These two cats strutting out are reminescent of Disney's 1955 animated film, Lady And The Tramp, with the vampish song, The Siamese Cat Song. We are Siamese, if you please We are Siamese, if you don't please Now we looking over our new domicile If we like we stay maybe quite a while Cats are considered sacred pets which are blessed (barakah) and welcomed in homes and mosques. Dzulkifli Buyong is known for his menagerie of cats in his oil on board paintings. His is the most expensive cat, which fetched RM 134,400 for his Kucing Sakit (1986) at the Henry Butcher Oct 28, 2018 art auction. His other cat paintings easily sold for five-digits in auctions. A live Persian cat costs from RM 2,500 while a rare Ashera could fetch nearly half a million. Dzulkifli's cats are depicted with naivette humour, therein lies his forte. Dzulkifli Buyong was a self-taught child art prodigy who gained prominence when he was in the Wednesday Art Group 1962-1966. He was mentored by Patrick Ng at Victoria Institution (1961-1965). He won a slew of awards in the 1960s which included gold medals from the then Raja Permaisuri Agong, Tengku Budriah Tengku Ismail, and then prime minister Tunku Abdul Rahman. He swept the first three prizes (pastels) in the Young Friends' Art Competition 1962, and won the 1st and 2nd prizes in the same competition the next year. He also won 2nd Prize (pastel) in the Joy Of Living competition in 1964. He had a three-year study stint in Japan in the late 1960s.