True cat story. Over the weekend..

[Iron Crab]

I'll start with last year some idiot threw a kitten in my neighbors porch while he was at work. I have kids so I ended up with it. When he brought it over to see if we wanted it I figured it was already dead but it didn't know it yet. It was way too small, caked in manure and as skinny as a toothpick. I told my kids if it was still alive pass the weekend we would take it to the vets. The kids named her Ginger and kept her going thru the weekend. Monday at the vets we learned she was a he and he was just a health problem wrapped in cat hair. I spent three weeks medicating this cat for everything, not to mention every evening cleaning the ooze from it's eyes and gook from it's ears. The kitten became a big, strong and very loveable family member.

Over the weekend my wife went into our storage garage to get a wheelbarrow and came out all shook up and said Ginger was dead. I went in and sure enough Ginger was in his hay box. What really bothered me was that he was almost cut in half. I could not find a reason for this. The building is locked and there is just a small cat hole in the back wall for the cat. There was no blood anywhere. I wrapped him up in some burlap and buried him along the woodline. Right at dark I told my wife I better break the bad news to the kids and she said I better come into the kitchen first. I walked in and there was Ginger sitting on the back steps waiting to be fed. (insert Twilight Zone music here) I give up.

[schrocat]

Pet Cemetery revisited...

Who got buried then?

[Ltspd]

Might want to cut back on the beer and saltwater chasers ;)

[Aragorn]

Huh? This doesn't make sense.

[GregD]

easy....two cats.




(or take LTSPD's advice and lay off the "substances")

[Reinhold]

Are you related to FishKid?

[icemark]

Originally posted by Reinhold
Are you related to FishKid?

I agree... that sounds like a Fishkid story

[Ltspd]

No fishkid would have caught 1 of his parents with a bloody knife and the other with a needle and thread while he was being abducted by aliens.

[FishKid]

no you got it all wrong, my parents were abducted by the aliens, but during interstellar travel the ship encountered space pirates and they were able to commandeer an escape pod which landed three miles due south of Iron Crabs dwelling, before long they ran out of food and had to survive on the liver of a cat until the aliens came to pick them up again and turned them into bio-mechanoid bipedal scout droids whose primary objective is to prevent the president from choking on pretzels and to kick reinhold square in the ass for not growing up!

[Reinhold]

FishKid:

I'll "gow up" as soon as you tell me what that is.

[FishKid]

Shhhh! dont speak

[Iron Crab]

I think I'll go with Fishkid's theory. I have spent the better part of two days trying to explain this. I know there were two cats but the one I buried was like a clone or is it the one we call Ginger now .

[schrocat]

That's just plain creepy.

[Ltspd]

Originally posted by schrocat
That's just plain creepy.

FK or the story

[schrocat]

Now...That's just plain wrong!!!

[Firefish]

We've all seen "Meet The Parents"... I'd smell that cat for paint fumes
or maybe the cat just molted and all you threw away was the skin...would explain the lack of blood and the cut

[hcp28]

Maybe it was all a dream and you were just dreaming that you had to bury the cat, because unconciously you have a fear of losing the cat in some unexpected way, because you got the cat in an unexpected way. Perhaps your fear of abandonment has been projected onto the cat and now you fear losing it. Either that or the crack you've been smoking is bad. I'd dig up the other cat and see what you got. Maybe Ginger just drug a dead cat in the house, I've seen stranger things. Ask the kids maybe they brought it in, becuase they thought it was Ginger. Either that or evil alien clones.

Henry

[Reinhold]

I seriously think you should dig up the first alleged-cat and see exactly what you buried originally.

If it turns out that you can't find the cat you buried in the grave, then you have a story. If you find the first cat in the hole, you have a second stray.

If you can't find the grave in the first place, you got a serious schizophrenia problem which should be addressed with medication.

[Iron Crab]

I've had more than a few people tell me I should dig the cat up. I don't see the need. The grave is undisturbed- not that I wanted to check but I happened to be going that way.
What makes this so weird is what are the odds of this happening. I can agree that maybe our cat brought this dead stray in- but one that looked exactally like itself. On top of that, what happened to it. This was a fresh kill. It died sometime during that night. Like the first part of my story- I spent a lot of time with Ginger getting him in good health and I also checked the dead cat over better than well. I could not see a difference. Same hair, same color, same size and weight. I will say these are not small cats.
Also, I don't have a lot of neighbors and a stray is not around long before it is noticed. This is so weird.
Does make a good story though.

[saltjunkie]

Ill second the molting theory.........
Rick