[kj] OT: cat

[Janean Lancaster]

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

I had a Stephen King Pet Cemetery experience about 15 years ago. 

I was looking after my folks' house/pets while they were on holiday.  A
friend and I went and stayed for the week.

My kid brother had a rabbit, my mum had two dogs.  The rabbit had full
run of the back garden but one of the dogs would sometimes chase it - it
was fine because it could outrun the dog and escape into the safety of
its hutch.  I just had to make sure I locked it in its hutch at night in
case foxes came in.

One night (after some mild intoxication) I went out at about 10pm to
shut the rabbit in its hutch.  Later, the dogs wanted to do their
business so I let them out and went back to my spliffs and kid brother's
Nintendo.

Shortly afterwards I went to shut the back door and found a dead rabbit
on the patio.  I thought, "Aw poor rabbit, I wonder where it's come
from?" and then it struck me that it wasn't an escaped rabbit - it was
my brother's.  Sure enough I checked its hutch and I hadn't locked it
in, I'd locked it out.  I was mortified.

So I had to bury the rabbit.  It was pitch black except for a security
light with motion sensor, which kept switching off.  I had to dig the
hole while my friend waved her arms to keep the light on.

We went back inside and resumed our Nintending to take my mind off it.

Some time around midnight, I let the dogs out again.  When I went to let
them back in again the dead rabbit was back on the patio just as it had
been before.    It really freaked me out!  (Dope didn't help, I suppose)
The dog had dug it up, and we had to bury it all over again.

That was bad enough, I can't imagine how horrified I'd be if I ran
something over.

Cheers,
Janean

-----Original Message-----
From: gathering-bounces at misera.net [mailto:gathering-bounces at misera.net]
On Behalf Of TB
Sent: 04 April 2007 16:35
To: A list about all things Killing Joke (the band!)
Subject: Re: [kj] OT: cat

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. 


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