A starving cat that was forced to live among rubbish and several weeks’ worth of piled-up faeces has been rescued by the RSPCA. Five-year-old Lola was found in a house in Durham along with two other cats and an elderly blind dog after the animals had been repeatedly left to fend for themselves with no food or water.
The cat, named Lola, was so hungry it resorted to eating dried pasta to stay alive as well as drinking water from the kitchen sink. The "very sweet girl" is being cared for at the RSPCA’s Great Ayton Animal Centre but is still looking for a new home more than 320 days after being rescued.
A vet who examined all the animals after their rescue by the RSPCA in January last year said she had never seen creatures so "ravenously hungry" before. Living among rubbish and several weeks’ worth of piled-up faeces, the three cats were underweight and anaemic because of severe flea infestations.
