Listen, listen, listen: No potong misai!

There's this ginger-coloured cat that belongs to my 'that' neighbour. Dari kecik sampai teenager dah sekarang, selalu makan kat rumah i. Dialah yg paling friendly...bukak pintu dapur mesti dia yg tegur kita dulu and leser2 kat kaki kita sampai nak jalan pun susah. He came from a litter of one tortie, another calico and him. Yg tortie dah kena sunat, calico was only jinak2 merpati..sekarang ni rasanya dia dah termengandung...tak sempat disunatkan. The ginger male, oleh kerana tersangat manjanya, dia pun i hantar pi sunat sekali...Baby X sayang sangat, bawak usung ke hulu hilir macam handbag..nak tercirit kawan tu agaknya kena peluk kat perut. So i decided to name him Elo - Baby X punya pelat from yellow and also sort of (H)Elo! Is it me you looking for? Then came a black stripey taiko cat..habis Elo dibelasahnya. Sampaikan Elo nak makan pun susah pasal dia ngendap belakang kawan tu..kalau Elo nak makan mesti kena bodyguard tunggu i.e. my maid or i. Satu hari Elo tak datang makan...which is considered pelik since he was never not around the house compound. Esok nya pun takde...anak beranak dah terjerit Elo Elo (fat chance kucing tu nak dengar cakap..pasal dia belum tau pun itu nama dia). On the fourth day he came mintak makan...di luar waktu biasa. Makan dalam panik, pandang kiri kanan agaknya takut kucing belang datang ngendap. Habis je makan, si Elo berlari to wherever he came from, tak leser2 macam selalu. Dua, tiga kali dia camtu, samapi sekarang. Tak tau dia lepak rumah mana. He must have been driven away by the stripey cat...or he has found a forever home to call his own. With cats, you can't force them to do what they don't want to do...must go with the flow. I had planned to adopt him, nak hantar dia pi vaccine (lepas 2 minggu sunat) but alas, he had other plans. Tak taulah apa namanya sekarang..whatever it is, kalau dia datang, masih tak kisah Baby X buat dia cam handbbag.

Speaking of cats and their well being...ni i mula nak mengomel ni. Kak Pah listen listen cakap animals pun ada masalah...how i wish dia ni ceredik sikit and boleh la or genuinely fight for animal rights...boleh i habaq kat dia satu kes ni, which really got my knickers in a twist and Ani BNS's for that matter - sampai bersimpul2 g-string makcik tu  (i assume je you pakai g-string Ani oii..ye laa, taknaklah nampak VPL under your jodphurs kan..).

This blogger yg tidak kurang fofularnya ada kemunsykilan. Risau yg kucingnya tak suka dok rumah. Pada i, ni memang resam kucing jantan especially...dah sunat or tak sunat ke, memang akan jadi polis peronda siang hari, lepak2 and tido celah semak mana. Bukannya depa dok ronda 24 jam..dia pi cari port tempat sejuk and tido2 ayam with angin sepoi2 bahasa kena kat badannya yg berfur coat sentiasa tu. Malam2 nanti depa pi volunteer rukun tetangga or pi clubbing gamaknya. Tapi, kita sebagai tuan (or is it hamba abdi depa?) must learn to compromise kut...agak2 neighbourhood tak safe, simpanlah kat rumah and setiap hari bawaklah supervised walkies..like what we had to do with aruah Princess Boyot dulu..since she had the tendency to go walkabout pastu tak tau cari jalan balik. With Monty pulak, he goes out from dawn, keluar masuk 4, 5 kali for food and bila sentap org alam flora tegur dia or budak2 kindy acah dia ...he likes going out after dusk. But i pancing dia balik dgn ikan tongkol..you want to eat, you come back. Pastu curfew until the next day. La ni longgar sikit pasal hari2 asyik hujan, malam baru stop. Jadi dia tak puas dok luar ru,ah siang hari. So he will go out after his fish meal at 6pm but bila paknya balik dari office around 830, dia akan ikut masuk rumah (because dia akan 'terlupa' yg dia dah makan ikan and akan mintak lagi). And then dokla terlentang belakang curtain sampai esok pagi.

So with cats ni, memang kena learn to adjust and kita compromise to provide the safest/healthiest alternative for them.  Janganlah sampai 'adjust' kucing tu utk ikut kehendak kita..What happened was, the blogger decided to follow an old wive's tale of potong misai kucingnya and gi tanam (albeit 2 lai je katanya). Apparently, kalau buat camtu kucing takkan berjalan jauh...pastu she commented yg kucingnya cam rupa monyok and dah tak keluar rumah dah...so are you happy or otherwise? So memang 'mujarablah' petua orang tua2 tu!

That really raised my hackles...of courselah kucing monyok! Cer baca ni 'http://www.todayifoundout.com/index.php/2011/04/what-happens-if-a-cats-whiskers-are-damaged-or-clipped/'.  Ani BNS cakap macam potong kote laki supaya laki tak menggatal kat luar rumah. Tu dia...! Marah betul makcik kan! Sapa tak? It's like penderaan pada binatang. And it matters not misai kena tanam ke or kena vacuum, i'm sure the petua 'works' just as well. Cuba kita kalau mata tetiba rabun or buta sebelah? Tak ke monyok and dok rumah je pasal deria dah tak fully functioning?  Jangankan kata buta..i ni yg dah berbulan buat lasik tapi masih belum adjust night vision pun dok melepak kat rumah je memalam. Terbantut social lifeku. Blogger bukan calang2 orang..buatlah dulu research, google je. Bukan susah benar pun. And then you pi kompang kat blog you about petua ni....you have like thousands of readers daily..habislah kucing2 orang2 yg termakan dgn nasihat you ni. The thing is, i made a comment to the particular post..it was not a nasty one, i was merely providing her the website link as the one above. Well i did say, potong misai macam mendera jugak. I didn't log in to my blogger account but i was not totally anonymous as i signed off as 'makbulu'. My comment didn't get published. Like it was within her rights not to publish my comment, it is mine to make sure that i reach out to my readers yg tak seberapa ni that TOLONGLAH JANGAN POTONG MISAI KUCING ANDA!