At the weekend I went back to move a dead cat off the road. Having lost one of mine to an RTA I could not bear to think of this one getting smeared all over the road. I could not do more than chuck it over the wall into the field but at least nature can take its leisurely course rather than some Juggernaut Dunlop radials. I am sure someone famous said words to the effect that you can judge the quality of a nation's civilisation by how well it treated its animals.