Flu on the march

The latest, terrifying, news is that a German cat has died of bird flu. Has Sylvester eaten Tweetie Pie? Did Tweetie Pie sneeze on Sylvester as a last defiant gesture? We should be told. Current medical advice is, apparently, that we should keep our pets at arm's length. Has the person responsible for this nonsense ever had a pet?

And many thanks to Sue Marsden for drawing my attention to this: http://portal.telegraph.co.uk/core/Matt/pMattTemplate.jhtml?xml=/news/2006/03/01/ixmatt.xml