Taro ("-")!

7-yr-old male, Kichijoji!

ぷぴる ("-")!

Cute, quiet, very friendly male Boston Terrier, 6 months old ("-")! English name: Pupil (of your eye)!

The cats..

Nana ("-")!

3-sai no jfemale no jack russell terrier, rough coat! Ogikubo eki no machiawase!

O-kaasan

appreciates ("-")! She's old-style. Waste not, want not. Appreciate it, by eating it or using it ("-")!

nora may 15 2011

There's stray cats...

and these cats...

Actually, Maru was a stray till he was 7 months old. You wouldn't know it from the way he settled into the good life ("-")! Nevertheless, he wants to go outside and does escape sometimes, to get either the taste of freedom back, or to remind himself it wasn't all that on the outside..... or maybe he just likes a bit of fresh air sometimes, go for a stroll and smell and see something different, short trips back to nature ("-").
Lovely personality, very gentle, peaceful, relaxed and playful, this Maru!

Purin and Sakura ("-")!!

Visiting Kichijouji from Nagoya. Dera kawaii!!

A bit photoshopped..

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Boko in blue..

Coney ("-")!!

My boy!

Grey looking at the branches

Grey gets excited whenever it's windy and the branches of the neighbour's tree hit the roof!

Hana-chan ("-")!

68-kilo, 7-yr-old female saint bernard from the neighbourhood i met for the first time today!!

Will soon get her summercut, already panting early in the morning because of the temperature. The owner said she needs to wear a life jacket to go swimming, otherwise the weight of the wet coat would pull her down into the water, she cannot just float by herself.

Gen-chan!

Coco ("-")!

Cute 4-yr-old female American cocker spaniel/cavalier mix!

Maru-chan ("-")!

Daifuku, hisashiburi ("-")!

Daifuku (: Daichan), met him and his owner again today in the park! He got much bigger, 10 kilos, since July 2010. He seems to keep growing, although he's 2 years old now ("-")! Lovely guy!

O-kaachan..

Hi!

Boko

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Okaasan, Cha (and Neechan)..

2 can play that game!

Some kids in a neighbourhood park were kicking a ball around when one of the old guys in the back joined them. Funny guy (^ - ^)..

Earthquake Friday March 11, 2011, Tokyo

Moo-chan ("-")!

Moo-chan is another stray in the neighbourhood that lately has joined Yamcha and Friendly to get fed at nite. A kind old lady in the neighbourhood took care of her but was hospitalized and can't move around that much anymore, so Moo's joining the nite gang.

And Frank said:

"If you have men who will exclude any of God's creatures from the shelter of compassion and pity, you will have men who will deal likewise with their fellow men."

(Francis of Assisi, patron saint of animals, and the name of the elementary school i attended in Holland (^-^)..)

pigeons in shinjuku

crowing in shinjuku

Yamcha and Friendly ("-")!

These guys get fed once a day, a few streets over. Usually nite time, but yesterday they were both there around 3:00 pm..

Happy Chinese New Year: The Year of the (metal) Rabbit!

美華 ("-")!

Mei Hua, lovely 8-year-old female golden retriever from the neighbourhood!

Kani, Aka, Boko, and Masamune..(^_^)!

August 6th, 2007

Here's a short clip of when Kani was still a kitten, she's the one close to the red-haired guy with his behind in the waterbowl, because it was a really hot day (^_^)... Boko is flat on the ground and the big black and white cat is Masamune, doing the Black Panther salute at the end of the clip!

Kani...

Kani is a 3-year-old female that was one of a litter of three, brought to my doorstep a few weeks after they were born by their mother. Care-free childhood, till she was spayed. Never having had her own kids, her protect/fight instinct wasn't developed, and she began to be bullied by the other cats, to the point where she'd be around just sometimes. About half a year ago she stopped coming altogether, and i happened to see her being fed by a couple in the neighbourhood. I was happy she had a second "home". The only thing was that the couple already kept a cat, and so couldn't take her in. She slept outside, next to a factory. Three weeks ago the husband called me over, i went, and apparently Kani had tried to find a warm place to sleep, under a forklift, had crawled into the engine, and the operator had started it up, not knowing she was in there. Last thing he saw was her yelping, and running away with a trail of blood. She was gone for 10 days, and suddenly another call from the husband she'd returned!! I went over and when i saw her i almost got sick to my stomach, half her face was hanging on the side, the moving parts of the engine had caught her in the face. She was skinny, tired, and crying in pain. It looked like her right eye was also gone. I managed to get close enough to grab her, the husband got a cage and we took her to a nearby vet. He performed an operation, scraping out the infected parts, and sewing her back up as best as could be done. He worked through the night, he said.
The following pics are before and after the operation. Her right eye was intact, and she may be all right there!

Before the operation..

This is a pic of the screen on the wall of the vet's examination room, showing a chronological series of photos of Kani's condition. Unbelievable that she was in this condition somewhere alone for 10 days without food and water in the cold nights, probably in pain and shock, managed to survive, out of desperation go back to the place of horror, and get help. Thank god!

After the operation...

Today i saw her for the first time after the operation, at the vet's place, where she goes for aftercare every day. She gained 1 kilo in the last week, and was rolling around on the examination table, purring with her belly up("-")! I was really, really happy to see she wasn't in any pain!! She's eating and drinking by herself now. The couple that's taking care of her made a room for her in their house. I hope they'll get so attached to her that looking for a foster parent won't be necessary. Some stray cats were never meant to be stray cats, they just can't handle it..

Cone prone ("-")!

Coney likes it hot, but today he was SOO comfy in front of the heater that he lay down, which is really rare..