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https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cqjqrddnldgo The state is no longer capable of keeping a cat as a mouser!

"The estate had too much construction activity on site to provide a safe living environment for a free-roaming cat.

"The risk of self-closing doors leaving a cat trapped without sustenance for significant periods of time.

"The absence of assured daily arrangements for cat care."

He added: "We continue to work with our pest control contractor to implement targeted and effective regimes across the Palace."

it's a cat! people like cats. they will go out of their way to find and retrieve the cat.

i'm sure there's some boring reason why yes really they couldn't just have a cat but i think it really does speak to a difference between whatever we are now and the victorians (and so on) that we end up with some HR nonsense on this matter.






In the victorian era the attitude would have been that it was "just a cat" and if it got killed they'd just get another one.

We're a little more humane nowadays. Towards animals (cute ones) at least.




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