Dear editor,
Today I buried a “wild” cat I’d never been able to touch since it started coming here around three years ago.
I had to watch it die little by little each day — a painful death — because someone had abandoned it with a flea collar attached when it was not full-grown. There were two of them, yellow and white — the other disappeared some time ago.
A few weeks ago it looked as if the collar had been removed. Perhaps it was caught in a trap of some kind. But it was too late.
Of course I’d fed and watered it. It had shelter. I found it this afternoon, dead, in a little “cat house” in my carport. I buried it wrapped in some pretty silk fabric I had.
At least his painful life is over and he is at peace now. I’ll never forget that painful look in his eyes. I’m thankful he died here and did not go off somewhere to die.
If you’re going to abandon an animal, at least have the decency to take off the collar.
Still, it’s a shameful thing to abandon an animal. Abandoned pets always suffer.
Sharon McCauley,
Moran, Kan.
