Super Saturday

sniff...sniff...
sniffff...sniffff...hmmm

I thought before I go out to high tea, I should take Bujang downstairs for a walk. Nowadays the weather is very uncertain and sometimes it would rain quite suddenly in the evenings. Bujang spent quite bit of time sniffing the base of this tree and we went round and round. Maybe its because there is another community cat in the area - a very young one. I saw her once last week. She was quite thin though but at least she was sterilised.

Oh well....
Buajng seems very big compared to my foot :)

An aside:

san wants me, Bujang, to tell Katie's mom that she took many months to teach me to use the leash. She trained me when I was just 6 weeks old. I didn't like the grass the first time I put my foot on it, ok two feet at any one time. Now I like being outside and would tell san loudly when it is time to go out, like after dinner. Toro does not like the harness and Megat does not care to be outside. My sisfur Akira can walk very well but she is a little afraid. Only Tanaka is like me. We both like using the harness as we cn go outside. san bought us the walking jackets as we had tried several times to escapr from the harness though. san taught Toro when he came to live with us, at 1.5 years old. He was the slowest to learn. Akira learnt when he was about 7 months and Tanaka when he was about 2 months as san gotche dhim when he was just about 8 weeks old.

Training

I don't see why I need to do as san says...I am a cat!

I have been trying to persuade Tanaka and the boys that 3 is not a crowd to little success. 3 days in a row, I had put Tanaka with Bujang and Toro so they could all find a place to sleep in the room. Tanaka is still too young to rest and relax and Toro gets very unsettled whe Tanaka is around. He growls and screams and scolds me at every turn. Tanaka of course tried to bully him into playing but Toro is quite used to our routine and did not care for Tanaka's routines at all. It was interesting that Bujang was not at all involved in the dramatics and Tanaka did not even try to get near Bujang at all :)

Finally I had to put Tanaka back in his green quarters as Toro started scratching on the door, begging to be let out. He must really be desperate! But I will perservere and continue until I can get the 3 boys to sleep peacefully, each in his own space, in the room. But it is going to take some doing!

Megat's fishing expedition

Sleep that knits up the ravelled sleeve of care...

Megat has taken to stealing grandma's fried fish again. he did this when he first came but we thought that was because he had been a stray for such a long time and found it difficult to integrate into an indoor cat household. It has been quite a long time that he had not done this but these past 2 weeks, there were 3 incidents of Megat surreptitiously eating grandma's fried fish on the kitchen counter.

We had tried to put the fish in the toaster oven and even blocked the oven door with the heavy tissue stand but to no avail. I think the Hari raya smells of all things fatty and fried triggered his dormant responses :)

Grandma threatened Megat that she would put him back in the carpark if he misbehaves again but megat ignored her and went to sleep under the coffee table :) Then 10 minutes later, grandma would relent and tells him that he is 'so poor thing' and she would pet him on his head!

Megat is the only one who eats fried fish and would actually get up on the counter to check out grandma's cooking. Bujang gets up on the counter so he could walk towards the kitchen window to peer at the birds. Ms Akira does it to get on top of the fridge where she could peer in safety at the goings-on in the kitchen. Toro does not get up on counter, not for the lack of trying but I think because he has short legs. I know the most sensible action is to train the amigos to stop getting on the counters but the easier one is to try to persuade Megat that there is nothing delicious on it in the first place. An even easier one is not to have any fried fish at all where he could get at it with his nimble paws. I think we will try this option first :)