I THINK I am a reasonably tolerant person. However, I now have a message for “unaccompanied” cats.

Having just found three lots of their (or its) mess in our garden, I am thinking about planting a small bramble bush and in due course prickly branches will be laid along the soil of the area being targeted by the cats, as well as the usual cat repellents.

The branches might not stop them (or it), but they should make it pretty uncomfortable.

It is not a nice job for my wife to clean up after. I was a clerk so I do not like to get my hands dirty, although I do provide her with a trowel.

As for that seagull which left its message on my car’s bonnet, I’ve got my eye on you, too – I was washing the car at the time.

Mike Taylor, Darlington