Is it good to run over your Cat?

No, don't think. In fact, I know someone who actually did this (wasn't her fault: she's over 60, the cat was about twenty, nearly deaf and blind, and had gone to sleep under the rear wheel of her car---not hard to guess what happened). And she suffered emotionally for several months over the horrific demise of "Big Kitty".

A couple nights ago, my own Karma almost went bad. I was pulling off my street onto a secondary road and there goes my cat, not-quite-sprinting, not-quite-jogging in front of my jeep grand cherokee. Elephant versus ant would be the proper comparison, in terms of relative weight and survivability.

This was at night and lucky for Cleo (cleo is the cat and chloe is the ferret), I was pulling ahead from a dead stop and just happened to be looking down at the road. Otherwise, it could have been sppplllattt!

You know, I really think they need to do some gene manipulation on domestic cats, to get them to stop "lazily loping" in front of cars because its a stupid behavior and, too often, the feline doesn't come out the winner in the age-old battle of car versus cat.

Here are a couple of pictures of Cleo the cat. They're both of her sleeping. In the first one, she's apparently dreaming of stalking prey and in the second she's in hot pursuit.