US Embassy Apologizes For ‘Cat Pajama-Jam’ Email Let Out Of The Bag

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Not exactly the “cat’s pajamas.”

The U.S. Embassy in Canberra, Australia apologized Sunday for an email featuring a photo of a Cookie Monster costume-wearing cat holding a plate of chocolate chip cookies, according to the Australian Associated Press.

The cat-themed email titled “meeting” sent by the Department of State contained a fake meeting invitation with an RSVP link and a section of Latin.

The U.S. Embassy issued a lighthearted response to the “training error” made by a staff member “testing out” their email newsletter platform.

“Sorry to disappoint those of you who were hoping to attend this ‘cat pajama-jam’ party, but such an event falls well outside our area of expertise,” U.S. Mission to Australia public affairs counselor Gavin Sundwall said in an email sent two days after the debacle, according to the Australian Associated Press.

Sundwall added that “strong new management controls” would be implemented to prevent the mistake from happening again.

Mashable dug deeper into what could have caused the fiasco and found that the cat appears to belong to a Melbourne woman who is fond of dressing her cats up in costumes.

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  1. Hell, this is the first decent thing to come out of the U.S. Government in ages – and they’re saying it’s a mistake?

    Cute cats in Cookie Monster suits are exactly what we need more of in America today!

  2. Those photos made my day!

    (By the way, I have an extension called Make America Kittens Again that replaces photos of tRump, Mike Dense and others with pictures of cats.)

  3. So Mashable actually took the time to find out who the cat belongs to. As if everyone was dying to know.

  4. Cats are good. Costumes, I kind of take the cat’s view on that, which is they’ll tolerate it briefly at best. Anyone remember the famous Cat Prin—Tailor of a Cat? Bizarrest web pages ever coded.

  5. ANOTHER example OF THE DEEP state TRYING to MAKE trump look INCOMPETENT.

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