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- President Andrés Manuel López Obrador declared 19 palace cats “living fixed assets,” obligating Treasury care.
- Veterinarian Jesús Arias was hired to provide permanent veterinary care for the cats.
- Staff, with the National Autonomous University of Mexico, vaccinated, sterilized, chipped the cats and built garden shelters.
- In July, a gray cat named Zeus entered a press briefing, after which staff stopped feeding him because he was overweight.
