The one and only

I’m not a cat person ever but I was rather captivated with this one cat at the family house. Some called him “Pau Pau” – which means baby in Cantonese, my darling called him “Underweight” in Cantonese but I called him “Eveready” as of a battery brand.

 Eveready, the brand.

He’s so black in color, that’s why I named him that.

This was when he was a few months old. I took this photo with the intention to give him up for adoption because we just had too many cats in the house. I guess fate had it that no one wanted to adopt and we ended up taking him.

He’s super adorable when young and super small size too that’s why he’s called “underweight”. The reason why he’s so small was that his mother was hiding the birth so deep underneath the staircase that even after his birth, we couldn’t get him out. His mother didn’t leave his babies for weeks but there were just quite many to feed. I guess he didn’t get much milk from his mother then. Nearly a month, we finally got him out but he looked so fragile and we thought we were going to lose him. We fed him milk ourselves and soon he got slightly better and bigger.

He’s unique, one of its kind, the one and only. For a cat, he’s the least picky of his food (he ate basically everything, no kidding!) and the least frequent going out of the house (one would think a male cat would love to go out and court some females but not him). He basically stayed home with the family most of the time. Maybe he knew he was starved before, so he knew if he stayed around, many of us would just give him food whenever we were in the kitchen. He’s super smart, I tell you. He waited at the gate every day without fail for the aunt who loved him most (and of course fed him most too). He just knew when to wait and for what reason. I was always amazed at his act.

He’s dog friendly too. He’s best friend of my Blacky and they sometimes slept together side by side at the porch. Amazing scene but unfortunately I didn’t catch any photo of them together and now it’s just too late. He passed away early last week. He was barely a year old. His sudden death was not natural cause and we suspected that he’s poisoned. A sad story and we mourn his passing deeply. He’s missing for a few days before that which was a rare case. When he finally came back, he looked very sick, not moving much and eating (which was super weird as he loved to eat). In his final days, he’s just lying there, not moving at all. We knew it’s too late. We were all helpless seeing his condition. I did pray for him and wished he would be at better place now.

We all miss him so much. I will always remember him as the special one, my Eveready.

(Postaweek2011 #50)

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