Rescued Kitten Wanders Away - Owners Upset

KUALA LUMPUR, Thurs. - Owners of a recently rescued kitten were upset when the kitten went wandering off and didn't come home. The kitten, named "Cat" (or, "Koo-Ching") was found over the weekend extremely dirty, thin and with infections in both eyes resulting in its inability to use the left eye (pictured, right).

After a short trip to the animal hospital for a thorough check-up, the owners brought her home, gave her a bath and attempted to feed her. The vet had informed them that she was to be isolated in a cage to prevent the infection from spreading to their other cats, Harun and Thomas.

"She was very distressed in the carrier, meowing away, but we still kept her in there anyway. We put food and water in there but she didn't eat any," the owner, who calls herself "Mummy", told us.

"It's very upsetting that she's left because she was just starting to recover. She didn't eat the IAMS kitten food that we got, but when we switched to FRISKIES then she ate with gusto. She also started drinking water.

"We decided to let her out of the carrier for a few hours at a time to play with her and let her walk around. She found some areas around the garage that kept her relatively safe from the bigger cats," Mummy continued.

Investigations reveal that Thomas was initially hostile to Koo-Ching (seen here playing with Mummy's younger son, Adik) and even once hissed at her. Harun was the more curious one and would be sniffing away but Thomas immediately disliked her and even stayed away the day after she arrived to register his protest.

On Wednesday, Mummy let Koo-Ching free to walk about while showing her the litter box, the food tray and generally tried to show her around - like an orientation, almost. She seemed quite happy and rested under the cabinet or occasionally under the shoe rack.

"So we thought it would be ok to not put her in the carrier anymore. She was quite content and it didn't occur to us that she would go off. My auntie said she saw Koo-Ching sleeping at the patio the night before we discovered she was gone. All our cats have always been stray cats, or offsprings of stray cats, but they were the ones who adopted us. This is the first time we adopted a stray cat," a clearly upset Mummy told us.

Daddy - Mummy's husband - said, "I think we should have kept her in the carrier longer. I hope she's ok."

So do we.