Tonight my stepdad and I were taking our usual walk around the neighborhood. We do this just about everyday. Today was my barefoot day. Along our route there is a house which we've been watching progress, from the digging and planing, to the pouring of foundation, etc. By it is a dumpster where the workmen dump their trash.
Today I was talking a mile a minute about the book I'd read this afternoon (Graveyard Book - Wow!) when I took a pause to catch my breath. That's when I heard it. Meow! Meow! It was so pitiful, so plaintive, it completely arrested my attention.
So I stopped in my tracks to listen more closely to figure out where it was coming from. As I looked around, I saw peeping out over the edge of the dumpster the head of a cat. A beautiful, yet emaciated cat. Black with a white stripe down its belly, and half of it's mouth covered with white. It was skin and bones.
I walked over to the dumpster slowly. It allowed me to come right next to it and even to scratch its head. All the time continuing to meow.
As hard as it was, I continued on home with my stepdad. When we got there, he found some tuna and a paper bowl and got some bottled water. I started calling the local animal shelter. As much as I would love to have another cat, it just is impossible for me now. But I figured that taking it to the animal shelter where it would be fed and cared for, even if it ended up being euthanized, would be so much better than starving.
The local animal shelter was closed. I tried at a couple other places, but was told that only the local animal shelter could come get it. We couldn't take it to any place ourselves.
By the time we got back to the dumpster, the cat had dissapeared. I left the bowl of tuna, plus water in the bowl, in the dumpster, and then went back home.
There's a special place in hell for people who dump their animals.
:( so sad, what could I have done differently?
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