After fifty years Canada’s Purr-liament Hill cats get the axe; hope they get pensions

…. This is sad indeed — tkmorin

The Parliament Cat man. (Photo credit: Alexander Somma)

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Eclectic social commentary with a chuckle and maybe a sting in the tail

Now Stephen Harper and his Conservatives have gone too far. Never mind scrapping the gun registry, or cutting back on environmental funding, or even putting an end to prison fundraising for charities. Now we are about to lose, after 50 years, that venerable Parliament Hill institution, the cat sanctuary. According to CTV:

Cats were originally used on the Hill as a means of pest control, and at one point nearly three dozen felines lived there, all cared for by volunteers and donations

And now what? No pests on Parliament Hill? I beg to differ.