Nelson (cat)

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Nelson (fl. May 1940 – May 1944) was a cat who served as the chief mouser to the Cabinet Office during the wartime coalition government as a pet of Winston Churchill. In the summer of 1940, after Churchill became the prime minister, Nelson moved from Admiralty House to 10 Downing Street, where he had a rivalry with his predecessor: Neville Chamberlain's cat, the Munich Mouser.