Literal cat fight breaks out between Downing Street and British Foreign Office

[TexasTowelie]

Larry the Cat, 10 Downing Street’s tabby, sits in the street as politicians attend a cabinet meeting in London. Larry had been treated... (Kirsty Wigglesworth/AP)


LONDON — Britain’s new leader had been in office barely a week when a skirmish broke out between 10 Downing Street and the Foreign Office.

No, Prime Minister Theresa May’s patience with her boisterous foreign secretary, Boris Johnson, did not run out. Instead, a fight erupted between Larry the Cat, 10 Downing Street’s tabby, and Palmerston, the Foreign Office’s feline.

Larry, who holds the jocular title of chief mouser to the Cabinet Office, after being tasked in 2011 with alleviating a mouse problem at the prime minister’s residence, was recently spotted with a limp. Palmerston, however, is a newcomer, having arrived in April.

According to accounts in the British news media, the turf war began when Larry tried to infiltrate the grounds of the Foreign Office, on Whitehall, from his nearby Downing Street residence, prompting a jealous Palmerston to claw at him. Eventually, Larry emerged triumphant, and he limped home.

Read more: http://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/literal-cat-fight-breaks-out-between-downing-street-and-british-foreign-office/

[LeftishBrit]

1. What a year. Even the cats are engaged in within-party infighting!

[TexasTowelie]

2. It's a cat-astrophe!

[malthaussen]

3. Now, if the Foreign Office's mascot were only a hen...

... it would have been chicken-catch-a-Tory.

-- Mal

[TexasTowelie]

4. Rim shot!

[shenmue]

6. You win several Internets

[shenmue]

5. Oh noes!