Abby Connolly
Some dogs would ride in the cart, others stayed on leashes, and a few were well-behaved enough to follow behind Kate off-leash.
Although Kate received much support from her community, some residents complained that the dogs off-leash were dangerous and that she messed up local traffic whenever she paraded the dogs through town.
However, she would protest every accusation against her and defend her pups, even against the local city council.
Over the course of her life, Kate took in around 500-600 dogs. They all lived an average of 16 years and had very happy lives. She named each one of them and could tell each of them apart.
Kate received her nickname, ‘Camberley Kate,’ from historian Sir Arthur Bryant when he wrote about her in his book, “The Lion and the Unicorn.”
Kate took care of dogs until her final days in the late 1970s. She had seven dogs left in her care when she fell ill after a series of strokes and health problems.
They were sent to shelters when she went to live out her final days in a care facility and passed away in August of 1979 at 84. A statue of a sleeping dog guards her gravestone, which reads, “devoted friend of animals” under her name.
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