You hear all sorts of terrible stories, don't you?
Animals being dumped, people moving house and not taking the cat/dog but just locking it out when they leave, people getting a cat/dog and then dumping it when it gets older to get a puppy/kitten as these are cuter.
There are some rotten folk about.
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Old aunts used to come up to me at weddings, poking me in the ribs, cackling and telling me
'You'll be next.' They stopped when I started doing the same to them at funerals.