Pet Photography session with @furryphotos

Nicholas, who is a professional pet photographer from Furry Photos - Photography for the Modern Pet, also does pro bono photo shoots for shelter animals in his spare time to raise awareness for the needs of animal shelters and to promote pet adoption opportunities. One of the shelters he does pro bono work for is Mutts and Mittens - check out his site featuring MnM's adoptable pets. He has also done photographic work for Zeus Communications and Noah's Ark Cares.

We sent word to him that we have a full capacity of 10 foster cats at the moment and thus many kitty-picture opportunities. He visited us last Saturday to take - amazing - photos of the foster cats, and of our own 4 cats who are the founders and helpers of our work at Love Kuching too! Here are some of the pictures Nicholas took that day.

Bob, available for adoption very soon!

Palette, who was still inactive post-vaccination

(As of today, Palette is not drowsy from his vaccination anymore! Also more independent now, will be up for adoption this week!)

Wine & Seven adopted by Fiza, going home this Thursday

Woody, waiting to be adopted

Lana, still waiting for her forever home too

Woody and Lana playing - non-stop kitten action!

4 foster cats didn't want to take part in the photo-shoot - Mary Lou and her 3 babies. She is still so feral! Else all 10 foster cats would have Furry Photos to their name!

Here are our four furry ICs.

Slinky, founding member, ex-stray cat

Sayang, mascot of Love Kuching

Scooter, ex-kitten-IC

Sealy, current kitten-IC

Sealy was happy that proof of his Kitten-IC work was captured on Furry Photos because he kept interrupting the kittens' photo shoots to join in the playing -

Woody playing with Sealy's tail

Nicholas told us he had a great time at our foster home! Thank you Nicholas for taking such great pictures of the cats!

Want to get Furry Photos for a photo-shoot of you and your pets? Create albums, framed pictures and scrapbooks of your beloved furry companions? Furry Photos specialises in location photo shoots at your home where your cat can be most comfortable, outdoor shoots for doggies, or covering special pet events like birthday parties. A basic package starts at $360 for 2 pets, comes with a CD of the photographs taken - email nicholas@furry-photos.com for more information and rates for additional packages. Visit Furry Photos website to see more of their pet portraits. Don't forget to 'Like' Furry Photos on Facebook too!

Our Sealy is growing up!

Our Sealy, the first rescued foster kitten ever we fell in love with and decided to adopt is turning 5 months old in February!

The reason why we love him so is because he is a bit silly, his nickname is Gong-gong which means dumb. He is named Sealy also because of his seal point - his mother is a Burmese cat and his dad a British Shorthair (both his parents were sterilised in our TNRM project at Upper Boon Keng). He's very similar in character thus to our Slinky who is also a cross British Shorthair.

He had a rough patch after his first vaccination. Because he came from Upper Boon Keng, which is flu' ridden, he harboured the flu' virus which came into full force after his vaccination. His flu' persisted for a long time, and he had to go on 2 rounds of antibiotics to get well.

Then he started having diarrhoea that resisted medication. When he went for his second checkup, Dr Hsu told us that Sealy's diarrhoea is probably the chronic kind that will go away on its own after a few months, as long as he is eating fine and active, it will be okay for him. So he is just on probiotics for now.

He is now the new official small-kitten IC in our house, helping to socialise and play with the foster kittens we shelter in our home. Scooter has retired from that post!

He is like our Queen Slinky in so many ways. He hates dirty litter boxes to the core - and both of them retaliate the very idea of a used litterbox very strongly! He had a behavioural problem of pooing on our bed many times, but he no longer does so after much training. He is also extremely greedy. And likes to be alone. Also not very keen on jumping high places. Very Slinky!

He will be going for his sterilisation operation very soon! We can't wait for him to grow up!

latest update on Bob

Bob has been doing great!

He has already gotten better. Since there is no pharmaceutical medication available, we have been putting him on the alternative remedies we talked about in our previous update on Bob - aromatherapy massages, supplements and herbal remedies. He doesn't really like the taste of skullcap and St John's wort, but we are adjusting him to it. He really enjoys his aromatherapy massages, and after that he gets his hangout time with us which he loves.

He enjoys snuggling with us in bed, but because he doesn't really feel comfortable yet to roam the whole house and access our cats' food water and litter box, we still have to pen him. Here is a pic of him chillin' out on our bed after one of his massages -

This Wednesday, he will be seeing Dr Poon who specialises in acupuncture to see if we can explore that route towards Bob's recovery. She quoted us a discounted rate to see him at about $20+ so we can still afford his care out of our Veterinary Fund.

Meanwhile, we see how Bob has progressed. He no longer walks dragging his hind legs. He enjoys activity a lot more than before. He can climb the second levels of his kitten pen. He can engage in play with our youngest cat Sealy -



Through our correspondence with Dr Poon we learn that if Bob was prescribed Clindamycin at James Tan and responded to that, his neuropathy is likely due to toxoplasmosis. Sort of like food poisoning for the layman term of it. During infection with toxoplasmosis, a cat can spread it to humans as it is a zoonotic infection. But after he no longer harbours the virus it is no longer infectious, as we researched and found out - so he is definitely not at risk of spreading anything to our cats, the foster cats or us humans.

We have hope that Bob will eventually become able to do more and more things and we are so happy to see him recover!