i�*m meeting sam beaker, a volunteer at athens—based cat charity nine lives.und the centre of athens. wow. i mean, that�*s a big job. there are many, many cats in athens. yes. we feed around over 500 cats around the centre. the team at nine lives definitely have their work cut out. so i�*ve decided to help sam beaker with the dinner—time shift and get some grub out to these furry athenians. they are always together. these two? yes. best friends. how did the pandemic affect the work that you were doing, and also the welfare of the cats? well, suddenly, because the town was empty, you could see... ..so many, many cats, revealed a lot of cats we didn�*t know that there were around and we had to feed more because probably some of them were eating around tavernas who were not any more open. hello, diego. this is diego. you recognised because of the eye? yeah, he lost his eye... ..er, recently. hello, baby. baby, come here. this isn�*tjust about keeping these cats�* bellies full. feeding them breeds trust and allows nine lives volunteers to carry out important healt

i'm meeting sam beaker, a volunteer at athens—based cat charity nine lives.500 cats around the centre. the team at nine lives definitely have their work cut out. so i've decided to help sam beaker with the dinner—time shift and get some grub out to these furry athenians. they are always together. these two? yes. best friends. how did the pandemic affect the work that you were doing, and also the welfare of the cats? well, sadly, because the town well, suddenly, because the town was empty, you could see... ..so many, many cats, revealed a lot of cats we didn't know that there were around and we had to feed more because probably some of them were eating around tavernas who were not any more open. hello, diego. this is diego. you recognised because of the eye? yeah, he lost his eye... ..er, recently. hello, baby. baby, come here. this isn'tjust about keeping these cats' bellies full. feeding them breeds trust and allows nine lives volunteers to carry out important health checks. it's not so, so much food for them. town is not the physical environment for the ani