I wanted to post this in a bit of the forum that would understand.
Our cat, who never goes out the front - our house backs onto other gardens plus she's young and nippy - well yesterday she suddenly decides to sit on a wall looking at the street. My DD and I come back from the shops to find a couple of neighbours had seen our cat chase something and a car hit her - she is thrown up into the air so the car driver SEES her and then he or she just drives on. A few neighbours also see and because she's lying in the road they have to move her. My dd is crying hysterically and my nice neighbour comes with me to the vet with convulsing cat wrapped in a blanket. Three layers of blanket and there's blood on my clothes which a passer-by 'helpfully' comments on.
The vet is brilliant - puts her on a drip immediately and diagnoses a serious head injury and internal injuries and a broken jaw. Even with insurance it's likely she'll have brain damage poor little thing. So we have her put down with my DD tickling her behind the ears.
I know it had to be done and the right decision was made but we're all so upset. It's not even as if we live on a busy road. It's usually very quiet. And while I'm angry at the person who just drove off, my faith in human nature has been partly restored by the neighbours who came out and tried to help. And of course I feel guilty because if I'd lifted her off the wall and shooed her back inside she'd still be alive.