She hit one of my strays with her car!!!!

Her speeding down the lane again as always, I was so afraid that this would happen one day and it did.

This is what she told me. Her father has cancer and the reason she speeds down the lane is because she gets calls to go see him. So the only thing she can think about is to get to him as fast as she can.

I'm sorry her father is ill and can understand her worrys and wanting to get to him fast, so she feels the need to speed down the lane out to him. The thing is she wasn't going out the lane she was coming in the lane, home when she hit my baby!!!

She never even said she was sorry, just gave me a roll of her eyes and off she went.

15 years I have lived here and never had a problem with my neighbors, they all knew to take their time going down the lane and to look out for the strays I feed. Every neighbor I've had, has been so good about it and understanding. They even tell their friends not to speed down the lane because of me. But now she moves in and I worry every time I hear a car coming down the lane, watching and waiting for something else to happen.

For some reason, she seem to think that because it was a stray cat, that I shouldn't be that upset and thats it not a big deal. I even e-mailed a friend and told her about what happened, just to vent a little and she too, thought it was no big deal. Just because they are strays make the lose no less painfull or their life less important, then any of my other pets.

My faith in people, is really being tested right now. How hard is it to at least say your sorry. As angry as I was at her, I still had the heart to tell her how sorry I was that her father was ill. It's the only kind, right thing to do.

I'm done venting, thanks for hearing me out. What a great way to come back to PT!!

And please don't anyone say anything about the fact that I have cats OUTSIDE, I couldn't take that right now and don't need it. I've done the best I can for the strays around here, I catch them, get them fixed and care for them the best I can, just some of them, refuse to become house cats. It's a shame that I even felt I had to add this.