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Dead Cat
12th November 2009 1:16 ∞ Animal welfare ∞ Scary situations ∞ RSS 2.0
Earlier tonight my daughter and I went out for a bit; we got home around 9 pm, or four hours ago. Kara just went out to go for a walk and found a dead cat on our walk. Our driveway is about 50 yards long and it’s another 15 feet to the porch; the cat was about 3 feet shy of making the porch. It was a small, charcoal gray cat that I am not familiar with. It had no obvious wounds.
My guess is it got hit by a car or perhaps ate something poisonous (I cringe at the thought that anyone around here is baiting cats), and crawled up our driveway because we have so many cats of our own, most of which stay outside as they wait for new homes. Poor kitty. Its mouth was open and it had a pained expression on its face, as if it died mid-meow. It was lying no more than six feet from where I’m sitting, and I can typically hear our cats meow at the window plain as day. I heard nothing, so that plus the lack of obvious wounds reassures me that it wasn’t a cat fight that killed the kitty.
I’m sorry I didn’t find it in time, but if I had I would have gone searching for a late-night vet and I have no money for that (no offense to injured or very sick kitties). I’m sad, anyway. I hope it was a stray and not someone’s beloved pet. No collar or I.D., though.
Those of you so inclined are asked to please do what you do to help such creatures along their way. Thanks.
The thumbnail for this post is our cat that disappeared last August, Bandit.
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D: aw, that poor little darling. I feel so sad hearing this x-x aww. I wish I could have done something too but i’m all the way at the other side of the world.
D: Hug Kara for me.
Hi Jess! Sorry I didn’t see your pending comment earlier. I’ve been hugging Kara a lot today as she’s having a bad day. Hope you’re doing well.
We used to have a real problem with feral cats breeding around here. Two of my own are actually kittens from this population. Usually traffic is slow enough through here that there isn’t a problem but one time I found one of the feral kittens dead on the sidewalk and I think it had been hit by a car. I buried it in my back yard.
Sorry you had to deal with that. It is a downer.
I disposed of it in the trash, alas, because it was night and because burying an animal here is a very tough job. Hard clay soil. I’m keeping an eye out for lost kitty posters.
Aww that’s so sad. Sorry that you had to find that.
Yeah, it was sad. I felt a little guilty for not somehow realizing it was out there. It almost made it to the porch. Poor guy.
You have such a big heart – I know this was a blow to you. It makes me sad too. I get upset every time I see a dead animal on the road and yes I am one of those people who will probably have a wreck and kill myself first before I hit one. I have come close several times – scared a friend and got chewed out by more than one person about watching out so I don’t cause an accident. The kitty probably knew that you would take care of him – seriously – cats are not stupid. People think they are but they communicate. Love my cats and I know you love yours. My Cesar is such a great cat – thank you for letting me have him!
It was really sad to see how close he’d gotten to the porch — and our porch rather than the closer porch of the house, too. I am the same way driving, so I try to be very watchful. I have come close before, too, and one time a squirrel landed on the top of my car as I was going down the road. Scared the crap out of me. He ran away before I even realized what it was, but Jesi was behind me in her car and saw what had happened.
If he knew I’d take care of him, I’m so sorry for not somehow knowing he was there. I feel a little like I failed him, you know? He got so close but I never heard a sound.
I’m so glad you and Cesar (and Tim and Bella) all hit it off so well!