[kj] OT: cat

[TB]

I've never ran one over, but this story probably puts me in Cat-Killer Hell 
regardless.

About 15 years ago, my best friend and his wife split up and they needed a 
temporary place for their two young fat Persian cats who happened to be 
brother and sister. Since I had my own place and being single, I wound up 
taking them in as a favor for a few weeks. So I have them for about 2 weeks 
and everything's cool. The only problem was they *never* were let outside so 
they were totally indoor animals so I had to be real careful not to let them 
outside.

One night, a girl came over for a Friday night date and while I was in the 
bathroom getting dressed, she innocently lets one of the cats out even 
though it's raining. So I spend about an hour searching around outside 
looking for the stupid animal in the rain before giving up and going out on 
our date. We come back home around 2am and lo and behold the cat had been 
struck and killed by a car and was laying dead in the middle of the street 
in front of my house. I buried it in my back yard and made the painful call 
to my buddy and his ex-wife and they were pretty busted up about it but 
understood the circumstances.

Meanwhile, the next few days, the remaining cat was constantly meowing, 
crying about her lost brother and always trying to get outside. The 3rd or 
4th night, she managed to get out past the door when a friend came over to 
hang out and disappeared. Again, frantic searching ensued but I couldn't 
find her. The next morning I went out to look again and found her dead, 
struck by a car a block from my house and really mangled (her eyes had 
popped out her head - ugh). This time, the ex-wife had to come over to "help 
bury her cat next to the other one" as she didn't trust me to do it myself 
("you'll just throw it in the trash, you don't care").

Strangely, I started getting stray cats hanging out in my yard all the time 
like some creepy Stephen King Pet Cemetery movie.

T.B.