This Library Cat Was Fired, And It's Tearing His Town Apart
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Source: Huffington Post, 29/06/2016
The city is evicting Browser the cat -- against the wishes of library staff.
Getting fired is always hard — but it’s even worse if it means getting evicted, too.
That’s what’s happening to Browser, a sweet gray cat who has inhabited the public library in White Settlement, Texas, (yeah, that’s really the name) for more than five years. Despite Browser being beloved by library workers and patrons, the White Settlement City Council voted last week that Browser had to go.
“I don’t think there’ll be any problem finding a home for Browser,” said Lillian Blackburn, president of Friends of the White Settlement Public Library, noting that multiple people have already offered to take him. “But he will not have a home like this.”
The library originally adopted Browser from the animal shelter to help it deal with a mouse problem, Blackburn told The Huffington Post. But the animal soon became a quirky fixture of the place, with an uncanny ability to detect if someone is a cat person.
“He’s there if you want him to be there,” Blackburn said. “And if you don’t want him to touch you or go near you, he doesn’t.” He’s also a big draw for kids, she added.
But an item appeared on the June 14 city council agenda addressing the “relocation of the Library Facility cat.”
“City Hall and City businesses are no place for animals,” said council member Elzie Clements, according to the Grizzly Detail. Mayor Ron White spoke in favor of keeping the cat, as did eight audience members. And a petition for Browser remaining had more than 600 signatures. (Since the story has been in the media, a second online petition for keeping Browser has emerged.) But the council nevertheless voted 2-1 to boot Browser, giving him 30 days to find a new place to live.
That makes his eviction date July 14. However, White wants the council to reconsider the decision at a meeting scheduled for July 12.
Browser the library cat keeps in touch with his fans via his Facebook page.
Browser has lived in the library for more than five years.
The city council voted 2-1 to kick Browser out of the library.
Read more: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/browser-library-cat_us_5772ddfbe4b0eb90355ca483
Source: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCxMXl9L79X1Mq_4iwCOyPFg
Browser's FB page: https://www.facebook.com/browserthecat/
Petition: Please help Browser the library cat!
https://www.change.org/p/mayor-ron-white-please-help-browser-the-library-cat?recruiter=72355934&utm_source=petitions_share&utm_medium=copylink
Elsie the Library Cat @ the St Helena Public Library
Source: https://au.pinterest.com/pin/480688960200400906/
https://www.facebook.com/ElsieTheLibraryCat/
Dewey Readmore Books (d'd.) @ the Spencer Public Library in Spencer, Iowa
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dewey_Readmore_Books
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But she preceded them all! 
It's totally beyond me, but they keep coming back... 
They make the old ones look almost harmless. These are scary times... 
Texas is just big enough to have a bigger share of them (my favorite is "Whon" 
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[font size="4"]White Settlement is an incorporated residential community just off Interstate Highway 820 at the western edge of Fort Worth in west central Tarrant County. In the early 1850s the name White Settlement referred to the small number of isolated farms and one or two trading posts that were scattered west of Fort Worth, reaching to the Parker county line through hostile Indian territory. In the later part of the 1850s an organized community named White Settlement gradually developed around the homesteads of three brothers from Tennessee—Elijah, David, and Joseph Farmer. The Farmers were joined by Kentuckian Paul Isbell, who moved to the area with his slaves. In 1860 Isbell played a prominent role in the hanging of two men that he believed were responsible for organizing a slave insurrection. After the Civil War White Settlement remained a frontier outpost, but once the threat of Indian attack was removed, it began to grow. It had a post office from 1866 until sometime in the 1870s. In the 1880s the community was bypassed by the railroads. White Settlement began an extended period of growth in the early 1940s, and by the mid-1950s its population had reached 10,000. The town incorporated in 1941. Among the catalysts for this growth were the establishment of Carswell Air Force Base, activated by the United States Army in July 1942; the development of industry in Fort Worth; and the construction of the Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport. This growth spurred the development of a number of bedroom communities near Dallas and Fort Worth, among them White Settlement. In 1990 the population of White Settlement peaked at 15,472; in 2000 the community had 14,831 inhabitants.[/font]
[font size="2"]BIBLIOGRAPHY:
Janet L. Schmelzer, Where the West Begins: Fort Worth and Tarrant County (Northridge, California: Windsor, 1985). Tarrant County Historic Resources Survey: Principal Findings and Resource Characteristics (Fort Worth: Historic Preservation Council for Tarrant County, 1982).[/font]
Handbook of Texas Online, David Minor, "White Settlement, TX"[/font]
UNIONIZE WORKING KITTIES.
(I really hate that people are such idiots.) Heck, there's a resident cat in half the small businesses in this entire borough, and our travelling kitty has been to Prudhoe Bay, Anchorage, Wasilla, Girdwood, Seward, Valdez, across Hatcher Pass, up and down the Richardson and Steese Highways (in her harness and on a leash) and gets invited into restaurants................. Pre-travelling kitty, we were on a motorcycle and stopped at a lodge near Kluane Lake in the Yukon Territory - soaked, it had rained all day, before the Alcan was paved in that area, mud everywhere............ decided, heck, we'll spring for a room. Hosed off most of the mud and the cutest young lady showed us the room (shower down the hall). Opened the door and a gorgeous gray kitty was sitting on the dresser right next to the door. MEEEEEEOW! (Him: Hi sweet kitty. Me: Oh, you're just gorgeous).............
Yep, cats know their "people".
Mayor Stubbs:
Travelling Kitty (Sugar):
And how many neat little kids would be fascinated by kitty and want to read more about them?
maybe starring Margaret Hamilton as Elzie Clements
The catnip type, of course.
I will add, browser is a cutie! love his nose...