29/08/2025
24th august 2022 I went and picked up 2 gorgeous wee kittens from Johnstone. A girl had messaged me and said her aunts friend was giving them away for free. My mum said she would foster for me as we didn’t want them to get into the wrong hands.
As soon as I seen them I knew there was no way these babies were 8 weeks old, they were tiny with bright blue eyes. I took them to the vet the next day where they estimated they were around 5 weeks old and they were covered in fleas.
I messaged the girl from Johnstone and said can she please let the owner know as the mum cat would have fleas also and I knew there was another 2 in the litter that had already been given away. You can see from the screen shot what the woman’s reply was🤬. The girl from Johnstone also told me that they had got cats from this woman, from the same mum cat, and that they were now 3 and 4 years old. And that they had been given to them as kittens with fleas also 🤯.
We named the kittens sooty and cheeky, identical brothers, thank god sooty had wee fangs or there was no chance of telling them apart!
I think by day 2 we had decided they were here to stay. Sooty lived a happy wee life with my mum, step dad, his 3 brothers and his sister shadow who just totally adored him and would follow him everywhere. He was such a good natured wee soul who would sleep with my step dad every night and just loved coming and going out his cat flap, hanging out in the green house with shadow or cutting across the gardens and visiting me at my house.
Unfortunately sooty was knocked down in Renfrew tonight, the vets think it was instant and he didn’t suffer.💔🌈
So that was sootys wee life. There’s so much more I want to say… so many kittens that aren’t so lucky, facing the same struggles, so many cats suffering. It’s time we speak up—encourage neutering, offer help where we can, and simply do better by them!
RIP Soot Soot 😻
