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Stuff You Should Know

Short Stuff: Camberley Kate

Stuff You Should Know

iHeartPodcasts

Society & Culture

4.582.7K Ratings

🗓️ 3 December 2025

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Camberley Kate was the nickname for the first independent animal rescuer in England, rescuing hundreds of dogs and cats over her lifetime. Come get acquainted with a great lady! 

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0:00.0

This is an I-Heart podcast.

0:02.5

Guaranteed Human.

0:08.1

Hey, and welcome to the short stuff.

0:10.0

I'm Josh, and there's Chuck, and it's us.

0:12.2

But we're joined by a third person today in spirit.

0:15.8

Her name is Camberley Kate, and she seems like a pretty boss person.

0:22.4

Yeah, she sure was.

0:23.8

If you found yourself in Camberley, England, which is about 35 miles southwest of London.

0:31.5

In Surrey.

0:32.7

That's right.

0:34.0

If you found yourself there in, let's say, the mid-1970s, you might have seen causing a traffic jam in town, a beret wearing gray-haired senior citizen with a handmade push cart with ward stray dogs painted on the side of it. And then some dogs in that cart riding along and maybe another, I don't know,

0:58.2

15 or 20 dogs, some on leashes, some not on leashes, but very good boys and girls,

1:03.4

walking along with this, you know, for lack of a better word, crazy dog lady in the best way.

1:09.1

Yeah, crazy dog lady.

1:10.4

Your name was Kate Ward. And the reason she was a crazy dog lady in the best way. Yeah, crazy dog lady. Your name was Kate Ward. And the reason

1:13.2

she was a crazy dog lady in addition to walking all these dogs around is that all of these dogs

1:19.1

were hers. She wasn't like helping out a friend by taking these dogs on a walk. She had taken in

1:25.3

all these dogs because they were all strays. They were about to be put down. They had been

1:29.2

abandoned. And she took them in as her own. And what's really cool about this, too, is she took really good care of them.

1:38.1

This wasn't like a situation where she was just collecting dogs and, you know, whatever happened to them, happened to him.

1:43.7

Like she took

1:44.3

excellent care of each one of these dogs. And over the course of her lifetime, actually,

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