He explains:
"Number 10 Downing Street has since Tuesday a new tenant, a four-year cat named Larry, who has been taken to eliminate the rats that have appeared in the official residence of British Prime Minister
The tabby cat, from an animal shelter, came to the residence of the Prime Minister, David Cameron, and his family after the British saw a large black rat by the front door during a briefing broadcast by the BBC.
A Downing Street spokesman said that Larry has already proven to be a good rat catcher, a skill he cultivated during his years on the streets before being picked up by the authorities.
is said that in London, a very wet city with large green areas and numerous underground water channels, you are never more than 10 feet away from a rat and is very common to see these animals on the streets or in the metro routes.
Downing Street spokesman would not say whether Larry will access the area of \u200b\u200bthe residence in which live Prime Minister, his wife Samantha and their three children, the last of them a girl of six months.
Larry's arrival inside a cage carried by a van was picked up by the media that normally stand guard in front of this landmark home. Larry
thus becomes the latest in a long list of cats that have held the informal title of "Chief Mouser."
The
Thatcher in 1989, with Margaret Thatcher as a tenant, was adopted Humphrey, a stray cat that remained at the residence for the next prime minister, John Major, 1997. Moved
six months after victory that year the Labour Tony Blair, and there were many reports that blamed his wife Cherie, which does not like animals too, that dispensing with the services of Humphrey.
The cat found a new home at the home of an officer, where he lived "retirement" until his death in March 2006.
The last cat that had passed through Downing Street, in this case by the number 11 (residence of the Minister of Economy), Sybil the cat was owned by the former Chancellor of the Exchequer Alistair Darling, which, according to reports, did not adapt to urban life and was sent to the Scottish country house of former minister.
Another witness famous cat exception of one of the key moments in the history of the twentieth century was known as "Buzzard of Munich, who lived in Downing Street during the governments of Neville Chamberlain and Winston Churchill in the 1930 and 1940.
In a country where animals are cared for and respected the most, yet also recalls a cat named Wilberforce, who arrived as a puppy to accompany the Labour Prime Minister Edward Heath in the 1970's and was the game -mice official residence until his "retirement" in 1986. Margaret Thatcher
authorized its removal, but first take one of his trips to Moscow, in the process of block collapse Soviet special way to buy a tin of sardines. "
You see, if they have problems with rats, before disinfecting and losing his life with rat poison and traps Malemort, adopts a pussycat, that thing is very bad.
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