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See also previous Chief Mousers to the Cabinet Office, going back approx 100 years: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sybil_(cat) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syb
by codeulike 1y ago
See also previous Chief Mousers to the Cabinet Office, going back approx 100 years:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sybil_(cat) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sybil_(cat)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humphrey_(cat) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humphrey_(cat)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilberforce_(cat) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilberforce_(cat)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peta_(cat) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peta_(cat)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_III_(cat) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_III_(cat)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_II_(cat) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_II_(cat)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nelson_(cat) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nelson_(cat)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Munich_Mouser https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Munich_Mouser
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_(chief_mouser) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_(chief_mouser)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rufus_of_England https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rufus_of_England
- pkal 1y agoI like how https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chief_Mouser_to_the_Cabinet_Office https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chief_Mouser_to_the_Cabinet_Of... has a timeline and highlights if the Chief Mouser was under a Conservative or Labour government.
- jl6 1y agoOf course, as a civil servant, the Chief Mouser is expected to implement government policy impartially.
- ta1243 1y ago> Humphrey was found as a stray by a Cabinet Office civil servant and named in honour of Humphrey Appleby, the archetypal civil servant of Yes Minister and Yes, Prime Minister. Love it. Thatcher was famously a big fan of "Yes Minister"
- no_time 1y agoReassuring to see none of them were intentionally killed and only Peter II passed due to an accident. Where I live its exceedingly rare to have an outdoor cat that lives past 10. And they are not even related to unpopular public figures...
- zahlman 1y ago> At a cost of about £100 a year (paid for from the Cabinet Office's budget), most of which went towards food, Humphrey was said to be of considerably better value than the Cabinet's professional pest controller, who charged £4,000 a year and is reported to have never caught a mouse.[3]
- randycupertino 1y agoAww :) The "rival" cat at the Foreign & Commonwealth house down the street also has his own wiki lol: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palmerston_(cat) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palmerston_(cat)
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- padolsey 1y agoA know a person at the FCDO who had to routinely write letters in correspondance to those who'd sought Palmerston's advice on various matters. A hilarious internship.
- Levitating 1y agoYou should check the See Also section on the following article https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chief_Mouser_to_the_Cabinet_Office https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chief_Mouser_to_the_Cabinet_Of...