This is quite funny. Lawmakers in the United Kingdom have been banned from keeping a mouse-catching cat in parliament over fears it would get fat on leftovers. A local dog pound, The Battersea Dogs and Cats Home offered to send a cat to the Palace of Westminster, which is infested with rodents but this gesture was declined, arguing that these cats would be so overfed leftovers by pet-friendly MPs, becoming too fat to do their job. The House of Commons also advances, in support of their rigid stance, the argument that a cat would be at risk if allowed to ply its trade there as there are 1748 poisonous bait stations used across the parliamentary estate to control the ever increasing pest population. The House also cannot vouch for the safety of a cat (if allowed) or that such would be properly looked after. Interestingly, there were 221 mouse sightings in the British Parliament in 2013, slightly down from 254 in 2012. The cost of pest control in 2012-2013 was more that 73 000 Pound Sterling (R1.2 Million). (This was an official response from the House spokesman, John Thurso after Tory MP, Anne McIntosh had lobbied for the House of Commons to buy a cat) And I say: Only the British could come up with such. Glenwood, Durban, South Africa
Posted on: Fri, 04 Apr 2014 03:04:21 +0000
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