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ALL CREATURES GREAT AND SMALL

‘It’s the best way I could possibly spend Christmas Day’

Susie Winship, 35, lives in Suffolk and is an animal welfare assistant for Blue Cross, the national pet charity. She has opted to work the last eight Christmas Days, dedicated to cats and dogs in care over the festive period.

‘ANIMALS BRING SO MUCH JOY’

Scooping up the family cat, I sat beside the Christmas tree and gazed at the lights. I was five years old, and my parents had adopted a kitten, who I called Oscar. It was Oscar’s first Christmas and he suddenly leapt out of my lap and ran up the

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