my cat was run over today.

[piratecat]

she didn't come in this morning but a neighbour said she did see her this morning.

we went out for lunch, and then my step dad checked outside after and found her dead by the road.

i am devastated, our darling girl was only 18 months old, and she replaced our cat Pixie who was only a year old. I posted about Pixie at the end of 2009, she died of Felv, very suddenly.

I can't belive it but i almost had a premonition or notion it would happen. I carried her down stairs two nights ago and told her what ever happens to you never forget how much we love you.

dd8 yrs, is being a bit strange, maybe she is used to it or she is in shock. She is being sensible, and saying words to comfort me.

I have been so very aware of the presence of the life in our cat in recent days, just been more in love with her than ever. We would always seek her out for kisses, and she was always there, being daft.

DD and i have endured so so much over the past yrs, i feel dd doesn't know anything else except loss.

Our cat was called Pudding, and she was slinky , and black and white, like cow hide.

rip darling xxxxxxxxx

Pirate - so sorry to hear this. Thd 15th may will be will be the 1st anniversary from when j found our beloved Charlie cat dead on the road outside our house. I was devastated and I understand how you must be feeling. It took a few weeks for me to stop welling up whenever I thought about him. Lots ov people won't understand - bug pets are part of the family. I hope you feel less broken hearted soon.

thankyou, i know it will get better.

so so sad, it's a it surreal right now. have been trying this yr to get ahead with things, dealing with emotions as have been very down, hoping for the best. now this. grrrr

didn't sleep well. dd is ok still. being more pragmatic than me.x i am prone to bursting into tears, but i am supporting her too.

So sorry we found our cat was run over last weekend after looking for her day and night for 4 days was so heartbroken :(
I hate being without our cat just seems so strange at home all the time, ds who is 4 keeps asking why his cat is in the clouds and it breaks my heart everytime he asks :( he just says he wants his cat back.

i am sorry for you x

every time we here a noise upstairs we think it's her.

thanks for your post, i hope you feel better soon.

Hope you feel better too, it's so unfair our cat was only 18 months aswell but you become so attached to them and all i can think is that mabye if she wasnt out at that time she would still be here :(
Our cat used to sit on our windowsill while I was washing up, now eveytime I go to the sink I look to see her and then realise she wont be there.

i know

At the moment i am like 'never again' but they give you so much and it's wonderful to remember we gave them a lovely life, albeit short. ours was ridiculously loved because she also gave back so much.

x

I know I think right now it feels uncomfortable getting another cat but I feel like so many cats dont have a home and we can offer a loving home to a cat that would otherwise be homeless or in a shelter, I love living with cats they are so loving and kind x

me too, when you are an animal lover you have so much to give. x

When we list Charlie it was a double kick as we had just spent over £2000 getting him through a terrible episode where he contracted a heart disease that damaged a valve and left him gasping fir breath. He was touch and go and we threw every penny we had to the animal hospital... He pulled through and we were so happy... Three weeks later he was gone ... We still miss him. He was just a year old

thats so terribly tragic. when you had all that hope, then a freak accident happens.

Pudding, as i said in my earlier ramblings had replaced Pixe, who became ill on a thursday, and had to be put down by tuesday. dd and i were bereft.

She was a year old.

The what ifs are pointless i suppose. It must have happened when we were here in the house, but i never heard a car stop or anything, and this road is quiet on sunday mornings. I still think she was spooked and ran into the road.

Pudding has been laid to rest with the ashes of my other 3 cats. In a lovely field, by my mum's horse who is also buried there.x She was my comfort, she used to pad her paws into my chest and dribble bless her.x

Oh, I'm so sorry, how ruddy miserable and unfair.

Pirate... That sounds Luke a nice resting place. We buried Charlie on our local woods and dh bought a special
Bush from the garden centre to plant there so we would always know where he was ( didn't bury him in garden as we will move from here one day) we still have his sister and one of her daughters ( she got Ccidentally pg and gave birth 4 days before Charlie was killed. Raising the kittens certainly helped take our dd's mind off it but I have to admit I didn't tell her he was run over I told her he had gone back in
Hospital and died in
His sleep ..

thought i would be better today but kept bursting into tears behind my sunglasses.

dd is desp to have a big cry, she's doing wailing. poor love.

it's not bloody fair.

Awwwwwwww just have a big old bulb together pirate!!! I'm
Getting tears in my eyes thinking about how you are feeling

So sorry for your loss piratecat :(

i feel headachey and as tho someone's hit me over the head with a bat tbh.
and sick, and deep down sad.

just helps to say it here.

i just want her back. i loved her so much. told her the other night, as i lay my head on her belly how much i loved her.

It's going to hurt, especially if a cat has especial meaning it does hurt more.

me and dd have had so many bits of bad luck and illness, and emotional trauma for yrs, i feel like there's a cloud hanging over us.

try so hard to do my best, then this happens. so down.xx

She knew she was lived pirate... I like you weirdly cuddled my cat and told him how loved he was ( that and the fact he had been fed salmon and minced chicken since coming home from
Vets) - he knew he was adored.
You will gradually feel better. I know 3
Because i have been where you are x

it is weird, or at least feels profound in hindsight. I touched wood twice this week, when explaining to two different people how we had had rotten luck with pets, and that hopefully Pudding would be with us a long time. My sister told me today that she had said it too, to someone just this week.

i dunno. just feel such loss. i went mad yesterday when i found out, just lost it.

feeling a bit less overwhelmed by grief. but miss her.

still bloody angry tho. she never went out on that road, i am sure she was chased by the local ginger tom bully. I spoke to a neighbour yesterday who has had to see him off, as their poor cat can't defend herslef as she has 3 legs. My Pudding was attacked by this tom 2 weeks ago in our garden.

Do you know who he belongs to? Maybe speak to his owner about getting his balls chopped off?

little git he was in my house when i got home today, came running down from upstairs, according to dd, first i saw of him was when he leapt over my shoulder to the window by the sink.

thats the first time he has knowingly been in my house, oh and i wonder why, because my deceased cat wasn't here to see him off.

grrr.

i know i don't know for sure what happened, yet it's feasible and he is a pita, and could have killed my cat that night in the garden.

So sorry to hear this sad news piratecat.

I just bought a kitten for ds, as recently my ds has been feeling loss in his life too. Mainly about his dad (who also doesn't bother anymore), then recently his fish died and I split up with my dp who ds had become quite attached too. I also felt really sad for him that he was feeling loss in his life. So I got him a kitten, thinking he needed a little friend that would hopefully be a more constant thing in his life.

But I am terrified of anything going wrong, illness/road accident etc! As this would totally contradict the gap I'm trying to fill for him! (not to mention the fact we've fallen in love with this kitten after only 3 days).

But you know what? I can't control it, and have to accept whatever might happen, and this is just the way life can be sometimes. Your dd has you, you're always there she's (and you) not going through any of this alone.

There isn't a cloud hanging over you piratecat, you've just had a run of bad luck and it's not always going to be that way. You and your dd have a wonderful life together to look forward to.