A FELINE fanatic has spent the last 60 years amassing a £50,000 collection of more than 2,000 ceramic cats.
Pamela Cole, aged 60, and from Hollywood, Birmingham has been collecting the cats since the 1950s after her mother gave her a replica of a beloved kitten.
The collection contains ornaments worth anything from 10p to more than £1,000 and she even has one dating back to 600BC.
Pamela said: “My mother bought one as a present for me when I was a child as it looked like my kitten.
“That started me off. I’m a collector by nature so I just carried on collecting them.”
Pamela, who buys and sells the cats for a living, now has 2,222 cats of varying shapes and sizes, with the litter growing every day. Sadly, her real cat died last year.
She said: “I have them from all over the world and I’ve bought them in china shops, toy shops, antiques shops, at craft fairs, antiques fairs and on eBay.
“I try to get them as different as possible, and I have them from every continent.”
