{"id":2924,"date":"2025-08-16T17:03:13","date_gmt":"2025-08-16T17:03:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/2924\/"},"modified":"2025-08-16T17:03:13","modified_gmt":"2025-08-16T17:03:13","slug":"rose-of-tralee-host-kathryn-thomas-rescues-injured-cat-in-kerry-and-calls-her-rose","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/2924\/","title":{"rendered":"Rose of Tralee host Kathryn Thomas rescues injured cat in Kerry&#8230;and calls her Rose"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Rose the cat that was rescused on Friday by Rose of Tralee host Kathryn Thomas. \" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/KT Cat.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Rose the cat that was rescused on Friday by Rose of Tralee host Kathryn Thomas. <\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Not content with just being one half of the Rose of Tralee presenting duo alongside D\u00e1ith\u00ed \u00d3\u2019S\u00e9, Kathryn Thomas can now add hero and animal rescuer to her CV after she, on Friday, rescued a severely injured cat from the middle of the road and got her help.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom5 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Thomas, who will be back on our TV screens on Monday and Tuesday night for the official Rose selection nights, posted about the rescue on her Instagram story on Friday. \u201cPicked up this poor angel on the motorway roundabout with cars literally driving over her. She couldn\u2019t move and it looked like her back legs were broken,\u201d said Ms Thomas in her post.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom5 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">&#8220;Googled Tralee vets. Rang one who refused to take her. Then rang Abbey Veterinary Centre on Church St who told me to bring her in. She peed all over my Rose of Tralee Festival briefs on the way there but vet Deirdre Cremins, the angel that she is, thinks she has a chance.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom5 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">&#8220;All the staff were so lovely as I had to run but said they\u2019d keep me updated. We all called her Rose. I\u2019m not able #PrayForRose\u201d the post finished.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Rose the cat that was rescused on Friday by Rose of Tralee host Kathryn Thomas. Not content with&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2925,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[75],"tags":[18,117,887,19,17,888],"class_list":{"0":"post-2924","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-eire","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-fergus-dennehy","11":"tag-ie","12":"tag-ireland","13":"tag-rose-of-tralee"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2924","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2924"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2924\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2925"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2924"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2924"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2924"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}