This is my cat. Kittycat was her name.
We called her a lot of names like Kucing, Kitty, Misai (cause she got moustache), kuinui, cheko (my sister's way of saying 'psycho' cause she gets a bit crazy. but thats rare) etc..
But her real name is Kittycat and her tag has her name and my phone number. Her tag was purple in colour but we changed it 3 times to different colours.
My family didn't own her at all. She was just a cat who roamed around the area and one day my 2nd sister spotted her walking past the patio. My 1st sister brought her in. My 2nd sister didn't like her at all cause she said 'germs!!' whenever my 1st sister put Kittycat near her.
But Kittycat was a very lazy cat so she didn't bother to scratch or anything.
And we let her go.
A few days later, in the middle of the night, my 2nd sister woke me up to tell me to see that Kittycat was lying on her back on the carpet of the living room. I was very sleepy so i didn't really bother and went back to sleep.
Day after day Kittycat just kept coming back to the house although we didn't give her any food.
And my sisters thought, maybe we should cause we didn't know if she was fed outside.
So we did. We bought whiskers for her but i don't think she liked that very much and we got her friskies and she liked it a lot. Oh Kittycat likes milo.
I read in the papers that chocolate and dairy isn't good for cats or dogs cause it contains some substance that can be toxic to their bodies. But i still gave her milo occasionally when there was no friskies at home. I didn't wanna let Kittycat go hungry!!
After school everyday, i'll go home and the first thing i do is to find for her at home. She'll always have a certain spot where she chills at like the corner of my parents' bed, or on my bed, or under my bed. It changes depends on her mood.
There are times when i'm sad and i'll just sit on the living room sofa and Kittycat will jump and sit beside me and not say anything. And i'll just talk to her. She does this to whoever is sad. But sometimes she doesn't care.
There were times, during the middle of the night, like at 3am, she'll push my bedroom door open with her paws (you can hear it cause her paw makes some kind of scratchy sound on the door), and she'll jump on my bed and walk around my face and my 2nd sister's face and meows cause she wants food.
I'll just push her off my bed and she'll fall. I feel so bad just thinking about this:(
But who feeds their cat in the middle of the night, right?
Sigh, maybe i should just have fed her. She must have felt so hungry.
Kittycat likes to tan herself under the sun on the patio. I'll let her tan and i'll carry her back home and kiss her head. Her warm fur smells very nice. I can't describe it but it has this very comforting smell.
She had this problem with her fur though, at her butt area. Her fur just keeps balding over there. I think there were fleas or something i don't know cause i don't seem to see any there. But she keeps biting that area and there'll be fur on her mouth. Hahahahahahahhahaha
Oh, after Kittycat has had her meal, she'll sit by the edge of the wall, like how humans sit just that she hunches cause she can't sit straight. She looks like a lump of fat and my father would say 'gemuknye kucing tu tsk tsk'.
She'll sometimes go to the patio and eat the wheat that grows on the plants. I heard that these wheats tickles the cat's throat so that they'll spit out the furballs trapped there.
My Mom would find for her too whenever she comes home and calls out 'good girl good girl...'. Cause Kittycat is a good girl in my Mom's eyes cause she doesn't disturb anyone annoyingly in the family. She isn't a good girl. She's just too lazy to do so.
I never knew how old Kittycat was when she joined the family. All i knew was that she was already big.
She had a lump in her tummy. I discovered it when i was holding her. Then i brought her to the vet. Slowly, the lump disappeared.
5 years after we had her, I shifted house. But we couldn't bring her cause she can't adapt to a new environment. My Dad was still living there though, and he could take care of her. But my Dad didn't really have a good relationship with Kittycat. He treated her like a normal cat but the rest of the family treats her as well, family.
Despite shifting house, i still came often to spend time with her.
One day, when i was at the house, i called her name out 'Kitty..Kitty..where is she?..'
And i saw her walking towards me. I crouched down cause i wanted her to come to me and i'll carry her.
Then suddenly i saw her legs slide to the side.
I got scared.
She tried walking again, and she slided again and she fell on her front.
I was panicking. Why was she so weak???
I called my Mom to tell her what's happened.
I brought her to Mount Pleasant Animal Hospital which was nearby. My Mom joined me after work.
Kittycat was afraid but she didn't meow much.
I was very sad to know that there's something really wrong with her.
The vet kept her in a cage which is like a ward in human sense and gave her a vaccine. My 2nd sister joined my Mom and I after her work.
Kittycat stayed overnight there.
In the wee hours of the morning the next day, i received a call. It was the vet. And she said that Kittycat has passed on and that we have to collect her body soon.
We did and i asked the vet what was wrong she said that Kittycat had feline aids and dengue too.
:(
Guess my cat got it when she fought with some other cats. She was anti-social and didn't like other cats to disturb her. Sigh.
My Dad and i dug a small hole near the house and buried her there. I tried finding a landmark and count how many steps it was from her grave. I'm afraid i forgot how many steps it is:(
I think it's 9?
Well, she's turned to grass now.
She really was something special to the family. Although none of us knew of her past, or her personal life. Never knew where she came from, if she had kittens before etc..
Oh wells, we all still think about her :)
I love cats.
But i loved this cat very very much:)
