"Yellow" wrote...
Bob Hobden said:
"Kathy" wrote...
Gosh, I put that badly!

It seems Millie was not the only casualty. The vet has put me in touch
with a bod from a government investigation unit, who informs me that a
near neighbour has also lost a cat to the same symptoms, and that they
are
investigating. They were not the only cats to die apparently.

He asked a lot of questions, and from this he is beginning to think
that a
recent influx of moles may be a factor. Someone may be poisoning the
moles, and the cats are catching and eating them. We should know more
in
two weeks when the results of the tests on one of the other dead cats
are
back.

Meanwhile, I am having to keep my other cat indoors. Suzie is quarter
Siamese, she seems to have inherited the vocal chords and the attitude,
and boy, is she letting me know about it!

Just over two months ago one of our cats, the one that lives mostly
outside,
came home rather poorly and then spent 4 days at the Vets on a drip, no
idea
what caused it. Then a week later a neighbour found an otherwise healthy
looking fox dying in her garden. We suspect some nasty person put out
some
poison.

Change "nasty" to "exasperated and at the end of their tether" and you
might well be on the ball, unless you truly believe that people who
resort to poisoning do so for the pleasure of it. But when it is your
animal that has pushed a neighbour to this behaviour I suppose it is
easier for the conscience to consider them simply 'nasty' and you and
your "pet" free of any contribution whatsoever.

"exasperated and at the end of their tether" Why would anyone be such with
an animal that has every right to be there? You just have to grow up and to
learn to live with it. A bit of cat poo isn't too bad, digging and
scratching can be a nuisance from foxes it's true, but mice/rats/rabbits are
a lot worse believe me.

Anyone that resorts to such things deserves all they get, there can be no
excuse for such cruelty and it's illegal too.

There are a myriad ways of trying to sort out such a problem before you
consider such an inhumane way to rid yourself of the nuisance an animal is
causing, talk to the owner, the RSPCA, the Cats Protection League, Local
Council ......

God forbid you got noisy selfish neighbours, we would be reading about it in
the press.

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Regards
Bob Hobden
just W. of London