Mickey has won over customers at Top Ten Produce in West Point Grey, some of whom are fighting for him to stay.
Mickey has won over customers at Top Ten Produce in West Point Grey, some of whom are fighting for him to staySnitch should be ashamed!
Karen ... where's PETA
So petty. ♥️ Mickey
Every aspect of this 'story' is ridiculous. Especially the fact it's on the news 🙄
Nothing better to complain about!!!!! Shop elsewhere Felicia
What a pity. Why can’t people stay out of things they don’t understand. So sad.
CDNs love government overreach. They support removal of rights. U made this society of complainers.
Sad, it's a 🐈 cat, it's not harmful, let it stay, just my opinion Pamela Mitchell ANCASTER CANADA 🇨🇦
Here's our cat. She's always on the hunt for those damn maple bugs.
No cats, but let's allow pesticides.
Sounds like Mickey is a service employee ! Mouse catcher ! And has years of precedent ! 😸☺️🤷♀️
Ohhh okay, but it's okay for a heroin junkie to shoot up and defecate outside this guy's door on the sidewalk, but Mickey the cat? Mickey's gotta go! Like who are you kidding Canada?
Therapy Cat
Freaking jealous people.....no words from my mouth.....€£€£€€€€¥¥₩₩¥$$%
Imagine having the time (and energy) to complain about a cat (looking up who to call, being on hold, making the report) and NOT having the grace to talk to the owner first. Hmmmm…
But the cat is ensuring there's FEWER animals!
Shame on those people.
Who was the snitch hehe
I take it you don’t have bodega cats in Canada?
lots of farms have barn cats to deal with mice and they store food and grain in the barns..Cats are clean animals, especially nocturnal when mice are active..
I say just put a vest on him and put a wee little price gun in his pocket. Now he’s an employee. Put him on the books.
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We have stupid laws because people are stupid. This situation seems fine, but a salmon processing plant with 25 cats climbing on the fish would have to be okay then too. No room for nuance in law.
Best piece of journalism the cbc has published in years
Those Bastards putting the hardworking kitty out of work.😧
Want to bet it was a Lieberal inspector.
That is one cute kitty…beautiful, gorgeous and sweet. My spirits would be lifted even higher if I walked in and saw that face.
After we have 2 cats for almost 1 1/2 years, many bugs have disappeared including spiders.
Hmmm have had a cat, is it really a health issue if trained, I think not. We let dogs in stores to bark and shit. Atleast cats know where their litter box is and how to use it.
This person who reported this should never go to visit Japan because the people love cats there. In good old days, we have pets hanging out at some stores and we knew that and played with them. If pest controls can't do the job, let nature deals with them....i.e. CATS!
Animal has no choice over where they can be and our human beings have to make those choices and sorry for Mickey.
Why can you have kids in the store but not cats? Cats are way cleaner.
Maybe we could focus on changing the regulations?
But people can bring their dogs to the mall and grocery stores. Please. 🙄
Bring in the really big boys (tigers, lions, jaguars) to get rid of the 'health'(?) 'inspectors'(?).
That customer needs to give their head a shake. What a killjoy.
In Vietnam, I saw vintage propoganda posters to breed cats to protect crops.
So should the customer go.
I’ll take the cat over the mice any day people! WTH 🤦♀️
WOW, why are there so many nosey, attention hungry, drama causing people out there!? Like just mind your own f*cling business! If you don't like the cat being there when you shop, shop elsewhere! FYI.... the cat didn't f*cking want you there anyway!
I guess nice are ok then
Keep the cat. Ban the customer.
Welcome to Trudeauistan !
So they want mice in the store? FFS!
The customer is cool with mouse shit all over their food?
Some people have to complain any time they can.
Boooo! Save the kitty!
It outrages people that a cat gets treated this way, but homeless people still have no where to go to the bathroom, wash their cloths, take a shower... our world is FUCKED!.
Next thing is health inspectors will shut him down for pest infestation. 🤦♂️ can’t win. I agree that animals should not be allowed in food establishments that SERVE food but grocery stores should absolutely allow a cat or cats. Better than being in a shelter or worse euthanized.
They did that because they don't care about anyone in this city. Whether it be seniors or people in poverty, they still won't leave any of us alone. They only care about the contractors!
There is always that one person 🙄🤦♀️🙄
Ridiculous. How many individuals come in dirty and full of germs.
I guess Mickey needs to get govt approved health& safety, c19 and sensitivity training
Where are the rodent-assassinating robot drones we were promised? BostonDynamics. Heck you can even make it look like a cat for fun. (In the meantime that customer who complained is Karen and I hope their milk spoils)
Typical liberal Karen BS.
What kind of petty, bureaucratic person would complain about a pet cat in a store? Service animals are allowed aboard flights and in restaurants, right? Unreal. 🙄
And this is why we can’t have anything nice….
People suck
Some ppl just need to 💩 in other ppl’s cereal for them to have a good day. I mean unless the thing was like sprawled out on the romain lettuce cleaning its booty hole while staring ppl down awkwardly as they enter the store then it’s probably fine.
Tell the customers it’s 10% off if they bring in a rat? And start with the Karen Rat that squealed…
DavidKrae And now he'll be shut down for vermin. Great job, Karens! Now go find somewhere else to buy groceries.
Madness
Karen strikes again.
That Damned Karen!
Burn the witches!
You would think health authorities would have bigger issues like the rats overrunning alleys in the city.
Oh, for Pete's sake, if the cat has been there for years, how come all of a sudden it's a problem, but it's minority rule nowadays, so it only takes one to dictate what's going to be or not be
Does the health inspector have a name and a home?
Karen does it again
That customer sucks.
id rather have a cat walking around the mice turds on my corn flakes box
I bet whoever it was that complained voted for Trudeau.
There is always some poop who ruins everything for others. Perhaps that customer has fleas. You could check it out, but he/she is probably a coward and remaining incognito!!!
That kitty looks like a support animal to me...
So it’s okay to have mice but not cats? 🤦🏼♀️
Seems like people wants to be the 'hero' nowadays...
Ban the person, not the cat
I like cats more than most people.
One customer. Oh I hope he finds out who it is
That's killing me. Bureaucracy runs amok.
Why have a cat control mice when you could use chemicals known to cause death instead?
Go ahead and risk your life dodging needles, garbage, tent hazards and violence but NO WAY will we put up with a friendly gentle animal….Said the city of Vancouver. 🫤🙄
Karen's ruin it for everyone ..
Emotional support cat. Problem solved
CatWorkers
Safest thing for people with allergies would be to post a sign. Better people know and shop elsewhere instead of being unknowingly exposed and not having a queue to take emergency meds, or why they need a hospital visit. The sign would also queue the health authority - Catch 22
What dbag snitched on a puddy cat?
Rules and “safety” will crush our society.
Maybe they can hire him back as an PCO employee.
People should just mind their own business. What good came of this. 😡🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦
WTF really?
who is going to keep the chips warm?
Vancouver for you.
My guess is whomever reported it watches MSM (especially CBC), works for government / education, uses pronouns / Ukraine flag / needles in social media profile. Probably also “standsforTurdeau”
ban the customer not the cat
Tell them to screw off!! Fucking sick of these government bullshit rules!!!
Mickey deserves his job back. CatsWithJobs
Would the shop owner have to get rid of a guard dog too?
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miserable human, get a life!
Let the cat be as night security. Quietly the night patrol will begin in stealth mode.
Unbelievable.
How come they can have them in Healthcare seniors facilities?
Let's have a rodent infestation instead lol
Ban the customer they are not a good fit.
No more Mr. Mice guy
More Karens ruining lives
All they need to do is register it as a service cat.
The customer…
If you don't like a cat in a store go to another store...
bringbackMickey
How absurd. Cats go an important service in managing pests... They have since civilisation formed. Just go to an Eastern Mediterranean country and they are everywhere. The community looks after them, and they don't cause problems for patrons
Health inspectors would rather have vermin.
As we learned during the pandemic, there are a lot selfish Canadians that are under the mistaken belief that they have the right to involve themselves in other people’s business and tell others what to do.
Just took a pic of a cat living in major grocery store in UK. He had a fish of food and bed by the wiper fluid and everyone stopped to pay him. Uk has a much healthier love of animals
Funny a Rat outs the Cat classic rat behaviour said rat should crawl into a hole
. Bodega Cats Smh
so rodents are preferable?
Macroscopic biocontrol.
Perhaps health officials should take a look into the complainant’s own Heath environment. Sounds like person off a bit, seriously Happy to sign a petition to keep cat in the store to keep rodent population from spreading to the surrounding neighbourhood and contaminating food.
I would rather have a cat near my food than mouse poison.
Some people have just too much time and nothing better to do.
Karen.
Metaphor for life in this PC world built by delicate little purple hairs. Reap what you sow
Oh ffs. Guess you keep the rodents & pests then. Cats even help controls spiders/bugs. The world is so upside down.
Why can't people mind their own business? Argh, so frustrating.
At a Timmies once, I pointed out a mouse behind the counter to the cashier, she just chuckled and said that they like the donut crumbs. Hahaha 🤪 🐁
This is what caused the Plague. Cats were eradicated from cities and then disease carrying rats flourished
Should be able to put a warning on the door in case someone is allergic. But im allergic and I'd rather shop there knowing no mice then another place that may have them. As long as they clean up after the cat shouldnt be an issue. Whoever reported this is a real jerk.
Inspectors support mice infestation instead? Absolutely ridiculous, hope the owner fights back.
Not sure what health risk Mikey poses. Now the owner will have to place and check mice traps. Too bad that the Health Inspectors are not allowed more leeway in decision making about rules. The person who complained must be quite the sourpuss.
There is always that 1 whiny numpty that has to complian.
That is sad. And then he will tickets for mice once the cat is gone. Leave the cat alone. Change the rules.
Maybe Mickey the cat can help get rid of all the rats at CBC News?
Progressives always side with the better story. They demand food safety laws, then demand exemptions if the cat has a cool name.
What a sad pathetic life that individual must have to make a complaint about that.
Hundreds of Vancouver businesses have shop pets, you gunna go after them all? 🤦♂️ let them stay
Free Mickey!
That is a shame!!! Make him an employee!!
'We're from the government and we're here to help'
Afff, Karen! 🤦♂️
hire the cat as an 'employee'
Unbelievably up tight. Try going to a UK pub, a lot of them have a pub cat or a dog. No one has died because of it
Irritating busybodies are the worst..
Green Is A Scam. This is a Canadian home today Save up children.
Find out who complained. Ask that person to shop elsewhere!
Maybe let the cat roam in the store after it closes?
We've failed as a country
this is why us humans can't have nice things
I would much rather have a cat roaming the store before we spread poison everywhere and then have them desiccate on the foodstuffs that people take home.
AnnaAnthro Very disappointed in Vancouver.
Same busybodies screaming at anyone not wearing a mask.
To all of you complaining about this. Just ask any person who owns a cat what they do when they are home preparing or eating food and the cat jumps up on the table or counter. Now you know why cats and grocery stores don’t mix.
Karens strikes again...
Customer needs to mind there only business
Health regs against pets at grocery stores. Common in most places. Not even to help with vermin as in this case.
Point grey likes their black pussies..
karensgonewild
So the mice can stay but the cat goes?
Yup, better to have the place overrun with mice than one cat doing what comes naturally. Sometimes the 'rules' are just nuts
Therapy Companion
So one customer complains. Don’t come to store! I hate this wokies that make life of everybody else around miserable. Just think, how far we as a society got where someone is telling me what I can and can’t do in my own store. This is more and more ridiculous.
Always a Karen calling to ruin everything good.
So it's better to douse the place in poison regularly?
Boo.
That’s not fair. Some animals have jobs, and they are good at them and they know it’s their job. And to be fired without cause? That’s discrimination. I know a bar dog who was also fired without cause. He took all cans to the recycling bin that was his job. He excelled at it
People ruin everything
When will people mind their own business. So Some nasty mrs cravets turned him in.
Who is the fabulous person that complained and can they be flogged publicly?
You can have them in your house. In your kitchen. In your bedroom. But heaven forbid, a grocery store store? Exterminate them… CUPE in action, again…
Get Mickey certified as a service animal - emotional support cat?
Really? If shots are up to date and he isn’t causing issues there should be a way to allow him to stay.
Snitches get stitches
The city has had a rodent problem for decades. Owner found a solution. Government overreach, and who wants a cat hater in their business anyway? Bodegacats_
Mickey so cute.😻 Small corner store where I live and they had a cat for mice, but customers complained. The cat was not spayed. 🙀 The smell was unbearable for many.🤢 Cats spray urine on any surfaces including the cases of water on store floor. Cat was eventually fixed. 🙏😃
Hey, Vancouver Coastal Health--why are you more concerned about the presence of a cat than the presence of mice running around the store? I think you've got it backwards...
Okay, now that's a Karen blabber mouth. He only needs to say, yes, sorry, I will comply, and then do as he pleases.
People have used cats for thousands of years. It is almost like we aren’t people anymore.
In the olden days cats weren’t pets they had a job catching mice. Still a great idea.
I’m a dog person to the core but surely a cat is better in a grocery store than mice.
Mice of Point Grey, Spread the word,Mickey the cat is gone, allowed back into Top Ten Produce.. ' We March into the store at dawn'😉
There’s always one who has to rock the boat
Too bad people can’t mind their own business!!
In the stores here there are birds that fly around over the produce. I would rather the cat!
Mickey Mouser ousted because of a Rat. Good grief!
Canada generally has ridiculous rules around banning animals from stores and restaurants. Well behaved animals and people should be welcome. The others punted. It’s easy.
Booooo
there are other ways to get rid of mice. I can't stand the thought of cats being around food in a grocery store.
Some people prefer rats and mice
I’d ban the customer.
Poor lil cat gonna think he did something wrong 😿
Oh Karen
Maybe they should be spending more time in LTC homes and do their freaking job!
Now he has a mouse problem and this is likely worse than having a cat in the shop
No Kitty Koodies on your Bananas anymore just mouse 💩
You report on this TALK ABOUT WHAT THE WEF IS DOING......BY 2030 WE WILL OWN NOTHING AND BE HAPPY? NO MORE FREE WILL
Some people just can't keep there mouth shut eh ?
You call this news? Nothing else better to report on?
Can’t these people mind their own business. I’d ban that customer
Why can’t people just mind their own business!!!
Harsh chemical pesticides are better though 🙄
Always that ONE person that ruins things. Too bad we can’t ban the moaning shopper and bring the cat back!
Tell them Mickey identifies as human. No problem.
Some people have miserable lives and have to ruin others lives. What possible emotional gratification did they get out of this? Lots of people liked Mickey and it’s obvious Mickey liked the attention. Hope he gets to come back some day.
This is so damn Canadian.
Seems like the REAL rat was the customer
People hating on bodega cats are outright evil. What's a bodega without a cat?
Technically the cat is an employee he keeps the mice out this person is a customer that can shop elsewhere if they don't like the employee mickey
Leave Mickey the cat alone.
Customer should have minded their own damn business
God ppl suck 😑
CBC was probably hoping readers would make the whistleblower a hero.
Thank you Karen, thank you Bif.
People SUCK! We can't have any nice things anymore.
Oh it's better to have stinking rodents running through the establishment than a cat? Where's the logic?
Boooooo
The mice can stay. The cat had to go. Nice one.
Yes, I'm sure it's much healthier for the store owner to spray toxic chemicals all over to control rats. JFC, humans have lost the plot. For thousands of years, Cats have been green, organic, all natural pest control for humans. FREE MICKEY.
Would it be cool if they're was some way the internet could do its thing and and somehow ID this person.
Terrible. What’s the solution here.. poison, traps? Customers are really going to want to see that I’m sure.
Mice that contaminate and damage foods? Good. Cat that stops mice from contaminating food? Bad. k Has the customer ever considered... shopping elsewhere? Bodega cats are a thing in the US, a big grocer is one thing but a small store, I don't see the issue.
Customer is an jerk
The complainer needs to be roasted on social media, public humiliation
So what does the store owner need to do now? Put down poison that rodents build tolerance to and glue traps that are more of a torture death. Hey, they are in government, they don't need to think, just read and follow rules.
Team Mickey!! Cats a employee for pest control. Let him stay.. just put a sign up 'Cat on duty'
This is bull shit. The cat needs to stay.
It's funny that a Vancouver health inspector says the cat has to go but the HIV ridden homeless heroin junkies are free to cough, piss, and bleed inside stores 🤔
There’s always a ‘Karen’ lurking about, isn’t there?
Long ago, my brother picked up a loaf of bread at a major grocery chain. Inside was a wee mousie. He ended up with a refund and a pet mouse for many years.
Put a vest on it and call it a service animal. Problem solved
I think I'd in general pass at shopping there......
Maybe the complainant should just not shop there anymore 😊
Had 'Winston' the cat at South Eastern Farmers Co-op for years. He cleaned up the store and they didn't have to use nasty pesticides. This turncoat probably thinks milk comes from stores. Out of touch with reality!
There was once 8 mice who….
How about the customer doesn’t come back.
So they'd rather mice over a cat
Some people need to mind their own business and stop being busy-bodies.
All in line little soldiers! Stand too! 🧍♂️. 🙄. We called that a snitch back in time!
The authorities don't want to prevent further COVID/RSV/Flu spread in the schools and other workplaces. But this?
The store has bigger problems if it has mice!!
Put him on the payroll, no longer a per but an employee.
You remove one cat and now you get to populate even more rats.
Good.
So the Mickey helped with the bigger problem being Vancouver of keeping Rats and Mice at bay and he has to go I Shake my head is there no common sense anymore really I would prefer a Cat as opposed to the alternative 🤔
Apparently has a bit of a rat problem too
Humans are so annoying. Mind your business
Bodegacats_ are so useful!
as a pet, you have no nature.
I am so happy Vancouver treats public health so seriously. You may step in human shit or on a spent needle, but dammit, there’s no way you’re going to interact with a friendly cat in a business.
Quiet you guys. The mice has they them pronouns.
But the cat is the store owner's support animal... People are allowed to take their service dogs in the store, so exceptions can undeniably be made.
'Gatekeepers'
I'd put a Service Animal vest on him and keep him there!
You know what? I've seen a fuck of a lot of people lately strolling around grocery stores with dogs NOT indicated to be 'service animals'...they must be 'comfort animals' and people just BRING THEM IN. So fuck this over-regulation re: Mickey.
Ban the customer, bring back the cat...
Health “inspectors” showed up not for the mice but the cat……tells you everything you need to know about the bureaucracy
… a special pox on stoopid humans … all facets & factors …
So a cat is no good but all the poison they will put down to kill rodents is going to be ok. Hey mommy look what I found it’s sticky and sweet.
Canada has over regulated everything.
Sure, you can take on a cat after one complaint, but you won't protect kids from a vascular disease currently circulating heavily in the population. 'Public health' needs to be synonymous with comedy at this point.
That Health Inspectors and Bylaw officers work mostly on complaint lets the Karens win.
Stupid regulations Cats are master hunters not to mention they are great friends for people and our know to help reduce stress and anxiety
Until Covid I had no idea that there were so many God damnrd snitches in our midst.
What a despicable low life who reported this! If I was the store owner I would openly defy this law and refuse to pay fines.
some customers are so nosy.....
They should mind their own business.
If that person didn't like it then that person can shop elsewhere. Unreal what this world has come to.
Bullshit! They prefer to have mice!
I don’t even like cats but what ever happened to the consumer logic of “if you don’t like it don’t shop there”? Instead an anonymous complaint to the health department. This society needs an enema.
Hope this whiner never goes to Portugal. Open air restaurants where the local dogs just wander in and out. People in Canada really need to lighten up..
So mf would rather have mice running around than 1 domesticated cat? Lol
Absurd over regulation
Aresholes everywhere
A month in stocks for the complainer.
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Any business should be allowed to have a domesticated animal on premises as long as they post a sign at the front about the animal. Customers can choose whether or not to shop there.
Mice are OK; but cat has to go. Will the customers complain about mouse shit in their cereal?
If the customer doesn't like it don't shop there.
That customer should go.....to....you know where.
Let the cat stay!!! Even 10 Downing Street has its own mouser. Number10cat they need your support!!
Animals are not pets. They are members of a family.
I would bet money that it was some lady who resembles my late grandmother.
“For years” Earlier this year I heard that city of Burnaby staff were flying a drone over a COVID hospital and then telling Staff there that the signs that have been in place since 1988 needed to be replaced because they breach med some capricious and arbitrary rule.
The cat didn’t do its job if it has been years, and the rats aren’t gone yet! If you rely on cats to exterminate, you will have cats and rats, not one or the other.
I’m firmly on team Mickey.
But the mice are allowed to stay.
Lots of people are highly allergic to cats. So makes sense.
Maybe traps/ poison is better in that setting.
Sometimes you just have to ignore silly rules and stupid people. Let’s see what’s the biggest health risk mouse poop on your food or a domestic cat protecting it.
Wokeness and a corrupt government will destroy this beautiful country...
I think the mice were the bigger issue here
God, people are just the worst.
Always someone with a big mouth. Some people are only happy if they r causing problems
I found the petition to let the cat back in his store:
Over regulated country
Another victim of the government due to a fringe minority whining. Thank-you for your services.
I bet the person has a fear of cats.
Hard hitting stories we all need to hear, give CBC more money now
The complainer also wants mandatory masking back and she wants everyone to know about long COVID.
If the cat has to go, I guess no one can bring a pet in either?
North hastings is a cesspool of human fecal matter disease and not to mention the shitnon the streets and infected needles and these losers are worried about a pet cat...
Must of been a liberal!
Does the cat have its own washroom? Does it wash its paws? Does it wipe itself after taking a dump? When it kills a mouse, where does he put it? Where does it sleep? What does it eat?
So Rats over cats. I hope the complainer is satisfied with her pettiness.
Ya know, there’s a WAAAAAAYYYYY biggest story in West Point Grey that would solve all your revenue issues, should you decide to be unbiased and go investigate some real news. Otherwise just keep wasting our money with stupid cat stories from there.
Whoever reported this is a terrible person. Also, the rules need to be changed for a grocery store.
That’s to bad. There is always that “one” complainer who ruins it for the rest .
Cats are not allowed in US grocery stores either, but they often are. Rats and mice are also live animals, and I bet are far more dangerous to customers' health than one cat. A cat is also a better idea than putting out poison, which gets into the food chain of other predators.
Who would go out of their way to report this? Must be a blast at parties.
hey Bodegacats_
To the person who complained: That produce comes from farms. Farms are full of cats. Good luck in this frightening world!
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