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How Can These Trolls Be So Callous?
What The Death of Our Beloved Family Cat Taught Me About People
We had some tragic news recently. We lost our beloved cat.
He’d been with us for years and would go out every day, but never went very far or stayed out for very long. He’d pop out for a while, have a bit of an explore, get some fresh air and some exercise, check out any new smells that had been left in his territory, then dash back in to make sure we were still around, and to tell us all about it.
We knew there was something wrong when we hadn’t seen him all day. It just wasn’t like him to disappear for such a long period of time. Over the next two weeks, we spent many hours looking for him. We leafletted our local area and put up posters everywhere. We talked to neighbours and local business owners, asking them to keep an eye open for him. We contacted local vets and animal shelters in case he’d been brought in. We joined community Facebook groups and lost pet groups and put out his information all over social media.
People were great. There was so much support. A printer produced a load of free posters for us, local business owners put up the posters in windows, almost every day we had calls and messages from helpful people thinking they might have seen him. None of the sightings proved to be him…
