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Camden New Journal - by CHARLOTTE CHAMBERS
Published: 13 September 2007

Lily as a kitten. The RSPCA urge people to contact them if they spot a stray animal

Saved by a whisker

IT’S a classic ‘tail’ of rags to riches.
When Lily’s mother was run over in a Camden Town street the tiny grey kitten was forced to fend for herself – and at just four weeks old she was living paw to mouth.
When neighbours found Lily living in a shoe discarded in a bin in Agar Grove, surviving on rubbish, they called the RSPCA.
Whisked to the shelter of the Beaumont Animals’ Hospital in Royal College Street, she was then reared by a foster parent before a West Hampstead family took her in.
Named Fag Ash Lil by her fosterer Andrea Tong because she “looked like something that had fallen out of an ashtray”, the moniker stuck. She was also branded “little Gollum”, referring to the googly-eyed scrawny character in Lord Of The Rings, because of her big eyes and skinny body.

RSPCA welfare officer Christine Kerridge urged people to contact the RSPCA
020 8954 2265 if they spot a stray animal.

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