Anybody looking for a new pet cat? I’ve got 41

AN ANIMAL lover who rescued 41 Spanish street cats is now begging for help to rehome them.

Laura Inglis, 49, spent a four-figure sum to ship the cats from her home on the Costa del Sol back to Scotland.

The self-confessed cat lady has managed to squeeze the animals into the twobedroom home of her 75-yearold mother Norma in Edinburgh.

Ms Inglis had spent eight years living on the Costa del Sol while she worked as a project analyst in Gibraltar.

She began adopting injured or abandoned cats that were wandering the streets near her home in the town of Puerto de la Duquesa.

But when she decided to move back home to spend more time with her mum, she was determined to bring the cats too.

“I could not bear to leave them there, because they had all been through such a traumatic time already and most likely they would not survive”, said Ms Inglis.

“So now I am in Edinburgh with 41 cats, which is not really suitable because I live in the city centre near to busy roads, therefore I am now in the process of finding each and every one of them a safe and loving forever home.”

Ms Inglis has already paid out £8,000 of her own money on transportation, passports, microchipping and rabies jabs just to bring the cats into the UK. Extra blood tests and jabs alone will cost an estimated £80 for every cat, while the monthly cost of cat food for the 41 is £600.

Ms Inglis, a contractor with the Royal Bank of Scotland, is hoping to raise £10,500.

She said:“Everything I have previously done and still do for the cats has been paid out of my own pocket.”