A small fluffy bundle...

[purplewerepidj]

I walk to work (about 10 minutes) and this morning spotted a small fluffy bundle on top of a wall. I didn't really have time to check it out, but it played on my mind all day.

I checked it out on the way home, and it's a dead cat I work shifts (which is why I'm posting 12 hours after I first saw it) and have tomorrow off. I need advice on what to do:

a) Nothing
b) Go back with a cardboard pet carrier and rubber gloves and contact the local vet in the morning
c) Call the emergency vet and/or some kind of local council department

I don't think I'm heartless enough for option a. I was incredibly grateful to the stranger who took my cat to the vet when he was run over even though he didn't pull through. Option b seems logical but I would have to store it in the dustbin as I don't really want it in the house, but that seems disrespectful. Option c might be the proper way to do things, but I'd like to know that the owner knew what had happened.

I don't have dc's so am free to go with the MN verdict! Thank you

[KatharineClifton]

[KnottyLocks]

You're going to have to replace it under the cover of darkness.

You got a balaklava?

[Tenebrist]

Oh god, is the photo on your profile yet. The last photo is of this curled up orange fluffball and it does look incredibly realistic - or is that your real cat? I'd have been taken in completely until I picked it up and realised that a toy cat weighs a lot less than a real dead cat.

[RatherBeOnThePiste]

This has made me genuinely laugh out loud!! I was all worried about the little cat, the microchip, the sad owner, etc etc

[Havingkittens]

If it makes you feel slightly better, the "what I thought was a dead cat" in my post turned out to be a fox cub but I only found this out after my OH had called the RSPCA for me after I'd called him all upset!

[wellwisher]

AMAZING

[SpawnChorus]

BAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH



AHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHHA!

You deliciously bonkers person. How could you have picked it up and not twigged???

[LadyClariceCannockMonty]

This is the most hilarious thing I've heard for a long long time.



But OP, you are a Good Person and it would have been a lovely thing to do had it been real!

[LeBOF]

Is it very wrong that I now want to buy a realistic toy cat just to flush out MNers in my vicinity?

[LizaTarbucksNonSmokingAuntie]

Purple I want you to be my best friend please.

You have made me my pants off

[AKMD]

I wonder what the vet's bill will say? "Consultation on 1 x toy cat" LOL. "Miss Polly had a dolly that was sick, sick, sick..."

[KatharineClifton]

Cheers for the photo! To be fair, in the dark and rain it really would look like a dead cat.

[purplewerepidj]

It's the curled up black and white one on my profile. I had to pop out for a job interview, so have sorted it now I'm back.

The ginger one is my deceased fluffball, Mango, who was taken to the vet by a kind stranger when he was run over by a car earlier this year - probably why I was so keen to help this one!

I picked it up with gloves, and it was half past nine at night therefore dark.

[MakesCakesWhenStressed]

mistressploppy - I'm with you on every point!

I actually laughed out loud, for real, when I got to the unexpected denouement!

I'm sorry you feel silly, but oh my goodness that's cheered me right up!

[LizaTarbucksNonSmokingAuntie]

Oh I'm so sorry - what a nightmare but hey at least you have all your lovely friends here to point and laugh express their sympathy!

[Justfeckingdoit]

Oh just brilliant. Have just laughed for about 10 mins.

OP you are priceless :)

[purplewerepidj]

I'm still giggling three hours later

DNephew was given a ginger FurReal cat last Christmas after falling in love with my pair of real ones (he's DP's nephew, which is why he only met them as adults) so I should have bloody known!

[Ben10WasTheSpawnNowWeLoveLego]

hahahahahahaha

[MmeLindor.]

hehehehe

You are my favourite MNetter. How could you not notice that it was a toy?

[HazeltheMcWitch]

At the beginning of the thread I was thinking that you're a very kind-hearted MR-er. I'd be very grateful for anyone who helped my cats out at the end.

And now? Now I think you're a slightly short-sighted, but still very kind, erm plonker. That is too funny although I can imagine how it would happen.

Well done you anyway.

[HazeltheMcWitch]

Arrrrggghhhhh. You're not an MR-er. I don't even know what one of those is. I obvs meant MN-er...

[SephreniaRidesABroomstick]

This is absolutely priceless purple. I'm so glad it wasn't a zombie cat

[SeaShellsOnTheSeaShore]

oh that is superb...you will go down in folklore at that practice :) :)

[TheOldestCat]

I've had a dreadful day - this has made me laugh my socks off. Nice work, purplewerepidj.

Hope you get the job; karma should reward you for your kind-heartedness.