A small town in Alaska has lost its longtime feline mayor

FILE - In a May 29, 2016 file photo, Stubbs, the honorary feline mayor of Talkeetna, Alaska, walks out of the West Rib Bar and Grill. Stubbs was found dead by his owners Friday, July 21, 2017, at the age of 20. Talkeetna, a town with a population of about 900, elected the yellow cat mayor in a write-in campaign in 1998. There is no human mayor in the town. (AP Photo/Mark Thiessen, File)

Stubbs the cat, mayor of a small town in Alaska, has passed away.

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There is no human mayor in the town.

Lately, the elderly cat had been keeping close to home, but in his younger years, he was known as a cat-about-town–usually meowing up a storm at Nagley’s General Store.

And while it’s sad that Stubbs has passed, another kitten in might be ready to take up the mayoral mantle.

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“Amazingly, Denali has the exact personality as Stubbs,” the family wrote of the kitten. “He loves the attention. He’s like a little puppy when he’s around people. We couldn’t have asked for a better understudy than Denali — he really has followed in Stubbs’ paw prints in just about everything.”

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