Chapter 1: Who was Camberley Kate and why is she significant?
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Hey, and welcome to The Short Stuff. I'm Josh, and there's Chuck, and it's us. But we're joined by a third person today in spirit. Her name is Camberley Kate, and she seems like a pretty boss person.
Yeah, she sure was. If you found yourself in Camberley, England, which is about 35 miles southwest of London. In Surrey. That's right. If you found yourself there in, let's say, the mid-1970s, you might have seen causing a traffic jam in town, a beret-wearing, gray-haired senior citizen with a Handmade push cart with ward stray dogs painted on the side of it.
And then some dogs in that cart riding along and maybe another, I don't know, 15 or 20 dogs, some on leashes, some not on leashes, but very good boys and girls walking along with this, you know, for lack of a better word, crazy dog lady in the best way.
Yeah, crazy dog lady. Her name was Kate Ward. And the reason she was a crazy dog lady, in addition to walking all these dogs around, is that all of these dogs were hers. She wasn't like helping out a friend by taking these dogs on a walk. She had taken in all these dogs because they were all strays. They were about to be put down. They had been abandoned. And she took them in as her own.
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Chapter 2: What inspired Camberley Kate to start rescuing animals?
We'll call him Primo. And she and Primo were like inseparable for over eight years. Like they were just the best of friends. And then sadly, as things happened, Primo died. She gave him an extra eight plus years of great life. He had a new best friend. So his passing was sad in and of itself, but it wasn't as sad as if he'd been put down for being lame eight years earlier. Yeah.
Yeah, for sure. And she said and, you know, a lot of this comes from this great BBC interview from the mid 70s. You can watch on YouTube if you want to hear Kate in her cantankerous ways kind of spill the story out. But she said that at the time, everyone kind of thought like, well, that's it. You know, no one's going to like this woman isn't going to get another dog.
And she was like, that was just the start. And at this point. It was 500 dogs by the time of this interview. And then I think four years later, that had grown to 600 by the end.
It's nuts, man. It's so great, too. I say we take a little break and come back and talk a little more about Kimberly Kate and her saga. Let's do it.
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Chapter 3: How did Camberley Kate manage to care for so many animals?
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.
Yeah, apparently she even sent Queen Elizabeth when she got married. Well, before she's queen, I guess, in November 1947. And it says that one of the dogs sent a wedding gift, a dog leash, to those corgis that Queen Elizabeth loved. So that's pretty cute. You know, she lived on a pension. Not a lot is known about her early life.
I think I found that she was, sadly, both of her parents had died when she She was a young age and was raised by her aunt and kind of worked as a ā when she became a teenager, worked as a housemaid at various places and institutions. And apparently it was pretty religious because she did say that, you know, capital H, him, these animals belong to him.
And that I'm just sort of caring for them, you know, the best I can.
I'm just cleaning up their poop.
Exactly. Exactly.
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. But there is a this is from a House of Works article.
And there is a person named Heather Driscoll Woodford who curates a Facebook page to Kimberly Kate and has a lot of information about her. But basically points out that Kate was like the forerunner to the people who are rescuing dogs today. And like you said before, like this just did not happen. Um, people just abandoned dogs.
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