WARNING! What I’m about to describe is pretty graphic and not for the faint of heart so please read with caution. (PS. This is my first time using Reddit so sorry if my story can be heard to follow)
So a bit of backstory, my uncle brought our kitten home about a year ago. We named him Guerro (Spanish for white boy) because of his orange and white fur. Guerro was very wild and would often run around the house and on our porch. Now, usually my grandparents leave our back door open so our dogs can go outside to play, sun bathe, etc. Guerro would often join them and, because he was so small he could even go through our fence and run around in the alley next to our house to do whatever he did to pass the time. Now, my grandparents didn’t have a problem with this, since we’d done the same with our past cats and because Guerro never ventured to far and would come back in the late evening to eat and sleep in my room. There were even times when he’d be gone for a day or 2 before showing up again.
On to now, Guerro went missing about 2 weeks ago. At first, my grandparents weren’t really worried because he usually came back, but, after around the 5th day they started to become concerned and worried. My grandparents and uncle we say “maybe he just ran away” “maybe he started a family with one of the street cats” “maybe someone took him home”, I tried to remain optimistic, until my uncle told me that apparently someone has been poisoning the street cats and that many were disappearing. I started to panic. What if he was dead in a dumpster somewhere?? What if some random animal took him while he was weak??
I didn’t hear much about it the cat after a while, and it pissed me off how it seemed everyone had moved on except for me. Didn’t they love him?? He was their cat too... I know my grandparents favor the dogs more, but even then...
Now we’re back to today. Around 7:00 in the morning my grandpa came to pick me and my sister up to take us to work at our families business. When we got in our car, turned to me and told me “oh guess what, we found Guerro last night :D”, I turned to look at him so fast, I was so happy! 2 weeks of worrying about him and now I know he’s safe at home, is what I thought before he finished his sentence... “yup we found him dead in the alley, he was in a trash bag. Apparently someone poisoned him” my heart dropped. I was in shock, I wanted to cry,, I was in disbelief, and honestly I was super pissed at my grandpa. Did he think he was being funny?? Did he think I’d laugh, or be like “oh well”?? I didn’t talk for the rest of the car ride. When we got to work I cried in the bathroom. But that’s not the worst of it,
About 30 minutes ago, my mom asked if my grandparents told me about Guerro. I said yeah, but I didn’t want to talk about it. She then went on to say that it was so sad that they found him in the bag... with his STOMACH CUT OPEN. I was shocked. My grandpa didn’t tell me that?? Why would they keep that from me?? And more importantly, who tf is cutting open and poisoning street cats?!
Here’s where my family doesn’t really believe me. I think this was done purposely. I told my sister this, and she said I probably overthinking this. Maybe one of our neighbors found him like that and put him in a bag. But that wouldn’t make sense because if they did find him like that, they would’ve at least TOLD US. And they especially wouldn’t have left him to rot in a bag outside our house????? She says maybe it’s just a coincidence, but, seriously?? Is it a coincidence that, our cat, who always came back home just suddenly disappears for weeks only to turn up dead, in a bag, in the alley next to OUR house?? No, I think the person who did this knew the cat belonged to us, and, I’m scared that, maybe they’d kept our cat for a while, before finishing him off.
I posting this to ask, what can I do in this situation?? I part of me wants to find the person who did this and beat the shit out of him. Are there any legal actions we can take against this person?? What if this is the same guy who’s poisoning the other cats?? I don’t know what to do, I’m heart broken and tired, but scared to, scared this isn’t the first time this has happened. Please, if anyone has any advice, please share. Sorry if the story is long, I’m posting this through my phone.
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