The 18-year-old cat will be allowed to live out her final days in the Koumala Hotel in North Queensland, after earlier being banned by the local council over food safety concerns.
Koumala Hotel publican Rowena Colgrave with Precious, the hotel's resident Siamese .Queensland's health minister has overturned a local council's decision to evict a cat from a country pub over food safety concerns.
The senior Siamese has now resumed her place in the Koumala Hotel's pool room, south of Sarina, after intervention by Queensland parliamentarians., after council inspectors found her in the restaurant areas. "We have national food standards, which very sensibly says you're not supposed to have animals where food is prepared," Ms Fentiman said.
"We have a meeting of food ministers … and I have put that on the agenda so we can just have a bit more flexibility for some conditions for situations like these," she said.Popular outcome
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