As we noted on Sunday, Larry the Cat just celebrated his 12th anniversary as chief mouser at No. 10 Downing St., the UK prime minister’s residence and office. The Atlantic has a new gallery featuring photos of Larry’s adventures over the years, and it’s fantastic.
See Larry chase a pigeon, tolerate former President Barack Obama, pose for the press, bolt from a Mitsubishi bigwig, cautiously supervise a police dog working on his turf, hang out with photographers and steal the show during meetings of world leaders.
The gallery also includes rare photos of Larry inside No. 10 (during which he’s mostly gazing longingly at his turf outside) and other amusing moments from his long tenure as de facto head of government in the UK.
(Top image credit: Pete Souza/White House photo)
Cuddly carnage!
The camera pans from a wet, neon-lit street to the jagged remains of a wall spray painted with “Death to Humans” when a tiny head pops up, with the unmistakable shape of cat ears and the markings of a ginger tabby.
Zoom in: An orange tail speeds by, its owner just out of the frame, then the guitars kick in and Gori the cat stylishly disembowels some freak monster from atop his trusty Back To The Future-style hoverboard.
The game is called Gori: Cuddly Carnage, and it looks completely ridiculous, absolutely glorious and a hell of a lot of fun.
It’s from Angry Demon Studios and Wired Productions, the same people behind the well-received 80s/90s nostalgia trip Arcade Paradise, so the production values look great and Gori shares some elements of the retrowave aesthetic prevalent in Paradise.
It probably won’t get the kind of hype that the feline-centric Stray received, nor will people laud it for educating players about cat behavior, but that’s okay. It’s not that kind of game. Gori: Cuddly Carnage is still in development with no announced release date, but we’ll be keeping an eye on it.
Pain In The Bud 
Larry is of course the boss in the UK and all other world leaders simply come to pay homage to him disguising their trips as “political visits to discuss important world affairs”
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And hoping he’ll take meetings with them. The Mitsubishi executive either didn’t rate or he carelessly arrived just prior to nap time.
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😻👍I was just thinking. I hope they have his portraits up through the years. Yeah Larry!!
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Is there a safety protocol for Larry? He seems to spend a lot of time outside the residence.
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He’s under the care of the career staff at Downing Street, so it’s the same group of people who stay on regardless of who the PM is or how many times the office changes hands. Members of the No. 10 police and security detail also keep an eye on him. There are lots of photos of the security personnel petting him, bringing him inside, letting him out.
And finally the street itself is closed off behind several gates, so even though it looks like Larry’s in the street, it’s within the security perimeter of No. 10 and there’s no through traffic. If the security arrangement is similar to the White House (and it probably is) there are also uniformed and plainclothes security outside the perimeter, so Larry is protected from anyone who might want to grab him.
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Sir Larry THE Cat iss so kewl….
An wee reememburr all “THE Buzz” ’bout “STRAY” an then is sorta just faded from site Buddy an Big Buddy…..
Wunder if that will happen to “Gori” as well??????
**nose rubss** BellaDharma an ((hugss)) BellaSita Mum
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