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Ninanic
| | Posted on Thursday, January 25, 2001 - 8:04 pm: |     |
A large black and white cat was hit by a car and killed this evening shortly after 6:00 p.m., in front of my house on Tuscan Road (a few houses West of Hilton Library). It is wearing a yellow flea collar but no identification. It appears to be well cared for and I'm sure must be someone's pet. I moved it to the side of the road and contacted Animal Control.
I just wanted to put the word out since I know what it's like to have a beloved pet simply vanish and never know what happened. If it's any consolation, it appears that it happened so quickly that there was no suffering. |
Buffalojoe
| | Posted on Monday, January 29, 2001 - 2:45 pm: | |
Hi there -- not my cat, but I just wanted to commend you for taking the time to post about it. We lost a cat to a hit-and-run driver a few years ago (we lived in an apple-farming community in Western New York, very rural) and found her early in the morning. She had crawled from the road back to our porch area and died there. Not the same thing, but it is nice to see someone cares. |
Ninanic
| | Posted on Monday, January 29, 2001 - 4:07 pm: | |
Buffalojoe, thank you for your kind words. As a child I lost one cat under the same curcumstances as you did -- it managed to crawl home to die after being hit -- and a second one that simply vanished and we never knew what happened. We had to assume it was run over somewhere out of the way. So when I found this poor cat in front of my house, with no tag or identification, I couldn't stop thinking about how the owners would feel if they never found out what happened. I hope they've seen this.
P.S. The cat was picked up Saturday afternoon while we were away from home, so I don't know if the owners found it, or if it was Animal Control. |
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