It is with deep sadness we have to announce the loss of Sparkle. She was put to sleep on the evening of Sunday 14th August due to renal failure. There was no more we could do for her.

When Sparkle first came into our care, she was very ill having been infected with a salmonella type bug. She spent six weeks in the vets and it was touch and go whether she'd even survive.

Happily she pulled through and gave Fizz eight months of pleasure and friendship.

Everybody who met Sparkle loved her, she was a happy little cat who would start purring as soon as she saw you. She had funny little bowed legs at the front and sprung up on to the sofa like a jack in the box rather than leaping like your average cat.

Each morning she would shout at the top of her voice when Fizz got up in the morning to be let out of her pen and when everyone got their shoes on she went back in until everyone got home from work.

She is deeply missed and leaves an empty space in everyone who had the fortune of meeting her.

We will add more to Sparkles story shortly.