A seven-year-old cat has died after being poisoned with anti-freeze in the same Dorset road where another cat suffered the same fate just a few months ago.
Mayzie, a short-haired female tortoiseshell, was missing on Sunday morning when her owner, Trudy Cooke, went to work in Poole.
Ms Cooke asked her daughter to check on the cat, and she later spotted Mayzie walking into the drive of her mother's home.
She immediately knew that something was wrong because the cat was "very wobbly" before she collapsed on the drive.
Mayzie was taken to an emergency vet where she stayed until the next morning but when Ms Cooke tried to transfer the cat to her own vet Mayzie died on the way.
The emergency vet confirmed that Mayzie's symptoms were consistent with anti-freeze poisoning.
Ms Cooke said: "I'm very worried that someone else's much-loved pet will suffer in the same way and it doesn't bear thinking about.
"They simply don't stand a chance if they come across anti-freeze. I have been told that you have less than two hours to get them to a vet."
The RSPCA said this is the second confirmed poisoning on Allens Road in Poole, but that residents believe other incidents have also occurred.
People caught deliberately poisoning an animal using anti-freeze could be given a £20,000 fine and/or six months in prison under the Animal Welfare Act.
