Hat tip to Rob at Gut Rumbles for this link to an
awesome School Mascot:
From Salt Lake City KUTV-2:
Logan Students Pick Mummified Cat For MascotMajor props to School Director Anne Desjardins for allowing the students to pick this character for their mascot! Here are two photos -- which one is the Mummycat:
The Egyptians have King Tut, the Incas have ice maidens and one Cache Valley school now, officially, has joined them with its own preserved artifact.
Students at the Cache Valley Learning Center, a private school in Logan that moved to a new location this fall, voted Tuesday for the school's first mascot: a Mummycat.
The idea didn't just come from nowhere. A real, naturally mummified cat sits on a shelf in the 116-year-old building's basement, just a few feet from where it was found in a dark crawl space. About 3 feet long, the cat appears to have died while on its back, looking upward and stretched out. While parts of it seemed to have decayed, others are completely intact, including its whiskers and ears.
The cat was discovered just before Halloween, bringing several rumors of mummycat curses and mummy ghost stories, science teacher Bill Masslich said.
"It was thrown around as a joke for a while," he said, before some of the students started to seriously suggest the cat become the school's official mascot.
Of the 78 students who voted at the K-8 school, 35 students wanted to be the Mummycats. A wolverine and raven came in second and third in the mascot poll.
School Director Anne Desjardins said the new and school's first mascot is OK with her, as long as the kids can come up with something visual to use as the mascot. And it can't be the actual mummified cat downstairs, she said.
