THERE has been much talk recently in the Evening News concerning the alleged ferocity of domestic cats.

Of course, nature is red in tooth and claw. All creatures that on Earth do dwell, have a certain degree of ferocity, including humans.

Nevertheless, when treated with affection by people, most moggies reciprocate. We are not allowed to keep pets, except perhaps caged birds, in my present sheltered complex home, for understandable reasons.

However, long ago in Vauxhall Street I had one of these small felines as a kitten and another one adopted me. I became very fond of them.

Obviously, it is pathetic and perverse to "blame", as if in a sense of criminality, cats, dogs, lizards, foxes, mice, elephants, whatever, for anything they do.

During the last billion years, a rich diversity of millions of species has appeared on Planet Earth, although many, including the numerous dinosaurs, are no longer with us.

Yet out of all of those millions, it has been given to one life form only to ability to know the difference between right and wrong.

Sadly, one sometimes wonders whether all of these know the difference!

D E MARGRETT, Worcester