A sad sighting....

[slick]

I don't expect any responses to this...I just need to get this out.

I was driving to work this morning when I caught something in the corner of my eye while waiting for the traffic to move.

A big black kitty must have been hit by a car. However, some kind soul must have stopped because kitty was moved to the soft grass, partially wrapped in a blanket and was surrounded with brightly coloured flowers. I lost it and now I've completed my journey to work and my tears still flow....for only we can understand the compassion that this kind human being possesses and grieve for the unknown kitty.

RIP sweet kitty.

[lv4dogs]

Poor sweet kitty.

This sounds a lot like me. If I see a kitty on the side of the road I try to either find the owner or at least move the kitty off to the side in a comfortable spot. If I have a towel or the like with me that is wrapped around them as well.
I feel it is something I have to do as I can not stand the thought of the kitty laying there forever, with no one to aknowledge that he/she passed away.

[Husky_mom]

really sad but i´m glad we still have caring people on this planet..........bless teh person who took time to move him to a safer spot and show condolences to a strage kitty.......RIP black kitty

[Lizzie]

That was lovely, that someone would take the time to take care of this cat's body and show respect to him as a once living being.

So often, you can't stop and have to drive on but I try to when I can. Some years ago, I saw a long-haired tabby in the middle of the road fairly near to home and people were driving around the body. I couldn't bear to leave him there because sooner or later someone wouldn't swerve, so I went back with rubber gloves - which turned out to be very lucky because as I picked up the body I realized it had been there for a number of hours. No-one in the area knew who he belonged to, so I simply laid him on the grass at the side of the road hoping that his owner would see and still be able to recognize him.

Another time, I was driving along my home road when I saw a white cat that I'd seen wander slowly across the road hundreds of times lying in the gutter right outside the house where he lived. I stopped and backed up to check that he was dead, and was shocked to see his head come up. When I called at the house, they were very concerned but couldn't leave to take him to the vet for an hour or so!!!!!! So, I asked for a towel, laid him on my passenger seat and drove him to the vet about five minutes away. He was very gentle and simply kept lifting up his head, meowing at me so pitifully. I found out later that he had two broken ribs and they had pierced his spinal column, paralysing him, and his owner had him euthanized since nothing could be done.

It was obvious from the way his body was laid out straight that someone had at least stopped and moved him to the gutter, but I wish they'd checked his chest for a heartbeat because he had been lying there for possibly hours as cars drove right past him. It's a lesson I have not forgotten - that an inert body does not mean the cat, or dog, is dead.

[Cataholic]

Bless you, Slick for telling us about this, and allowing us to remember there are compassionate people in this world (you, one of them), and helping us realize that sometimes there isn't anything we can do, but show compassion.

[moosmom]

RIP poor, sweet black kitty. Know that someone cared enough to take you out of the street and lay you onto the soft grass where you could continue your journey to the RB. Play and run hard sweet baby.

If only more people like that were around.

[catlover4ever]

RIP Sweet Kitty

If Mark is with me I make him stop so I can move the body to the side, out of respect for the person who just might own the kitty. It always bothers me to think of people who are mean and will drive right over the cat making it worse for someone who the animal may belong to and I also feel that the kitty should have someone to respect it....I do the same for song birds (Robin's, Cardinals, etc)...I guess it just breaks my heart. My heart broke so badly one day, a daddy Cardinal had been hit by the car in front of me, and it fell to the road and momma was right behind him flying after him, she came flying back and fell to the road where she continued to chirp at him. I stopped the car, moved daddy, said I was so sorry to momma and cried so hard. As I was coming home after doing my errands, momma was still there grieving....and I cried more.

When I lived in my old house someone had run over a kitty and I pulled it to the side of the road and left it there for a day, I figured that if kitty actually belonged to someone they would want to know what happened, unfortunately the day went by with no one stopping so I buried the kitty in my front yard, at least kitty had a resting place.