24/11/05

Hey there Fuzzy Furry Friends
OK, This is a departure from our normally immature and irreverant travel logs, because today was a bit of a sad day for us, so we figured we may as well share our gooshy little story with you… It’s really only for catlovers, so if you don’t like cats though, don’t read any further…
Last Sunday night we were driving through a town called Glengariff coming back from sightseeing around the Beara Peninsula in southwest Ireland when I noticed what I thought was a kitten laying on the road right where a car tyre would run.
Because, it was dark, I really wasn’t sure if it was kitten or just a bit of clothing, but after …umming… and …aahing… a bit, we decided to turn around and found that it actually was a small black female kitten about 5 months old that had been hit by a car.
It was curled into a crouching position, and was bleeding heavily from the mouth and nose and not really moving, although we could hear it wheezing and struggling for air…
It was just one of those horrible moments when we weren’t really sure what to do since it looked injured pretty badly, and being visitors to this country, we were deciding whether to take it for help which was going to be awkward for us, kill it and put it out of its misery, or just leave it on the side of the road… Continue reading
