Larry the Cat, Downing Street’s “chief mouser,” made headlines in Britain this week when he chased off a fox prowling on his turf.
In Larry’s case, the fox was roaming around his patch outside of the prime minister’s residence at Downing Street when the cat went into full attack mode, chasing off an animal twice his size who fled into a flower bed before, wisely, getting out of there.
The feline-canine standoff wasn’t the first time that Larry showed who was the real boss at Downing Street.Larry, a 15-year-old tabby, has had several encounters with animals outside of Downing Street, his home since 2011, when staff adopted him from the Battersea Dogs & Cats Home, an animal welfare agency that helps to find homes for unwanted pets. He was originally brought in to help with a rodent problem; the prime minister’s spokesman at the time said he had a “strong predatory drive.
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