"MaryL" -OUT-THE-LITTER wrote in message
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"Cat Protector" wrote in message
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A woman in this story due to the floodwaters caused by Hurricane Ivan
actually let her cat's cage (yes with the cat inside) go so she could
survive. This is horrible. It just goes to show you that some people
care
more about themselves in a crisis situation. Her response about the
whole
situation of letting her cat go was the following:

""All of these material things I'm thinking about floating down the
river
don't mean a hill of beans," she said. "I do miss my kitty, though."

I find it disgusting that there are plenty of people like this who take
such
a passive view. I can only picture with sadness as this cat is meowing
and
meowing as he/she floats (or probably went under the water causing the
cat
to drown) down the floodwaters while the human waves goodbye. My only
hope
is that this woman does not get another cat.

You can read the entire story here.



http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmp...d=519&ncid=716

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Did you read the full story? I can't imagine how devastating it would be
to
face something like this. One of my greatest fears has always been that I
would lose one of my cats in something like a fire or flood and not be
able
to save it. At the same time, the man and woman in this article had
stepped
out of their truck only to find that the vehicle had actually been
floating
because they were in water over their heads. According to the article,
they
swam as hard as they could and managed to grab a floating propane tank.
In
rapidly swirling water like that, how could the woman possibly hold the
cat's carrier or even open it? She was probably hanging on as hard as she
could to avoid being washed away. Flood waters are unbelievably powerful,
and I don't see how any of us can really say what we could or would do in
those circumstances. I do think her remark about "missing her kitty" was
entirely too cavalier, but we also do not know if she was accurately
quoted
or what her state of mind was at the time, considering what she had been
through.
http://tinyurl.com/66feb

MaryL


On the few occasions when I had personal knowledge about a story published
in the newspaper they got the story wrong every time. Some mistakes were
worse than others but in every case there was an inaccurate statement or
quote. We don't know if this woman said something between saying her
property wasn't important and saying she missed her cat. We also don't know
if she elaborated about her feelings about the cat and that wasn't included.

Her inclination was to save the cat or it wouldn't have been in the truck
with her. It makes sense to have the cat confined so if it freaked out it
couldn't get away. Once they realized the truck was floating there probably
wasn't time to roust the cat out of the cage/carrier or she still felt the
cat would be safer confined so it wouldn't leap out of her arms into the
flood waters. Maybe by that time she was so scared she just couldn't think
straight. Maybe in those circumstances there is no thinking straight.

It's hard to say what one would do in her position. None of us was there.
I'm sure all of us would do the best we could to save our guys but who knows
whether we would be able to save them or not.

W