{"id":42705,"date":"2020-08-07T21:31:00","date_gmt":"2020-08-07T18:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/paws-for-reflection-british-foreign-office-cat-retiring\/"},"modified":"2020-08-07T21:31:00","modified_gmt":"2020-08-07T18:31:00","slug":"paws-for-reflection-british-foreign-office-cat-retiring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/paws-for-reflection-british-foreign-office-cat-retiring\/","title":{"rendered":"#Paws for reflection: British Foreign Office cat retiring"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;<strong>#Paws for reflection: British Foreign Office cat retiring<\/strong>&#8221;<\/p>\n<div id=\"article-wrapper\" role=\"main\">\n<div>\n<div>\n<p>        August 7, 2020 <span>|<\/span> 2:31pm            <\/p>\n<div id=\"featured-image-wrapper\">\n                        Enlarge Image<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Palmerston, the Foreign Office cat, sits on a photographer's ladder outside Downing Street in London, Britain, February 12, 2019.\" id=\"standard-article-image\"  src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/08\/2020-08-07T092222Z_917994176_RC2X8I9XLN1H_RTRMADP_3_BRITAIN-POLITICS-CAT.jpg?quality=90&#038;strip=all&#038;w=618&#038;h=410&#038;crop=1\" ><\/img><br \/>\n                <span>Palmerston, the Foreign Office cat, sits on a photographer&#8217;s ladder outside Downing Street in London, Britain, February 12, 2019.<\/span><br \/>\n                            <span>Toby Melville\/Reuters<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<div>\n                        LONDON \u2013 Palmerston, the cat who has lived at the Foreign Office for four and a half years, will trade in his London residence for retirement in the countryside, where his mouse-catching duties for the diplomats will come to an end.<\/p>\n<p>Writing to the more than 100,000 followers on his <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/social-mediaa\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Social Media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Twitter<\/a> feed, the black and white moggy, who once lived at Battersea Dogs &#038; Cats Home, said he wanted to spend more time relaxing away from the limelight.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI have enjoyed climbing trees and patrolling the fields around my new home in the countryside,\u201d he wrote to the Foreign Office\u2019s most senior civil servant, Simon McDonald, signing off with two paw prints.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI will miss hearing the footsteps of an Ambassador and sprinting to my hideout to see who it is.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>There will be no wider reshuffle as Larry the cat remains on Downing Street whilst fellow feline Gladstone retains his post at the finance ministry.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_16103114\"><img alt=\"Palmerston, the Foreign Office cat, is seen outside Downing Street in London, Britain, April 2, 2019. \" data- data- height=\"423\" width=\"664\"><\/img><figcaption><span>Palmerston, the Foreign Office cat, is seen outside Downing Street in London, Britain, April 2, 2019.<\/span><span>REUTERS<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>If you want to read more Living <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/news\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"2\" title=\"News\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">News<\/a> articles, you can visit our <span style=\"color: #ff9900;\"><a style=\"color: #ff9900;\" href=\"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/general\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">General category.<\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>if you want to <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/watch-movies-tv-seriess\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"8\" title=\"Watch Movies &amp; TV Series\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">watch Movies<\/a> or Tv Shows go to <span style=\"color: #ff9900;\"><a style=\"color: #ff9900;\" href=\"https:\/\/dizi.buradabiliyorum.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Dizi.BuradaBiliyorum.Com<\/a> <\/span> for forums sites go to <span style=\"color: #ff9900;\"><a style=\"color: #ff9900;\" href=\"https:\/\/forum.buradabiliyorum.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Forum.BuradaBiliyorum.Com<\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"color: black;\"><a style=\"color: #ff9900;\" href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2020\/08\/07\/paws-for-reflection-british-foreign-office-cat-to-retire\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Source<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;#Paws for reflection: British Foreign Office cat retiring&#8221; August 7, 2020 | 2:31pm Enlarge Image Palmerston, the Foreign Office cat, sits on a photographer&#8217;s ladder outside Downing Street in London, Britain, February 12, 2019. 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