Apologies that this is so very far off the topic of personal finance.
I called and got a hold of my contact at the Seattle Police Dept. This is the situation that he told me, verbally (no police report):
Sometime early Sunday morning (before 4 am), a private citizen saw 2 males standing by the cardboard box resting by our mailbox (we are one of 4 mailboxes in a row). The citizen shouted, "what are you doing?" The 2 males ran off. The citizen opened the cardboard box, saw dead little Morgan, and called the police. The patrol officer came at 4:15am and wrote up the incident report.
So I feel certain that Morgan's killer is in our neighborhood, and knows that Morgan was owned by either us, the upstairs neighbor (we are a duplex), or the next door neighbor (also a duplex).
I don't whether Morgan's killer is one or both of the two males, the private citizen, the person who set Morgan in the cardboard box, or none of the above.
We still have the cardboard box. The irony is not lost on me that said cardboard box has a shipping address of Lifeway Christian Store with a tracking number (!) dated from Feb 2009 and has "Kings Elementary" (private Christian elementary school) handwritten on one of the flaps, while Morgan is an entirely black cat (8 white hairs at the throat), and we have a license plate that begins with "666".
North Seattle is not anywhere close to the Bible Belt, its not even a Bible headband or a bible ankle bracelet. At least I thought that. We are left with a box and the thought of a killer-nutball or a killer-scumbag in our neighborhood. DH and I are debating about calling the SPD back either right now (me) or wait because we assume that the investigation is on-going. My SPD contact has my number, and they know we owned Morgan.
In the meantime, anybody have the ability to trace a tracking number back to an order?
"answers" decidedly dark
June 26th, 2009 at 03:05 am
June 26th, 2009 at 03:11 am 1245985881
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June 26th, 2009 at 03:20 am 1245986448
I can't imagine how you must feel. I feel rage just reading it and it is not even my cat. Killing a helpless animal for fun is just beyond my understanding. I really really hope they find out who did it. Their friends, family and neighbors need to know about it because I believe people who enjoy killing or torturing animals are very likely end up doing bad things other people as well. It is just not a normal human reaction - normal people are very uncomfortable seeing other people and animals in pain. There is something deeply wrong with those who lack that basic empathy.
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Sorry again, I just read your previous posts. Are there any reason to believe that the animal was killed and didn't just die suddenly from some natural cause, like a stroke?
June 26th, 2009 at 04:01 am 1245988891
I hope they can find the guilty people and that they get punished.
June 26th, 2009 at 04:05 am 1245989124
I know your pain and I am so sorry.
June 26th, 2009 at 04:13 am 1245989607
I saw her last around 9 pm Saturday. If she died before 4 am Sunday, the event window is rapidly shrinking.
June 26th, 2009 at 06:48 am 1245998932
June 26th, 2009 at 02:32 pm 1246026738
A tracking number with which mailing service? Can you look on the appropriate website? Such as ups, or fedex.
My thoughts are with you.
June 26th, 2009 at 03:02 pm 1246028551
i once hit my neighbors cat with my car it was horrible i heard a thump the cat ran off (I did not recognize it) the next day my neighbor said his cat was "acting funny" when I said o god I think it must have been your cat I hit,the cat showed no signs of damage but died the next day ,it was so horrible ;-(
sorry about you cat ;-(
June 26th, 2009 at 06:30 pm 1246041027
I'm wondering about the possibility of poison, myself. I know my dog Lefty is CONSTANTLY eating things off the ground (I try to stop him, but he's so quick, and there's always so much damn trash, etc. on the ground), and sometimes he's gotten fairly sick from it. Frankly, I'm pretty certain that's what's going to take him out one day.
Still, there's no comfort when one loses a pet. I'm so very sorry.
June 27th, 2009 at 04:01 am 1246075319
The whole black cat/666/Christian thing would make more sense closer to Halloween --- so that really baffles me. I think the above ideas of possibly an accidental poisoning or perhaps internal injuries from being hit by a car make the most sense.
No matter how it happened, the loss is still tremendous. Morgan was very lucky to have you and your DH in her life - to have a happy and warm home.
June 29th, 2009 at 07:25 am 1246260312