Introduction - Part III - Princess

Name: Princess / Purin Purin

Also Known As: Xiao Pang

Date of Birth: 1st July 2003

Found Location: Same indescript neighbourhood park in Seletar.

Status When Found: 1 ~ 3 days old, eyes shut. Lying beside Becks under the hot sun.

Loves: Being brushed.

Being carried.

Looking for small spaces to nap in.

Hates: When no one wants to play.

Princey got very ill when he was little. It started with infection of the naval which spreaded to his limbs and subsequently respiratory pneumonia. He was so sick then I had to separate him from the rest and made him his own "princess bed" (hence his name). The naughty peanut would fall asleep in my palms and wake up crying the moment I put him down in his bed. He just refused to be left on his own.

To top it off, being the naughty baby that he was, he refused to drink his milk nor take his medicine. Under the advice of a kind vet, I thinned out his medicine with milk and gave him a few drops a time constantly throughout the day.

He is now a plump little boy who plays too rough for his siblings' liking, probably because he was separated from the rest for quite some time and has not learnt to play appropriately. The infection he suffered from, however, had fused his carpus. (See: "Then" picture; Note his deformed front limbs.) That limited his flexibility of his limbs so while the others are scaling window grilles like King Kongs, Princey can only sit and watch forlornly.

See also his smallish right ear? Poor baby got nipped by a doggie on the day I found him. Though it drew no blood, his right ear has not developed properly since.