# Something that made me sad today

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**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [September 29, 2011, 5:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/something-that-made-me-sad-today/598033 "2011-09-29T17:13:07Z")\
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**Author:** ![Stauderhorse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ce7236/32.png) [@Stauderhorse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stauderhorse)\
**Post date:** [September 29, 2011, 5:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/something-that-made-me-sad-today/598033/1 "2011-09-29T17:13:07Z")

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Walking to school today, I saw a black and white spotted cat (kind of looked like [this](http://loyalsnowclan.webs.com/Cindercoal.jpg)) lying on a grassy slope on the other side of the street. I crossed over to see if he was dead, and he appeared to be. He was lying very still, not breathing, and had one eye fixed open. A lot of oogy feelings came over me and I walked on. Later I saw two women who had stopped to pick his body up with a tarp. Walking back home later on, I noticed several posters with a picture of a black and white cat that said “I accidentally got outside. My human is very worried about me.”

☹ Fuck. Poor kitty. He looked very clean and cared-for, so I figured he was somebody’s pet. But I bet the owner is going to get a very sad call later on today.

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**Author:** ![Terraplane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/74df32/32.png) [@Terraplane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Terraplane)\
**Post date:** [September 29, 2011, 7:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/something-that-made-me-sad-today/598033/2 "2011-09-29T19:05:37Z")

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Well it was sad enough with the dead cat. Then it got sadder with the two old ladies. And then the posters… ☹ .

I shouldn’t have opened this thread.

At least the owner will hopefully know now, instead of just sitting around and wondering.

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**Author:** ![jrtexgunner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/edb3f5/32.png) [@jrtexgunner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jrtexgunner)\
**Post date:** [September 30, 2011, 1:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/something-that-made-me-sad-today/598033/3 "2011-09-30T01:44:24Z")

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> [@Terraplane](#):
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> I shouldn’t have opened this thread.

Dang, we should probably know better by now. That is a bummer, but I would speak up for thinking it’s better to know rather than wonder for weeks about what might have happened to kitty.

-JR