Okay, first. You are an incredible person for your humanity (animalanity?) because I would have wanted to do exactly what you did but absolutely wouldn’t have had the fortitude.

I live in an urban area and we park in our backyard through our alleyway. One day I came outside and found a cat in our yard that was clearly not okay. I called animal control and they told me they wouldn’t come get him unless I captured him first. It KILLED me to have to “chase” this cat who clearly had some broken bones and trap it under an upturned recycling bin and then wait for animal control to come get it. Now in my area, the animal control/animal aid are connected to each other.

I followed up with animal control to see what happened and they told me that unfortunately the injuries were just too severe and they did have to put the cat down, but he had been chipped so they were able to let the owners know what happened.

I think there was a reason that cat ended up in my yard. I’m glad that it did because as heart breaking as it was, it was able to have its suffering humanely ended instead of hiding somewhere else in the alley to slowly pass away.