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She's also talking about where she got each one or how she found each one, too.

So it's quite obvious that each one of these dogs that she took in and would have dozens at a time meant something very important to her, each one.

No, that's the other reason why people remember her.

In addition to being mentioned in Sir Arthur Bryant's personal history of 20th century England called The Lion and the Unicorn, he gave her that nickname in the book.

One of the reasons she became kind of a legend, in addition to being the first, like, basically solo animal rescue person, was that she had quite a personality in and of itself.

Like she was known to be rather vocal and defensive.

And anytime somebody threatened her dogs with putting them on a leash or taking them away from her or something, she'd let them know in no uncertain terms that they were not going to do that.

Yeah, apparently she would regularly write to them.

And I don't know that they ever wrote back, but there was an incident where a teacher said publicly that they saw Kate beating one of her dogs with a stick.

And she got so incensed about this and was so concerned, I guess, about what people thought of how she was taking care of her dogs.

She wrote to King George VI, Queen Elizabeth's father, and said, like, that did not happen.

Unequivocally, that didn't happen, nor would it ever happen.

So she would appeal to them, too, if the city council wasn't behaving.

And I don't know what effect it has, but it's definitely worth mentioning.

I'm just cleaning up their poop.

She, yeah, you mentioned that.

And I think it's worth pointing out again, she was not wealthy.

She was living off a pension from the government, from what I can tell.

Like you said, she'd been a housemaid here or there.

And I don't know that she was occupied much after that, once she bought her house for 600 pounds, by the way.