Conference misery::feline

547.0. "Kitty hit on Rte 111 - NH" by GOOEY::JUDY (Shot through the heart) Mon Jun 07 1993 19:16

    
    
    	Sigh...I hate posting notes like this.  Tonite on my way
    	home from Salem to Nashua, I took Rte 111.  Right on Rte
    	111 in Hudson, a little less than a quarter mile up from
    	the 7-eleven I saw a long haired kitty in the road.  So
    	I went over the bridge, turned around and went back to move
    	her cuz everyone just kept going by and I knew some &(^%^%$&
    	would run over her again on purpose.  I pulled up in front
    	of her, flipped on my hazards and knocked on the door of
    	the house she was in front of.  The guy didn't know who
    	she belonged to, but was saddened like me and offered to
    	call animal control for me.  So I moved the poor baby onto
    	the sidewalk.  She had to have just been hit as she was
    	still warme.  She was a long haired cat, I'd guess a couple
    	years old at least.  She was white and either gray or gray
    	tabby (it was kind of hard to tell in the light).  On top
    	of the dismay of this, to me it appeared she may be a new
    	momma cat.  I've never seen a momma cat after have given 
    	birth so I'm not sure but she had one nippled that was very
    	protruded (but it didn't look pink) and it looked like the
    	fur around it was matted down a little (like from baby kitty
    	saliva).  God, I hope I'm wrong.  The thought of babies being
    	out there without their momma......  =(
    
    	If anyone in the Hudson NH area, near 111 knows anyone with
    	a cat with this description that's missing, please let them
    	know.  I don't know if the man I talked to was going to call
    	the Hudson Humane Society (if there is still one) or the
    	one in Nashua.
    
    	JJ
    

    There is a good chance that, if there were only one nipple distended,
    that it was a result of the accident and the matting might be either
    fluid or blood.  This is the awful thing about kitties -- it's so hard
    to do anything for them if you don't know their circumstances or
    whereabouts.
    
    Thanks for taking the time to save an owner from having to find their 
    kitty smashed up in the road.  That was very kind of you.

    Was the cat on the large size?  Are you sure that it was a female?  It
    sounds like it was - but I'm missing a large, gray w/ white, kinda
    tiger striped (very vague) male cat.  He's been missing from Merrimack
    NH since last Wednesday.  
    
    The reason I'm replying to this Hudson ad is that there is a house for
    sale next door w/ a lot of activity & I'm thinking that maybe he may
    have gotten into someone's car & is now lost.  
    
    Thanks in advance,
    Sonia

    
    
    	.3 was answered offline.
    
    
    	re: .2  Well I only saw one nipple and I didn't really 
    	move her around a lot to look at any others.
    
    
    	sigh.
    

    A very sad thing, but a very nice thing that you did....
    Karen

    
    
    	I'm usually pretty squeamish about stuff like this too.
    	But I thought "what if it's still alive", so that's why
    	I turned around.  Unfortunately, it wasn't.  
    
    	poor baby.