A lady says she is required to go starving due to the cost of keeping her 6 family pet cats.
Yasemn Kaptan, 46, said she just consumes one meal a week including barbecue veggies like peppers, onions and salad.
The remainder of the time she said she consumes mint tea for breakfast, lunch and supper to fend off the appetite, and has actually lost 5 stone over the previous year.
Yasemn, from Tottenham in north London, said: ‘I don’t have any money to spare – however I can’t let the cats go.
‘They have grown up with us. I have had them since they were little babies.
‘I paid a lot of money to have them, they are at the end of their life. it really isn’t reasonable to let them go.
‘If I eat it has to be something soft like yoghurt or vegetables. I cry every other day, I am trying to be happy with myself but I am down and tired.
‘Some weeks I am not eating properly at all and I just have fluids to keep me going.’
Yasemn got the cats when she worked as a personal consumer and might ‘comfortably’ manage it, however said she needed to leave her job in 2015 after being detected with osteoporosis.
She gets £400 month-to-month impairment advantage due to her osteoporosis, and this goes towards her lease and expenses.
Yasemn likewise gets a £69 stay-at-home carer allowance a week to care for her partner Erdinc Hassain, 46, who has several sclerosis. She said she invests £60 of this on the cats.
‘When I get my carer’s allowance it goes on cat litter, cat food, biscuits and unique milk, it uses up all my money. I can only simply about pay my phone costs,’ she said.
‘My partner is worried about me but I have got used to it by now. I will be okay, things will get better.
‘There is nothing I can do, I will not get rid of my cats. I have had them for 17 years, they are my little babies they keep me going.’
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