Something sad ...

There was a place near here where they would rescue abandoned animals, cats mainly but also dogs horses and anything else too. It was a registered charity, and situated on an old farm.
They turned the out houses and barns etc into lovely places where the cats could live the rest of their lives, while having freedom to wander about the fields as well.
Dogs were often kept in the house where the people who ran the sanctuary lived, and they were taken for walks around the fields every day.

When I worked for the social services, if someone was going into residential care and couldn't take their cat, we would arrange for this place to take it, and we'd know it would be looked after well by the dedicated people running it.
I and other people I know have also rehomed strays and feral kittens in this place too, and they would never turn an animal in need away.

In time the people who ran the sanctuary become elderly, and eventually one of them died. The other one couldn't cope and had a bit of a breakdown, and went to stay with some friends in a near-by village.
The farm was left in the care of a "young couple" who the owners apparently knew and trusted, but this "young couple" disappeared, taking everything from the house and the farm, and all the animals have disappeared.

The charity also had two shops in local villages, and everything has gone from the shops and they are closed down. The people who worked in the shops know nothing about what's happened and everyone is in disbelief.

Apparently the police are doing nothing about it (no surprise there) but it has come to my attention that the 'charity commission', whatever that is, is looking into the matter.
I hope they catch these evil beings and they get what they deserve ... but I have my doubts about that. The world seems to favour and support evil.