REGARDING Mr R Frankland's remarks about cats (Letters, December 13), I have three (four until recently), all of which were strays in desperate need.

A visit to the vet ensured there would be no more kittens and I took them in.

Cats, I feel, are much less of a nuisance than some humans.

They don't drop bottles and litter in the street, draw graffiti on walls, use foul language in public or fly planes into buildings, killing many of their own kind. Need I go on?

As for increasing council tax for cat owners, surely a decrease would be more appropriate as by taking strays in we have, at a considerable expense to ourselves, kept the cat population down by quite a large number.

We could, of course, leave them out and let them multiply.

The majority of cat owners are responsible. But we can't take our cats out on leads -- they are independent creatures and need to roam.

Surely, the human race has not become so arrogant as to think the world is here only for us.

MAUREEN NOONAN (Mrs), Glenmore Close, Baxenden, Accrington.