What could a professional ice skater, a former England football goalkeeper and a litter of kittens possibly have in common? They’re all sharing a beautiful home nestled in the heart of rural Berkshire.<\/p>\n
Frankie Seaman, 53, wife of former England goalkeeper David Seaman, spent ten years as a professional on the TV Series Dancing on Ice, but her love of cats predates even that.<\/p>\n
“I’ve been fostering cats for way longer than I’ve been ice skating.” she says.<\/p>\n
As she talks, a small cat bed in the corner is squeaking with the sounds of her latest arrivals – a litter of three week old kittens.<\/p>\n
The kittens originally came to Frankie inside their mother, Luna, who watches dutifully as Frankie lifts her babies out of their bed and onto a blanket.<\/p>\n
Luna is one of 14,000 cats fostered through Cats Protection in the UK every year and pregnant cats like her, known as queens, are Frankie’s speciality.<\/p>\n
The arrangement is temporary, Frankie provides a safe sterile environment for the kittens to be born, and then the real hard work begins.<\/p>\n
“With kittens, it’s really important that we start socialising them… from about two weeks old.” she says, “because they’ve been brought up in a home situation, they’re not going to be scared of hairdryers or hoovers or TVs or radios.”<\/p>\n
“They get all those lovely sights and sounds and they will be ready to move on to their new families soon.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"What could a professional ice skater, a former England football goalkeeper and a litter of kittens possibly have…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":685773,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[59,86,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-685772","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-gb","tag-technology","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/685772","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=685772"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/685772\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/685773"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=685772"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=685772"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=685772"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}