Welly
Story and Painting by Lehan Winifred Ramsay
On the way to the station I passed a house with a small box lined with newspaper outside. A kitten box devoid of it’s occupant. I found the kitten under a grate but I couldn’t catch it and I stopped and considered cancelling my work for the evening. But I am poor, I went on. On the way home I stopped at the convenience store for some chicken nuggets. The kitten was no longer under the grate but wailing in a carpark against a wall, and he was easy to catch. Too easy, sadly, and although I tried to help him he died after two days. I was carrying him to the animal doctor.
On the last day I came home and found his condition had suddenly worsened. It was four hours before the animal doctor opened. I painted his picture on a board and frame I found in the garbage.
His name was Welly.
Window Dresser's Arms, Pig & Whistle 
I am very much a cat person and feel so sad at this little story-cats have such a hard time in today’s society. Painted from the heart too. Thank you Lehan.
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I’m not really a cat person, but this was a touching story Lehan. Thank you for sharing it. Puss does indeed look sad.
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Dear Welly, a matted coat and sad eyes, what a very evocative image Lehan of sadness and a cat out of cat’s luck.
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He WAS out of luck, he just didn’t have enough power to get through it. I thought he would make it when I first brought him home. But then I read up on how old he was likely to be and it seemed that he was older than he looked. It’s a bad sign for kittens, it means they’re malnourished. Little X was different to that, he was bigger than he was because the crows had pecked a hole in his lungs and air bubbles had formed under his fur. X was older though than Welly and had survived for longer, so he managed.
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“And all the voices, all the goals, all the yearnings, all the sorrows, all the pleasures, all the good and evil, all of them together was the world. All of them together was the stream of events, the music of life.”
― Hermann Hesse, Siddhartha
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Yay.
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Sad & Beautiful
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I just wish to acknowledge that I have read this and looked at the very sad painting of a sad cat.
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Sad story, sad cat.
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