President Andrés Manuel López Obrador has declared the 19 cats that live in the National Palace “living fixed assets.” This distinction, which normally applies to buildings, furniture or valuable objects, has been granted for the first time to animals. The appointment obliges the State to take charge of their maintenance and care for life. “Cats are already a symbol of the National Palace. “I would no longer understand the National Palace without the presence of cats,” said Adriana Castillo Román, general director of the Conservatorship of the National Palace and Cultural Heritage: “We have to leave the cats safe.”
Bowie, Bellof, Nube, Coco, Yema, Ollin or Balam are some of the cats that live at the Government headquarters, in the heart of Mexico City. There are 19 animals that reside permanently, but many others come and go. The palace employees let them move freely through all the spaces, which is why they sometimes appear in interviews or even at the president's morning conference. The Government has worked with veterinarians from the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) to vaccinate, sterilize and chip the cats, and build small cat houses and feeders in the garden.
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