Warning: this story contains numerous puns which readers may find distressing.
Today may well be World Cat Day, but for staff at Mars Petcare every day is spent in celebration of their feline friends.
Domestic short hairs Starsky and Piper (which makes you wonder what fate befell Hutch) are pictured joining staff at Mars’ East Midlands site for an impromptu meeting and quite possibly a bowl of soup.
Pet-friendly meeting rooms form just one part of the company’s ‘Petiquette’ policy. Other facilities include dog-walking routes, activity areas and playgrounds. In 2012, a ‘Pet-ernity’ scheme was launched – giving employees 10 hours of paid leave to care for and bond with a new cat or dog.
What really gave SLR ‘paws’ for thought was learning that Brand Director for the firm’s Whiskas range is none other than one Kat Griffiths. A more ‘purr-fect’ person for the job is hard to imagine. She must be ‘feline’ really pleased with herself.
