Image copyright Cabinet Office Image caption Evie, left, and her son Ossie have joined the group of cats trying to keep down the tide of Whitehall mice The Cabinet Office is the latest government department to turn to cats to try to rid it of its resident mice.
Evie and Ossie, rescue cats from the Celia Hammond Trust, have been given the run of four floors at the Whitehall office.
Downing Street has its own mouser – Larry – who was tasked in 2011 with ridding No 10 of a rat problem.
In April, the Foreign Office took on its own mouser, Palmerston, while the Treasury recruited Gladstone in July.
"Settling in"Evie and Ossie are the first to come from the Celia Hammond Animal Trust – Larry, Gladstone and Palmerston came from the better-known Battersea Dogs and Cats Home.
Evie is Ossie"s mother – a Cabinet Office spokesman said they had been bought with funds raised from staff and were “settling in really well”.
Image copyright WPA Pool/Getty Images Image caption Larry stay..
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