Today in early morning a dead cat appeared in front of my mother's restaurant, someone seemingly rolled him (it was a male) over and had been dead for a few hours.
Because my mother is perpetually afraid of cats and the morning employee refused to pick it up, I had to do it, of course. It's a frightening sight, not the same thing as seeing a dead cockroach, for example, I typically don't get to see dead vertebrates (not even rats/mice), so the whole process was tough for me.
Initially, I grabbed a dustpan and a broom to put the body in a box, but the guy turned out to be heavy and impressively stiff, it was like frozen clay, that's the best way I can put it. Usually when you touch a cat, you can feel the muscles all soft and cozy, if you know what I mean, but this guy was imploding. Since putrefaction hadn't properly started yet, I assume it had been dead just for a few hours.
So I had to grab him with my hands, but it took me a long while to get around the idea. I grabbed him and threw him inside the box, but guess what, he fell out and rolled over some cacti nearby.
I cried.
Had to gather courage again and I finally did it, then I researched what I had to do with the body. There supposedly has to be a department in the city that takes care of this type of matters (because it is forbidden to toss animals in regular garbage around here), but obviously it wasn't available. So, since I'm not a fan of just tossing my problems to other people, I didn't put the box next to a random house like my mother suggested. Went out a little bit and decided to bury it, didn't take too long.
Hopefully he can rest now, he was slightly larger than your average cat.
My bet with The_Liquid_Laser: I think the Switch won't surpass the PS2 as the best selling system of all time. If it does, I'll play a game of a list that The_Liquid_Laser will provide, I will have to play it for 50 hours or complete it, whatever comes first.
