Glasgow teen saves four feral kittens while on Greece holiday

Morgan Mclaughlan is making plans to fly the cats to Scotland after finding them near the pool of her hotel in Pefkohori.

It comes after Glasgow Times readers rallied round the 17-year-old to raise more than £1650 to cover their travel and vet bills.

We reported how Morgan, from Glasgow, couldn’t bear to return them to the streets and had been nursing them back to health during her summer break.

She has now been able to hand them over to a foster home and plans to fly out to Thessaloniki in October to collect the kittens.

Morgan is thrilled to have saved the cats

Morgan will then catch a flight to Brussels where she will meet her father and drive around 638 miles back to Scotland with her four new pets.

In the meantime, the kittens will have their vaccinations, anti-flea medication and worm treatment.

Sadly the youngest kitten, Sparrow, has also had surgery to remove her eye after it became seriously infected.

The kittens are coming to Scotland

The kittens have been saved

Morgan told the Glasgow Times: “I’m so happy that they are going to be able to get back to me and that I can give them the home they deserve.

“It was heart-breaking having to give them over to the vet and foster family as it's such a long wait to see them again, but I know it’s all worth it.

“I’m honestly so overwhelmed with all the donations I've been receiving.

“It means so much and I can't even express how grateful I am that everyone has given me the chance to save these precious angels.

“I should hopefully be able to fly over to the kittens around mid-October.”

Sparrow lost an eye

You can enter or return to Great Britain with a cat if it has been microchipped, has a pet passport or health certificate, and has been vaccinated against rabies.

Greece and the Greek islands are inundated with stray, abandoned and feral cats.

Most of them are born in the spring and survive through the kindness of tourists who feed them but after summer many starve, according to animal charities.

The Greek Cat Welfare Society said: ”At the end of the summer season the tourists leave, and some cats survive through the kindness of local Greeks.

“However, many die of starvation or fall foul of cat-hating people who poison them or worse.

“Attitudes to animal welfare can be very different in Greece from those in the UK; cats are often viewed as a nuisance and subjected to considerable cruelty, mass poisonings being particularly common before and after the tourist season to ‘clean up’.”

You can donate to helping Morgan pay to bring the kittens home by clicking here.