I don’t know how anyone could think that being a glorified furry would help you pull birds, but QPR mascot Jude the Cat has found out the hard way that it’s not appropriate to be flirting with female football fans on matchdays at Loftus Road.

The man in the Jude the Cat costume has reportedly been fired after being given a string of ­warnings telling him to stop chatting up match-goers and get on with his job. Surely they could have just neutered him instead?

Apparently QPR fans aren’t too happy with the decision, as watching Jude the Cat bust out his silky dance moves and frolic around at pitchside is a highlight of going to watch QPR these days, as they sit dismally in 17th in the Championship.

A source at QPR said:

“Everyone at the club loved Jude. He had the smoothest moves in the league but, unfortunately, he was a bit of a smooth talker, too. Several people complained that he was trying it on with the ladies more than cheering on the lads on the pitch. He would always be dancing with them and then trying to get them to give him their number. Jude was warned but he couldn’t help himself and the club had no choice.”

Here he is having a cheeky grope of someone’s mum at Loftus Road:

The good news for QPR fans is that the club are now looking for someone new to don the Jude the Cat costume, hopefully in time for the next match day. Although it would have been funnier if they just brought back the original Jude wearing a cone of shame around his head. Better yet, they could have brought in a second mascot in a Kurt Zouma costume to keep the h0rny cat in check.

I do wonder what the original Jude the Cat will do with his time now that he’s out of a job at QPR. Maybe he’ll try his luck in the deepest, dirtiest corners of the internet where there are plenty of people actively looking to sh@g anthropomorphic cats. Although that’ll probably be a dead end too if his kink is exclusively female QPR fans…

We’re not trying to kink-shame Jude though. In the end, curiosity got the cat fired.

Off he goes to the island of unemployed mascots, where maybe Brazil’s testicular cancer fighting mascot can teach him a thing or two about chatting up the ladies.

Chin up, Jude!