tribute to malinky
i dont know if you remember me mentioning my cat being poisoned towards the end of last year. i just felt that since he has made such a miraculous recovery, he deserves a whole entry on my bloggo.
lets take you back to when we first met :)
i came back last november, and found out we had a cat. a somewhat snobbish cat. you know how cats are. and this has the air of an alpha male. so that doesnt really help him get all cuddly with new people. i tried playing with him but i got snubbed. by a cat.
then came news of stray cats dying. for some strange reason, they are ALL on my compound before they croak. and i think we ended up with 3 dead stray cats or something. then we found out our own cat had been poisoned, but survived. he was very weak, but very much alive. we had no idea how long he'd stay around.
i'm not completely sure how he survived. but there are several theories among my family members.
- he caught and maybe ate a little poisoned rat.
- maybe it was weedkiller that had been sprayed somewhere and he got a little bit of it.
- maybe there was food left out for these stray cats, laced with a little poison.
either way, he survived. i dont know why my neighbour has to leave poison out like that. i do know they have a rat problem cause...well i've lived with them long enough. and they're in the pipe business or something so their house is just covered in pipes. and it looks DAMN UGLY. YEESH! if this were one of those neighbourhoods where you have certain standards to meet as a resident, i think they would've been kicked out a while ago.
if you wanna find my house, its the one with a very LOUD YOWLING MALE CAT that walks funny next to the one with the gazillion pipes. huge metal sewage pipes.
oh yes, my cat.
now, he survived, but couldnt eat or drink. so we thought he was a goner. my mum said that if he should survive the next few days, she'd bring him to the vet and see if its best to just put him to sleep.
but no! fate had a better deal in mind for my cat.
the vet said he was alright, but very weak. since he wasnt eating, he had to have supplements injected directly into his stomach. other than that, he also had STEROIDS. WOOW. kitty on roid rage? :P
in january he couldnt hold himself up and had to be fed. we feed him cat biscuits so those are easy to give him. he got thirsty a lot. and because he was so vulnerable, we had to put him in a cage. i dont like putting animals in cages, but in this case we didnt really have a choice. he couldnt afford to get another round of poisoning or fight another male cat.
towards the end of feb and up till now, he has put on all the weight he lost. :D and he has started spotting lizards on the ceiling etc etc. his coordination is very very slowly coming back. last night he managed to jump down from my bed and land on his feet! before this he would just plop on the floor, and look ashamed because of the fall. oh oh and after he jumped down, he actually looked back a few times to make sure he landed right :P
this is SUCH and improvement from the cat who couldnt get up to eat. or walk without wobbling and then fall down all plopped. or the cat that yowled to my mama for attention because someone put him on the sofa and forgot that he couldnt jump down and had to be carried down. or kept tripping on his own paws and bumping into our car tyres (yea, he did) trying to run to my mama.
but despite all this, he is less snobby now. i think its cause he knows we really do wanna take care of him and so on and so forth. he's a more cuddly and stuff. and doesnt fight back so much when i give him a shower :P
well thats all about my cat. i'll put up some videos of him on my multiply soon.