After years of painstaking and hard work at the British Foreign Office, Palmerston - the famous Ministry cat - decided to rest and retire, and wrote a farewell message on his Twitter site.
After four and a half years he spent at the headquarters of the British Foreign Office exercising his duties in catching mice, he will retire in Almerston ... the famous Ministry cat, and will leave his London headquarters for the countryside where he will live.
On his official Twitter account, which is watched by more than 100,000 people, the black and white Palmerston mentioned that he wanted to spend more time relaxing from the lights.
A State Department employee runs the Palmerston Cat Twitter account.
Although Palmerston is retired, there will be no major change in the British government rat-chasing feline team, as Larry, the Downing Street and Gladstone headquarters in the Treasury, will remain in business as usual.
The British Embassy in Amman granted the status of a diplomat to a Jordanian cat, who was homeless in a street in the Abdoun area in the Jordanian capital, Amman, before he was rescued by the embassy.
This cat became unique after he held the status of a diplomat at the British Embassy in Amman.
According to what the embassy published on its Twitter account on the social networking site, Jordanians commented, saying that cats have fortunes, and their comment came after the British embassy adopted the homeless cat from the streets of the capital Amman, and appointed him responsible for catching mice in the embassy.
The embassy gave him the name Lawrence Abdoun, in reference to the Abdoun area, located in the Zahran area in the center of the Jordanian capital, where he was found, and opened an account in his name on Twitter.
She said, "The Cat Palmerston, the feline official at the British Foreign Office, decided to appoint the cat Lawrence Abdoun to the position of the official cat catchers at the embassy as a diplomat."
She indicated that the cat Abdoun was the first cat to be appointed outside the offices of the Foreign Office in Britain, and published pictures of the lucky cat wearing a collar carrying the British flag inside his small house in the embassy.
According to the photo published by the embassy recently, the diplomatic cat appeared wearing his special badge, wandering freely in the corridors of the private building of the United Kingdom embassy in the Jordanian capital, enjoying his position.
The British ambassador to Jordan, Edward Oakden, posted a video clip on his Twitter account, saying, "Welcome the newcomer to the embassy campus."
The news received a number of comments and exchanges on social media platforms, so most activists considered that dogs and cats have more fortunes than humans, while the news did not enjoy the admiration of many Jordanians, and there are those who considered what the British embassy did as a message that more attention should be paid to stray animals and take care of them.
The homeless cat's acquisition of British nationality also sparked widespread controversy among Jordanian youth, and their official Twitter pages filled with many amusing comments that envy the cat for this luck, from homelessness to fame and position.
