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Texas: City council votes to oust library cat

StarTelegram: Over children’s petitions and voters’ protests, the City Council has voted to fire Browser the library cat.

But the book-loving feline may yet have another life. His friends and fans vow to take his future to voters in November, forcing an election if necessary on whether the library can keep its six-year reading mascot.

Declaring that “City Hall and city businesses are no place for animals,” Councilman Elzie Clements led what Browser’s fans call a sneak attack on June 14, ending in a 2-1 vote giving the former shelter cat 30 days to find a new home.

17 Comments on Texas: City council votes to oust library cat

  1. Ignore it. Does this resolution (or whatever it’s being called) have the force of law? What will this City Council do? Fire all the librarians? Close the library? Wanna see torches and pitchforks?

  2. oops…..my bad……from their .gov page:

    Welcome to the City of White Settlement, a community rich in its Native American history. The name of White Settlement was original (sic) bestowed upon the community by the Indians. When much of the territory was unsettled, the area became known as the “white settlement’ because it was inhabited and settled by non- Native Americans, or “the whites”, later many of the roaming Indians settled down in the area and the name continued.

  3. This is some modern world. Years ago, I recall reading about a cat that had wandered into an elementary school in Los Angeles one morning. He caused quite a sensation among the students and staff, then disappeared after lunch. Having liked the reception he got, he came back the next day, and every day that school was in session for years. He was the school’s mascot; he was named Room 8 in honor of the place where he was first spotted.

    Room 8 had free run of the entire school. All the students wanted to feed him. People would write “fan letters” to the school; there were always students clamoring to answer the letters for extra credit in writing. Room 8 was the subject of both a book and a television special.

    Those people on the City Council should, in Fur’s words, have their nutsacks clipped with rusty hedge trimmers

  4. Like many city governments (Seattle in mind) theft and murder persists while they focus their attention to a cat in a library. Not one of them are worthy of re-election.

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