Mini caravan is home for stray cat

A stray cat has landed on her feet after being given a little caravan. The pampered tortoiseshell – called Cat – has her own fleece-lined bed and dining facilities inside the metre-long purpose-built Orion tourer after winning the heart of a company boss.



Cat wandered into the compound of Cosford Caravans, in Newport Road, near Albrighton, Shropshire, more than five years and quickly made herself at home. Mervyn Hughes, owner of Cosford Caravans, said: “We think she must have got left behind when personnel from the RAF base moved on. She couldn’t meow but she would scratch if you got too close to start with.

“We started feeding her a bit of dry food, then giving her a treat of a pouch of food every Wednesday, and now she’s a fixture here. A few weeks ago I was having a meeting with the managing director of Bailey Caravans, Nick Howard. The cat was mooching around and he asked about her.



“I told him she was put outside at night and she just slept somewhere round the back of the site. I didn’t think anything more of it, but then much to our amazement a miniature Bailey Orion caravan arrived at our site, purpose-built by the Bailey engineers in Bristol, especially for our cat,” Mr Hughes said. “In my 28 years here at Cosford, I have never seen anything quite like it.”