A Vindication of the Rights of Cats

No Cat No Hair

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Have You Seen This Cat?

Name: Mr. Tippity Bushtails
Sex: Male
Age: About 1 year 6 months
Description: 3-coloured (orangey, grey and white) tabby with bushy tail.

Hasn't come home for 3 days now. My bro & I walked the neighbourhood in search of him this evening & we don't think he's been knocked down by a car because there was no sign of it. I think somebody must have liked him & taken him in. Please return my cat. He's my cat & I miss him a lot & he also needs me. A small reward is offered to anyone who returns him to me. Please leave your contact details in the comments and I will contact you. Or you could email me. Please help. Thank you.

Meet Rachelfins Witwicky

This is Rachelfins Witwicky, the 2nd of my 2 pets. A colleague of mine gave her to me in June. So she's been my pet for 3 months now. She's grown so fast & so much.



I actually can't tell her gender but decided to consider her female since my other pet is already male :) She is a freshwater fish called the climbing perch, locally, puyu.

'One of the most celebrated local fishes, it is capable of wandering "cross-country" from one water body to another. It crawls about with its spiky gill covers propped by its pectoral fins. The hind part of the fish twitches violently to propel it forward. Using this method, and when the air is sufficiently humid, it is said to be able to cover several hundred metres per trip. Despite its common name, it cannot really climb!' - text taken from here

Wow :) my Rachelfins can 'walk'.

Her natural color is actually greyish-white but she looks reddish because I feed her coloured fishfood meant for red goldfish. I should have bought the blue.

Anyway I named her Rachel because it is a common name yet a pretty name, just as she is a common fish yet uh... ordinary fish, & the name can be paired smoothly with 'fins'. Emilyfins sounds a little tongue-tangling. Brendafins, well, I don't like the name Brenda. Florencefins is a mouthful.

Why Witwicky? Well, she is named after that great old captain in Transformers. It's befitting because he was someone who navigated the sea, a place where fishes live. Furthermore she's also uh... kinda like a transformer too, one minute she swims, the next she crawls, walks, almost climbs & can breathe for a long time out of water hehe ... And I read somewhere that climbing perches are the toughest of the freshwater fishes & can survive harsh conditions.

Wow, Rachelfins is amazing :) :)

goodbye aristocat

our siamese joy-bringer has been gone since the 11th of this month. been 9 days now and he hasn't come home. all of us think he's no more. most probably got carried away by the water in the drain during the rain or drowned in it. poor, poor kitty! cause once he falls down into the drain he can never climb up by himself. since the time he had a spinal injury when he was a little kitten, he's never been strong. all of us miss him a lot. hope he gives us a surprise and comes home one day.

i was home for a few days last month. he remembered me! his nose twitched as he sniffed and sniffed to ID me. that was 2 months after he last saw me. during which time i was home for more than a week, which was the 2nd time i met that cat. he didn't scoot off like when he sees strangers coming, like the last time. sad to think i'd never get to play with that adorable cat anymore. i love that cat so much. why? because it's a cat with personality. really! i even wrote a poem about him in july. you'll know what i mean when u read that poem. i'll put it up one day.

goodbye aristocat! you're the greatest kat. may you be warm wherever you are.

meet aristocat!

our most adorable aristo-cat! my bro just sent me this pic :)