A woman who has filled her home with celebrity-named cats has praised her ‘extraordinary’ pet Ricky Gervais after he repeatedly saved her mother’s life.
Mary Nesbitt-Larking, 30, from Hertford, Hertfordshire, lives with her mum Carrie Nesbitt-Larking, 56, and their six cats – Ricky Gervais, 11, Nana Osaki, 10, Kristen Stewart, 10, Julia Roberts, nine, Linda Hamilton, two and Bree Van de Kamp, two.
Mary’s mum Carrie suffers from multiple health conditions, including COPD, osteoarthritis, sleep apnoea and chronic fatigue syndrome. She lived in fear that she would stop breathing in her sleep.
However, when a little stray feline called Ricky appeared at their door in 2012, everything changed.
Ricky was taken in by the mother and daughter after ‘wandering’ in via their cat-flap. Carries says the cat started to wake her when she stopped breathing as soon as he arrived by meowing to alert them to the danger.