A cat having a siesta on its master's lawn awoke to find a pigeon strutting about as if the place belonged to him. an awakening yawn the cat remarked "This is my meat" and took such action as proved the veracity of his statement. The owner of the bird saw the dread deed done, reported the matter to the owner of the cat, who, to placate the outraged feelings of the former, drowned his feline pet there and then. Not satisfied with this swift Justice, the bird fancier sued the sorrowing owner of the cat for £8 damages on 2 wi call the necessary and "aforesaids. pigeon was one of the homing variety.
The County Court Judge held that a cat was in a somewhat peculiar position. It was not able of the ordinary rostral placed on dogs. The nature of a cat had generally been proved to be destructive to birds of all kinds, and he (the judge) held that the responsibility was not on the owner of the cat, but on the owner of the pigeons to keep them from becoming the victims of prowling cats.
Then in stepped the National Homing Union and financed an appeal to King's Bench, where the lower judge's decision was upheld. And now there is talk of taking the matter to the House of Lords. After reading all the legal argument on the acquired or original sin of the eat, it. is dificult to escape
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