‘Bella loves her adventures’

20-year-old Animal Rescue centre manager Sophie Page from Newark never walks alone... “Bella is two, and an indoor cat mainly, as I live on a main road. But I wanted her to experience the outdoors, so I taught her to walk on a lead from when she was 12 weeks old. It took a few attempts but she finally got the hang of it when she was about 5 months old.

“Things progressed little by little – first it was a field down the road from my house, then Rufford Park, then Skegness and finally the Peak District. We walk our local village, over fields, around Ollerton, Rufford Park, Skegness, Castleton up the hills... When she’s tired she’ll lay down a lot and that’s when she goes into her travel carrier. She gets in it on her own when she’s had enough she cries to walk again. She is perfectly fine with all dogs but I always pick her up in case they don’t feel the same.

“As the manager of an Animal Rescue Kennel I see so many cats but not a single one comes close to Bella! She is the most confident, outgoing cat I have ever met in my life! She has so much love to give and is super cuddly and is very adventurous!”