What a horrendous start to my day this morning. A siamese kitten had taken up residence on my porch about six months ago. I couldn't take her in because I have a cat who doesn't get along well with other cats and I have a big dog. I didn't know what to do because it became apparent that the family up the street from me had abandoned her when they moved. That family had a big dog just like my Hannah, which explained the kitten not being afraid of dogs. She'd follow us every single day on our walk. The neighbors thought it was cute, but they have pets of their own. I couldn't bear to take another animal to the local shelter, so I fed her and gave her water every day. I'd hear her meow every morning. She slept under my porch. I heard her meowing this morning around six-thirty for her food but I was so exhausted from a lousy week at work with my psycho boss that I took a shower and had some breakfast first. She didn't sound distressed. I took Hannah outside in the yard, and there was kitty lying there dead. 
She wasn't sick. I'd greeted her as always last night when I got home from work. She'd pop out from under the porch to greet me.
She hadn't been bitten or chewed on. She wasn't bloody. Just lying on her side with her hind leg was splayed out; it looked like there was a small rip in her skin with a small red protrusion poking out from it. It had barely been half an hour since I'd heard her meowing. My porch isn't very tall. I can't imagine how she could have impaled herself. Did anyone have a similar experience of an animal dying so suddenly? I live on a dead end road near the very end. It wasn't a car. She was too far away from the street.
I took her body to the animal control office because I couldn't bear to put her in the trash and I don't have a shovel to dig a proper grave; it's been raining really hard the past 2 days so there's a great deal of mud. They weren't even open.
I didn't want to carry her in a bag into a vet's office that might have people and kids with their pets in the waiting room, so I put her under a bush in the big field beyond my house and put some dirt over her. I really didn't know what to do. I wish I'd opened the door when she meowed.
Sorry, just had to lament.
She wasn't sick. I'd greeted her as always last night when I got home from work. She'd pop out from under the porch to greet me. She hadn't been bitten or chewed on. She wasn't bloody. Just lying on her side with her hind leg was splayed out; it looked like there was a small rip in her skin with a small red protrusion poking out from it. It had barely been half an hour since I'd heard her meowing. My porch isn't very tall. I can't imagine how she could have impaled herself.
Did anyone have a similar experience of an animal dying so suddenly? I live on a dead end road near the very end. It wasn't a car. She was too far away from the street. I took her body to the animal control office because I couldn't bear to put her in the trash and I don't have a shovel to dig a proper grave; it's been raining really hard the past 2 days so there's a great deal of mud. They weren't even open.
I didn't want to carry her in a bag into a vet's office that might have people and kids with their pets in the waiting room, so I put her under a bush in the big field beyond my house and put some dirt over her. I really didn't know what to do. I wish I'd opened the door when she meowed. Sorry, just had to lament.
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