in the middle of the road. Thing's been missing since late Thursday night. Roommate's currently out of town, he gets back later tonight. I don't know what to tell him, if anything. I'm pretty sure it's his cat. Hair length is similar, and color is spot-on (Though it's been run over, tail completely skinned, etc. Pretty gruesome.)

I have basically 3 options:

1. Tell him when he gets back.
2. Never tell him / tell him later and hope he doesn't see it when he drives back.
3. Text him about it when I'm at work, then turn off my cell phone.

I seriously don't know how he'll react, though I think he's more afraid of his girlfriend finding out.

;_;

9/13/2009 10:41:28 AM

maybe you can drive/ride with him and be like omg...is that...is that your cat???

i'd let him find out on his own

besides youre not sureeeeeeeeee its his cat

9/13/2009 10:51:09 AM

Take a pic w/ your camera & send it to him.

9/13/2009 11:02:15 AM

I do admit that its hair looked slightly shorter than what I was used to seeing, but this was in the middle of the road. And some rednecks were yelling at me to get out of the way so I didn't get a good look.

Anyways, it's an indoor cat so it's probably starved to death by now/beaten up by street thug cats if it wasn't run over. I feel bad for my roommate; he must be worried sick.

9/13/2009 11:06:11 AM

^cats are very resourceful

9/13/2009 11:41:03 AM

tell him, its just a cat. go shovel it off the road and tell him where it is just in case he wants to go look to verify

9/13/2009 11:43:21 AM

i would just tell him. wouldn't you want to know if your missing pet might be dead and someone knew about it? tell him you saw a cat that looked like his in the road but you can't be totally sure. leave the rest up to him.

never telling him or texting him and turning your phone off are punk outs

9/13/2009 12:13:56 PM

shovel it off the road and into his room

it will be nice surprise when he gets back

9/13/2009 12:25:25 PM

yeah, just tell him. something like "hey man, i think mr. whiskers got ran over. i went ahead and cleaned it up." it shouldn't be that big of deal.

9/13/2009 12:26:39 PM

I know your moral compass is probably telling you to tell him, but honestly the best bet is just to let the dude and his girl think that "maybe" someone rescued it. Them knowing it is dead and how it died is about as crappy as it can get for a pet owner.

9/13/2009 12:28:40 PM

Never underestimate the importance of closure.

9/13/2009 12:32:18 PM

I agree, don't tell him. I had a cat run away once, and I still hope someone rescued it, that it didn't get run over. that would be worse.

9/13/2009 12:40:41 PM

Not telling him leaves it forever an open issue. Tell him (although I'd make it clear that you aren't sure this is his cat), let him grieve, and move on. Better that than letting it continue to fester.

And, as others said, don't be a punk about it - this is not going to be an easy job.

9/13/2009 12:50:16 PM

Find a similar looking cat at an animal shelter and spray paint the tail to make it match.

9/13/2009 12:51:47 PM

get the cat off the road, put it somewhere out of the way where it wont get run over again, tell the guy and let him decide what to do with it.

9/13/2009 1:25:27 PM

damn son, its a cat.

i was pissed when my pets died when i was like 5, but i mean they aren't gonna last forever. Its fucked up that it happened while he wasn't there lol. But still just tell him you lost the cat and don't know what happened to it. He'll get over it.

I'm AstralAdvent and i approved this message

[Edited on September 13, 2009 at 1:43 PM. Reason : worst he can say is ggBro]

9/13/2009 1:43:33 PM

i was about to post the "free cat" picture, but then i realized i was in the lounge

9/13/2009 2:37:04 PM

-=UPDATE=-

So I just went to bury the cat.... turned out it was an opossum.

?_?

9/13/2009 3:04:56 PM

9/13/2009 4:01:12 PM

^ ggBro

9/13/2009 4:06:19 PM

this thread made me laugh

9/13/2009 4:27:49 PM

you have to tell him, don't hide it from him. That's not right.

9/13/2009 4:29:00 PM

I was in Carborro last night and saw a flier that said "Lost parrot" and loled...oooonly in carborro

9/13/2009 5:55:46 PM

Personally, if it were my cat I'd want to know so I could stop worrying about the cat and know what happened to it.

But this also assumes that the cat wasn't accidentally let out of the house by you and you were hoping to get the cat back alive before the roommate returned

9/13/2009 6:49:16 PM

^^Since I doubt there are two people putting up lost parrot signs, its probably the same one I'm thinking of, and that parrot has been lost for many months. I seem to remember the rewards were pretty nice if someone finds that parrot. (I work[ed] at a vet clinic in Carrboro, so I've seen many a lost pet poster)

^I'd also fall in the I'd want to know so I could stop worrying category.

[Edited on September 13, 2009 at 7:14 PM. Reason : .]

9/13/2009 7:11:42 PM

i've come to realize that ggBro and Amsterdam718 are the same person

9/14/2009 7:51:31 AM

^ That would actually make sense.

9/14/2009 8:02:13 AM

Quote :

"I have basically 3 options: 1. Tell him when he gets back. 2. Never tell him / tell him later and hope he doesn't see it when he drives back. 3. Text him about it when I'm at work, then turn off my cell phone. "

Oh, and

4. BE A RATIONAL, THINKING, EMPATHETIC HUMAN FUCKING BEING AND NOT SOME SCUM LORD WHO HIDES SHIT FROM HIS ROOMMATE.

9/14/2009 5:05:41 PM

Cat just returned tonight. /thread.

9/15/2009 12:06:53 AM

ggBro

9/15/2009 12:21:38 AM

ahahaha, perfect ending to this thread

9/15/2009 12:34:20 AM

hha i dont know if thhis whole thread was a set up for the opossum punchline or not

if so G fuckin G bro

9/15/2009 10:14:41 AM