美圖書館"貓館長"要被趕走 市民聯署挽留

A cat that has been a loyal worker and family to a library for six years is being taken away from the place he calls home.

在一座圖書館裏，有隻喵星人六年來一直是那裏的忠誠員工、大家庭中的一份子，但是現在，它卻面臨不得不被趕出家門的危險。

Browser has been living at the Friends of the White Settlement Public Library for six years. He's done great to contribute to fixing the library's rodent problem and is loved by everyone there. However, things took a different turn, when suddenly he was asked to move out of the place.

布魯瑟在過去的六年裏一直住在懷特塞特爾門公共圖書館裏。它對解決圖書館老鼠的問題做出了巨大貢獻，那兒的每個人都非常喜歡它。但是現在，事情發生了變化，人們突然要將布魯瑟掃地出門。

"I don't have any animals. But this cat is so gentle and so lovable and he brings so much comfort to so many people, it seems like a shame to take him away," Lillian Blackburn, president of the library, told Star Telegram.

圖書館館長莉蓮·布萊克本接受《星報》採訪時表示：“我不養寵物。但是這隻喵星人脾氣很好而且非常可愛，它給許多人都帶來了安慰，把它掃地出門真是一個恥辱。”

It all happened after a city employee complained to the city council that they weren't allowed to bring their puppy to work, but also pointed out the fact that Browser was allowed to stay at the library.

這一切的起因是因爲該市一名公務員向市政府進行了投訴，抱怨不允許帶着自己的小狗一起去上班，但是布魯瑟卻被允許待在圖書館裏。

Despite "an outpouring of support for the cat", the White Settlement City Council voted to evict the cat. Ironically, it was the city council that voted to allow the library to have a cat to help them with pest control.

儘管“源源不斷的人表示支持這隻貓咪”，但是懷特塞特爾門市政府還是投票決定將布魯瑟從圖書館趕出去。諷刺的是，之前正是市政府投票決定允許這座圖書館養貓來抓老鼠的。

Mayor Ron White, a nonvoting council moderator, also wants Browser to stay. "That cat doesn't have anything to do with whether somebody can have their puppy at City Hall. That cat doesn't hurt anybody," he said to Star-Telegram.

市長羅恩·懷特是列席會議主持人，他也希望布魯瑟能夠繼續留在圖書管裏。他在接受《星報》採訪時說道：“某人是否能夠把狗帶進市政廳和布魯瑟一點關係也沒有。布魯瑟沒有傷害任何人。”

Mayor White hopes they could reconsider its decision at the next council meeting on July 12, two days before Browser has to move out.

懷特市長希望市政府能夠在7月12日的會議上重新考慮這一決定，否則布魯瑟就將在14日那天被趕出圖書館。

"Browser is still at the library for now," White Settlement Public Library told Love Meow.

懷特塞特爾門圖書館則對“愛喵網”稱：“布魯瑟目前仍然待在圖書館裏。”