My good (but horribly sad) deed for the day
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+1 I was thinking the same
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Nice thought and good to have carried it through, Shame you got your post picked apart but at the core it was a good thing to do, give the owners closure which makes all the difference..
This.
@OP - Good work, not knowing is horrible, even if the reality is that it's just confirming the worst.
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Including children, which was what was being referred to?
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Is this to add a bit of drama/excitement to the story?
Yes it's me!
The guy who looks after his pets responsibly instead of letting them out into the wild to be Run over, eat poisonous greens, be at the mercy of other humans etc etc...
Please don't have kids, they don't like being locked in a house their whole life.
Is this really the most important thing you got from this thread?
To OP: you did good.
Despite being a nation of so-called animal lovers, lots of people wouldn't have bothered to do that. Just a cat, isn't it. Who gives a toss?
Nor do criminals! Maybe we should let them all out too
It's only cruel if lock a cat inside that has become used to free roaming. A housecat that has always been a housecat isn't going to know any different.
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Probably, yeah. That and the fact that eastebanray made this whole story up
. Though I didn't know a criteria for being allowed to reply to a thread was that you always reference the most important thing you took from it.Kids would know not to **** in other people's gardens.
They would know running across a dual carriageway means probable death.
They are also protected by the law and other nice people which means danger is minimal.
You are ignorant.
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).
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.
That was fantastic of you, respect to you for doing that. I'd want to know if it was my cat so well done on being a decent human being fella...nice one.
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I would be thankful that you sought me out to tell me about the death of a family member but putting a card through my door would be very weird and put you in a 'special' category.
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Whilst you did a good thing, there are several red flags in your post not least of which is the child comparison.
Same, they are only different because we perceive them that way, the life of a human isn't 'worth' any more than that of a cat?