Free Spirit = Death by Car

Cats. Love them or hate them, or like me, not really bothered either way, we all have to agree they are very free spirited creatures to have has pets. Really, they only stay with their owners because it means warm shelter and easy food, but apart from that, they pretty much spend most of their day's outside chasing birds, mice and fighting other cats. Or maybe they're 'singing' or, how can I say this...trying to 'multiply.'
There are a lot of cat lovers out there. One of my neighbours has about 4 cats, God only knows why, but 1 pet is too many in my opinion. I went in her house once, and with out being impolite her house stank of cats. I also tend to chase them out of my garden, not because I have any real hate towards cats....no, when I was a boy my mother had a pet cat and I loved it to bits, in fact she had two pet cats...but I do not like finding cat poo in my garden, especially when my daughter plays in the garden. Anyway, I have grown older and more grumpy and I am not a pet person.

Anyway, this morning, on my way to work, driving I have to say with in the speed limit of 30 mph, guess what would happen....I saw a cat running across the field, I slowed down a bit, but cats being cats, and also being a bit dumb, it carried on running on to the road. I braked harder but it was too late. I felt the bump has my wheels drove over the cat. There was nothing I could do. Rightly or wrongly, I decided not to stop, I had to get to work for 8:00am and it was 7:56 when I hit the cat. I looked in my wing mirror and I could see it shaking and it's legs were in a spasm, but it was dead and it was just the nervous system reacting to the fact there was no signal going to or coming from the brain. Plus the rush hour traffic was building up and there was no where to really pull in.
Yes I feel horrible that I hit the cat, it was after all a living creature which was only doing what cats do and yes I feel guilty for not stopping but at the end of the day, I had to get to work. I don't think my boss would be too understanding if I said I was going to be late because of a cat and I cannot afford to lose wages at this moment of time, plus, has I mentioned, it was killed on impact, so there was nothing I could actually do. I guess I could have told the owners, but I have had dealings with cat / animal lovers before. When I had not long learnt to drive I hit a cat. I did stop but the women in the car behind me had a right go at me has if I did it with intent. She was really fanatical, to say the least, and the last thing I need, this morning, is a fanatical cat owner.

Mmmmm! I hope it will not come back has a vengeful cat spirit and hunt me for the rest of my days. Nah! I refuse to believe in such things has animal spirit's.