THE death of Inverness Botanic Garden’s precious cat Shadow was a “terrible” blow for personnel and visitors alike.
The free-to-enter destination is popular with visitors from throughout the Highlands and beyond.
However the city’s favoured green area has a brand-new feline buddy in the type of Ginger George who has actually used up the mantle of making everybody feel welcome.
Facilities supervisor Ewan MacKintosh stated the brand-new addition, who unlike Shadow, has a more of a nomadic existence around the gardens than his predecessor who was nearly a long-term local.
Ewan stated: “His name is Ginger George however he is not here rather as typically as Shadow was since he does not live here like Shadow utilized to.”
Discussing Shadow’s death previously this year, he included: “Everybody was quite ravaged. Everybody liked Shadow.”
A memorial to the cat now includes on the brand-new glasshouse in the gardens as the old structure from the 1930s– because removed and changed– was among the moggy’s preferred haunts.
