Roam? No, stay at home

I COULDN’T agree more with Viscount Monckton about the menace of domestic cats.

If dog owners allowed their pets to roam into other people’s gardens, killing creatures, pooing and digging holes, they would end up in court.

I’ve seen wrens, robins and blackbirds trying frantically to protect their fledglings from cats.

I didn’t realise it was possible to muzzle a cat, but I don’t think that would stop them killing because they would still chase and claw at helpless birds.

They need to be kept in for the sake of our fragile wildlife.

LINDA GOATLEY, London W9. PLEASE, Viscount Monckton, show me how to muzzle my elderly but still feisty cat Hyper.

I’ll stand by with the iodine — for you, not him.

STELLA HOPKINS, Swindon, Wilts. MY WIFE Rosemary and I adopted four rescue cats — Buffy, Cobweb, Sabrina and Spooky. They have proved most useful in driving out and exterminating rats.

Two fledglings were brought into our house but were unharmed and returned to the nest.

Foxes and cats are not related, as claimed by Viscount Monckton. Felis and Vulpes are as distant as we are from mice.

VINCENT RUANE, Caversham, Berks.