[Animals] Cats make Cambridge garden centre their second home

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Fatty the cat found her special place at the garden centre when she was just a kitten

By Helen Burchell

BBC News, Cambridgeshire

A garden centre and its comfortable patio furniture have become a second home for two cats.

 

Fatty has been visiting Scotsdales in Horningsea, near Cambridge, for about 15 years and was recently joined by her "brother" George, a handsome tabby.

 

While both share the same loving owners in the village, they are now "like staff members" at the garden centre.

 

However, staff have a nightly ritual of finding and putting them out at closing time, as they set off the store alarms.

 

Fatty - a fluffy black and white moggy - has been visiting the garden centre since she was a kitten, and is a favourite with both staff and regular customers.George, an equally fluffy tabby, is a relative newcomer, and at about two years of age has only one year's experience of perusing the store.Fatty loves to sit among the flowers

Broadcaster and cat expert Roger Tabor told the BBC that cats who sought out other people and enjoyed attention from regular contact with strangers were "in the great minority".

 

Fatty and George subscribe to this theory, apparently unfazed by hundreds of customers filing past them, many with dogs - and seem intent on amusing themselves, staff and customers for many years to come.

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-cambridgeshire-67686351