So yesterday when I came to work I noticed something fluffy and white lying in the middle of the road without moving. It didn’t take long before I saw that it was a cat. For some reason no one stopped to check on it and at that time there’s a lot of traffic. I parked my car, went out and stopped the traffic because I thought that it at least should be moved to the grass beside the road. I realized that it still was alive when I picked it up.
The poor little cat started to purr as soon as I held it, not because it liked it but because it was scared and injured. It didn’t have any visible injuries and was so clean it looked like it just had been washed. It did feel pain when I held my hand towards its ribs and the gum was totally white, so even if it hadn’t been run over the risk of really bad injuries inside it was most likely. I sat down on a park bench we have outside the entrance door and was just about to leave to go to the vet with the cat when the owner came out from their house (my work friend recognized the cat and knew it came from the rather big house beside the factory).
I don’t know if the cat survived but I hope I’ll meet the owner again. I really can’t walk up and knock on the door and ask if the cat still lives, especially since their children love that cat. Today the summer vacation starts so it would be a terrible start of it if the cat didn’t survive. What I can’t understand is how all those cars just passed it. The one hitting it might not have noticed that they hit a cat since it wasn’t run over but everyone else that just passed it? The least one can do is to move it to the grass because lorries and tractors drive often on that road and they might not see it before it’s too late and no one want to find what’s left of their cat in the middle of the road just outside their home.
Otherwise it’s been a nice week with lots of sunshine and a bit too warm. My garden is usually the last place that dries out when we’re having a drought and now my garden is drying out. The grass doesn’t grow any more, which I don’t mind at all 🙂 So I water my vegetable and potato patches every day now and I also support watering all the trees I’ve planted this year. The rest must manage to survive anyway. It’s only three meters down to the ground water though so if we’ll get some rain in the coming ten days most plants will survive. 2018 was so bad that even bigger trees died and I do hope it won’t be that bad this year. I will however pack what I call a panic bag. Clothes and what ever I want to save if we would have a forest fire. I started doing that after we had a fire in the bog after a thunder storm.
It is time for a cold drink of some kind and then see if there’s anything good on tv.
Have a great day!
The Cottage by the crane lake. 
That’s awful about the little cat. At least the owners were nearby. I hope the cat made it.
Not a lot of drivers stop to remove dead animals from the street. Too unconcious or too concerned about seeing gore or getting some kind of disease. Not a lot of municipalities bother to clear them either unless it’s something like a deer or a dog.
Canadian wildfires have been covering my area with smoky haze all week. It’s supposed to be moving out over the weekend but it’s been dreary and cold. I had to dig out the sweaters again.
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Hi Caryn!
Yes it is but if it didn’t survive it at least was with its family.
It isn’t a nice thing to do but I really didn’t want it to be smudged all over the road. Over here they do remove most dead animals from the roads but since there are few employed to do it it can take a while, not good on hot summer days. Then again we have so many ravens,crows and raptor birds here that they rarely are anything left after a couple of days.
Smoke and so chilly that You have to use sweaters again isn’t a nice combination during summer. Rain never seems to fall where it is needed 🙂 🙂
Have a great day!
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