A Disneyland feral cat who hunted for mice and rats at evening and frolicked with annual passholders at a members-only membership by day has died after years as a fan-favorite feline with hundreds of social media followers.
Nutmeg the feral cat who patrolled Disney California Journey for rodents and visited die-hard Disneylanders on the Magic Key Terrace has handed away, in keeping with WDW Information In the present day.
“Nutmeg was certainly one of Disneyland Resort’s feral cats, tasked with retaining the rat inhabitants down across the parks and making certain the one rodents friends see are Mickey and Minnie Mouse,” in keeping with WDW Information In the present day. “Nutmeg roamed the park very often, however had an affinity for the Magic Key Terrace lounge at Disney California Journey.”
Nutmeg the Magic Key Terrace Cat Passes Away at Disney California Journeyhttps://t.co/whWGQ9PVXR
— Disneyland Information In the present day (@dlnt) Could 7, 2023
The legend of Nutmeg grew as Magic Key Terrace drink masters named a secret menu cocktail within the cat’s honor and Walt Disney Imagineering drew design inspiration from Nutmeg and different feral cats for the annual passholder hideaway.
The Magic Key Terrace secret menu drink was made for the passholder “in crowd” that is aware of and loves Nutmeg, in keeping with Disney California Journey culinary director Jeremiah Balogh.
“We've a lot of associates that like to go to us and a few of them are four-legged associates,” Balogh instructed Southern California Information Group in 2021. “We've a resident cat that may come and go to friends and forged members every time she or he feels lonely.”
The Nutmeg cocktail is made with Myers darkish rum, Bailey’s Irish Cream, Frangelico hazelnut liqueur and apricot liqueur.
“That is undoubtedly a dessert drink,” in keeping with the Disney Meals Weblog. “When you’re a rum fan, a sucker for dessert cocktails or a secret menu hunter, it might be price a strive. Particularly should you love Disneyland cats.”
Imagineering had customized Mexican tile made with cat designs that line the columns of the terrace interspersed with different accent tiles for a 2022 makeover of the Magic Key Terrace.
Nutmeg was a pleasant cat who typically wandered down from Grizzly Peak to work together with diners and drinkers on the out of doors patio bar.
Nutmeg belonged to a principally hidden colony of feral cats that hunt rats on the Anaheim theme parks. The well-fed cats make uncommon daytime appearances within the parks, however are out in pressure through the in a single day graveyard shift.
Disneyland supplies feeding stations, neutering and medical take care of the feral felines that present a useful service — even when their mere presence would possibly make Mickey and Minnie a bit nervous.
The Cats of Disneyland have legions of followers with 112,000 followers on Instagram and 17,000 extra on Twitter.