Possible Clues:

• Shades of how hard it is outside for pussy
• Mottled cat's a nightmare for slow animal?
• Hoteliers lost straying cat
• Which unlikely race winner filled the kitty
• Cat left after session in toilet or potty
• Hoteliers lost stray cat perhaps
• Housing for a certain reptile (2 words)
• Protector of a slow creature (2 words)
• Reptilian carapace
• Cat from wrong part of France initially suffering torment