One of God's Creatures

Last week on Saturday Scott was getting things ready on the Airstream and noticed our "gutter" kitty hanging out in her usual spot, in the gutter between the neighbors and our home.   Scott picked her up and notice how skinny she was.  Much skinnier then when he has picked her up before.    He had Chance bring out food and water to the porch.  She ate a bit of food, but mostly drank water.     Later we came out and she was just sitting by the water dish.    We made a warm bed for her on the porch.  She spent Saturday night there.  We did not see her all day Sunday until that evening when Scott found her in the bed.  She was not doing well.   She had a very stuffy nose and was meowing in pain, a very weak meow.  We decided she needed to go to the animal shelter the next day where they could help her.   Scott brought her into the garage for the night hoping it would be a little  warmer.   She did not last through the night.   It was very sad.   Scott took care of her.  He was very sweet.  He petted her and placed he gently in a box.   I called animal control and they came and got her.   I had planned to take pictures of her on Saturday, regrettably I did not.  I choose not to take pictures of her lifeless body.   We sadly decided she was a stray and felt bad we did not take care of her a while ago.

This is a picture from the Internet of what she kinda looked like-- she was a tabby with multiple  colors,

This is where I would always see her- hence we gave her the name "gutter kitty"   I think she liked the water that drained through the opening.

Her stay in the garage. 

 She had crawled out of the bed with her hind legs still inside,  this is where Chance found her.   Chance checked her first when he got up.  He did not tell me and when I found her later.   Chance said, "I think you should just pour some water on her and she will wake up!"  I had to tell him that she was dead and water would not help.  It was sad

Her box as it awaits for animal control.   The driver wanted to know if we knew who she belonged to.  I was not sure, but thought of a neighbor.   She thought the cat may have had a kidney disease-- because of her thirst for water.   Scott and I thought she may had feline leukemia- because of the runny nose.  Looking online, we decided she was in the last stage- which kidney failure would be a symptom.

I did ask the neighbor if they had a tabby cat.  They were so excited to know that I had found her, they had been looking for her the last few days.   They had planned to take her to the vet on Saturday afternoon and could not find her.   

I awkwardly had to give them the news.   Cats will go off to die,  it looks lke this is what happened.  They were glad she was taken care of up to the end.  

An insightful read on pets using an LDS perspective.   Click here.