AS I was walking along Idovers Drive on Sunday, April 24, I noticed a black mound on the grass verge. On further investigation this turned out, very sadly, to be a dead black cat.

As I was looking at this poor creature another lady came over to me and as she was local and knew a few black cat owners she went off to see if it belonged to them.

I decided to knock on a few doors in close vicinity to try to locate the owner and I was incensed by the attitudes of these people.

The first house I knocked at, the man informed me that the cat had been there for a few days and that the dustbin men would pick it up tomorrow.

Didn't he think to knock on a few doors himself to find the owner?

Likewise the next house had a similar reply. Is it too much to ask these days that someone thinks of their neighbour and gets off their backside occasionally?

I think this is a sad indication of the way our society is today. Even if the person discovering the poor cat isn't a animal lover themselves then surely they should have some regard for the poor owner of the cat who will obviously be distraught.

I am the proud owner of three cats and if that was my cat on the grass verge I would like to think that someone would have the sense of mind and decency to try to discover the owner and not leave the poor cat to the refuse collector.

It took myself and the other lady just ten minutes to discover the owner of the cat, so why couldn't the neighbours who had been passing this cat for two to three days have done the same?

Unfortunately this seems to reflect the selfish society we live in today and it makes me very angry.

V LOEBER

Toothill, Swindon