Pas de chat
May 31, 2007 by piereth
…literally. She has been taken back to the shelter.
She kept getting beaten up by our neighbour’s scraggy piece of shit. She was going to get chased under a car at any moment. And then, this week, when the doctor suggested ‘getting rid’ because R was probably allergic to her it sealed her fate.
I say fate, but she’s probably going to be adopted by a lovely couple with no kids who have a large garden and who will let her wander to and fro at random. She is so much calmer since we adopted her and she’s been with us 2 and a bit years. In that time she’s straightened out and become, well, less mad.
I just miss her, that’s all.
(Next day) This reads back as defensive. I suppose I should be defensive, as what I have actually done is dispense with the dependent being who was there first. There’s no way to defend that…. except pragmatically, I couldn’t take the baby back to the shelter because he was allergic to the cat… and the cat was going to be killed by the tiger next door. So the results are good, even if the means of getting there is morally suspect. Anyone spot a 19th Century Moral Philosophist close by??
Ah honey, that must have been tough. But you know what, even if Kant wouldn’t have taken the cat back, his wife would have. Very pragmatic these 19thC German Philosopher’s wives… mostly because someone has to be!
The house doesn’t feel as empty as I would have expected, without her. I suppose this is good.