I'd like to assure T Hounsome (The Weekend Sun, March 16) that it is definitely not just him in his suffering with cats! Over the last few months I've been monitoring the ‘Neighbourly ‘ column on the internet and was very surprised at the amount of local people genuinely suffering from the unwanted attentions of some cats! Myself and near neighbours have suffered for at least a year from what the council animal officer describes as ‘lazy cats', cats that can't be bothered to scratch a hole, do their business then cover it. So virtually every day I have to do a patrol around my property to pick up poo and dispose of it before someone puts their foot in it.

D Lawrence, Otumoetai.