Feral
My wife and I live across from a school. The school is built along side of a hill. The hill is overrun with feral cats (Remember Boston?), and other critters (mostly skunks and coons).
A few blocks from our house, there are a couple of houses we dubbed the “Crazy Cat Lady’s” house. To be honest, one of them only has a few (3 or less) cats in front of it at any given time. While the other one, had a Dalmatian and at least 20 cats. You can smell the kitty litter and urine emitting from that house from across the street. There are cats in the house, outside the house, on the car, under the car, even in the doghouse…
This past weekend, my wife and I were walking the dog. Our usual destination, when we don’t take him to a state park, is to a near-by park half mile away. The house lays just about the middle of the route we take to this park.
On our way back, we noticed a kitty sitting on the sidewalk across the street. (one of the nearby houses were redoing there roof… major noise coming from the construction) This black kitty has a giant red eye, which my wife noticed right away. I walked across the street and notice its right eye seems to be missing. And there was HUGE inflammation around that eye. That kitty needed help…
We rushed home and look for a box, got into the car and drove back, intended to get it to a vet…
… It was no longer there …
We drove around for a bit and couldn’t find it. But we did see another kitty limping across the street. Its left rear leg was in a severe state of atrophy.
It was a pretty sad sight to behold.
A few blocks from our house, there are a couple of houses we dubbed the “Crazy Cat Lady’s” house. To be honest, one of them only has a few (3 or less) cats in front of it at any given time. While the other one, had a Dalmatian and at least 20 cats. You can smell the kitty litter and urine emitting from that house from across the street. There are cats in the house, outside the house, on the car, under the car, even in the doghouse…
This past weekend, my wife and I were walking the dog. Our usual destination, when we don’t take him to a state park, is to a near-by park half mile away. The house lays just about the middle of the route we take to this park.
On our way back, we noticed a kitty sitting on the sidewalk across the street. (one of the nearby houses were redoing there roof… major noise coming from the construction) This black kitty has a giant red eye, which my wife noticed right away. I walked across the street and notice its right eye seems to be missing. And there was HUGE inflammation around that eye. That kitty needed help…
We rushed home and look for a box, got into the car and drove back, intended to get it to a vet…
… It was no longer there …
We drove around for a bit and couldn’t find it. But we did see another kitty limping across the street. Its left rear leg was in a severe state of atrophy.
It was a pretty sad sight to behold.
posted by The World Against Me at 9:09 AM
2 Comments:
Aww, that’s so sad. But it’s nice that you and your wife tried to help. Have you ever seen “Animal Cops” on animal planet? There’s apparently quite a few “animal hoarders” out there who just don’t know any better than to keep a gazillion cats around and let them breed indefinitely. Sadly, though the person may have good intentions, the poor cats pay in the end. I don’t know how anyone could live like that.
What is the world coming to being overrun with sickly cats?
We have a cat in our little complex who is missing an eye too. I tried to be his homie but he kept going through my trash so I stopped being down with him.
And the cat upstairs is going through some mental anxiety problems, he keeps jumping out of the second story window, i think trying to committ suicide, and when it doesnt work he goes to the door and cries for hours to be let back in.
Poor cats.
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