Dogs bark because dogs have a marvelous sense of humor, and enjoy watching stray cats climb sixty feet into the air for no apparent reason. Their barking, she says, serves the double purpose of making the cats climb higher than any sensible individual would deem necessary, and calling other dogs in the neighborhood to join in the fun and lay bets on how long it would stay up there. She would have answered Inkspot herself, but she said such silliness was beneath her dignity. I told her that I was certainly embarrassed to have been fooled by a letter writing cat. Or as gullible.
Newspapers are fertile ground for hucksters.
But you really should lighten up. So some Post readers were taken in by a letter writing cat hoax. It could be worse. I asked her how. She reminded me that not so very long ago another local paper exasperated dozens of readers with columns written by a strolling jackass.