A kind-hearted mum who set out to rescue a "couple of cats" during lockdown has now converted her home into a rescue centre after she was inundated with moggies in need of a home. Tina Lewis, 54, runs Filey Cat Rescue in North Yorkshire with her 68-year-old husband Mark and 23-year-old daughter Kate.
They started off with a small group of feral farm cats who were suffering with respiratory problems. Once word spread locally that the family were taking in strays, more arrived and they now look after 126 cats, with 28 living in the house as they have medical conditions, and the rest in insulated pens in the garden. "We didn’t think we would end up with so many,” says Tina. "We always thought we would start with a couple, and when we became a charity, I thought we might have eight or nine at a time but it went absolutely mad and the phone never stopped ringing.”
