Happy Easter

 Happy Easter to all our blogger friends and loved one!

FFF 2024 annual banquet

To bring activities of 2024 to a close, FFF held its annual banquet in Thailand on 23rd February 2025.

As expected, we asked a friend to collect the rosettes and trophy on our behalf. 

 After thought:

Unlike CFA which is an international cat fanciers' organisation, FFF focuses on Asia and has a 2 year presence in Hong Kong. We let Stella fully participate in FFF's 2024 cat shows, as we want to see her achievement in the national arena. We prefer FFF over CFA because of its fewer show competition, hence, less pressure and more economical. 

In 2024, 3 shows were held in Hong Kong, with a total of 16 rings. As national ranking is based on accumulated scores the cat obtained during that year, with 20-30% less show competition than its Asian counterparts (especially SE Asia), by default, its virtually very difficult for a Hong Kong competitor to attain high national ranking. This, to us is a flaw in the system, which we can only accept. 

Nevertheless, Stella did well in the Hong Kong shows, with the following results:

Overall, for 2024, regionally, Stella was the Best Alter in Hong Kong. Nationally, she ranked 13th in the Alter category. To our surprise, she was amongst one of the three cats to win the special award of Best Condition nationally - a pride for Hong Kong?! (P.S. in the video, the photo said its Best Head, which is incorrect)

All the rosettes awarded in 2024

Our heartfelt thanks to all the judges who used Stella in their finals: Daisy Wong for entrusting us with Stella and grooming her to perfection for each show competition; Auntie Rowena for all her love and care towards Stella; Mandy Tang for her heads up on Stella when she was first available and continuous care and support thereafter; to our Taiwanese friends for the banquet video and representing us in the occasion. 

Above all, thanks be to God for this adorable child and may she continue to be a rising star bringing warmth, love and laughter to all she knows!

Felix turns 9 years old

We have very mixed feelings today. Happy and excited that we have reached this milestone, which we dare not of dreamed of in the past. Things didn't come by easily. Felix, what you are experiencing today, is the result of team efforts. Your strong determination to survive, co-operative attitude and mellow character played a crucial role as well.

Above all, you are lucky to be warmly loved and cared for by a number of professional vets and nursing staff. Above all, the biggest credit goes to Dr Vera, who despite the time zone differences, always come up with prompt, sound medical advise during those critical moments to enable you to receive the best medical treatment possible. To us, Dr Vera is like a mother to Felix and siblings - Lucky kids!

Though we do not know what will hold in the future, may the Lord continue, to guide, guard and protect you in the time to come!

Happy Birthday, Felix dear! 

Wishing you Good Health, Lots of Joy and Happiness in the years to come!

Stella - an accident

 When playing, Felix accidentally hit Stella in the eye and caused a wound at 3 o'clock position of the cornea of the right eye. 

Luckily, after over a week of intensive care. She fully recovered and is back to her old self 

As an aside, below is a video taken before the accident

Betty's first hospital stay

On 15th January, vet found that Betty has Neck Lesions. She kindly scheduled Betty for tooth extraction in late afternoon. Because Betty's condition was worse than expected, the procedure of extraction of 5 teeth lasted for 1.5 hours. In the end, we decided to let her remain in hospital overnight.

Maybe because its the first experience in her lifetime to be away from home, she urinated, but refused to eat. So we picked her up the next morning.

Upon returning home, her appetite improved satisfactorily. Eating 40% of her normal amount that lunch time, and increasing to 75% in the evening. Back to 100% of normal the next day. 

We gave her soaked dry food on the fifth day and she enjoyed it. By the eighth day, she wanted normal dry food. The amount she ate doubled that of what she ate before the dental treatment and didn't require any toppings to make her eat.

Hope she can regain her weight soon, as over the past 6 months or so, she lost around 0.5kg and vet is starting to get worried. 

Happy Year of the Snake

 Wishing all our bloggers and their loved ones:

2024 - A year of competitions for Stella

 Stella started to experience "what is competition" and "charitable drive".

Like her brothers and sisters, we believe that Stella should try her best to help less fortunate children. She tried hard in cat shows to apart from winning rosettes, to win "goodies" as well. But unfortunately, sponsorship doesn't always work out well, so Stella wasn't too successful by this means. 

Luckily, during December, there were 2 competitions giving out cat food as prizes. As mummy is often pretty well prepared for this, she dug out from the album collection, submitted them and then went on charitable drive plea for support. Fortunately, Stella was able to master sufficient "LIKE" to stay within the top 10 and got her share of the pie.

1) Hosted by Vetmacy: 30 cans of Hills cat food

  

2) Hosted by: Hills Nutrition HK: 120 cans of Hills cat food, 5 bags of Hills dry food, a cat scratcher, a cat teaser

The above prizes were being given to 3 cat volunteers, helping less fortunate children in Tsimshatsui, Mongkok, Prince Edward and Shamshuipo. 

Another type of competition is cat show. We chose to be a regular participant in Feline Fanciers Federation (FFF) 2024 cat shows in Hong Kong. Compared with the CFA which is an international organisation, FFF is Asia focused. and they run fewer shows in HK each year. Hence, less time consuming and costly, and less tiring to human and cat, and yet we could have a rough idea how Stella stands against peers in Asia. 

Overall, Stella performed to our satisfaction, as she won 3 awards:

- Regional Winner: Hong Kong Best Alter

- National: 13th Best Regional Alter

- National: Best Condition 

So overall, a pretty rewarding year for Stella!