pet connection

The House of Commons is infested with bold little mice — and lots of them. An idea to bring in a couple of cats was turned down because the cats wouldn’t be sanitary. Which, apparently, the mice are. From the piece:

[The mice] can be seen regularly scampering around reporters’ rooms, and even in the bar in the press gallery. The small brown mice are increasingly bold – even tame- emerging in the evening.

One was found contentedly eating crumbs on a political correspondent’s desk, and was not disposed to move until the last morsel was consumed.

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Requests for a House of Commons cat to do its traditional job of catching vermin have been rejected by the “authorities” on health and safety grounds.

Anne McIntosh, Conservative MP for Vale of York, asked for a cat to be introduced after seeing mice in the Commons Tea Room. “I was told it could not because it would get too near the food. So it’s all right for the mice to get near the food, but not the cat.”

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