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🗳 Stubbs
Domestic cat (part Manx) · Nagley's General Store, Talkeetna, Alaska, USA
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Stubbs was a part-Manx ginger tomcat born in Talkeetna, Alaska on 12 April 1997 who held the honorary title of mayor from that July until his death, a joke the town of about 900 people committed to for twenty years. Talkeetna is a historic district with no actual mayor, so his office was a spot on the counter of Nagley's General Store, where 30 to 40 tourists a day came to meet him. He survived a dog attack on 31 August 2013 that punctured a lung and fractured his sternum, and died in his sleep on 21 July 2017 aged 20.
What they do
Leans down off a wooden shop counter to lap catnip water out of a wine glass, sits back up and licks his chops..
A shop cat with a title, a drinking glass and absolutely no responsibilities.
Lore
- ★He held the honorary title from 18 July 1997 to 21 July 2017, almost exactly twenty years.
- ★Talkeetna has no actual mayor of any species, so his role was purely ceremonial; the write-in election story is local legend rather than record.
- ★He drew 30 to 40 tourists a day to Nagley's General Store.
- ★Every afternoon he visited a nearby restaurant and drank water spiked with catnip out of a wine or margarita glass.
Helping the real one
No verified way to support this animal exists.
We will not invent one.
No donation route. Nagley's General Store in Talkeetna still trades on his memory but no fund, charity or memorial appeal in his name could be verified.
Where this comes from
- Smithsonian Magazine Small Alaska town mourns loss of Stubbs the cat, beloved honorary mayor ↗
- Wikipedia Stubbs (cat) ↗
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