Cat inherits nearly £10million

A CAT nipped to the top of the feline rich list after inheriting nearly £10MILLION.

But the Italian moggy is still only the THIRD richest animal in the world.

Tommasino's wealthy owner Maria Assunta died and left him the entire family fortune.

She rescued him as a stray and could think of no one better to leave her portfolio of property to after she died last month aged 94 with no living relatives.

It means the cat is the proud owner of homes and villas across Italy as well as stocks and swollen bank accounts.

Her lawyers, Anna Orecchioni and Giacinto Canzona, say she left the fortune to Tommasino in a will she wrote and deposited with them at their office in Rome in 2009.      More Read