Stubbs, who liked to drink water and catnip from a margarita glass, was elected mayor of Talkeetna in 1998Stubbs, the honorary feline mayor of the Alaska town of Talkeetna, has died at the age of 20. Talkeetna, a town with a population of about 900, elected the yellow cat mayor in a write-in campaign in 1998. Stubbs, who liked to drink water and catnip from a margarita glass, quickly became a tourist attraction. There is no human mayor in the town. We couldn’t have asked for a better understudy than Denali — he really has followed in Stubbs’ pawprints in just about everything.”

Source: The Guardian July 24, 2017 00:45 UTC