COMMENT | The cat got your tongue?

COMMENT | I recently moved back to my hometown in Bukit Mertajam, Penang. It is definitely very much peaceful here, in the kampung, compared to the city. The only two things I can’t stand about living in a kampung neighbourhood are stray cats and cat lovers.

My next-door neighbour is a cat lover. Every single day there will be several plastic containers filled with leftovers, scattered around the house. Stray cats from all over the kampung would pay her a visit a couple of times a day to fill their tummy. 

After eating, these cats would normally squeeze themselves into my house, poop in my car porch, play scratch on my dad’s polished car and take a nap on our swing. Once in a while, tired of my neighbours’ leftovers, the strays would sneak into our kitchen, wait for my mum to leave and then steal raw fish left in the sink.

Even worse, a couple of times we’ve caught stray cats walking inside our living room, sitting on our sofa, brushing themselves on our television set and ‘visiting’ my sleeping dad in his bedroom. 

My parents and I have done everything we could to keep the cats away, including fixing nettings on the fences and gates, but these were of no use...