Feline alert! Sybil the cat has moved into 10 Downing Street.
The prime minister and other important government members live and work at Downing Street.
The black and white puss is the first cat to live at 10 Downing Street since Humphrey. He was a stray who started living there in the late 1980s.
Humphrey was paid - £100 (NT$6,700) a year - using government money. His main job was to catch mice. The money was mostly used to buy his food. But it's believed that Alastair Darling, the finance minister, and his wife will pay for Sybil's upkeep. They own Sybil.
Brown's spokesman was asked if the cat would be allowed to go anywhere it wants in 10 Downing Street's offices.
"It's quite difficult to confine cats, so, yes," he said.
Humphrey belonged to a long line of government cats. One at the Home Office even gained "diplomatic status," which meant she couldn't be taken away.(Staff Writer, with AFP)
貓警報！貓咪喜比搬進唐寧街十號。
唐寧街是英國首相及其他重要內閣成員的官邸和辦公室所在地。
這隻黑白貓是自從韓弗里後，唐寧街出現的第一隻貓居民。韓弗里是一九八Ｏ年代後期開始出沒在唐寧街的一隻流浪貓。
韓弗里每年可賺一百英鎊（新台幣六千七百元），由英國政府公費支出。牠的主要工作是抓老鼠，薪餉通常用來添購貓食。但民眾相信，現任財政大臣阿利斯泰爾:達林夫婦會自行負擔喜比的飼養費，因為喜比是他們的家貓。
英國首相布朗的發言人被問及這隻貓是否獲准在唐寧街十號的辦公室任意出入。
「要限制一隻貓的行動可不太容易。所以，沒錯（牠可以任意走動），」發言人說。
韓弗里是英國政府長久以來飼養的貓群之一。英國內政部有一隻貓甚至獲得「外交身分」，如此一來牠就不會被別人帶走了。
（法新社／翻譯：袁星塵）
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