MiJodsR2BlinkinTite
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Am feeling fragile, so coming on here for the famous HHO huggy feeling.
Our little puss was knocked down on the road this afternoon. We've got (or rather had) two kittens, silver & white, both from the same litter - so absolutely attached to each other.
Unfortunately we've got a road outside; and the cats do go out there, we can't stop them, cats will be cats.
Anyway, I was talking to the builder in our yard this afternoon, had just taken him a cuppa, when all of a sudden little puss came hurtling down into the yard - it looked like she was having an epileptic fit or something - or we thought she'd maybe been chased by a dog, it was so sudden. She shot at great speed under the builders van, and then suddenly everything went very quiet and she lay there, very still, with that horrible horrible glazed look in her eyes, and I knew she was dead.
A lady came into the yard, very upset, saying she was sorry but the cat had just gone in front of her car. I know her, she rides past here a lot, and I felt so sorry for her too, as it happened to me a few years ago, I was driving and the self-same thing happened to me, and there's nothing anyone can do about it - cats just do this daft thing of jumping out of hedges in front of people.
Anyway, puss is dead. Our two dogs were so fond of the cats, our moungrel dog Jessie virtually reared them as her own, when they were kittens. Plus terrier-dog adored the cats - they'd come up to the dogs and wrap their tails round the dogs necks, it was such a lovely relationship.
The other cat is - naturally, devastated. We've shown the other cat, plus the two dogs, the body of the dead cat; don't know if this was the right thing to do but we've done it with the horses when one has had to be PTS.
The only bright spots in this is the fact that we KNOW what's happened to puss; and it was practically instantaneous - the thing didn't drag on for hours/days with poor puss at the vets in pain in a strange place, plus the car driver did come in so we know what happened. Thank goodness puss somehow managed to get into our place; there's a huge field the other side of the road and if she'd gone in there we'd have worried she was in there in pain, pegging it, and we wouldn't know where to look.
Soooooo...... now we have a problem of the surviving puss, who's always had a mate around her and is already beginning to look for her litter-sister, and will no doubt pine.
We've thought to ring the farmer friends where the kittens came from in the first place.... as they may have some kittens, and see how that goes. The problem with having an adult cat is (a) the fact that its got to get on with our existing puss and (b) the dogs may well not accept it, but our Nanny-Cat dog would probably take to another little pussycat.
So, not exactly the best of days. OK so I know that awful things are happening in the world, which yes, puts it all into perspective, but she was a dear little puss with the sweetest of white faces, and now she is no more, bless her.
Our little puss was knocked down on the road this afternoon. We've got (or rather had) two kittens, silver & white, both from the same litter - so absolutely attached to each other.
Unfortunately we've got a road outside; and the cats do go out there, we can't stop them, cats will be cats.
Anyway, I was talking to the builder in our yard this afternoon, had just taken him a cuppa, when all of a sudden little puss came hurtling down into the yard - it looked like she was having an epileptic fit or something - or we thought she'd maybe been chased by a dog, it was so sudden. She shot at great speed under the builders van, and then suddenly everything went very quiet and she lay there, very still, with that horrible horrible glazed look in her eyes, and I knew she was dead.
A lady came into the yard, very upset, saying she was sorry but the cat had just gone in front of her car. I know her, she rides past here a lot, and I felt so sorry for her too, as it happened to me a few years ago, I was driving and the self-same thing happened to me, and there's nothing anyone can do about it - cats just do this daft thing of jumping out of hedges in front of people.
Anyway, puss is dead. Our two dogs were so fond of the cats, our moungrel dog Jessie virtually reared them as her own, when they were kittens. Plus terrier-dog adored the cats - they'd come up to the dogs and wrap their tails round the dogs necks, it was such a lovely relationship.
The other cat is - naturally, devastated. We've shown the other cat, plus the two dogs, the body of the dead cat; don't know if this was the right thing to do but we've done it with the horses when one has had to be PTS.
The only bright spots in this is the fact that we KNOW what's happened to puss; and it was practically instantaneous - the thing didn't drag on for hours/days with poor puss at the vets in pain in a strange place, plus the car driver did come in so we know what happened. Thank goodness puss somehow managed to get into our place; there's a huge field the other side of the road and if she'd gone in there we'd have worried she was in there in pain, pegging it, and we wouldn't know where to look.
Soooooo...... now we have a problem of the surviving puss, who's always had a mate around her and is already beginning to look for her litter-sister, and will no doubt pine.
We've thought to ring the farmer friends where the kittens came from in the first place.... as they may have some kittens, and see how that goes. The problem with having an adult cat is (a) the fact that its got to get on with our existing puss and (b) the dogs may well not accept it, but our Nanny-Cat dog would probably take to another little pussycat.
So, not exactly the best of days. OK so I know that awful things are happening in the world, which yes, puts it all into perspective, but she was a dear little puss with the sweetest of white faces, and now she is no more, bless her.
At least the lady had the decency to come and tell you. Having come home to find 2 of our much loved cats lying dead right in the middle of the road (within 2 days of each other which was just unbelievable), it still haunts me now, in fact every day I recall the images, it really had an effect on me. And the fact that the people clearly knew they'd hit them and just drove on. So absolutely selfish and heartless. Really sad about your cat OP. I'm fencing in my 2 cats at our new house, I cannot face losing anymore to the road.
