I saw a black cat walking down the middle of the street / myLot

United States

July 6, 2018 8:07pm CST

I looked up from the computer and saw a black cat sauntering down the middle of the street. Being a good cat mama, I went to the door and yelled at Princess "Get out of the street!!" I get a drop dead stare, and the cat moseyed on down the road toward the vacant house. I yelled louder and clapped my hands. Princess comes to Bob when he claps his hands. This cat RAN on down the street, into the neighboring yard and hid. Princess walked up from the right and began possessively sharpening her claws on the porch. I do not know who that other black cat was. It was not Princess.

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StacyB

@Srbageldog (7716)

• United States

7 Jul 18

Well, at least you got someone's cat out of the street.

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Heather Echola

@GardenGerty (157546)

• United States

7 Jul 18

I yelled loud enough and long enough. There are people who will deliberately hit animals with their cars.

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StacyB

@Srbageldog (7716)

• United States

8 Jul 18

@GardenGerty I know -- I have heard people bragging that they do that before. It always makes me anxious when I see animals strolling through the streets.

StacyB

@Srbageldog (7716)

• United States

8 Jul 18

@lnillerman Because they are cruel and think it's funny.

Angie

@andriaperry (116860)

• Anniston, Alabama

7 Jul 18

That is just hilarious!

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Heather Echola

@GardenGerty (157546)

• United States

7 Jul 18

That cat had such a look on its face!

Heather Echola

@GardenGerty (157546)

• United States

8 Jul 18

@lnillerman I have owned cats for about sixty years.

BarBaraPrz

@BarBaraPrz (45472)

• St. Catharines, Ontario

7 Jul 18

Doppelganger!

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Heather Echola

@GardenGerty (157546)

• United States

7 Jul 18

Pretty common with short hair black cats, I think. I have not seen that one around here before.

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Judy Story

@jstory07 (134388)

• Roseburg, Oregon

7 Jul 18

That was good it was not Princess.

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Heather Echola

@GardenGerty (157546)

• United States

7 Jul 18

Yep. Usually she is in the shade in the yard.

NJ Chicaa

@NJChicaa (115958)

• United States

7 Jul 18

Good thing that Princess wasn't around to tangle with that other cat.

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Heather Echola

@GardenGerty (157546)

• United States

7 Jul 18

As long as they do not come up in our yard she ignores them. It is a good thing it did not come into the yard, I would have made it come inside.

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Hanni Harel

@Hannihar (129388)

• Israel

8 Jul 18

@GardenGerty My cat that used to go out would not let me go out with her or let me follow her,. When I saw her laying in line with the olther cats I called her and she came to me. My cat had a mind of her own and would come back inside when she felt like it. My Sophie goes out in our hallway in the building and has gotten scared from something and found her way down the stairs. She knows how to jump down from our porch to the one below and go on the roof of the house in front of our building but she is afraid to jump up. Otherwise she stays inside or on our porch these days. wnen I am home.

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Heather Echola

@GardenGerty (157546)

• United States

8 Jul 18

Mostly Princess stays in our yard, but she does get curious sometimes about activity across the street or road. It is a mostly empty field, except when they process the wheat there for a couple of weeks or when people play frisbie golf or fly kites. She usually waits and when the people are gone she goes to check it out. She does not like to stay inside if the weather is nice, but if we are gone away from the house we bring her in.

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Hanni Harel

@Hannihar (129388)

• Israel

9 Jul 18

@GardenGerty I understand. So, that was not Princess you saw? My cat likes to be on the porch when the weather is nice but when I have to go out I have to close the door to the porch because I had problems with the ones that lived below us and had trouble getting my cat back. She was on their porch and I could not get to her from outside because the porch is high so there are new ones moving in and not sure what they will be like so I cannot let that happen again so have to keep her inside.

Anna

@LadyDuck (457822)

• Switzerland

7 Jul 18

It happens, black cats look very similar.

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Heather Echola

@GardenGerty (157546)

• United States

7 Jul 18

They do. It was too far away for me to see that it did not have on a red collar.

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Anna

@LadyDuck (457822)

• Switzerland

8 Jul 18

@GardenGerty I love black cats, but they are hard to recognize.

rakski

@rakski (112925)

• Philippines

7 Jul 18

Aw. a lot of black cat in the neighborhood? There was an old superstitious belief here in our country that black cat in the middle of street is a bad omen.