Today, someone hit a stray cat who lived outside my apartment. I called him "Sweet Baby". He liked to make his rounds of the ground floor windows and play with the indoor cats through the windows. He was left in the middle of the right hand side of the road; whether he went down there or had moved, I can't tell, but he was left with a broken jaw and left to die in his own feces.
He wasn't people friendly, but he got fed often. The last time I saw him up-close, I had given him a can of fancy feast and he was gobbling it up. He was so grateful for the real food.
What makes this more upsetting is
1) The speed limit is 25MPH on my road, and aside from some idiots who live up the street and think they're bad because their car is loud and goes vroom-vroom, I don't see how anyone could hit an animal going 25MPH unless you were speeding and/or not paying attention. He's light-colored, so it's not like he blended in with the night.
2) He looks just like my baby, Hissy; one day I went outside and saw him, and was panicked for a moment because I thought she'd gotten out. So, in a way, it was like seeing my own cat dead on the road.
3) Nobody had given him the dignity of moving him from the road. Not only is this disrespectful to the animal, but the animal creates a road hazard that could damage someone else's car. It's not like this is a highway where its impossible for you to pull over for a minute with hazards on and remove the animal... they just chose not to.
This poor baby died in the cold on the road, in his own poo, and not knowing he was loved... My and the neighbors' cats lost a good friend today... The ground was too cold for me to dig to bury him, so all I could do was lay him under the bridge on the bike path behind my house, near where my hamster is buried, to try to give him some peace and privacy away from where the joggers and dogwalkers walk through.
RIP, Sweet Baby... you were loved, and I'm so sorry.
He wasn't people friendly, but he got fed often. The last time I saw him up-close, I had given him a can of fancy feast and he was gobbling it up. He was so grateful for the real food.
What makes this more upsetting is
1) The speed limit is 25MPH on my road, and aside from some idiots who live up the street and think they're bad because their car is loud and goes vroom-vroom, I don't see how anyone could hit an animal going 25MPH unless you were speeding and/or not paying attention. He's light-colored, so it's not like he blended in with the night.
2) He looks just like my baby, Hissy; one day I went outside and saw him, and was panicked for a moment because I thought she'd gotten out. So, in a way, it was like seeing my own cat dead on the road.
3) Nobody had given him the dignity of moving him from the road. Not only is this disrespectful to the animal, but the animal creates a road hazard that could damage someone else's car. It's not like this is a highway where its impossible for you to pull over for a minute with hazards on and remove the animal... they just chose not to.
This poor baby died in the cold on the road, in his own poo, and not knowing he was loved... My and the neighbors' cats lost a good friend today... The ground was too cold for me to dig to bury him, so all I could do was lay him under the bridge on the bike path behind my house, near where my hamster is buried, to try to give him some peace and privacy away from where the joggers and dogwalkers walk through.
RIP, Sweet Baby... you were loved, and I'm so sorry.
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