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I found my neighbor's cat on the side of our street this morning. He'd obviously been hit by a car and was already dead. He was a really sweet outdoor cat, in many ways a neighborhood mascot. My neighbor has an enormous Great Mastiff and this cat, and they were inseperable. They'd always walk down the street together. It just about broke my heart.

I had to call my neighbor this morning to tell him - he's out of town for Christmas. Even worse, I got his voicemail. I tried to sound like nothing was wrong. "Hey ___, it's ___. Give me a call when you get the chance." But I think it'll be obvious from my voice that I don't have good news. I'm not looking forward to telling him this on Christmas Eve.

I just talked to my neighbor. God, that was heartbreaking.

bummer man

Ugh. But it was good of you to do it.

heyzeus wrote:I found my neighbor's cat on the side of our street this morning. He'd obviously been hit by a car and was already dead.

The main reason we no longer let our's outside.

Ouch, zeus. That really sucks. You were good to call him about it, though. Most people would probably just let him find out for himself.

So sad to hear that. But I am glad that someone who cared for and admired the poor pet broke the news to the owner. You are a good man, Jesus, even when you fool me.

My younger cousin had a cat. One day while she was outside in the front yard, she saw a high school kid intentionally swerve to the side of the road so that he could run her cat over.

It survived, but the damage was so chromatographic that they had to put it down.

I'd imagine your neighbor's cat's death was an accident, but it still sucks. I echo Jack's thoughts -- you handled it admirably.

Edit: I just re-read this and saw that I used the word "chromatographic" instead of "catastrophic." I'm going to leave it so everyone knows the risks of using Firefox's spell-check suggestions.

I was trying to figure out how getting run over would make a cat especially chromatographic.

sucks about the cat. I've had too many die while I was growing up (two to leukemia, one to just old age) so I'm avoiding owning one for now. Can't imagine having to break that to someone.