I don't ride horses or hunt foxes but I have been following the letters in the Argus Opinion pages.

All this attention appears to me to be very unfair on the rest of the wildlife population.

How about a campaign against the real killers of all the smaller forms of wildlife, the cat?

Yes, that adorable pet and companion which, as soon as it leaves home, turns into a sadistic killer.

Even the cats with bells on their collars still kill their share of wildlife. We're not talking about mice and rats (they are nasty, ugly things that deserve to be tortured), we are talking about birds, frogs, moles, newts and field mice, all on the endangered list.

So come on RSPCA and all you people so concerned about hunting with dogs, let's be fair to the rest of the wildlife and start a campaign to stop cats killing them.

It should be law that all cats' claws be pulled out at birth and they have monthly visits to the vet's to have their teeth filed down.

If visits to the vets make them nervous, they could go just once and have them all pulled out.

I think the RSPCA is missing a chance here for lots more bleeding-heart publicity.

Me, I just believe in tradition and liberty and the fact that nature is far more cruel than anything man inflicts on wildlife.

-Mark Leach, address supplied