My good (but horribly sad) deed for the day

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So I was walking up to a friend's house and on the way I walk beside a dual carraigeway. As I walked along side a verge I saw a dead cat lying on the grass.

I kept on walking but as I did my guilt just started getting bigger and bigger that I hadn't done anything; you wouldn't just walked past a dead child that had been run over would you? I started remembering how I felt when my cat had gone missing and started to empathize with the owners who would probably be looking for her or not knowing where she was.

I got to my friends, dropped off the USB stick I had of his and started to walk back determined to do something on the way back. As I approached the spot where she'd been lying I could see she had gone. 'Great' I thought, someone has done something about it; but when I got the spot where she'd been I saw she was now lying over near the bushes (I suspect someone put her there to move her out of sight as she was definitely dead when I saw her the first time :mad:).

I walked over and checked the collar for name tag but nothing. Then I saw the entrance to housing estate opposite and not using the underpass I ran across the carriageway (making the same mistake that was fatal for the cat).

I tried the first house and they said the house opposite had cats so I knocked the guy came out and my description sadly matched one of his cats. I walked over with him (this time using the underpass) and when he saw he it was sadly a positive ID. I stayed with him as he picked her up and started walking him back to his house.

He was visibly upset, which embarrassed him but I was quick to let him know as a fellow cat owner he had nothing to be ashamed of. As we got back over the by-pass his girlfriend had come out to meet him so I tapped him on the back and said goodbye. He thanked me for letting him know and I walked off fighting back the tears myself.

I'll pop a condolence card through his door in the week I think. So that's my good deed for the year, but one I hope I never have to make again. That said I'm so glad I did do something and not just walk past (or worse kick her into the bushes), thousands wouldn't have.
 
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Nice :). Good on you.

Last university year it was the day before I was due to come back home and my mum rang me to say that she had the day off today and that she could pick me up a day early for summer so I said yeah. The real reason she came early was because my cat had died :( after 13 years. It was horrible news and to think the day before I was meant to come back she died. I know some people don't like cats but it wasn't just that, I'd had the cat since I was 5, grown up with it. And I had reached 19 and my cat had died, it was a bit like 'you're childhood is now over'. She used to sleep on my bed every night.

Strange thing was, my mum nipped down to B&Q and came back 20 minutes later to find our cat laying completely untouched not a scratch on her on top of the garden waste recycling bags in our front garden. It was in May when the weather was boiling. So my mum thinks the cat could have died from the heat because she was perfectly healthy. The thing that raised alarms though was that our next door neighbour who is (not saying this insultingly because it's true) a loner, and a hoarder gave us a picture of our cat dead. Now we thought this was strange and thought that maybe our cat got trapped in her conservatory and died and the neighbour found her and didn't know what to do so just put her in our front garden. Oh well I guess we'll never know but it's sad to think if that is true.

Inb4 cool story bro.
 
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That's nice of you and as a cat owner myself I'd like to feel there are many others out there who would do the same, though I suspect there are not too many...

Though mine is an indoor cat so not much chance of that happening!
 
Kamwah said:
Smart of him to let his cat out while living near a dual carriageway. Real responsible.
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Comparing a dead cat to a dead child is just ridiculous. Of course no one would just leave a dead child on the ground. Jesus.

The card through the door is a bit weird too. Just giving your condolences in person is enough. Sometimes I think people think more of a animal which craps and eats all day than a human.
 
That's a good deed, well done.

I would pop a get well soon card through his letter box, hopefully he will feel better with time.
 
Rozzy85 said:
Comparing a dead cat to a dead child is just ridiculous. Of course no one would just leave a dead child on the ground. Jesus.

The card through the door is a bit weird too. Just giving your condolences in person is enough. Sometimes I think people think more of a animal which craps and eats all day than a human.
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To be fair, I have a higher regard for animals than a lot of humans living in the UK.
 
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