page_title: Larry (cat)
section_title: Early life
hierarchical_section_title: Larry (cat) / Early life
caption_attribution_description: English: Modified version of another upload (modified on the phone by Snapseed)
context_page_description: Larry is a cat who has served as Chief Mouser to the Cabinet Office at 10 Downing Street since 2011. He is a brown-and-white tabby, believed to have been born in January 2007. By July 2016, when Theresa May became prime minister, he had developed a reputation of being "violent" in his interactions with other local mousers, especially the Foreign Office's much younger cat Palmerston.
context_section_description: Larry is a rescued stray cat from the Battersea Dogs and Cats Home who was chosen by Downing Street staff. Larry was intended to be a pet for the children of David and Samantha Cameron, and was described by Downing Street sources as a "good ratter" and as having "a high chase-drive and hunting instinct". In 2012, Battersea Dogs and Cats Home revealed that Larry's popularity had resulted in a surge of 15% more people adopting cats.
  Soon after he was taken in at Downing Street, a story ran in the press claiming that Larry was a lost cat and that the original owner had started a campaign to retrieve him. However, the story was later revealed to be a hoax, and no such owner nor campaign existed.
caption: Larry at the door of 10 Downing Street, his official residence and workplace
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