This short article from a Reading (UK) newspaper decribes such an event
'Ed was soon arrested when the police were informed by a neighbour of strange sounds described to be "Identical to the time her uncle hoovered up the cat" the lady ate a peanut then digressed "Aye, i knew that sound
straight away.....cats being vacuumed has a distinct tone to it"
Questions were asked as to how he sourced a constant supply of cats, the local police seargent suggested "he might have been giving birth to them every morning after drinking the off milk found
in the fridge" traces of mohair were found in the suspects rear.
Later that evening Smewing was said to have actually made the
Cheshire cat extinct after causing a lift to collapse on his way to the police station, crushing it beyond recognition.'