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Dear little unnamed and unknown cat:
We found you tonight in the middle of the road, sad and small and broken, and still breathing. Wrapped you carefully in a running jacket and put you in the back seat. There was a lot of blood, but still you breathed, and I touched your fur and offered what meager comfort I could to a creature who was probably in so much pain.
Fortunately we remembered a 24-hour vet and took you there; the staff was very sweet and comforting, and ran to take you from our arms, and I washed your blood off my hands. They told us it looked pretty bad and soon afterwards, told us you had no heartbeat.
I'm so sorry we couldn't do more and I'm so sorry you died in pain. Maybe you know you didn't die alone and that you were loved and cared for at the end. We only knew you for ten minutes but we cared, and we tried, and your fur was very soft and white, and here is my memorial.
Godspeed, little cat.
We found you tonight in the middle of the road, sad and small and broken, and still breathing. Wrapped you carefully in a running jacket and put you in the back seat. There was a lot of blood, but still you breathed, and I touched your fur and offered what meager comfort I could to a creature who was probably in so much pain.
Fortunately we remembered a 24-hour vet and took you there; the staff was very sweet and comforting, and ran to take you from our arms, and I washed your blood off my hands. They told us it looked pretty bad and soon afterwards, told us you had no heartbeat.
I'm so sorry we couldn't do more and I'm so sorry you died in pain. Maybe you know you didn't die alone and that you were loved and cared for at the end. We only knew you for ten minutes but we cared, and we tried, and your fur was very soft and white, and here is my memorial.
Godspeed, little cat.