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My name is Dawn Travis
and I run the Streatham Hill Cat Rescue Group
and I have done for the last 41 years
it started off with my children bringing home
two sick cats in
and we was at a bedsit at the time, and by the time we was wished we 35 cats,
two children and two neighbors six children
I got about
six regular helpers, they have been with between fifteen and
twenty years
we still all friends, thank goodness.
They come in every morning to give me a hand
and through illness, I need them even more, and they been absolutely supportive to me.
We got a colony out the back
they adorable, they as wild as a hatter...
I never turn an animal away
because if they can't come here where can they go? We have a stall outside the house on a Saturday
it's just started it's quite new, we've only done it in the last two weeks
it's going to take a while to get on it's feet but hopefully people will come and support the group.
We get some nice stuff, but we always looking for stuff that anybody has got. In March..
I had two massive heart attacks
and the hospital said I would never survive, I did..
I survived for the cats!
because they dated back my life, what I've done for them over the years they gave me back.
I also won
the civic award for Lambeth and it's the first time an animal charity ever won it
The South London Press are absolutely brilliant, they love the group, so they...
support the group and do loads of stories me, because without them
no body would know who I am