PUSS, PUSS!
Who said cats are only made to cat, sleep and.bask in front of the fire? In France, before the war. there was an army of cats on the national payroll. Special provision was made for them in the Budget, providing quarters for them and the wages of a servant to look after them. It was their duty to guard the huge stock of paper belonging to the French National Printing Office from the devastating onslaught of rats and mice. In Vienna, in the old days, the municipal cats were not only kept in affluence, but were placed on the retired list and honourably pensioned when they had outgrown their usefulness.
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 2, Issue 226, 16 October 1940, Page 2
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