This is a follow up to story about Mango, the Tesco cat who has mojo 😉 . He has mojo because he can do as pleases and get all the mental stimulation he desires, or he was able to until Tesco decided he could no longer curl up in the entrance to the supermarket. You may remember that he is a tabby-and-white cat who likes to spend all day at a large supermarket rather than his home nearby.
I feel that the Tesco management have been a little economical with the truth when then explain why Mango was taken from his spot in the supermarket to a “kennel” outside.
The management say that they are making him more comfortable and safer. Customers probably have a slightly different view on why he has been ejected.
A customer saw him being taken to the outside kennel in the rain. For heavens sake that does not look good to me when it’s winter a cats don’t live in kennels. The prefer to find their own spot.
Well, it seems that Tesco don’t really want him around and all the publicity about Mango on the internet has made them uneasy about letting him sleep in the foyer to the shop. Perhaps they feel he puts off customers but the general view is that he is well liked.
We are told that he is allowed to come into the store. Although I can see this surreptitiously changing in time.
Source: New home for Tesco cat after fears he had been 'ejected' – Telegraph.
Oh and wheres his ‘new home’ as described in the title? Thanks 🙂
Leah the title comes direct from one of the newspapers and the so called new home is a dog kennel outside the store 😉 .
Am I missing something? So if his home is nearby why don’t they take hime there?
I thought that too, Leah.
Supposedly, he has a home.
Why wasn’t he deposited there?
Is his “new home” the kennel outside?
Confused.
If they sourced a really nice affordable cat tree and gave Mango that in the foyer I am sure some people with cats would see it and want to buy one, everyone is happy, sadly Tesco has bigger problems to think about than a cat in the foyer nowadays.
Great idea, Alan. Why didn’t they think of that? That is real lateral thinking because they could do a roaring trade in domestic cat accessories and cat trees. They have the perfect salesman in the foyer.
I think a cat tree in the Foyer would have been a better idea.
Yes, absolutely and a nice idea.
Mango looks and sounds like a real character. He has the archetypal tom cat round face.
I noticed in some of the photos on-line yesterday that he was sitting inside a KatKabin and I wondered who’d bought that for him.
I think you’re right that Tesco seem to be embarrassed/worried about it becoming widely known how much time he was spending inside the store. Maybe they received complaints from some people regarding potential hygiene issues? It’s a shame because he wasn’t causing any harm in the foyer and may even have attracted extra trade for them.
Yes, although Mango is popular there will be some who are squeamish about his presence and the management will probably be squeamish too (normally men) but the ladies who are on the floor doing all the work will be supporting Mango. It is a gentle battle between the ‘fors’ and the ‘againsts’ and the solution sort of reflects that (between the two solutions of ejection and acceptance).