So today I discovered how low people can get. I always knew humans can be so harsh and selfish, but today was the frosting on the cake. I was driving down a busy highway on my way to pick up my friend to go to the beach. I was just going along and then I notice something out of the corner of my eye, a speck. I look and it was a KITTEN sitting, staring up at me from the middle of the next lane. I could NOT leave the poor thing just sitting there. So I slammed on my breaks and turned around at the next turn. It took me a few minutes to get back around and as I was driving back to it... there I saw it, on it's side on the shoulder of the road. I started shaking and I parked my car off to the side, to see it was still breathing... it wasn't. It was on it's side, bleeding from the mouth. I'm crying just writing this right now. It was such a tiny pityful thing, probably around 8 weeks old. Barely old enough to leave it's mom. It kills me so much inside to know that if I could have left my house 5 minutes earlier, I could have probably saved it's life. Or if I would have turned off earlier, it would okay now. I would have totally brought in the car with me and taken it to the vet or humane society, I would have never just left it there to die. What hurts the most is that it LOOKED at me from the road. It would have been easier if it had already been hit before I got to it, but it was alive before I turned around. Just to think about what this poor little baby was thinking, just sitting alone, scared in the middle of a busy highway breaks my heart to full extent, then getting hit makes me rage. I went back to my car and BAWLED my eyes out all the back to my friend's house. I was a mess and still am. I feel so emotionally drained, frustrated and upset. Some may think it's stupid to feel this way, that it's just a cat, but I feel like crap about it. I wish I could turn back time. It was 2 MONTHS OLD. It didn't even have a chance at life. If I could get my hands on the sick ***** who dumped it, I'd run them down with my car myself. It also pains me to know that nobody even stopped to help it. HOW DO YOU IGNORE A TEENY KITTEN SITTING IN THE MIDDLE OF YOUR LANE?? I know lots of sick ***** who just dump their unwanted pets on the highway, so I don't doubt that's what happened. A 2 month old kitten just doesn't get to the middle of the highway it's self. It's a effing highway! Ugh now I'm even more teary. I keep thinking about it all day. It keeps running through my head over and over again. It's little face, before and after, are stuck in my head. Sorry this is so long, I just need to vent.
R.I.P Little one. I hope you're in a better place now.
R.I.P Little one. I hope you're in a better place now.
