One of our two black-and-white rescue cats was left with Michael and Jane Tulley of Cat Welfare, skinny and nervous, barely a year old, after inconveniently producing a second litter of unwanted kittens.

On the odd occasion she has gone missing since she was rehomed with us, we have taken every possible action to ensure our now neutered, collared, microchipped cat is safely home within 24 hours and not taking up space at one of the busy animal-rescue shelters in town.

We will be sending Cat Welfare a cheque towards feeding, caring for, neutering and microchipping more unfortunate lost, abandoned and unwanted cats and hope it will not have to be spent defending a ridiculous compensation claim.

-J Pepper, Railway Street, Brighton