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[bajema]

I had wash out on the line and noticed a black cat in the yard. I pulled down all the bed sheets and took them inside and then came back out to toss treats at the cat staring at me in the yard. Our neighbor out here has been thoughtful enough to have all the feral cats she encounters picked up and fixed. Me, being a cat person, of course hoped one

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[lather2002]

Well, now there is no doubt about it. I love you. I mean all you did to help that rabbit, sigh. You are a hero Beth ! :D

[bajema]

But would you still like me when you see that q-tip holocaust in the bathroom after my obsessive ear cleaning rampages? ;)

[bajema]

And you liberated it right? Please tell me there are no said tales of how it died lodged between a hooker on her way home and the window pane of the subway.

[bajema]

Yes, I've rescued animals that made it beyond the savages of the backyard. And I know if the hospital couldn't help than most agencies could not. I refer back to that bleeding heart bit.

[mykeamend]

*hugs*. We did everything we could have.

He was in shock, and if he had pulled out of it, he might have died from infection or fever or secondary infections from the broken bones - and he would likely have been in a good deal of pain all the way up to that point.

Still, I am right there with ya wishing we could have saved him - but that is always the way such things work out. It is easy to think too much for too long on what you could have done to change things, and the realistic answer is "absolutely nothing", as much as we want to beat ourselves up and tell ourselves otherwise. We cannot see into the future, change the past, or magically mend wounds.

This helplessness and frustration are just a part of life, and a part of letting go. We saved him from being eaten to death, and saved him from dying slowly from his wounds. It was all we could do, but it was a lot, and we exhausted all our options in the process.

[bajema]

I know. I keep thinking that the best thing we did was keeping that baby from having to end its life with the experience of being eaten. But, you know... I'm just glad we didn't name it.