Forums > Living in Kunming > Cat in heat, but no help

Hi,

I have three cats at home, all female. One is in heat right now for the first time and (to all my apologies) since about 2 Months now. I went to three different vets and the answers I got to my/ her problem are outragous.

First, denyal: There is no problem with cats in heat. Somehow right, but... due to the constant ability of mating the uterus undergoes changes, that might (if not will) lead to cancer. 2 out of three doctors deny this fact.

Second, avoiding: If my cat has a problem I should simply return her and get a new one (Really. I got this answer at the Kunming Animal Hospital, KAH).

Third, A solution: Mate the cat. But for me there are enough kittens here in China, they do not need more.

Fourth, an Apologie: My favoured vet told me that he knows waht to do, but his instruments are not good enough to monitor an anesthesia of my cat because she's to young.

Really, I feel horrible right now. I love all of my animals and never tought that I actually do cruelty to them.

I asked the vets for hormones, but these are not available here in China because they aren't licensed. I asked if they can spay my cat between the cycles, but no one want's to. And, if I mate her I don't know what to do with the kittens because I can't let free onto the street.

So what's left. I searched the internet for days. Came up with two solutions I really don't like. One includes a Q-Tip and should not be further discussed here, the other one is giving your cat human birth control pill. But both solutions include a not too small risk for the cat.

That's why, before I see myself taking any of these measures, I'd like to ask if anybody encountered the same problem with her or his cat.

Thank's for your answers, I am open to any suggestions.

Forums > Living in Kunming > Blackberry in Kunming?

Hi cricketbird,

I had almost the same problem. You should go to a ChinaMobile or ChinaUnicom store and tell them your problem. They will access your current contract via the internet, make some changes and in about 24 hours everything should work.

Maybe you will have to try some stores because the blackberry is not that common here in china, but I have seen them around.

For the Blackberry's settings, I don't know for sure. But the default server for ChinaMobiles internet is called "cm-net" (enter without the "" and leave the password-field blank), though I don't know where to enter it.

Good Luck

Forums > Living in Kunming > Officially approved veterinary

Hi Elise,

I must say: WOW. I really like it that you care so much for your pet.
I'll aks my vet next time I see him (got 2 dogs and 2(3) cats myself right now). Will keep my ears open.

Thumbs up!!!

Forums > Living in Kunming > Kunming Internet Service Provision

I have the same problems these days as everybody elese has them. I live in northern Kunming and am connected via 4mbit ADSL (4096ks down and 512ks up) and from day to day the speed of my connection changes. From almos no connection at all, to damn sluggish, to pretty fast.
I tried to delete all "domestic" failure sources; put other routers, put other modems (yeah, i'm a geek but not a pro) but nothing improved helped.
Like 6 month ago one could say: I have fast internet to 10am (that's when the offices start "working") then it will slow down and get fast again round 10 in the evening.
So the problem lies directly at the border of China-mainland and is called "Project Golden Shield" (scary hugh?). It's also known of course as the great firewall. So when you understand how it works it's pretty easy to understand why speeds can differ that much here in Kunming.
If you type in an URL and hit enter, a request is send to the dns server (normally) and after that you computer actuall starts downloading the page you requested.
Here in China these request is captured by the golden shield, which will first of all copy it. Then it's transferred to a pretty strong server, while setting you original request on hold. The server will start downloading the page you requested and scan it for unapropiate content. If it's clean your original request get's it's permission to travel through the shield. If not, you request is simply denied and you get the nice "this website is not avaiable"or "the request timed out".
The big problem for this is chinas limited connectivity to the "rest of the world" there are only 3 or 4 outgoing connections, this is what creates a pretty nice bottleneck.
Actually the response time of you connection sometimes goes up by almost 1000% (means the ping time rises from around 80 to 800ms). But also the data transfer rate is bottlenecked.

What can you do about it? For me, a vpn (virtual private network) is the tool of choice. VPN creates a so called tunnel between two computers anywhere on the earth. It's like pulling a really long LAN cable round the globe, without any steps in between (ahh, except of golden shield).
A VPN connection is secured, means that even golden shield can not examine it's contents. But: It slows down VPN connections in the same way it slows down any other connection, by simple giving it some extra rounds in a big server.
You may ask why, and my answer is: I do not know. Maybe they want to artifically slow everthing down to prevent every chinese to use vpn's.
And before you ask..., VPN is a pretty safe investment for the future because golden shield can not stop all VPN-connections because literally every western company in china is hooked up via VPN to it's home computer anywhere in the world. Second of all, all bank transfers are made via VPN and it's very hard to cancel them all.

So how do can one obtain a vpn connection. There are millions of services out there. First of all one should be aware, that in a VPN, your computer get's the IP adress of the computer at the other end of the connection. So if you VPN is based in america, you will get an american IP (enabling all the nice little content on hulu, youtube, etc...).
Just google for VPN.

My tip: Try "Anchor soft"s "Hotspot shield". It's designed to secure your connection from Wirelss hotspots but works via a VPN. And it's free (of course you will be served a little bit of advertisement).
So if you realized that you're in China and can't really influence the speed of your connection to "the rest of the world", but realized you can work on the reliability and wan't to tryout a VPN service, this could be a start.

So, as I said I'm not a professional. If I'm wrong please correct me, I gathered this information all around the net.

And please, do not use VPN's to reach blocked sites in china, since this is illegal. Thanks.