Due to the fact that the the road curved around I had four adjoining gardens to the right hand side of me. A couple of the neighbors I got to know quite well. One day I was told that one of those neighbours cats had been shot by an air pellet whilst it was in the garden!!! A few days later I noticed air pellets in my bird table and on the ground just underneath. From the angle the shot they could only have come from and upstairs room in one or other of the two houses that were most adjacent to me.

Shortly after that my milkman commented on the fact that a low trip wire had been placed across one of the driveways when he was delivering the milk, Sort of cat height! This narrowed down the culprits – nice neighbours NOT!!!