Dear A-hole,
Thanks so much for dumping your elderly cat in the driveway of my work one night last week. It was so loving and considerate of you to abandon her with strangers, after all these years. I say "after all these years" because a microchip never lies. Did you forget what a microchip is for? … Found it, scanned it, and identified you, you jerk. You adopted her 6 years ago from the local humane society which puts you in good stead for about a second and a half. The joke's on me though because of course we tried to call the contact numbers you put on the microchip and of course your phones have been disconnected.
I guess I can't understand why you would dump under cover of night, a 15 year-old, practically toothless cat like one would dump a bag of recycling. Were you hoping someone would recycle her? Instead of living up to your end of the deal you struck with her when you "rescued" her 6 years ago, you reneged and in the most cowardly of ways.
So, thanks for letting me be the one to ask all my friends if they wanted a cat; for letting me take her to the county shelter and tell them your story; for letting me cry on the way home knowing that old cats hardly ever get adopted not matter how friendly and floppy they are; for letting me imagine her inevitable fate in a shelter system already overcrowded with animals who got the short end of the stick from people like you; for letting me be the contact person for the med staff when they called me back to tell me that she's got severe dental disease, a distended belly, and a urinary infection; for letting me tell them that I couldn't take her in because I already have three pets at home that I committed to for life; and for letting me, everyone at my work, everyone at the county shelter and all of my friends take on your duty to a sweet little cat that you discarded.
Sincerely,
Underdognation
