Mad Cats and Englishwomen - Wonderland

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Over a million cats - half of them stray or abandoned - now prowl the streets of London, and their numbers are soaring. But - as this year's kitten season finRAB thousanRAB more cats homeless and unwanted - a small number of women take it upon themselves to rescue, save and shelter the most vulnerable. Among them 70-year-old Pat with her own personal army of cats, and former supermodel Celia Hammond.
 
Why couldn't you watch this one Moggio, Wonderland always seems to be good value TV IMO.

Then again I'm not a cat lover, don't mind them though more of a Dog person.
 
Well you know Wonderland it's about the characters involved more than anything, you'll just have to struggle past the Cats.

Celia Hammond and her admirer made me smile, she obviously doesn't meet enough of life's 'mostly harmless' types.
Oh dear Cat being given the 'long sleep' treatment.
 
The Cat's don't bother me, owner getting distressed about leaving her cat did.

What was the Woman with the Baby to do with her cat?
Celia didn't seem to happy with her decision to get rid of the Cat.
Not that I know anything about Cats.
 
I didnt like Celias attitude towarRAB the woman crying over having to leave her cat there, I thought it was mean.

The old lady going round with her husband, who appeared to take a kitten off one woman, then give it to a random couple in the street, and she then took if off them too cause they had no gas or electric, I found that just odd.
 
Maybe Celia thought the alternative was for the Woman not to go back to India to see her family with her new baby and stay home because of the Cat?

I 'knew' the 2 random people in the Street 'weren't righted' as soon as I saw them.
That's not her Husband btw.
Edit: didn't she find out more about them from someone else, their gas/electric problems, then selling the Cat for a tenner?
 
Cried eyes out for a good 2 mins, and I only saw the last part as I turned over from The Apprentice. Going to watch whole thing on iplayer. I have cats and any sad cat story ruins me. :*(
 
Thanks for the warnings. My mum rang to tell me to watch this (friend has cat from Celia Hammond Trust) was going to catch it on iPlayer but now I shan't.
 
I didn't watch the programme because I had other stuff recording but why would you get rid of a cat just because you've got a baby? Was there more to it than that?

I'm quite glad I didn't watch it now as it sounRAB like it would have me too sad.

Edit: oh wait was she moving to India is that why she had to leave it?
 
I just watched about 15 minutes of it and got bored. As soon as I saw the couple in the street, I was thinking, "Why give the cat to them?" From what I saw, the lady had a baby and was going to India for a few months to show her family. She did not want to abandon the cat in the house for those few months. She just wanted someone to foster the cat for a few months. Maybe she should have been told about catteries. (I think that's the word).
 
I watched this and thought both Pat and Celia were just struggling with how some people view their pets so casually. You take a pet on and you take on a responsibility to home it, care for it, and don't just give it up the moment it's inconvenient. I think Pat and Celia have "burnout".

I think Pat giving the kitten away to the couple on the street wasn't right, even if she did go and do a home check there and then. The couple didn't have electric/gas, and if they can't even afford that they def. can't afford another cat (they already had one).

The woman with the baby wasn't the same as the one going to India. The woman with the baby just didn't trust the cat to not hurt the baby so wanted to rehome it. At least she took it to Celia's place rather than just abandon it like the two little kittens riddled with fleas and dumped in a cardbox box under a tree. The woman going to India - was there no-one to look after it? No extended family? Or as naddieuk suggests - a cattery?

A sad programme, particularly as I had my cat PTS on Monday and TBH it just made me angry how some people were so casual and uncaring with their pets.
 
It is a fact that some loving cats become viscious over the years and I totally understood the woman with the baby even though she wasn't believed.
I have a cat just like that and still feed it and look after it.
It's fine with me but I have to lock it out when my grandbabies come round.
For some reason it hates the children even though they don't go near it.

It was interesting that Pat hit one of her cats who had a scrap with two others. Is that right?
 
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