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To whoever ran over my cat -- I'm watching for you
mercurynews ^ | 09/01/2009 | Tony Hicks

Posted on 09/01/2009 9:57:40 AM PDT by JoeProBono

"...Someone out there owes us an explanation. Someone not human enough to stop Sunday evening after they ran over my cat not three yards from my driveway.

Thankfully, the cat didn't suffer. As I gently scooped my orange-furred pal off the road, I wondered what kind of person drives away after killing a member of my family.

His name was Doctor. I'm not a cat person, but if you knew Doctor, you didn't have much of a choice. He threw himself at you until you had no recourse but to love him. His eyes were slightly crossed and he drooled when pet more than 30 seconds. There were times I went outside at night to commiserate with him, when he was the only living thing willing to listen to my problems. The raccoons just hiss at me.

At the very least, his killer could have summed the courage to come to the front door and explained why they couldn't evade a slow, 10-year-old cat who was three-quarters the way across the street....

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TOPICS: Pets/Animals
KEYWORDS: cat; kittyping
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To: Riley

That’s a very thoughtful suggestion. ;-) I guess that lest anyone get the wrong idea about me, I actually DO like cats. I am most partial to Siamese. Our neighbor had one we called Frankie (after Sinatra) because of its blue eyes. It was a total love sponge.


121 posted on 09/02/2009 8:45:50 AM PDT by TexasRepublic (Obama = Jim Jones coercing us into suicide on a national scale)
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To: Do Not Make Fun Of His Ears

Were you speeding??


122 posted on 09/02/2009 9:50:26 AM PDT by Fawn (Rush Limbaugh---> America's pinata)
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To: CharlesWayneCT
Maybe an old, slow cat shouldn’t be left out at night to wander across the middle of a dark road and get hit by a car.

Exactly. I love cats, so mine are indoors unless on a leash.

123 posted on 09/02/2009 9:56:43 AM PDT by DejaJude
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To: All

Alot of people aren’t into reality. Alot of cats just can’t be kept inside. And why do they think it’s ok for a cat to live a life inside, but would never do that to a dog? Unbelievable ingorance!!!


124 posted on 09/02/2009 10:02:08 AM PDT by Fawn (Rush Limbaugh---> America's pinata)
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To: JoeProBono
Hey, how did you get a picture of my cat?
125 posted on 09/02/2009 10:03:11 AM PDT by DejaJude
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To: JoeProBono

What was the cat doing in the road? If my cat gets whacked in the road, it’s the cat’s fault for being in the road.


126 posted on 09/02/2009 10:10:14 AM PDT by AppyPappy (If you aren't part of the solution, there is good money to be made prolonging the problem.)
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To: Fawn
Alot of people aren’t into reality. Alot of cats just can’t be kept inside. And why do they think it’s ok for a cat to live a life inside, but would never do that to a dog? Unbelievable ingorance!!!

A cat most certainly can be kept inside. Why is it OK?, because they get to live that way rather than be run over or eaten by predators or attacked by other cats. Ask any vet. Lots of dogs also are kept inside except for walks on leashes (you can train a cat to do this too, but it aint easy). Most dogs respect a fence, cats will climb right over one.

127 posted on 09/02/2009 10:20:12 AM PDT by DejaJude
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To: TexasRepublic

16d. Tack it to the road.

LOLOL!


128 posted on 09/02/2009 10:20:40 AM PDT by patton (Obama has replaced "Res Publica" with "Quod licet Jovi non licet bovi.")
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To: Fawn

“Alot of people aren’t into reality. Alot of cats just can’t be kept inside. And why do they think it’s ok for a cat to live a life inside, but would never do that to a dog? Unbelievable ingorance!!!”

I know exactly what you mean, I feel the same way about my boa constrictor. You wouldn’t mind if I brought him over so he could roam your neighborhood, would you? Snakes aren’t even domesticated like your free range cats, so they really need time outside. And if anyone lays a hand on him, I’ll kill them, and then sue the corpse.


129 posted on 09/02/2009 10:22:08 AM PDT by Satoris
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To: JoeProBono

If it was in the public road it was not protected and the driver need not even feel bad. To worry about missing a cat and taking evasive action is to place life and limb in danger.

The owner was negligent in the cat’s death for allowing it to be stray.


130 posted on 09/02/2009 10:22:17 AM PDT by bert (K.E. N.P. +12 . fasl el-khital)
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To: Fawn

My cats use a litter box, haven’t managed to teach the labrador retrievers to do that. And the dogs can’t leap the six foot fence. And dogs don’t get toxoplasmosis.

Cat owners who let ‘their’ cats live outdoors are mostly too lazy to take proper care of them inside and are willing to let them intrude on other peoples’ property.


131 posted on 09/02/2009 10:25:58 AM PDT by JenB
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To: dawn53

My brother (Rural N.Fla.)actually got to see his wife’s two cats taken by a very large Barn(?)Owl. Two separate occasions.


132 posted on 09/02/2009 10:27:25 AM PDT by GOYAKLA
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To: bert

133 posted on 09/02/2009 10:28:59 AM PDT by JoeProBono (A closed mouth gathers no feet)
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To: fungoking

#102= Sail-Cat


134 posted on 09/02/2009 10:29:24 AM PDT by GOYAKLA
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To: Fawn

nope, nor texting

so no FR lynch mobs please. lol


135 posted on 09/02/2009 10:33:12 AM PDT by Do Not Make Fun Of His Ears (How's that KennedyCare working for you, Mary Jo?)
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To: GovernmentShrinker
I’ve never hit a cat (or any animal) in 32 years of driving, and quite likely for the same reasons, I haven’t hit any humans either — I make a serious effort not to. I don’t speed, I don’t drive when I’m too tired to drive safely, I don’t engage in distracting behaviors like animated conversations or texting/e-mailing/talking on the phone while driving, and lo and behold, I don’t run into things.

I doubt you live in the country - in my 30+ years of driving I've hit a dog and a cat. I stopped for the dog owner because they were outside and the lady behind me also stopped to explain that it wasn't my fault - 65 mph highway and a dog runs in front of you - there's no avoiding it. It was across the highway - saw it's owner outside and ran out in front of me.

The cat - same highway years earlier - the minute the car in front of me drove by the cat (we couldn't see on the side of the road - it was dark) the cat ran out in front of me with it's head turned toward the car in front of me - it thought it was being smart by running out after the car passed - didn't realize there was another car right behind it. I had no chance to stop.

136 posted on 09/02/2009 11:43:28 AM PDT by ozarkgirl
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To: Fawn
Alot of people aren’t into reality. Alot of cats just can’t be kept inside. And why do they think it’s ok for a cat to live a life inside, but would never do that to a dog? Unbelievable ingorance!!!

I know my vet would not agree with you, neither would the vet on this thread. My vet says an outdoor cat has a typical life span of 2 years, an indoor cat has a typical lifespan of 14 years.

137 posted on 09/02/2009 11:48:00 AM PDT by ozarkgirl
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To: ClearCase_guy; OB1kNOb

Yikes, here’s another story, from today’s news, illustrating why it can be better to swerve to avoid hitting a deer.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,545575,00.html?loomia_ow=t0:s0:a16:g2:r3:c0.027983:b27494090:z0
Flying Deer Kills 6-Year-Old Boy in Bizarre Traffic Accident
“a southbound car hit the deer and sent it airborne into an oncoming pickup truck . . . A passenger in King’s truck — 6-year-old Jacob Wilson — was taken to a nearby hospital, where he died from a head injury.”


138 posted on 09/02/2009 3:20:03 PM PDT by GovernmentShrinker (Vote for a short Freepathon! Donate now if you possibly can!)
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To: Fawn

I wouldn’t own a cat OR a dog if I had to keep them inside (and I don’t — I own ferrets).

If I owned a Cat or a Dog, I would put up a fence so they could be outside. Maybe I’d try one of those virtual fences.

With dogs, it seems easier to put them on a rope line than it is a cat.


139 posted on 09/02/2009 4:09:50 PM PDT by CharlesWayneCT
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To: GovernmentShrinker; ClearCase_guy
....illustrating why it can be better to swerve to avoid hitting a deer.

If I see a deer and have time to react, I'll take my chances braking hard. I'd suspect many times people have no time to react. In those cases where you've hit the deer head-on it's likely in your windshield and in your face before you can react. If your first reaction is to swerve, two bad things can happen, a head-on collision or a roll-over and head-on with a tree.

Case in point, last year my SIL and I was returning from town to get supplies to process a buck he'd shot. On the way home in the dark my SIL yelled deer and pointed to my left. I turned to look just in time to see a forked horn running straight for my driver side door. There was an oncoming car the deer bolted in front of. Had either he or I swerved to our left it would have been a head-on collision. If either of us had swerved to our right, we would have rolled over down the embankment. As it was, he wisely braked hard and steered straight, and I stomped the gas pedal just in time for the buck to nail my back quarter panel, substantially caving it in.

We turned around to look for the buck, but he was no where to be seen. Afterwards, when we started processing my SIL's deer, the irony didn't escape me. My SIL nailed a buck and a buck promptly nailed me.

One last observation. When I see a deer anywhere near the roadway, I slow down substantially and watch for any sign of movement. Many, many people I've seen, never let up on the gas pedal and never give themselves time to react should the deer bolt in front of them.

140 posted on 09/03/2009 7:00:39 AM PDT by OB1kNOb (If you keep ignoring your rights, they will quietly go away.)
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