Heartless advice on stray cat

What a heartless lot Wolverhampton City Council are!

One evening recently a small stray cat was run over and killed outside my house. The first we knew about it was when a lady knocked our door to see if it was our cat.

Rather than leave it lying in the middle of the road for the other cars to go over it, and bearing in mind how upsetting it would be for children to see it lying there or in the gutter where the local foxes could have got it, my partner picked it up and wrapped it in a towel, placing it in a box under our lounge window, which is about ten feet from the pavement.

When Wolverhampton Council were contacted the following day, to see if they would collect the dead cat, they said that as we had done what we did, the body was now our responsibility and we would have to dispose of it!

When asked how, we were told we could either pay a vet to dispose of it or put it in the black refuse bin with all the rubbish.

It might only have been a stray cat, but it was a living thing and for Wolverhampton council to be so flippant and heartless is an absolute disgrace.

We could not afford to pay a vet but thanks to the intervention by Debbie from Cats Cradle, this poor cat was finally disposed of properly, free of charge by a compassionate vet.

M & P Evans, Snape Road, Wednesfield.