A newspaper article I saw yesterday said that over the summer a dozen cats have been deliberately poisoned in our local town (well, a large village with four shops and a post office). It is only 3 miles away from where I live, where some of you may remember that 6 cats were poisoned three years ago this month, among them my beloved Napoleon. It seems a strange coincidence, and I don't believe in coincidence. Several months after Napoleon died, a woman who was moving away from our hamlet more or less confessed that she was responsible, but no action was ever taken. I don't know where she went, but she was forced to move because of a divorce, and I know she worked fairly locally. So I am going to talk to the woman mentioned in the article, whose cat was a lucky survivor of the latest incidents, and without mentioning names, see if there are aspects of the two cases in common. Then I may go to the police.