Suki's home!!

We went to pick up Suki about an hour ago.  According to the vet, her recovery was "quite harsh".  It seems she banged her head repeatedly on the carrier.  This, according to the vet, is because she's a highly-stressed kitten. 

Poor Suki.

Anyway, she's back home now, and I've put her back in her cage.  Her eyes are still red, and she is not very focused yet.  Just played with the kibbles in her bowl, and did not eat. 

Bunny and Bobby welcome Suki back home.

Back in her own cage, playing with the kibbles.

She's settled and sleeping now.

Suki is going for spaying today

Our little Suki is about 5 months old now, so I've made an apppointment for her spaying this morning, at 11am. 

That's Suki, mischievous as ever, as all kittens ought to be!

She started the day (after complaining about having no food - needs to be fasted for the spaying afterwards) by doing a coup de tat on Tiger.

She succeeded, of course, and poor Tiger had to come down and get into his baby basket.

Then, Bobby pushed open the window for her, and out she went into the garden, with Indy following close behind.

Play, play, play!

I want to climb the tree!

She got to the top of the pillar.  Indy watches over her.

Go away, she tells Indy, this is my tree!

Go, go, go....she chases poor Indy away.

Ok, I'm going back to my tree now.

My tree and my pillar!!

Indy, still watching.

Then, she comes over the disturbs Indy.

Ok, small fry, you asked for it!!

I'll be sending Suki for spaying in about 2 1/2 hours' time.  Sobs...each time any dog or cat is sent for neutering or spaying, I do worry.  Whatever it is, it is still an operation.   

Do please send positive healing energy to Suki - thanks. 

Suki gets to climb a tree...finally!

Suki had been itching to climb a tree for some time now.  Every kitten must go through this stage, otherwise, something would be missing from their kittenhood.

So off she went this morning, under strict camera supervision....

Up, up and away!

Peek-a-boo!!

Hello!

Higher up...

Under the ever-watchful eye of none other than good old Indy Jones

Time to get down now

Wait...what's that noise over there?

Come down, Suki!

Spider-kitten?

Six years ago....

Talking about animal-friendly hotels and resorts, six years ago, in 2003, we participated in a puppy.com event which took us to Port Dickson to an animal-friendly resort, with Mac and Bobby.  The following year, puppy.com had another event in Melaka, also in an animal-friendly resort. 

Here are some photos from the yesteryear event in 2003:

The most memorable event was "The Recall Race", where Bobby was the oldest participant.  Bobby was up against huge dogs, all much younger than him.  Old Bobs was already 7 years old at that time.

Despite running off-course, Bobby came in first!  It was a photo-finish.  Second and third were these two huge and younger dogs.  Actually, Bobby didn't know what was going on.  He just wanted to get to me.  Jia-Wen was on the other side, just psyching him up with "where's mummy? where's mummy??"  And off he ran, just following the sound of my voice.  That won him first prize....which was a beauty bath and (unfortunately) four tickets to a resort in Kuantan which did not allow animals (we never went!).

After the beauty bath, all fluffed up and sweet-smelling, at the prize-giving ceremony the next day.

I never knew dogs could swim instinctively.  Bobby and Mac both swam in the sea, together with the other dogs.  They just took to the water as easily as ducks would!  Of course it was the doggy-paddle for them.

Jia-Wen, Bobby and me - in 2003.

Langkawi cat-friendly hotels and my son's wings

Yesterday, I had a one day break from AnimalCare work (but not really also, because I was on the phone dealing with Yen's rescued labrador and possible adoption of the football pups). 

So, where was I yesterday?

On Langkawi Island, to attend my son's graduation ceremony from HM Aerospace Flying Academy.

But before that, did you know the hotel where the ceremony was held is cat-friendly?  Now, isn't that nice?

This is the lounge of the Bella Vista Hotel, also owned by HM Aerospace (so I heard). 

Up the stairs to the dining hall...and what do we see?

Something you would not see in any posh hotel in the Klang Valley...

A little kitten running across the dining hall and looking very confident!

Here she is....hey, she looks a bit like Suki!

We decided to walk across to the open air restaurant and enjoy the sea breeze. 

Lovely weather, bright sunshine.

The open air restaurant overlooks the beautiful sea.

This cat seems to be a resident in this dining area.

We gave her the sotong, prawns and chicken from our fried rice.  By the way, she looks a bit like Joanie.

How nice if our hotels over here were animal-friendly too, yah?

Permit me to digress from animal news now and show you some photos of my son, Jia-Wen's graduation...

Jia-Wen and his coursemates, Firdaus and Hidayat.

The happy full-fledged pilots, waiting to get their wings.

A proud moment for all of us.  That's Bridagier General (retired) Dato Ranjit Singh (formerly with TUDM), now principal of HM Aerospace, pinning the wings on Jia-Wen.

 

The license to FLY!

Some of their ground school instructors - most of them are retired generals from the Indian Air Force - absolutely no fooling around.  The standards are very high. 

A force to be reckoned with, Capt Rana Singh, Chief Ground School Instructor, tough, but also very caring.  A rare and much needed combination, in any teacher/instructor. 

All of us.

Now I have two pilots in the family.

Fly high!!  Hooray, no more school work!  Er...not so fast, there's a base check every six months once you guys start working.  BTW, there's one girl in the group...do you see her (second from the left)? 

At the hangar.  This is one of the three aircrafts used for training.

Explaining the controls to sister, Ming-Yi, and grandma.

This is the hangar, and it's dog-friendly.  Jia-Wen and his friends used to feed a mother-dog and her puppies.

That's our present for Jia-Wen! 

It had not been exactly easy for Jia-Wen because hardly two months after he enrolled, he met with a bad motor-vehicle accident on the island (which almost gave us a heart-attack).  This was followed by monthly trips back home for treatments for almost a year, while undergoing the very tough flying course.  

It has not been easy....but that's life, isn't it?   

Nothing comes easy....

It's all about perseverance and moving on with whatever you have.