Hi everyone, I've never posted here before but have been lurking and
reading all your posts. The post below was posted to another pet NG but no
one replied and its still bothering me, 3 days later. I hope you don't mind
me posting it here also...I am really sad and just wanted to get
this off my chest. I am a cat person...always have been...but in the last 10
yrs or so, it seems like I've sorta become "allergic" in a way to them. If I
even touch the fur my eyes get all itchy and they burn etc. So, I don't
generally hold our cat anyway. Well, we got this cat about 3 months
ago...just a plain old tiger striped stray, who was a tiny kitten when my
6yr old daughter found her outside. We aren't allowed to have pets here,
but.......So anyway this cat became part of our family. I also have a 17 yr
old son who is very overweight and has NO friends. So this cat became his
best friend. We didn't allow the cat outside, because we didn't really want
neighbors to see her and also, we didn't want the fleas in here. So we kept
her inside. But lately, she's been sneaking out if my daughter didn't shut
the door tight enough or if any of us held it open just a second too long.
She always came back tho...so not that big of a deal.
Today, my daughter was outside and came back in to get something, and forgot
to shut the door all the way. Of course, the cat got out. The cat was kinda
weird, because she just RECENTLY opened up to me, personally....she's been
loving my kids up ever since we got her, but she hasn't really come around
to me until the last couple of weeks or so.
So today, I go to the door and call her....she thinks I'm playing with her
LOL...so she is darting out there all around. Finally she goes across the
street to the neighbors yard, and all the way as she's crossing the street,
I"m worrying about a car coming and hitting her...then, she just SAT there
on the side of the road in the neighbors grass as the cars were passing and
I was afriad that a car would spook her and she would run, but she didn't.
Well, she wouldn't come in either, I guess she wanted to play for a while.
About 15 minutes later I went to the door and called her again...this time
she decided that she was going to come to me. She started running across the
street, and just like in slow motion, I saw a car come down the street at
the same time. I saw her little body go under the car, and I tried to cover
my eyes. I listened for that HORRIBLE sound that you know is coming...but I
didn't hear it....the car never even slowed down, it just kept going. The
cat dashed up the street running like a maniac into the field.
Every 10 minutes or so I would go to the door and call her, because I knew
she was scared...but at the same time I"m trying to cook dinner and do a
hundred other things. So everytime I called and she didn't come, I figured
ok, I'll try again in a few minutes. When my hubby came home, I told him
what had happened....he figured that she was fine and just scared/hiding, or
maybe just out playing.
My son and I a few hours later decided to go and look for her....we found
her poor little dead body in the field...right where I had seen her enter it
at. She didn't have any outer "evidence" at all of gettig hit...but it
obviously happened immediately when she got to the field because she was
only off of the road maybe 5 feet. My son freaked out..she was his best
friend in the whole world....everyone is blaming everyone else...my
daughter's fault for leaving the door open...my son's fault for not going
out to get the cat right when she first got out...MY fault for calling to
her and causing her to run across the street...*sigh* I dunno....All I know
is that I can't get her out of my head......dammit.
Nancy