Well that was a bit ****..

Well done mate for showing compassion.

Sad it had to end that way.

 

Both an upsetting, yet at the same time uplifting, story. Well done, Andy. It was a kind, considerate, compassionate act, but your actions don't surprise me one bit.
Proud to call you a friend.

 

weldone mate. Many would have walked past.

 

Aye, I'm just a big soft get underneath this tough man exterior.

 

Aye(!) That's EXACTLY what I meant(!)

 

Wow.

I'm normally the hard faced don't show emotion kind of bloke. I won't be ashamed to admit that got a lump in my throat reading that and I don't like cats in general.

I do believe that the last couple of home games I might have twigged who you are (at half time in the *cough* meeting area). What I think gives it away your little quiff at the front reminds me of the twins in rug rats (don't ask me why and no offence meant lol) but you seemed a little different in real life to your videos and blogs

However I will make the plunge and shake your hand the next time I see you for such a remarkable effort. (And then probably look a right **** when it turns out it's the wrong person anyway)

Chin up and down a few Bevvies... it's deserved

 

Feel a bit daft now getting thanks etc. Just did what I'd expect any right-minded person to do.

But saying that, I know a few folk who'd have probably snapped its neck and ended its misery.

Funny old world.

 

Smoking, silly Mark Lamaar quiff, not quite the lovely person folk expect. Yep. That's me.

Feel free to introduce yourself, pal. Always good putting a face to a name.

 

It's only a ******* cat! ...are words that nobody should even think about uttering and in my experience not many people actually do say things like that. I think that people, like you and Carl, tend to actually have a lot of feelings and try to help wherever possible in these circumstances.

First things first. Top marks to you and him for doing everything you could even though to you it probably felt like you weren't doing much/enough. In reality there isn't much you can physically do in these circumstances and you have to rely on others. If I was going to die from an accident I'd much rather do it while I'm with someone else comforting me than on my own somewhere and I'm pretty sure that cats and dogs and basically most animals are not as far aware from us in their way of thinking either.

As for nobody stopping to help, you have to try to remember that this isn't necessarily because they don't want to but the majority of people will have known or at least thought that there was nothing they could do. There were already two blokes with the cat so what could they add? A lot of the time we assume people don't want to help but the reality is most of us simply don't think we can help. Then you have to remember that some people just can't handle things as well as others so rule themselves out of helping. It's not particularly nice thing to do but in fairness we all have limits of what we can and can't do.

Anyway try not to feel too bad Whitey. The way I look at it is that this cat was unfortunately going to die whether you waled home from work today or not, the difference is that you helped make its last moments a little less traumatic than it would have been and that really can only be a good thing right? Don't look at it as 'it died anyway so I did no good'. Look at it more as 'it was always going to die and I helped lessen its suffering' which is far, far more accurate.

 

Top Man, I'd like to think in that situation I would have done same shame how many people drove past and left you to it. Hopefully 3 points tomorrow to cheer you up ol lad

 

I do not know you, sir, but reading that sad tale makes me proud of you for the efforts you made.
I'm not a cat person myself, I've seen too many little birds and creatures being mauled in our garden by visiting felines, so I don't hold them in much respect, but it's good to know us humans can respond like you did to help suffering animals.
I've gone through enough trauma with my Brad and Fudge this last year to know that the vets we use, as is no doubt the case with many vets, are superb, caring people so we as joe public need to do our best as and when we can in our own little way.

 

It may be small comfort but at least it died with a little love and compassion. You did your best.

Its hard not to know you've hit something, even something small. There are some callous b'stards out there. I once found a dog just laying at the side of the road, a small dog, that had been hit and was just laid there. I am pretty certain that whoever hit it knew they'd hit something and just thought '**** it' and drove off.

 

Good post that, and the bold paragraph is probably the best way of thinking about it.

I'm glad I stayed with it, but I suppose it's human nature to feel like you've not done enough.

 

As someone who doesn't drive, it's impossible for me to know mate. But even if they'd not noticed, surely cars behind will have seen something? But then, you get folk who've hit pedestrians and driven off so chuff knows.

 

I once ran over a cat. When I looked in my rear window it wasn't moving. I decided to take a look at it. It was in a bad way, but breathing. I nipped back home in the car which was a few streets away and got a towel to wrap the cat up in then took it to the vets to get checked over. There was no collar on the cat and it had not been chipped.The vet said he would do what he could to save the cat and if I was to keep it myself he would not charge me any vet fees. I said OK . The cat had a broken pelvis and some broken teeth, but it survived after being at the vets for 3 weeks. The vet thought the cat was about 2 yrs old. I decided to keep him, and he lived another 14 yrs before he died. He was the best cat I ever had. I have a photo of him in our bedroom.
I love to hear animal stories that show compassion, as me and the wife have always been cat lovers.
Yours is a moving story Whitey and you should be proud of the way you acted, even though it was a sad ending.
Well done, and credit to you.

 

Cheers, pal, and that's a story with the kind of ending I'd have liked. I've just been told that the cat wasn't micro-chipped, so that hasn't helped much. I would have kept the cat had it recovered, so your story is brilliant. Top stuff my man.

 

My cat Sid (he had a sister called Nancy but she's not with us now) just got an extra spoonful of tea. He's now trying to work out why I've not booted him out for the evening and is keeping one eye on me in case that changes. It won't.

Next time he craps on the carpet (he's old) I'll remember this thread and be a little less annoyed.

Top man Whitey. Your kindness does you and yours credit.

 

Opened my eyes has that incident today, seriously. I've suffered in my life, but deaths of animals and my mum and others were all away from my view. To see a life ended like that, it's given me a bit of a reminder of what I have and how much I value it all.

Not only that, it's had me seeing other things differently. It's made me think of the many people who work in situations where they deal with horrific injuries to animals (or humans) every day. That's some deep **** to tackle every day. Big respect to those people. I'd die of emotions.

 

On a happier mpre appropriate thread I will share with you my duckling down a drain rescue story Andy.

 

I had a similar experience many years ago. I was just going on Lees Hill towards town, when a cat ran under the back wheels of a car heading for Doncaster.
The bloke behind him stopped and so did I. He was going down south, but put his journey off till we'd sorted things. We wrapped the poor little sod in a coat and took him to a vets in town in the other blokes car. Sadly the cat had to be put down, but the vet did the decent thing and didn't charge us.