Maybe the cat killers are not foxes but unruly dogs
MY sympathies to the person who claims his cat was killed by a fox.
How absolutely devastating to find your cat mauled to death.
Did he, however, actually witness the attack?
The reason I ask is that I own a very small, frail, 21-year-old female cat who likes nothing more than to just nod-off to sleep in my garden.
Virtually every day I watch the foxes and my cat in close proximity and they both ignore each other.
Occasionally my cat will hiss if a fox gets too close and the fox scampers off without so much as a sideways glance.
I also have a feral cat that lives under a hedge in my garden.
He is a permanent fixture day and night.
He would be a very easy target for a fox attack, but he has remained unscathed for five years.
What bothers me much more than foxes are the amount of big dogs that are allowed to run wild with no disclipline from their feckless owners.
I was recently walking along Kingston Gorse when a greyhound chased a cat along the green and only missed killing it when the terrified cat managed to escape over a high wall.
The woman owner of the dog thought the whole scene was hysterically funny and made no attempt to catch the dog, which was by now in a complete frenzy trying to get over the wall.
Also, just before Christmas, I was chatting to a man at The Mulberry shops in Goring who was walking a Doberman dog.
She was a rescue dog, he confided, and as soft as putty.
He then went on to say that the only problem was it killed cats.
It had killed the neighbour's cat, but he had managed to get rid of the body, and he had also walked ahead once when the dog ran up a driveway and he could not bear to watch the dog kill a cat.
He told me this without the slightest bit of shame and ended with "I've never really liked cats much, anyway". Needless to say, I was speechless.
Therefore, may I suggest that it could be out-of-control dogs attacking cats, and foxes are getting the blame. No doubt the injuries would be similar.
K Davey
Goring-by-Sea
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