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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....

(Excerpt) Read more at mercurynews.com ...


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

The democrats? Of course. I have an attorney on speed dial for the ensuing lawsuit.


21 posted on 09/01/2009 10:12:30 AM PDT by Pistolshot (Brevity: Saying a lot, while saying very little.)
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To: RobRoy

I’m with you. I don’t get it either.


22 posted on 09/01/2009 10:12:40 AM PDT by Valpal1 (Always be prepared to make that difference.)
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To: JoeProBono

I’m good with cats......

....out to about 200 yards.


23 posted on 09/01/2009 10:13:42 AM PDT by 109ACS (Humpty Dumpty Was Pushed!)
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To: JoeProBono
I'm just glad the story isn't about a family member who's loved one died in a car wreck trying to avoid a cat in the street that someone allowed to run loose.
24 posted on 09/01/2009 10:14:03 AM PDT by fungoking (Tis a blessing to live in the Ozarks.)
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To: JoeProBono
shouldn't the cat owner be apologizing to the cat for allowing the cat to roam free where getting hit by a car is a real danger?

what if the driver didn't see the cat, or would have hit an 18-wheeler if they swerved to avoid the cat?

you love your pets so much, don't put them out into the world alone. how about that?

25 posted on 09/01/2009 10:15:49 AM PDT by thefactor (yes, as a matter of fact, i DID only read the excerpt)
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To: Atom Smasher

26 posted on 09/01/2009 10:17:25 AM PDT by JoeProBono (A closed mouth gathers no feet)
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To: JoeProBono

I am so sorry for your loss and for humans like the one that did that to Doctor.


27 posted on 09/01/2009 10:18:53 AM PDT by NordP (If big government were a martini - BHO is just... the vermouth. (Grover Norquist, A4P 8/15))
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To: JoeProBono

As my vet said “cats outside, live short violent lives”. Next time you get a cat that means a lot to you ,keep him in the house or this will happen again.


28 posted on 09/01/2009 10:18:56 AM PDT by Ditter
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To: earlJam

29 posted on 09/01/2009 10:18:59 AM PDT by JoeProBono (A closed mouth gathers no feet)
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To: Slings and Arrows

poor kitty ping. The anti cat establishment has chimed in here


30 posted on 09/01/2009 10:19:28 AM PDT by GQuagmire
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To: JoeProBono
...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....

Sad story about the fellow's pet cat. God has blessed us with animals to eat, and to enjoy as companions. But if its a case of putting a person's life in danger - by either slamming on the brakes, or recklessly swerving the car - a person's life trumps an animal's life any day. By all means - try to avoid killing the animal, but sometimes it is unavoidable (I nailed a couple of chipmunks once... Sorry guys - I didn't see you).
I remember that incident on Highway 85 (in the South Bay) around 10 years ago. A man with his family pulled his mini-van off the road (but still in a dangerous area) and ran out to try to catch a dog that was wandering on the Highway. He endangered his life, but what was worse - a car struck the mini-van and killed his child... I'm sure that well-meaning fellow is haunted by his actions to this day.
Yes, we are to be good stewards of God's Creation and to care for the animals -- but never put a person's life in danger, even if it means running over an animal. Every person is made in God's image and every soul is precious.
If there is any chance of endangering your's, or someone else's, life by making a rash maneuver with the car - don't do it. The animal loses.

31 posted on 09/01/2009 10:20:22 AM PDT by El Cid (Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved, and thy house...)
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To: Tijeras_Slim

O hai. Wazn’t mee! Kthxbai!


32 posted on 09/01/2009 10:20:29 AM PDT by Constitution Day
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To: 109ACS
Back in high school someone gave me a book “100 uses for a dead cat”. I think I still have that somewhere...
33 posted on 09/01/2009 10:20:39 AM PDT by fungoking (Tis a blessing to live in the Ozarks.)
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To: JoeProBono

It hurts to lose anything or anyone that you love. A pet can be all that some people look forward to seeing each day.


34 posted on 09/01/2009 10:22:18 AM PDT by dog breath
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To: San Jacinto

lol .

i felt terrible. the noise was..ugh...oh well he/she is in kitty heaven


35 posted on 09/01/2009 10:22:30 AM PDT by Do Not Make Fun Of His Ears (How's that KennedyCare working for you, Mary Jo?)
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To: 109ACS

In China they have very tender puppy on a stick. I hear it’s less filling. http://tinyurl.com/nmezmo


36 posted on 09/01/2009 10:22:36 AM PDT by listenhillary (We became community organizers and Obama and the Statists get p*ssed off at us?)
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To: JoeProBono
My neighborhood, which is near an incredibly busy suburban intersection, functions as a high-speed shortcut. The city knows this, because it frequently sends motorcycle cops to camp at the corner. But they can't get all of them. So many of us don't let our children ride their bikes and Big Wheels anywhere near our front yards.

And yet he has the nerve to complain about a CAT getting hit?

Obviously this guy is an idiot. If he really valued this recently departed cat, he would have KEPT HIM INDOORS where he belongs!

37 posted on 09/01/2009 10:22:54 AM PDT by Constitution Day
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To: JoeProBono
Perhaps if Tony Hicks kept his stupid cat on his own property, his wittle puddy tat wouldn't have become a sail cat.
This “guy” must be a liberal democrat. He's definitely a whiny metro sexual.
38 posted on 09/01/2009 10:23:04 AM PDT by metalurgist (Want America back? It'll take guns and rope. We're too far gone.)
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To: fungoking

Actually, it’s 101 uses for a dead cat.

Still available at Amazon.com !!!

http://www.amazon.com/101-Uses-Dead-Simon-Bond/dp/sitb-next/0517545160


39 posted on 09/01/2009 10:24:15 AM PDT by 109ACS (Humpty Dumpty Was Pushed!)
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To: JoeProBono

Let’s see: small, hard-to-see animal walking in the street where big cars go ZOOM. I’m as shocked as anybody that the cat would get injured in such a situation. One thing that might help the author get through this trying time is if he makes at least a small effort to be a man. He’ll cry about far less inevitable things that way.


40 posted on 09/01/2009 10:24:21 AM PDT by fr_freak
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