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The Guardian - UK
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Larry the cat's shaggy dog story

Larry the cat
Larry the cat ... considering a gagging order? Photograph: Chris Montgomery/Rex Features

Everyone loves an animal story, right? Right? And it's even better if the animal is a cat, if today's newspapers are anything to go by. Nearly all the national papers feature pictures of Larry, the prime minister's four-year-old cat, who dithered on the front doorstep of 10 Downing Street and was given a gentle … er, nudge … by a policeman's boot. It's clearly time for ITV to give Animals Do the Funniest Things a primetime spot. And if not, Richard Desmond's Channel 5 will do it for them. "It's a fur cop as No 10 puss gets the boot," guffaws the Daily Mail. Coming next, a dog wearing sunglasses does a backflip.

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