Question for the group

On Fri, 03 Mar 2006 16:26:42 +0000, Margarita Salt wrote:

If you lost your cat, would you want to know if it died or believe it
was probably adopted and living in a good home?

One of our colleagues asked me this question because he's torn about
what to do about a dead cat.

A month or so ago, a little old lady was driving around looking for her
cat. She asked our friend if she had seen it and described it. She
also said it needed medication. He hadn't seen it, but took her number
and said he'd call if he did. A week later, be found a dead cat on his
property that matched the desciption of the missing cat. He had lost
the phone number, and so buried it.

A couple of days ago, he saw the lady again looking for the cat and he
was torn as to whether to tell her he found a cat, or let her think it
was taken in someplace. He opted for the latter. He asked if she was
still looking and she said yes, but he's probably dead by now. He said
that it could just as easily be living the life with someone else. She
seemed happy with that. He also has somee kittens and offered her one
of them and she's going to think about it.

Should he have said, "I found a dead cat and buried it," or is keeping
an old lady's hopes up that the cat is well and happy the right thing
to do?

Discuss.


IMHO You should have been truthful. Living with "hope" can also be hard
to handle. MLB