Missing cat has been found dead - and 'finder'has buried it in her own garden!

[Smowball]

My daughters 6 month old cat went missing on friday. She put up posters everywhere (she lives in a quiet one way street in a village).
This evening she gets a knock on her door from a middle aged woman who said she was very sorry but she found the cat dead in her front garden(??) a few days ago, kept it in a box in her garage for 2 days and then buried in her back garden. Then she saw the posters. Said cat didnt have a mark on it. Daughter is very distressed, doesnt know if it really is her cat, doesnt understand why it was found in this ladys garden and cant understand why she buried it in her own garden, as she would have wanted it in her own. All really sad and strange.

[lankeela]

I would be taking the lady a bunch of flowers as well, what a kind thing to do for a strangers loved pet. If the council or the RSPCA (some chance!) had collected it she would never have known.

[welshlibranr]

agree with lankeela!...this lady found the cat, didn't know who owned it, but took the trouble to bury it!.........very kind of her in my book!.....she deserves a bunch of 'thank you' flowers!...............

[boxtops]

Our Fizzy was killed by a glancing blow from a car, there wasn't a mark on her - but descriptions can be misleading. Although the posters showed our cat, when Rover went missing last year I got phone calls from all over, asking me to go and look at cats that were nothing like him.
Would the old lady not be able to tell whether it was a kitten (describing the markings) or an older cat? Perhaps not.... it would not be too awful to disinter the cat, to bury it properly if it IS your daughters, or to ask the vet to dispose of it if it isn't...

[EvianBaby]

Did the cat have a microchip?

I agree it's sad, id be heartbroken if the same happened to my cat but I would be grateful that the lady looked after my cats body and took the care to bury it rather than something else. If I was in her shoes, unless I had an idea when the cat was from I wouldn't be going door knocking to find out.

[Smowball]

Spoke to my daughter again. She went and spoke to the lady last night and did thank her. The lady says she put the kitten in a bag,then box and buried her, and that if my daughter wanted to re bury the cat in her own garden then she was more then welcome to. Daugher does and asked her bf to do it but he said no way was he digging up a dead cat(understandable)