PUTEH

PUTEH IS THE BEAUTIFUL ONE. Blue eyes, long haired and sometimes more white than at other times -- no dumb blonde mind -- she is Tompok's mum. A bit of an aristocat, she tends to keep aloof of the others. Currently, she has turned the rather large shed at the back of the house into her home which she shares with her daughter Coochie-cooch, Cooch for short because she was a very cute baby.

Back to Puteh. She came from her mum's first litter of three. Her two brothers. LJ short for Little Jebat because he had his father, Jebat's colour, a lovely seemingly stripy grey but when looked at closely are spots, not too small and close together and Baby, a long-haired Siamese with a very dark face, tail, ears and paws.

Puteh herself looked more like a seal pup then a kitten when she was small. Fur snow white with a hint of the dark grey markings that got clearer as she grew. A little nervy, she was nevertheless keen on a good brush. The only time she relaxed was when she is being bushed.

Puteh had four litters in all. The first three were all single kitten litters. Tompok was her first born. Then she had two more very much her lookalike but neither survived for long, one succumbing to illness and the other when our dog, Dixie, decided to be vicious. (In the early days, my first dog Dixie tended to get irritated with the kittens, but she is now an amiable old lady and leave the cats well alone.) Puteh's last litter, before we decided to spay her, included Cooch and her three brothers Clogs, Mooshie and a beautiful black and white called Schmoo. Mooshie had a strange dusky brown and white coat with markings that almost matched Schmoo's.

Third generation mine as she is, I love her dearly.