Hayley Miranda, a 28-year-old contemporary dance producer, had never considered herself a cat person. “In fact,” she says, “I’ve always hated cats. But then I went to Greece last summer with my boyfriend and while there we found this four-week-old kitten, stray and alone. It ended up staying with us in our Airbnb for a few days until we found a shelter.”
They returned to the UK, but Miranda had fallen in love with the kitten and wanted to adopt it. “A week before the kitten was due to come here, the woman at the shelter told us it was going to cost £1,000 to bring it here,” Miranda says. “We had to decide against it, which was really depressing, because we had fallen in love with this kitten.”
