Is there a link to an article online? Do you mean people are leaving contaminated meat out on purpose to poison the cats???!
I know a fella I used to work with - they think his sisters dogs got poisoned by someone putting anti-freeze through an open window in their conservatory... Awful...
Luckily we live in (hopefully) a very animal friendly area, honestly I've never known anywhere like it! Every other house has a cat or two, and those that don't seem to have dogs.