Dead Kitty

If like me, you love cats, we have three rescue ones, then I think you’ll enjoy this. Carefull though, it can become compulsive viewing!

http://www.ustream.tv/ffrc

😀 Thanks for that one! I’ll keep an eye

Steven

If like me, you love cats, we have three rescue ones, then I think you’ll enjoy this. Carefull though, it can become compulsive viewing!

http://www.ustream.tv/ffrc

Trumper – my grandson is growing up with a rescue cat and from a puppy, a Border Terrier, so I know what you mean.
We had an Alsatian (commonly German Shepherd now I believe) during the war but it suffered badly when our street was bombed and was put down – after that a succession of cats.

Sad to see the Kitty pass away, hopefully you’ll feel better

Steven

I was never really a cat person,always a dog person until i moved in with my wife.She was a cat lover so we started with 2 kittens who were absolutely special.They were more than cats they had real personalities and loved being part of the family.One of them is on You’ve been framed quite alot [black cat falling off a record player whilst it is playing].
We have 2 dogs and 4 cats and along with the children they do become their own personalities and characters.
I feel sorry for children that have no contact with animals

and for our Sweep, Lucy and Mille too Moggy. Broke my heart every time I had to dig a cat sized hole in my garden. The risk of the road is the price you pay for your cat’s freedom. Still wouldn’t keep them in.

Sincere thanks for those thoughts Charlie.

Over my lifetime I have taken possession of maybe ten or twelve kittens, each time you hold the tiny little bundle in your hands and wonder what will become of them.

Alas for Vulcan, Wellington, Murphy and Catalina their end was under the wheels of some vehicle.

Moggy

I accept that and appreciate that many will share that feeling but, not me, I am afraid. I hope the three live full lives and continue to enrich your household. 🙂

But I can understand the sadness if the cat in question was part of a family with young children.

We have no young children, or children at all. Our three cats are an important part of our household (I deliberately didn’t use the word ‘family’ as I think that is overstating the relationship) and as such their eventual loss is truly heartbreaking. Part of the bargain you make when you take them on is that some day you will make sure their passing is as easy and painless as is possible in return for the fun and enjoyment they bring.

When one is taken from you early by the cat’s greatest predator – the car – it is very, very upsetting. You feel somehow you have failed the little animal.

Moggy

R.I.P kitty 🙁

Neither can I although I don’t think they are vile and I was brought up with cats until my late teens. And I well remember being upset as a child when one of them was run over, but now a dead cat by the roadside is no different from any other roadkill, to me. But I can understand the sadness if the cat in question was part of a family with young children.

I just cannot get sentimental about cats. They are vile things that stalk around preying on far more appealing animals, to my mind. And, they mess in other people’s gardens.
Obviously, it’s not nice when any animal is hit by a car, suffers and dies, but I would never lose any sleep over the issue.

I help out at the local cat rescue most weekends (although I’ve been so bloody busy lately that I’ve not had a chance to get over).

It annoys me no end when we get cats in that have had bad homes, or are simply unwanted. Our old neighbours moved house a few weeks back, and their young cat keeps turning up back here. He’s not been neutered, which doesn’t help, so they’re basically doing nothing to prevent him from straying. Shame, really, as in the right home he’d be very well-loved.

Getting back on topic, it’s never a nice thing to find a dead cat by the side of the road – especially if it’s one you know, as I’ve experienced myself.

my next door neighbors have a young cat, not much older than kitten status, she always seems to be out, meowing at the door, i dont think they pay much attention to her, 9 times out of 10, shes trying to get in my front door, she even came over and climbed in a friends car when they visited me, straight in the foot well and tried to go to sleep

shes so timid and loveable, always comes up to me wanting a cuddle/stroke, il put up a pic when i get round to it

just a shame the owners dont pay enough attention, i would gladly have her but i have a 10 ton Labrador who Sh1ts bricks when he sees cats, the dints in the doors will clarify that

We adopted a cat many years ago and it was a wanderer.I received a phone call to say it had been hit and died and the body was at a local council depot and could i pick it up.I did and wish i hadn’t-not a pretty sight 🙁

Kitty was gone when I went to look.

Thanks for at least going to look.

Moggy

Hopefully the owners are aware of the outcome now.

Yes, you’re quite right! I think my cat learned her lesson! She’s only 2 and a half.

It’s a very hazardous world for a cat. A friend of mine was unloading his lorry, unpacking shrink wrapped pallets only to find a cat had crawled in between the pallets as the were being wrapped.
Unfortunately the cat had suffocated. Water butts with flip top lids are another cat trap.
Having said that some cats are very wirely. Our slinky is old (not sure how old, was a stray) and seems to always come home.

Kitty was gone when I went to look. Most likely the owner or a passer by found her.
Hope I never have to do that for one of our cats.

Might be worth taking the cat to the local vet so they can check to see if it’s chipped. Unless you have a local resident association that you can contact that can help?
Very very sad. My cat, Poppy, went missing for 2 days last summer and I walked all over my estate all day for 2 days looking for her only for her to return home later on the second night and very hungry (we think she got locked in somewhere like a garage by accident)