England’s not likely World Cup mascot will be viewing the Lionesses from his permanently home as Dave the cat settles into his brand-new environments.
While football may not have actually come home from Qatar, roaming cat Dave did after the friendly feline ended up being a company favourite of the team as he wandered easily around England’s Al Wakrah training base.
Manchester City duo John Stones and Kyle Walker were visualized with Dave on the majority of nights and the latter said the group would adopt the cat if Gareth Southgate’s guys won the World Cup.
Despite their quarter-final exit at the hands of France, Dave was still offered the possibility to take a trip to the UK and was ultimately rehomed by the Football Association’s media operations supervisor Anna Bush and her family.
“There was a discussion around wanting Dave to end up with a family with young children, so I put my hand up and volunteered and my children are absolutely delighted,” she informed the PA news company.
“They’ve never had a pet before and what a first pet to have! They (the players) are aware and delighted. He’s got a new home and a family to look after him.”
He left Al Wakrah in December, simply 2 hours after the team had actually left for home, and headed to a veterinary center where he had blood tests and vaccinations.
After remaining in quarantine for months he was invited by his brand-new family, immediately requiring to his environments and revealing he got an eager eye for football after his stint as England’s leading cat.
While Dave lived the life of a roaming throughout the guys’s World Cup, he can enjoy the ladies try to follow up their Euros success from last summertime in the convenience of his brand-new home.
The Bush family even have a method of ensuring Dave – who now has his own Instagram page – belongs to any success Down Under as he provides his match forecasts, with a little reward to back Sarina Wiegman and her group.
“He has settled in so well,” included Bush.
“He enjoys the surrounding location and enjoys it in the sun – he is discovering his feet and definitely enjoys viewing my 2 kids play football in the garden.
“One of them in fact coloured in both of the crests ahead of the Champions League and desired Manchester City to win so he put a couple of treats down (on the City crest) therefore Dave anticipated that Man City were going to win the Champions League last and they did!
“Now we have to start doing that for the Women’s World Cup I suppose – bring on England on Saturday.”
