London's Cat-napper

October 23, 2007

Someone has been kidnapping – or cat-napping – cats from the Bramley Crescent neighborhood in London.

For some time, residents whose pets have gone missing didn't know what to think.

But in an anonymous letter sent to each owner, the culprit is all but identified. The writer stated a friend set the cats free in an undisclosed location 25 miles away. They were allegedly unharmed.

The letter complains that the cats were captured in the writer's garden.

The note goes on to say that the cats constantly invaded neighborhood gardens. It says, “We are fed up with 'MY' children coming in from the garden with cat 'poo' on their hands.'

Amongst other complaints, the letter states that the cats leave piles of bird feathers on the lawn and urinate on 'expensive shrubbery.'

Finally, the culprit threatens that if the cats somehow make it back to their owners and are caught in the garden again, they will be destroyed.

Based on the letter, it's been determined that the guilty party lives on the same street where the cats were stolen.

The cats' owners are obviously distressed by the loss, since it isn't likely they'll see their pets again.

For now, police are investigating. But so far, none of the cats have returned.

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