George Osborne, the Chancellor of the Exchequer of the British government, the person in whom we have entrusted the economy of Great Britain, is being irresponsibly with respect to looking after his family cat: Freya – a tubby tabby. Some people might say that he is being irresponsible with the lives of British citizens too.
I don’t want to receive a comment (fat chance) from him saying his wife looks after the cat. A cat is a family responsibility. His wife looks very fragrant but, clearly, fragrance does not translate to good cat caretaking.
George works from No 11 Downing Street and lives there, too, as far as I am aware. To visitors not living in the UK, Downing Street is a very central location in London, close to the Thames and near the Houses of Parliament.
Freya is fat. OK, that is not unusual but it does demonstrate a careless approach to cat caretaking.
Far worse is the fact that Freya is allowed to wander around central London. Allowing a cat to roam is fine if the place where you live is reasonably safe from a cat’s perspective but central London? No. There is nothing but masses of dense traffic and Freya seems to be amongst it from time to time or a lot.
Freya has been seen in a public house (“pub”) on the other side of Whitehall. Whitehall is a busy and wide road that connects to Downing Street. She’ll have to cross it to get to the pub and journey fraught with danger.
Freya has also been seen in Trafalgar Square! Now, that is extraordinary. Trafalgar Square is at the end of Whitehall. It is about 800 metres from Downing Street and the traffic is awesome all along the route and at Trafalgar Square, unless Freya finds some fancy way to get there that avoids traffic.
The conclusion must be that the Osborne family are allowing their cat to roam widely in a place that is totally unsuited to it. Some cats are great at avoiding cars and lorries. They even learn to look and check but they are not that expert at it and eventually an accident is liable to happen, especially in the places around Downing Street.
Freya slaps Larry around. Not good. I am astonished the family allows this in Downing Street of all places. There has to be a limit to letting domestic cats roam. The limit depends on where you are.
I’ve heard Freya slaps Larry around. This is awful. If she gets hit by a car it will be in the news and bring the whole thing of safety to light. Freya is well known. I hope she never gets hit. She got lost when living in Notting Hill gate before moving to Downing St. She showed up at a shelter and was then sent to Downing St – her new home – because in the time she was lost the Osbournes moved.
George Osborne 🙁 I can’t stand the man 🙁 sounds about as good at looking after Freya as he is at looking after our economy….totally useless!
To let a cat wander around amongst traffic is very irresponsible, I hope she stays safe.
It’s not good, I hope she doesn’t pay the price for their slackness, actually she could even get cat napped being as she is a bit famous, even held to ransom! Your first sentence is very true, I should know that by now, I’m too trusting 🙂
I agree that people who like cats can’t be bad but not everyone who keeps a cat is a cat lover.
Downing Street is the worst place in England from which to let your cat wander. There is some grass at the back at St. James’s Park, but Freya is walking down busy roads.
It is a shame. Perhaps she will be be OK but it looks bad.
I just looked her up on Google images, she does look a bonny big girl, she’s brown tabby and white, and in the pics I saw her outside her home in Downing Street. She must be a braver soul that I am, when I was in the capital in 2011 the traffic around that area had my head buzzing, she’s obviously a city girl, but how irresponsible of them to let her wander so far. I normally say if someone is a cat lover they can’t be all bad, but there are exceptions….. 😉