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The black kitten I mentioned earlier has found a nice home to go to, and the remaining brown kitten has remained un-catchable and we thought it best to leave him at the science canteen for now. He was pretty spooked each time we tried to catch him.
**UPDATE 2nd October 2008**
The three kittens that were adopted the earliest have adjusted very well to their new home and are doing very well. The mummy cat had a successful sterilisation operation and is currently staying with me. She has stopped looking for her kittens and gets along alright with my resident cat, Max. We call her “mummy cat” and she seems to respond to that, although she is so friendly I’m sure she’d respond to any name.
Of the three kittens that were left at the canteen, once seems to have disappeared (hopefully adopted) leaving behind one black and one brown kitten. We caught the black kitten today and she is at my place for the moment (had a shower and some food) and will go to a foster home tomorrow evening. Someone is interested in adopting her, but hasn’t confirmed with me yet. So in the meantime if you know of anyone who might be interested, please pass the word around. She is very sweet natured and affectionate. She curled up in my lap and fell asleep purring until I sneezed and startled her (heehee).
The brown kitten is the only one left at the canteen now. He is quite nervous and we’re still trying to catch him because we have already found someone who is 100% keen to adopt him (they’ve already bought all the necessary litter/toys/basket etc.). If you see him around please try not to do anything to scare him so that he won’t be so skittish when we try to catch him.
** UPDATE **
the three kittens we caught have found homes and the other three that were left at science canteen can’t be found at the moment. Maybe they’ve gotten homes to go to already. The mummy cat can’t be found either. If anyone sees her, please let me know by emailing me or call/sms if you have my number. We’d like to get her sterilised and re-homed too.
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Six kittens and their mother have been staying at the science canteen at NUS for the past month or so. It’s not certain how much longer they can remain there until AVA comes to take them away so a few of us are trying to get them adopted, or at least fostered to good homes.
The kittens are all healthy and adorable and each have a distinctive personality. Mummy is very young too, and is sweet natured and trusting (maybe too trusting for her own good). If you think you can offer them a good home, please email me at abby@applemilky.org for more information. Three kittens are currently staying at a foster home (they have been de-ticked and de-wormed) but the other three are still out there.
Six of them sleeping in the drain
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they’re all different! timid, sleepy and curious
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these three have gone to a foster home (one is already reserved)
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mummy! she’s a darling.
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Please note that I am not housing any of these kittens and do not claim any responsibility for them. I’m just helping to find good homes in an effort to take them off the streets.
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Ivan on 21 Aug 2008 at 6:36 pm #
Hey Apple,
Noticed your message on Siva’s FB and one of my comm member colleague from CWS alerted me about the same thing. I am also from NUS, perhaps we can work something out.
Kevin Lim on 22 Aug 2008 at 1:00 pm #
Woah… that’s a lot of adorable kittens! Hope they each find a nice home
Naturehasitsways on 30 Aug 2008 at 6:44 pm #
So you guys are the ones that are responsible for the missing kittens… Ever thought of the mother kitten’s feelings? Maybe I got it wrong but seems like you guys were taking the kittens away on separate occassions while leaving some behind with the mother kitten. Perhaps the mother kitten is protecting her babies by hidding them elsewhere. Treat them with respect please. you don’t go take 3 babies away and expect the mother not to start worrying when it will be her other 3 babies’ turn to “disappear”? Probably a better alternative was to have gotten all 7 of them at one time and then start looking for shelters.
Perhaps your intentions were good but ever remember that animals have feelings? They might look pitiful to you but the true question is “Are they?”
Just a check. Did someone call AVA? Or was it an assumption?
abby on 02 Oct 2008 at 10:19 pm #
hi naturehasitsways, thank you for your comment. I do feel bad for separating the kittens from their mother but ‘pity’ was not the motivation for doing so. Taking the kittens off the streets is one way of controlling the population of strays, the other is sterilisation. Both of which were done in this case. The kittens were approaching the age at which they would wean off their mother and leave to mark out their own territory which would in turn lead to more strays.
Whether or not AVA had already been called is not the issue, I’m sure none of us would want to wait for that to happen before taking action. I appreciate your input and I believe that your intentions are good as well. However, sometimes we have to be realistic in our approach to solve a situation. In this instance, due to the shortage of help and foster care, we were not able to catch ALL the kittens at one go and foster them while searching for adopters. I hope you understand our position as well.
If you would like to help out, do leave me your email address and I will be sure to contact you if any others need help with dealing with strays in the future.
c(o.o)c on 03 Oct 2008 at 12:34 pm #
what the heck is a ‘mother kitten’? u meant ‘the kittens’ mother’ or the ‘mother of the kittens’?
What assumption are you talking about? What has this got to do with AVA? Do you think that people working for AVA are so free to deal with cat adoption everyday??
Naturehasitsways on 09 Oct 2008 at 9:33 pm #
>>Abby
Thanks for explaining. Honestly, I couldn’t understand why only 3 of the kitten were caught initially since you guys were trying to get them adopted. But since manpower is the issue then I guess there isn’t much to say about it anymore. Also, if the “gentlemen” below is your friend, perhaps you can remind him/her to watch his/her manners as illustrated above. I do take offence to what he/she wrote. Sarcasms are not taken lightly.
>>c(o.o)c
Are you here to pick a quarrel? Read this para.
“Six kittens and their mother have been staying at the science canteen at NUS for the past month or so. It’s not certain how much longer they can remain there until AVA comes to take them away so a few of us are trying to get them adopted, or at least fostered to good homes.”
My fault for the misleading information posted?
AND YES~! I dont have powderful England like you~ So Bite me~!
or maybe Gramma Me?
abby on 12 Oct 2008 at 10:32 pm #
c(o.o)c is indeed a friend of mine, she is just feeling defensive on my behalf. Please don’t fight on my website k! Let’s just keep the discussions to the topic of cats, since we are all here because we care about them.
naturehasitways, there were three of us trying to catch the first three kittens when they were asleep in the drain (see the picture). When we stuck our hands in, 2 of us managed to grab 3 and the other 3 kittens ran in both directions inside the drain (the drain is about half a metre deep). After they 3 other kittens scattered, they were spooked and definitely not going to wander out again anytime soon. That’s why only 3 got caught.
Ryuki on 17 Nov 2008 at 10:01 am #
um . so how many left to be adopted?
blur_tenshi on 18 Nov 2008 at 3:28 pm #
Hi Apple,
Was actually looking at the product when I accidently found out that you are also from NUS/SCI.Anyways, there are still 3 more kittens left in the science canteen. I have been feeding them in the morning and then they will run off to play. 1 black and 2 “tabby”. 2 of the cats are very skittish and runs off when anyone approaches.
I am not sure but is the animal welfare group in sch going to do anything about it? I think that there are some people that are complaining about them already as the uncle in the canteen has asked me not to feed them too close to the canteen.
Anyways, hope that there is something that we can do to help them;p Personally, I have 3 bunnies and a hamster at home so I can’t do much to adopt but I hope that the group can put in place a sterilization scheme so that cats can live in sch without contributing to the stray problem.
Hmmm, hope I am not rambling away so anyhow thanks for rescuing some of them!
Cheers,
Wei Ling