Mels Cat Sitting Services

15/10/2025

02/10/2025

This is what happens when you don’t neuter your cat!

26/09/2025

23/09/2025

This poor girl managed to slip her front leg through her collar, which began cutting into her flesh and caused a deep, painful wound.

Wounds in the armpit area are serious and complicated, and she now faces a long road to recovery before she's ready to find a new home.

If your cat wears a collar, avoid buckle-type fastenings and instead choose a quick release collar to avoid these types of injuries.

Join us in sending this little one heartfelt wishes for a smooth recovery ❤️‍🩹

12/09/2025

💙 The most handsome little man!

Joey has travelled all the way from Bahrain to live with his new family and I’ve been lucky enough to look after him the past few days 😻😻

12/09/2025

How cute is my wean. Making her wee biscuits. Could listen to that purring all day long 💕💕😻😻

11/09/2025

Not everyone knows a blocked cat is classed as an emergency🆘

A blocked cat is a male cat that is unable to pass urine, and refers to a blockage in the urinary tract.

Signs include:
• Straining in the litter box or repeatedly attempting to urinate without success
• Excessive licking of the ge****ls or the area around the base of the tail
• Crying or howling due to pain and frustration

Blockages are so serious as they can lead to kidney failure if not resolved quickly. When urine can't pass, toxins build up, which starts to affect the kidneys. It can also be in extremely painful.

Blockages don't always have an exact cause, but some contributing factors can include: Stress, Cystitis and bladder stones.

If you think your little one is blocked it is important to contact your vets immediately, this includes out of hours🆘

04/09/2025

💙❗️URGENT FUNDRAISING APPEAL - WE NEED YOUR HELP❗️💙

We have been inundated with appeals for help for so many cats, all from people who have tried all other charities and been refused.

💙 9 year old Kitty - another cat with aggression issues (she just needs vet and behaviour support❤️)
💙 3 pregnant cats on the streets
💙 30 cats at an unneutered feral colony
💙 25 cats at an unneutered feral colony, including 10 kittens!
💙 4 injured stray tom cats

These are just the urgent ones, there are so many others on our waiting lists.

Simply put, if we don't help these cats, the numbers will more than double within a few months, leading to more death and suffering! 😰

THE LARGER CAT CHARITIES HAVE REFUSED TO HELP WITH THESE SITUATIONS. WE HAVE ALSO REACHED OUT AND HAVE BEEN IGNORED.

PEOPLE IN SCOTLAND HAVE BEEN DONATING TO THESE CHARITIES FOR YEARS, YET THE MONEY IS NOT BEING SPENT TO HELP THE CATS THAT DESPERATELY NEED IT! 😰

We are a volunteer only charity, we have no major overheads or large staff salaries.

We don't have a big marketing budget to do appeals for funds and more importantly, we don't have any restrictions on where our money is spent!

All money donated will go DIRECTLY towards vet bills, food and essential supplies for cats 💙

If you can donate anything at all / adopt / share / fundraise / foster, please get in touch 🙏💙

Securely via Square here:
https://square.link/u/iKv1UDM4

Protect Cats Scotland
Acc no. 15987765
Sc. 83 16 13

https://paypal.me/protectcatsscotland

Thank you for your continued support!💙

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 😻

28/08/2025

We’ve struggled to find the time and words to write this post over the last few weeks, but I feel it’s important to share the crisis rescues are currently facing.

Two weeks ago—right in the middle of peak intake season for wildlife—we finally had to say the words I never want to say: we’re full for cat intake. Truthfully, we’ve been saying this for months, but there always seems to be just one more desperate call, one more cat that needs our help.

Every time the phone rings and someone says, “There’s this cat…” my heart sinks. Our capacity has been stretched to the breaking point, time and time again. How do you say no to a cat that needs a leg removed, or an eye surgery? You can’t just patch them up and release them. And we’re not alone—rescues everywhere are facing the same impossible choices.

Recently, we received a call about abandoned newborn kittens. Tiny, helpless babies riddled with fleas and worms—without their mum, they had no chance. After calling every local rescue we knew who hand-feeds neonates, and finding no space anywhere, we reluctantly said yes.

Whenever we post about bottle-fed kittens, we receive an influx of messages from kind-hearted people offering their lactating queens to help. While we appreciate the thought, here lies the bigger issue:
👉 The entire country is facing a cat overpopulation crisis. Rescues are overflowing with strays, surrenders, and unwanted litters. So why are so many cats still having kittens?

It’s always called an “accidental litter,” but let’s be honest—it’s not an accident. Queens and toms should be neutered by six months. Charities are offering free or heavily discounted neutering. Even without support, the cost of neutering is far less than raising a litter—food, flea treatments, vet care, vaccinations… it all adds up.

And every single kitten born takes away a potential home for a cat already waiting in rescue. Posting “free to good home” is not the answer—it’s part of the problem. A “free cat” is no guarantee of safety, responsibility, or care. Tragically, there are people out there who seek out free pets for the worst possible reasons.

Yes, these babies are adorable, and yes, they will find loving homes—neutered, microchipped, and safe. But this cycle must stop. ✋

If you love cats, please, please neuter yours. It’s the single most powerful way to help.