Campus Cat

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The Campus Cat sleeps in a side room of the library

In Campus Cat , also Campus Cat Augsburg , is a hangover, which serves as campus Cat of the University of Augsburg attention has been in the media regionally and nationally.

Life

Campus Cat, which belongs to an elderly lady who lives and looks after him in the university district of Augsburg, has viewed the university campus as his territory since 2009 and in this context seems to prefer the social sciences library in particular .

Campus Cat gained notoriety when the former student Akilnathan Logeswaran created a Facebook page about the Italian- born cat in 2012 , which, supervised by students, is more popular than the regular website of the university. There is also an Instagram channel on which students post photos and videos about Campus Cat.

The cat, known from several national media reports and television programs, has been available as a plush toy since 2016 .

In 2019, the promotion to the official cat of the state of Bavaria was rejected, but he should receive a different honorary title.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Christian Mühlhause: Augsburg's favorite cat: Campus-Cat is now also available as a soft toy. Augsburger Allgemeine, December 24, 2016, accessed on May 29, 2017 .
  2. ↑ Florian Fuchs and Wolfgang Wittl: Dienstkater hc Süddeutsche Zeitung, September 25, 2019, accessed on September 25, 2019 .
  3. ↑ Lukas Arend: "Campus Cat": What a tomcat has been up to for 14 semesters at the university. Augsburger Allgemeine, April 5, 2016, accessed September 25, 2016 .
  4. ↑ “Campus Cat has been the cult cat at the university for around nine years. What the beast that comes from Italy, makes at the cold and why you should not feed it. " Where campus Cat stays at the University liked , Augsburger Allgemeine, January 29, 2019
  5. ↑ Florian Kapfer: The Augsburg campus cat becomes a Facebook star. Welt N24, December 10, 2012, accessed June 1, 2017 .
  6. ↑ Prof. Dr. Miau from Augsburg: secret university mascot. Süddeutsche Zeitung, December 5, 2015, accessed on September 25, 2016 .
  7. ↑ kha: Campuskater has more Facebook likes than university. Spiegel Online, April 6, 2016, accessed September 25, 2016 .
  8. ↑ Campus Cat in Augsburg becomes a celebrity. (No longer available online.) Hitradio rt1, archived from the original on September 25, 2016 ; Retrieved September 25, 2016 .
  9. ↑ Suzanne Cords: Cuddling with the Campus Cat , Deutsche Welle , March 4, 2013
  10. ↑ Julija Televičiūtė: This Cat Comes To University Every Day To Help Students With Cuddles , boredpanda.com , June 2016 (English)
  11. ↑ Campus-Cat makes University of Augsburg famous RTL Next
  12. ↑ Ellen Scott: Sammy the cat attends university every day to give students soothing snuggles , Metro.co.uk , June 8, 2016 (English)
  13. ↑ Christian Mühlhause: Augsburg's favorite cat: Campus-Cat is now also available as a soft toy. Augsburger Allgemeine, December 24, 2016, accessed on May 29, 2017 .
  14. ↑ Landtag does not promote Augsburg's Campus Cat to the service hangover , Augsburger Allgemeine , September 24, 2019