Dead Cat Drive

[helpingout]

Went for a drive today. Did my best. Multi app switchin. Quittinn my bitch in. If I had foresight I’d have known it was a $170’dollar night. But all I knew was on that Tuttle drive I found a dead cat in the middle of the street. Pool of moonlight and blood. I tried to address it. But it didn’t respond. I used two plastic bags to pick up it’s body and I wrote a message.

RIP
Kitty Found Dead
01/31/24
At 1:09 AM
In street

I had written the message on the plastic bags I had used to pick it’s body up and then I used those plastic bags as a sepulchre so that it could be known that this was a good cat. Someone’s cat. Anyone’s cat. Its own cat. It had no collar and there was no one to call.

I stood there just staring at its body. Somebody closed their shades thinking I was looking in. I was sitting shiverin in the cold night air. How could someone do this and just leave her there. In a pool of blood, piss, and moonlight.

I made my money but man I paid the price. At least the kitty didn’t die in vain. I told her boyfriend or whatever cat that came. I told him stay out of the street. She died tonight. If you go walking through this street you might die too.

I don’t know what to make of it. It’s just another dead cat on Friday the 31st.

I don’t know what the purpose of this post is. I think I was going to try to write about how I can get a different job. But god damnit the only thing I can think about is that cat.

I guess I wanted to be that junky. The one who cares for animals. I remember well when my best friend in the throes of heroin addiction locked his bike to a street pole and just walked until he found a box so that he could take an unknown cat out of the street and put it on the sidewalk.

The pain I would feel if that cat had been one of my own. The pain that someone’s going to feel tomorrow. Maybe we deserve the pain. Maybe the pain lets us know that love is real. Not just some beautiful dream of cats, moonlight, awakenings, and happenings.

A bad thing happened tonight. Move it to a new forum. Whatever. The point is I need a new job. I can pass a drug test. I can write some mediocre drivel and it’s really all I want to do.

I was going to work on my novel tonight, but god damned all I want to do is hug my cats.

Wish me luck. Im trying hard to stay sober. I’m trying hard to get a better job.

 

[arrall]

I know that this is just a random recounting of your night but this is very well-written.
I would love to read your novel when you have a draft ready.

 

[paltatomate]

I know that this is just a random recounting of your night but this is very well-written.
I would love to read your novel when you have a draft ready.

Same here, both the compliment on your writing and the part about wanting to read your draft.

I once found a dead person while on the way back from a concert. He either jumped off the nearby pedestrian bridge, or was run over. I feel worse when I find an animal killed in human surroundings.
does that make me a bad person, or even a sociopath?
Maybe, but I don't care.

 

[helpingout]

I know that this is just a random recounting of your night but this is very well-written.
I would love to read your novel when you have a draft ready.

The draft of my novel I’m working on is the second in a coming of age story. I’d love to let you read the first. It’s about a little boy navigating becoming human and coming to know death and loss. I’d love to let you read it. Send me a private message and I’ll get you a copy.

Same here, both the compliment on your writing and the part about wanting to read your draft.

I once found a dead person while on the way back from a concert. He either jumped off the nearby pedestrian bridge, or was run over. I feel worse when I find an animal killed in human surroundings.
does that make me a bad person, or even a sociopath?
Maybe, but I don't care.

Same goes for you lecroute. I’ll be open to a private message.

 

[foodcrisis]

in case this happens to anyone else, i can't tell if this is some kind of joke i'm not getting, but i'm pretty sure there is a number you are supposed to call if there are dead animals on the road... you could get a disease or something dealing with picking that up. don't recommend doing what the OP did if this is real or if anybody is thinking about helping dead animals...

i used to take dead animal pictures when i was into phoyography.. i feel like the more i thought about that stuff, the more i'd see road kill... i found this hawk or whatever it is that died capturing a squirell, not sure what the deal was with this find:







these pics are super weird, i'm not sure if it's something that happened in nature, or if someone like poisoned some animals and made it look like the hawk died while catching it's prey.. i took pics anyways. the claws on the hawk look like it would've torn up the squirell a little more...

OH BTW, I GOOGLED, CALL THE CITY AND SEARCH YOUR TOWN OR CITY AND "DEPARTMENT OF SANITATION" IF YOU FIND DEAD ANIMALS... YOU DON'T WANT TO GET A DISEASE OR ANYTHING BAGGING UP DEAD ANIMALS...

 

[paltatomate]

you could get a disease or something dealing with picking that up.

you could also get a disease from shaking your banker's hand.

i used to take dead animal pictures when i was into phoyography

I like to read reports of aviation accidents. to each their own.

i'm not sure if it's something that happened in nature,

it does.

or if someone like poisoned some animals

unfortunately, this happens often. hu-man species is deranged.

and made it look like the hawk died while catching it's prey..

some individuals more than others.

YOU DON'T WANT TO GET A DISEASE OR ANYTHING BAGGING UP DEAD ANIMALS...

YOU DON'T WANT TO GET A DISEASE.
this tells me i shouldn't help a hu-man in need because who knows what kind of diseases or anything else they have.