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334 points dcminter | 1 comments | 04 Jul 25 09:43 UTC | HN request time: 0.2s | source

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codeulike ◴[04 Jul 25 13:06 UTC] No.44464190[source]▶

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See also previous Chief Mousers to the Cabinet Office, going back approx 100 years:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sybil_(cat)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humphrey_(cat)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilberforce_(cat)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peta_(cat)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_III_(cat)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_II_(cat)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nelson_(cat)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Munich_Mouser

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_(chief_mouser)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rufus_of_England

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1. zahlman ◴[04 Jul 25 20:06 UTC] No.44467470[source]▶

> At a cost of about £100 a year (paid for from the Cabinet Office's budget), most of which went towards food, Humphrey was said to be of considerably better value than the Cabinet's professional pest controller, who charged £4,000 a year and is reported to have never caught a mouse.[3]