Hi everyone,
We thought this may be of interest to you all!
Some of you may have read this story in the papers already but for those that missed it we thought it would be good to cover it. 😀
The foreign office here in the UK adopted a lovely black and white cat called Palmerston from Battersea Cats and Dogs home! His main duties in the Foreign office will be the reduction of mice!
He has been named after Lord Palmerston:
The cat is named after Lord Palmerston, who was apparently well-liked and was the oldest Prime Minister in history to take office for the first time, at the age of 71.
The big question remaining is will he make friends with his neighbour Larry? Who is resident cat at 10 Downing street!
For the full story and videos of his arrival check out the article on the Daily Telegraph!
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Marc
Love the headline
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Saw a bit about him online. He’s fallen on his feet with this job. ?
I know right? Who wouldn’t want that job!!! 😮
Palmerston has his own twitter account:
Palmerston@DiploMog
indeed! 😮
Palmerston looks so ready for action. What a cutie!
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Oh God , how I love the British! !!!!
Thank you 😀
And Buddy thought he had an important job as his mommy’s guard cat!
My two are jealous as well lol
From me DeBorah Palmer and resident Kitty in Charge Sylvester Palmer Kitty Kisses and Hugs to the noble Downton Tabby Palmerston!! 🙂 😀 <3
Downtown Tabby…I love it!
There is actually a book called downtown tabby that we will be looking at soonish 😀
Thank you 😀 and yes my two are worried about their kingdom now. Too many important cats nearby 😉
Congratulations, Palmerston!
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Palmerston looks very official. I’m sure the UK mice are trembling with fear.
Between our royal meowjesties and Palmerston there won’t be any mice left 😉
At least on your side of “the pond”. Mr. M is quite lazy and Purrseideon wants to make friends with everything – well, everything except those aggressive squirrels and the cat the neighborhood captured.
XD you need to teach Mr. M. Or send him to be trained by her meowjesty Nubia. Despite her three legs she is the fiercer one of the two. 😉
I suspect that the grumpy old man is too set in his ways and hiding is his lifestyle. However, in his younger years, he was known to catch squirrels… Now that his paws seem so arthritic, I think a mouse would be a challenge.
Ah! Well he probably makes a good zen master now. Unlike Mr Oli who can’t sit still for a second xD
You are spot-on! I do think of him as my zen-master and silent writing partner 🙂
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But Larry was the best, and got fired for being lazy and not accomplishing his duties as the chief mouse reducer. Larry was always found to be strolling or sleeping.
Well let’s see how the competition goes.
XD
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He looks ready for action
Thank you 😀
Gorgeous!
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A gorgeous cat ?
Thanks 😀
Unable to get “Daily Telegraph” Can u send article? Please. Linda Anderson Savannah is popular now. Since she has made TRT’s. :+)
Oh! Does the online link not work outside of the U.K.? I pretty much summarised the most important points of it but can send you a screen grab of the page later?
Palmerston was famous, but probably had more enemies than friends. One thing he’s remembered for is that when the inhabitants of the town of Rugeley, Staffordshire, were so hurt by the extensive publicity about their local celebrity, repeat murderer Dr Palmer that they petitioned the government to change the name of their town, Palmerston replied that they could, provided they named it after him – that is, as Palmerston.
Interesting! I didn’t know this. Thanks for sharing. 🙂
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Thank you ^^
More high office promotions for cats! I’m all for it. 🙂
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His cover pose looks very Churchillean.
Hehe
It seems cats are in charge of the UK, and doing quite fine. 🙂
It appears that the Queen doesn’t care that cats, not corgis, are the animal of choice for her government.
Hehe 😉