Job I don't mind doing

[lexin]

I've spent part of the morning today trying to support a member who's lost her cat. She's devastated, and probably shouldn't be at work. No doubt management would regard this as a waste of time, but people love their animals, and some total bastard – a person with no conscience whatsoever – poisoned my member's cat with strychnine.

Yes, she is reporting it to the police; her husband is a policeman. We gather that her cat was not the only moggy poisoned in this way, and there is a risk that if some animal picked something poisoned up and then was scared off, a child might pick up whatever it is and end up the same way. So it has to be taken seriously.

But my member is really upset. As I was for her – I can't help thinking that an indoor cat is much easier on the whole. I'm probably over-careful with Smokey, but I love her so much.

Comments

[kalypso]

Oh, how terrible. My sympathies to your colleague.

[lexin]

Isn't it awful? I'll pass your condolences on. He was a lovely cat, too.

[kalypso]

Well, it's murder. When my cats die, I will be devastated, but I trust it will either be natural, or my decision to spare them suffering, and either way it will be after long and happy lives, not cut short by malice.

[lexin]

That's it, it's the malice behind it that's so unnerving.

[gloria1]

That is really horrible - there are some very disturbed and disturbing people out there. Who would do that? I'm very sorry for your member, this is just heart breaking.

[lexin]

It is appalling what some people will do. I have no idea why, he was a lovely cat.