J Adams is right to defend cats (Opinion, February 24) but neutering male cats is also important.

It reduces the chances of the cats wandering, being involved in road accidents or cat fights or being infected with the (feline) Aids virus.

Cats Protection provides help with costs for owners on low incomes.

At one time, cats were kept to kill rats and mice and some were kept half-starved "to make them into better hunters". How are cats supposed to know the fashion has changed?

Much is made of the idea that cats hunt for pleasure and not for food. When did Prince Charles last eat a fox?

-Miss R Reeves, Binford Road, Horsham