- If I saw anybody ill treating a cat,
I think I'd deck them.
No, I don't think it, I know it.
I know it.
(show participants chattering)
I don't call them cats, they're little people.
They're little people that live with us.
Okay, they're four-legged and they've got fur,
and they meow instead of speak,
(cat meowing)
but they're little people.
- He knows, yeah. - My adoring public.
- [Show participant] You love it, don't you?
- [Show Participant] All fluffy.
(hissing)
Fluffy, put it back.
- Cats relate to your feelings.
If I'm in a very bad mood,
and that happens quite a lot,
I did say we've been married 56 years,
they tend to get out of the way then.
- [Announcer] Mrs Howell picked out number 23,
which is Imperial Grand Champion,
Joepash Senorita Rumbleita.
(applauding)
(clicking with tongue)
I got my first cat two and a half years ago,
following a divorce.
My children had left home,
I wanted things to look after to replace
those that I had looked after.
With cats we fulfill our own inner needs
to provide, and to love,
and to be lavished.
(tin clanking)
(claws clacking)
Well as soon as daylight comes,
and I awake, I'm out here with the cats,
put it's radios on, and their music,
and they just love Beethoven and Mozart,
but music with melody,
because I think that really calms them
(cat screeching)
(cat hissing)
(lorry rumbling)
- Cats should not be allowed in bedrooms,
in my opinion.
It's my opinion, bedrooms are for human people,
not for pussy people.
What's he doing out there?
- I don't know.
- We've been married 56 years come September.
Been in this house 54 years, sadly.
What do the cats bring to the marriage?
Give me something else to think about, I think.
That's more than four life sentences.
(chuckles)
You get less for murder.
Stroking the cat is the best thing
that you could have for therapy,
in the world, I think, having a cat.
- This is one of the things they're bringing into
old people's homes now, aren't they.
These retirement homes-- - Well this is
an old people's home, isn't it?
- Yeah, us two, yes, but we are.
(labored breathing)
Beautiful.
(laughing)
- I'm Beryl Reeves, but I'm well known as Beryl the Peril.
And the Cat Lady, is also another title that I have,
'cause as you can see, I'm surrounded by cats.
(clock ticking)
At first it can be distressing when you think,
"Oh, I wonder how it died, and that."
But no, no I've got passed that now.
I'm bringing comfort.
It's too late, it's dead then when I get it,
but I'm reproducing it, bringing it back to life.
I know people appreciate what I do for them,
because I get these cards.
"She was a really important to me,
"and got me through some tough times,
"so it was a privilege to be able to give her
"such a beautiful memorial."
I bought their cat back for them,
never to be forgotten.
(clock ticking)
Good job I don't do humans.
(rapid whirring)
(clock ticking)
(orchestral music)