Letter: Moggie morals

Sir: Greek cats rejoice. Their patron saint and champion is on her way: a Miss Christine Morison, we hear, out to convert all Greeks from cat haters to cat lovers ('Mission to save the moggies', 1 September). Obviously a woman with a newfound cause to while away her hours of retirement with excitement and meaning, she does not bother too much about her facts - sadly incomplete - but, like all people with her kind of holy zeal, will gloss over details such as the extraordinarily high number of Greeks who own (and love) cats.

With your kind help, she has indeed achieved her few minutes of fame and probably also heroine status for her courage to go out and deal with these awful people]

She should integrate well with those expats who spend many a happy hour criticising the people and the country that has provided them with job and home and who do not speak a word of Greek even after years of living here. Not even Greek cat talk.

Now, how can we reciprocate? Shall we send out a retired Greek bank employee to teach the English people how to look after their old? Or might they find this rather patronising?

Yours faithfully,

MARISA CONSTANTINIDES

Athens, Greece