Jo Hudson’s black cat Paddy was a ‘sweet, gentle animal,’ with distinctive white paws and a penchant for sitting on Jo’s lap on the sofa and following her to the kitchen as she cooked dinner. ‘She was always there,’ says Jo, 52.
Until one morning this April.
Jo and her husband Nick were still in bed when a neighbour, new to the area, sent a worried message on the local WhatsApp group. Three foxes were in their garden – one carrying the body of a cat. Did anyone know whose it could be?
When the couple rushed downstairs to discover Paddy wasn’t by
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