet food may make you feel like a kind and loving calsiferhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00300302802931707601noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24235037.post-1148973127230846332006-05-30T15:08:00.000+08:002006-05-30T17:18:38.306+08:00Veg OUT!I figured some things deserve trumping... so here's the day's trumping:
VeggerBLOG aka blogs by vegans/about veganism. Just added them to our BLOGwatch on the sidebar (scroll down, and down a bit more).
Filched them from Cat, so Kam Siah, Girl! Saved us some work.
- Go to Pawprints: TNRM
- Go to SINGAPORE UGLY / Casefile: Cruel Singapore. Hack-care Singapore.
- Go to HDB bans cats - calsiferhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00300302802931707601noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24235037.post-1148968050187379142006-05-30T13:43:00.000+08:002006-05-30T14:41:18.020+08:00Can you fathom people like this?Dawn blogged that Some people are more offended by this ... Then by this
Where else would a cat, a sterilised one too, minding its own business be deemed more offensive than the other thing?
- Go to Pawprints: TNRM
- Go to SINGAPORE UGLY / Casefile: Cruel Singapore. Hack-care Singapore.
- Go to HDB bans cats - government body chronically misconceived
- Go to Singapore's Love-Hate calsiferhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00300302802931707601noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24235037.post-1148962165347849662006-05-30T12:17:00.000+08:002006-05-30T12:11:16.353+08:00Buddhism - we likesThe more I think about it, the more I like how Buddhism is non-judgmental nor exclusive, as A 'meeting of two religious streams' shows.
As I've said in Transcendence, or maybe not, I'm a agnosatheist, but I do find myself leaning very much toward Buddhism.
- Go to Pawprints: TNRM
- Go to SINGAPORE UGLY / Casefile: Cruel Singapore. Hack-care Singapore.
- Go to HDB bans cats - government bodycalsiferhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00300302802931707601noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24235037.post-1148957652987135292006-05-30T12:13:00.000+08:002006-05-30T12:13:27.070+08:00A 'meeting of two religious streams'
After that bout of meta/science kitty thoughts Schröedinger's cat evocated, I find it apt/coincidental/providential to find this on vegancat's blog:
And with that understanding can come contentment, even joy.
Extract from A 'meeting of two religious streams'By LOUIS SAHAGUN, Los Angeles Times, May 26, 2006As the world's leading Buddhist, the Dalai Lama, likes to say: If there is a problem and calsiferhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00300302802931707601noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24235037.post-1148956388501616102006-05-30T11:30:00.000+08:002006-05-30T11:40:46.393+08:00Schröedinger's catCat's compilation of the Laws of Physics awoken a strange little kitty that's been having a permanent siesta in the back of my mind.
Schröedinger's cat.
A famous little moggie, in the human physics/quantum physics realm anyway. He/She is probably the most famous modern day feline nobody has ever seen.
The beauty of his/her existence?
View him/her as you will: heavy, in-depth, light, lay, calsiferhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00300302802931707601noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24235037.post-1148958139452775952006-05-30T11:25:00.000+08:002006-05-30T11:26:09.926+08:00Tiger, the paraplegic cat (vegancatsg, 20060529)vegancat made a vid of Tiger, who is one lucky cat, in spite of his disability. Kudos to his family for rescuing and caring for him.
He reminds me very much of Debbie, who is under Foster Mum's meticulous care. I just saw her on Saturday... no pics as the cam batt flatlined. *ARGH* Debbie's loving and as friendly as ever. I just wish she could get her wheels soon.
- Go to Pawprints: TNRM
- calsiferhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00300302802931707601noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24235037.post-1148954773090633202006-05-30T11:20:00.000+08:002006-05-30T11:23:07.340+08:00Laws of Physics - Feline VersionLOVE these truisms!
Laws of Physics
Kudos to Cat.
More Cat-ffervescence: Sneezes of Laughter
- Go to Pawprints: TNRM
- Go to SINGAPORE UGLY / Casefile: Cruel Singapore. Hack-care Singapore.
- Go to HDB bans cats - government body chronically misconceived
- Go to Singapore's Love-Hate Relationship with Trap-Neuter-Release Management
- Check out the purrsNswipes Adoption Guidebook
- Meetcalsiferhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00300302802931707601noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24235037.post-1148954479305274202006-05-30T11:17:00.000+08:002006-05-30T12:05:04.343+08:00Animal Rights/Welfare - do we know the difference?Okaaaay, so I couldn't resist sending this email last night to the hosts of the 93.8 program that's running the radio segment at 12.20om today: Is Animal Rights Activism a waste of time and resources?
I did get carried away.. just a little.
Hi Melanie, Eugene,
This is going to be an interesting topic, but I just wonder how many people do appreciate the real meaning of Animal Rights, or are calsiferhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00300302802931707601noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24235037.post-1148876188624060982006-05-29T12:10:00.000+08:002006-05-29T12:19:12.973+08:00Animal Rights is not the same as Animal Welfarism?There IS a difference between the two. Just that most people lump them as one. That's why I didn't go on about it in my "Radio segment on Tue, 30 May: Is Animal Rights Activism a waste of time and resources? " No point crowding the issue.
But Dawn's thoughts on Animal rights versus animal welfarism, after receiving my email alert, is short, sharp and to the point. Very worth a read or 3.
-calsiferhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00300302802931707601noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24235037.post-1148822723745791162006-05-28T21:29:00.000+08:002006-05-28T21:42:54.196+08:00Radio segment on Tue, 30 May: Is Animal Rights Activism a waste of time and resources?Just got to know about this, and wanted to let everybody concerned know. Whether you rescue wildlife, or do TNRM, or is aware and gives support in other ways, we're all doing our bit in different aspects of Animal Rights activism.
Please consider calling or writing an email to weigh in on this topic, Otherwise, the public might get to hear only from those who don't get the importance of Animal calsiferhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00300302802931707601noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24235037.post-1148822702443599292006-05-28T21:05:00.000+08:002006-05-28T21:33:34.150+08:00Sara/Mocha is mending and rounding outSara aka Mocha, who got sick and had to see the vet a number of times soon after going home with her parents, is now well!
YH, Mocha's mum's response to my email on Thu, 25 May:
Hi calsifer,
_Mocha is fully recovered and doing very well
now. She's even put on a bit of weight!
Cheers,
YH
My reply sent today:
Hi YH,
That's wonderful to know! Thanks.
YH, we also want to thank you and your calsiferhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00300302802931707601noreply@blogger.com