Found a cat wrapped up in a serpentine belt. It was rather horrible. I thought it was dead until it meowed at me. I don't even know how it was still alive. I threw up twice getting the poor thing out. The bastard who owned the car just laughed when I told him. I wanted to hit him and I don't even really like cats.
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Please tell us you called the humane society and the cops on this guy. Poor kitty."If everyone is thinking alike, someone isn't thinking." - George Patton
"If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough." - Albert Einstein
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And what has become of the cat? I assume euthanized at this point, but I would really like to know.
For some reason, I find myself hoping it's being given a chance to live. I'm not a cat person, but wouldn't wish that sort of fate on any critter.
Well, except for maybe a few ex-bosses of mine, but they don't even get counted as critters, right?
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This story brings back a horrible memory of a similar incident that happened when I was about 16 yrs old. I won't go into the awful details but the kitty was a stray that had climbed up under the hood of my dad's car for warmth and was caught in the fan.
After that I always pounded on the hood of the car and blew the horn before starting the engine...hoping to scare off any precious creatures.
I adore kitties and it still upsets me after all these years.
.Retail Haiku:
Depression sets in.
The hellhole is calling me ~
I don't want to go.
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Quoth Broomjockey View PostForgive my automotive ignorance, but what exactly is the purpose of a serpentine belt? I know fan belts, for instance, but not this one. Unless you just mean a twisty circuitous routed belt? Either way, I woulda torn the guy a new one for laughing.
I have a paunchy 3-year old tabby using my beer gut as a heating pad right now. He was a stray from the streets who could have easily ended up the same way as the cat in the OP. I wouldn't consider myself fucking amused at the thought."Love keeps her in the air when she ought fall down, let's you know she's hurting 'fore she keens...makes her a home."
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Quoth coldcupofjoe View PostI'm not sure. One of my co-workers took it to a vet but when I asked her she only shook her head and wouldn't say anything.
Please tell your co-worker that some complete stranger on the 'net thinks she did a good thing. You did too.Seshat's self-help guide:
1. Would you rather be right, or get the result you want?
2. If you're consistently getting results you don't want, change what you do.
3. Deal with the situation you have now, however it occurred.
4. Accept the consequences of your decisions.
"All I want is a pretty girl, a decent meal, and the right to shoot lightning at fools." - Anders, Dragon Age.
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Oh, that hurts.
When I was in high school a friend drove her Dad's 1950's era pink caddy to school one day. Her and her friends drove home for lunch and then came back to school; on the way there, they kept hearing a mewling and couldn't figure out where it was coming from. When they got to school and turned off the car they could hear it louder, it was coming from the engine. They opened the hood and found a tiny kitten from her barn cat's litter in the engine. It was completely unhurt, but had crawled up into the warm engine while they were eating lunch and had settled in some protected part of the engine, and was stuck there the whole 3 miles to school. She had to bring it to class with her and we got to play with it.Because as we all know, on the Internet all men are men, all women are men and all children are FBI agents.
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Poor kitty.
Where's that guy? He needs a meeting with a fish.Unseen but seeing
oh dear, now they're masquerading as sane-KiaKat
There isn't enough interpretive dance in the workplace these days-Irv
3rd shift needs love, too
RIP, mo bhrionglóid
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