B O D wrote:
Fortunately a couple of college guys saw what was going on and stopped traffic allowing us to catch the dog and eventually find its owner.
Glad your story had a happy ending. I also had one a number of years ago with another kitty. I was driving home through a more commercial than residential area when I turned a corner only to find two eyes in the middle of a street reflecting my headlights. So I stopped the car and got out, intending only to move the kitty out of danger. However, a Houston Police Department car drove up behind me and asked over the bullhorn why I wasn't moving. So I said, "I'm rescuing a cat," picked the tuxedo kitty up, and brought him into the car with me. As it seemed unlikely given the commercial nature of the area that he had a home nearby, I took him home with me. Fuzz (short for Fuzzmobile) lived over ten years with me before succumbing to complications of his FIV-plus condition he acquired one time when he got outside.
Four years into that period, I found out why he'd been in the middle of the street: he was congenitally blind, except he could perceive very bright light--like those from headlights. We had always thought Fuzz was a little off --he'd wandered into rooms and start meowing, had to be rescued from bookshelves and window sills, and played obsessively with the roll-the-ball-around-the-ring toy, but nothing else. However, he was also adept at chasing our Siamese, Aardvark (the inspiration for AARDVK) into a corner, where she'd whomp him on the nose, and none of us--not my then-husband and me, our daughter, the vet who neutered and examined him several times, or any of Fuzz's human friends (he was a life-of-the-party cat) ever thought he couldn't see until I suspected something had happened to his vision when I moved following the divorce, and Fuzz had trouble for a few days navigating my condo.
Back when we could play under different handles locally and still get Players Plus points, I sometimes played a FZZCAT box. (NTN/BT wouldn't let me play under Fuzz or Fuzzy.)
Brooke/AARDVK