The Hermitage Museum Has 74 Resident Neutered Cats!

It’s in St Petersburg, Russia.

The full story: https://www.thevintagenews.com/2017/03/22/the-famous-hermitage-museum-keeps-74-cats-to-keep-its-basements-mice-free/

Elizabeth of Russia ordered domestic cats to be placed in the palace to patrol its basements and hallways to destroy the growing population of mice. Cats proved to be an extremely effective solution to the mice problem, and the queen decided to keep them as resident vermin destroyers.

Source: https://myanimalcare.org/2017/03/28/the-hermitage-museum-has..

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