Elon Musk’s son asks about police cats, Delhi Police has the best reply

Elon Musk with his son X Æ A-12 (Image credit: @elonmusk/Twitter)

Ever wondered why police forces across the world train and deploy dogs, but rarely, if ever, has one heard of police cats? When Elon Musk’s three-year-old son, X Æ A-12, asked him this question, he was left stumped, but amused.

The chief executive officer of Tesla tweeted this query to the world at large and got a ‘pawsitively’ hilarious response from Delhi Police.

“Lil X just asked if there are police cats, since there are police dogs,” tweeted Elon Musk with a laughing face emoji.

The official Twitter handle of Delhi Police responded with the help of some clever wordplay. “Hi Elon Musk, please tell Lil X that there are no police cats because they might get booked for feline-y and 'purr'petration,” the police department replied.

Hi @elonmusk, please tell Lil X that there are no police cats because they might get booked for feline-y and 'purr'petration. https://t.co/W8CMMvYi9I

— Delhi Police (@DelhiPolice) June 2, 2023

“Spot on,” wrote one Twitter user, while another asked that the department’s social media manager be given a promotion. Several people dropped laughing face emojis in the comments section.

X Æ A-12, nicknamed Lil X, is Elon Musk’s three-year-old son with Canadian singer Grimes. Interestingly enough, his unusual name also has a cat connection – asked how to pronounce this name, Elon Musk joked on his Saturday Night Live monologue: “It's pronounced: Cat running across the keyboard.”