Are you sitting comfortably ? then I'll begin.......Yesterday evening whilst taking the mutt out for a stroll, I or rather we, came across a most curious object.
The dog, who needs no introduction, approached, rather hesitantly, a small opaque plastic bag lying at the base of a roadside hedge. His demeanor intrigued me as although it is not uncommon for him to have temporary lapses of fortitude when faced with unknown objects, this particular incident lasted longer than usual. I who was standing a good 5 yards away, decided to approach the item in question to see what all the fuss was about.
Well dear readers as I approached the bag I saw that it moved...***! thought I & then barely a few feet away I heard a sort of cry, very feint but a cry none the less. When I found myself immediately above the bag I saw what it contained.
With deft fingers I pierced the tiny bag & liberated it's occupants from a slow & agonising death by suffocation.
What was in the bag I hear you ask...... well, brace yourselves, two very small kittens, a ginger one & a grey tabby.
Some very thoughtful person had enclosed them in a tiny polythene bag, just large enough to contain them, then thrown the object, no doubt from a moving car & thought no more about it.
Now dear readers I am not one that is easily moved by cutiness & I wasn't on this occasion so I decided to leave them where they were & let nature take it's course. There are both foxes & badgers that frequent the area & indeed they were but a foot or so away from a badger run under the aforementioned hedge. I also know that new born mammals should they be deprived of the mothers milk, fall asleep & not wake up...........a pretty pleasant death in my opinion & certainly a better one than the perpetrators of this situation had planned for these two kitties. Failing that, there was hypothermia as back up.
This morning & hence the thread title, I returned to the spot expecting them to have disappeared & be macerating in a predators entrails or still in situ, stiff as boards. Alas, the blighters were still alive, huddled together & squirming.
I had several choices,
Do nothing & despite nature's reluctance to get involved, leave them to their fate.
Take them to a vet to either have them put down or try to save them,
kill them as humaely as I can to put them out of their misery.
I chose the first option as I wasn't convinced they were in fact suffering. The unfair thing is that had they been puppies I would have done everything in my power to save them & then no doubt I would have kept them......
Anyway would you have done is this situation.?
The dog, who needs no introduction, approached, rather hesitantly, a small opaque plastic bag lying at the base of a roadside hedge. His demeanor intrigued me as although it is not uncommon for him to have temporary lapses of fortitude when faced with unknown objects, this particular incident lasted longer than usual. I who was standing a good 5 yards away, decided to approach the item in question to see what all the fuss was about.
Well dear readers as I approached the bag I saw that it moved...***! thought I & then barely a few feet away I heard a sort of cry, very feint but a cry none the less. When I found myself immediately above the bag I saw what it contained.
With deft fingers I pierced the tiny bag & liberated it's occupants from a slow & agonising death by suffocation.
What was in the bag I hear you ask...... well, brace yourselves, two very small kittens, a ginger one & a grey tabby.
Some very thoughtful person had enclosed them in a tiny polythene bag, just large enough to contain them, then thrown the object, no doubt from a moving car & thought no more about it.
Now dear readers I am not one that is easily moved by cutiness & I wasn't on this occasion so I decided to leave them where they were & let nature take it's course. There are both foxes & badgers that frequent the area & indeed they were but a foot or so away from a badger run under the aforementioned hedge. I also know that new born mammals should they be deprived of the mothers milk, fall asleep & not wake up...........a pretty pleasant death in my opinion & certainly a better one than the perpetrators of this situation had planned for these two kitties. Failing that, there was hypothermia as back up.
This morning & hence the thread title, I returned to the spot expecting them to have disappeared & be macerating in a predators entrails or still in situ, stiff as boards. Alas, the blighters were still alive, huddled together & squirming.
I had several choices,
Do nothing & despite nature's reluctance to get involved, leave them to their fate.
Take them to a vet to either have them put down or try to save them,
kill them as humaely as I can to put them out of their misery.
I chose the first option as I wasn't convinced they were in fact suffering. The unfair thing is that had they been puppies I would have done everything in my power to save them & then no doubt I would have kept them......
Anyway would you have done is this situation.?
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