"This 14th century door at Exeter Cathedral, UK, is thought to be the oldest existing cat flap
A cat was paid a penny each week, to keep down the rats and mice in the north tower, and a cat flap was cut into the door below the astronomical clock to allow the cat to carry out its duties.
Records of payments were entered in the Cathedral archives from 1305 to 1467, the penny a week being enough to buy food to supplement a heavy diet of rodents."
A cat was paid a penny a week
Yeah, I’m gonna need a source on that. How does one pay a cat money at all!? If I gave my cat a stack of $100 bills, she might bat at it or rub her face on it. Before wandering off to sniff a speck of dust…
That’s how accountants express humor. I’ll admit it’s not great, but it’s there.
that’s more than 100 cat generations
Now that is what I call long term job security.
