i'm meeting tsampika, a volunteer at athens—based cat charity nine lives.n acropolis and in many other places around the centre of athens. wow. i mean, that's a big job. are there 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 tsampika with the dinner—time shift and get some grub out to these furry athenians. they are always together. these two, yeah? yes. best friends. how did the pandemic affect the work that you were doing and also the welfare of the cats? well, er, suddenly, because the town was, er, empty, you could see so many, many cats revealed, a lot of cats. we didn't knew that they 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 recognise him 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 liv

i'm meeting tsampika, a volunteer at athens—based cat charity nine lives.s. 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 tsampika with the dinner—time shift and get some grub out to these furry athenians. they are always together. these two, yeah? yes. best friends. how did the pandemic affect the work that you were doing and also the welfare of the cats? well, er, suddenly, because the town was, er, empty, you could see so many, many cats revealed, a lot of cats. we didn't knew that they 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 recognise him 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 much food for them. a town is not the physical environment for the anima