So...I found a rather odd dead cat today.

No, not a joke thread.

Well, I dunno. Either it was a very, very, scarily elaborate April Fools joke, or a actual corpse. I'm actually hoping for the former, because the damn thing was odd.

Found it while heading out for a jog maybe an hour before sundown. Corpse was on it's side in the middle of the sidewalk. I had classes on Forensics back in High School, so I pulled on my gloves and stopped to take a look.

Cat was stiff with rigor mortis. Still enough that I could not close it's eyes with a gloved hand. Mouth was very bloody, but I could not work the jaw open to see why. No external wounds, but the mouth was covered in blood, and some had trickled down to the right forepaw. No apparent internal trauma, and from where it was lying, I doubt it was run over. Hit by a bike, at the most. Or ate some glass in a suicide attempt. Or something.

The odd thing was, aside from the unwounded except for a bloody mouth body, and the fact it was lying on the sidewalk, was the fact that it seemed to not have been in place very long, but was stiff. Also, it's eyes did not seem to register shock, surprise, or even pain. Ir had one eye open, and one half closed. Best I could make of it's expression is the equivalent of the "What the fuck...?" horror movie reaction, right before something cuts you in half.

Anyway, to stop rambling, anyone have any medical experience above basic High School Biology/Forensics? Am I missing something to explain how the damn thing seemed to have died before it noticed it?

Damn, I must admit that I did get a somewhat chuckle out of the title of the thread before opening it.
I have no medical skills whatsoever, but I can say with some common sense that it could have been hit with a bike, like you mentioned. :(

as you know rigor only lasts a few hours so it must have been recent...

sounds like a mystery, you should find the culprit.

also, I find it slightly odd that you happened to have your gloves on you still while on a jog... were they in your fanny pack Holmes?

Yeah, that's the first thing that came to my mind.




Investigate further.

Freaky feline fatalities, banned members still present.
A creepy day on orange Fakku.

BTW - if it weren't for the facial expression, I'd say it smoked too much and died of lung cancer. Common occurrence these days. Should have dissected it ...

This never occured to me...
Watch out, your dog is next! O.O

eat it.

Fresh cat makes the best orange chicken.

smell it... you can tell by the smell if it's a dead thing or not.

but mebe the cat just fapped too much...

why did you "examine" a dead animal on the side of the road? I'm sorry professor but your story is either bad, fake, or makes we question your sanity.

maybe he is a schizo and killed the cat then placed it there because his first mind knows that his second mind would jog there by tomorrow...having gloves with him.....it all makes sense now.

I have no experience in such field, But that was must have been weird to look at...

can it be poisoned or something?

Not so much that I stopped to examine something by the side of the road. The thing was on the sidewalk about three meters off of my house.

And, yes. I do carry gloves wherever. Because sometimes I do things that I shouldn't leave fingerprints on.

Am I the only one who wants pictures?

Not to verify that the story is true. I just want to see that crazy shit.

I wantz sum picturz!

oh yeah... pictures!

Underage girls?

I think it was just hung over.