RM5,000 reward: Owner looking for missing hero cat

Kota Kinabalu: Would you offer a RM5,000 reward for your pet during a troubled economy?

Cat owner, Ong Chew Kien, 58, did but so far no one could find his missing cat.

Ong said his local breed cat, affectionately named “Miaw Miaw”, had been missing since Sept 4. He said his cat was last seen at the front gate of Matahari Apartment, Kolombong at 8.45am.

“After the cat went missing I put up the missing notice and initially offered a reward of RM1,000. Two days later I decided to increase it to RM5,000,” he told Daily Express when contacted, recently.

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He said he is offering the large sum of money as he and his wife hold a special connection with the pet cat, akin to their own child.

Ong, who is also the owner of Sinaran Ais Kiub Sdn Bhd, recounted an intriguing experience where his cat had saved his wife’s life from a Transient Ischemic Attack (TIA) or a ministroke that she experienced in her sleep.

Miaw Miaw

“The cat has a daily routine of waking me up at 2am to ask for food, but unusually one night it tried to wake us up earlier around 1am.

“It desperately tried to wake my wife up, and when she woke up she realised she had lost sensation in her left hand and leg. I knew right there and then she was having a TIA attack. “I tried to massage my wife to relieve her condition. The cat was there with us and was acting very worried about my wife,” he said.

Ong said it was a life-saving gesture by the cat, as he believed his wife could have succumbed to death if the cat had not woken her up in time.

“We’ve had the cat for about four to five years. It was an abandoned cat and it came to our house asking for food. We decided to take him to the vet and make him our own.

“It is quite an old cat and it only has four teeth left. It loves going to the playground and garden at the back of our house. It likes to observe the plants there and take a nap, the neighbours have nicknamed him ‘Pak Cik’,” he said.

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Ong believes that someone might have kidnapped his cat while it went out for a walk to the playground.

If anyone has found Ong’s cat, the public may contact him at 016-8332888.

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