Crass remark

Why doesn't she start an anti-litter campaign or lobby the council? I have never seen Cornmarket Street in Oxford strewn with litter. As for that filthy habit of spitting, it is time something was done about it.

No, Ms Smith, we don't live in our gardens, nor do we have them for other people's animals to defecate in.

Some people like to relax in their garden. Others, like me, get pleasure out of growing flowers, shrubs, fruit and vegetables and don't want them dug up, ripped to pieces, or vegetables made inedible because cats have sprayed on them.

As for that crass remark about little children 'allegedly' falling ill, my granddaughter had blood tests which confirmed it was from one of the several diseases that live in the soil long after the faeces disappear.

So no matter how well you look after children, you cannot protect them from something that is invisible to the naked eye.

That is why cat and dog faeces should never be put on compost heaps.

I was brought up with animals and our cats were trained to use a certain place in our garden and never allowed to leave our garden.

Children have every right to play in their own gardens.

If the noise is too much for Ms Smith, perhaps she should buy ear plugs.

I would rather pick up litter than cats' mess.

Evelyn Cooper, Sandy Lane, Oxford