Those coyotes were noisy and quick!

[RgrF]

Doc wrote:
[quote=RgrF]
The animal had a full life. That it became a part of the food chain seems to annoy you, why is that?

You had an obligation to protect that cat's life and instead you chose to be wanton and arrogant and it suffered for your lack of integrity.

That's not so much annoying as it is bleak.
Wanton and arrogant? I saw my obligation as allowing the cat to be a cat. It wanted out and did well for itself for a while. Under your prescribed alternative I could have turned it over to the tender mercies of the local pet shelter when we moved into the hills and it then could have been put peacefully to sleep a year or more earlier and never been part of the food chain.

Would that have been your preference?