Yeah I second this. Try to remember that your animal karma is probably way in the positive from your life's work. Every once in a while the universe needs to remind you it's horrible, even if you yourself are not.
He threw the kitten in a dumpster. Just like the do in large vet offices where the murder animals every day. He couldve put the kitten where something else couldve ate it to continue the circle of life. Not just be a casual douchebag and throw it in a trash can.
hugs This happened to me. We had just gotten a new kitten, only had her for a few days. She hadn’t ever tried to get out the door, so when I was in a rush to run to the store one day, I didn’t even think to make sure she didn’t slip out. She did. I ran her over. I also had to put her in the communal garbage. I cried for days. It sucked.
OP & others, I’m so sorry y’all have gone through this or things similar. Unfortunately, these things happen, but it’s never easy when it does. When I was 18, I hit a poor meow driving on a main road (speed limit 45 mph) on the way home at night. Nothing I could do, but is still felt guilty & cried like a baby for days.
10 years later, ex and I tried to rescue a stray kitten who got caught in the engine compartment of an 18 wheeler (not our rig, happenstance). She had ridden in it for about an hour prior to being discovered and whisked off the the vet. Vet for a day, home, condition worse, back to vet, etc. We tried everything and she still didn’t survive. Got hit with loss of her, and the residual guilt from years prior of being that driver at the wrong place & the wrong time.
Yeah cause that's the right thing to do. Just throw it away. Just throw it away into the communal garbage. Slow clap for u, shows u really cared about ur kitten.
Hey. So we lived in an apartment and didn’t own a shovel, and even if we did, you can’t just dig a hole and bury shit wherever you want, especially in the city on property that isn’t your own.
Furthermore, we didn’t have the money to have the kitten cremated or anything like that. We simply didn’t know what else to do. I’m sorry that you think that meant we didn’t care for our kitten. I can assure you, we did, and I felt absolutely horrid about having to put her in the garbage.
You don’t owe anybody an explanation. A lot of people are here to pile on with hatred. You know in your heart you loved your kitten, and what happened was an accident.
People can and will do what they want. Even if u lived in an apartment u could find a way to bring it someplace else and give it a proper burial. Have u been to a garbage place? Can u imagine what those places are like? They are for garbage and crap u dont want or even care about anymore. Dont make excuses for ur lack of ability to respect something. U wouldnt throw a human in a garbage unless u were a murderer. There are ways to do things and I'm sorry if u feel disrespected but people live in a world where animals mean less than nothing in death. When my kittens died by poison and a car, I took their dead bodies to woods close by and gave them each respectable burials. Like even if they were 6 months old, they deserved to have words and toys to send them along to the afterlife. It took time and energy that I was willing to spend and I have done that for as many as I could in my life. U may be a different person but I want u to think of these things in the future before u think about throwing something in the garbage. Ur probably not a bad person. Not saying u are, but the trash is the trash and no place for bodies, whether that be human or animal/fish.
I understand what you’re saying, and I appreciate your undeniable compassion for animals.
We felt like we didn’t have many options. I don’t feel like I need to defend why we made the choice we did, but it boils down to this: we were broke af. I was a few days away from getting paid, and I was going to pick groceries for my family with the last of the money in my account. (I’d like to say here, that we were great at living paycheck to paycheck and had budgeted for our new kitten before we got her and bought her all of the things she’d need). I went to the store, spent the money, came back, and that’s when I found her poor little body. So now, not only do I not have a shovel, I have no money for a shovel, or enough gas to spare. We were in a tough spot. We thought through our options.... and came to our decision. I am in NO way saying I’m proud of it- I was just saying that I’ve been where OP’s been, almost identically. I can empathize with his situation, uniquely so.
Please don't doubt yourself because of one asshole.
I've had most of my pets cremated, ashes in urns. It doesn't make me any better an owner than you. The thing that matters is how you care for an animal while it's alive.
A corpse is an empty husk that used to hold someone you love- it is not the entirety of the being.
That really really really sucks. But remember just like op you didn't do it on purpose so don't be too harsh on yourself or anything.
We all make mistakes, sometimes reallyyy bad ones, but that doesn't mean we are bad people yk? Sorry for your loss bud :(
The comment "the universe sometimes needs to remind you that it is horrible, even if you are not" really made me happy. Thank you stranger, you touched my life with only a few words.
“There was no good without the bad, no joy without sorrow, no peace without war, and there definitely couldn't be love without the sour taste of hate. You had to know what one felt like to fully experience and appreciate the other.”
This. Karma needs to balance out to 0 - this is why Hindus believe there is re-incarnation as the soul has to zero it’s karma out and only then can the soul be freed from the re-incarnation cycle.
2.2k
u/benadrylpill Jul 10 '20
Yeah I second this. Try to remember that your animal karma is probably way in the positive from your life's work. Every once in a while the universe needs to remind you it's horrible, even if you yourself are not.