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- aaaleman, on 04/08/2008, -23/+803What the ***** dude?! Are you trying to deliberately ruin my day?
Well, you did.
Hope you're happy, you nasty sadist. - qwertycopter, on 04/08/2008, -9/+582What you don't see: Those legs are missing a torso. The cat is doing a cool slow-mo walk away from his latest victim with rock music blaring in the background.
- inactive, on 04/08/2008, -4/+486You better have picked that thing up after taking its picture
- Chromium24, on 04/08/2008, -14/+475Everyone in the apartment complex I lived in knew who Ugly was. Ugly was the resident tomcat. Ugly loved three things in this world: fighting, eating garbage, and, shall we say, love.
The combination of these things combined with a life spent outside had their effect on Ugly. To start with, he had only one eye and where the other should have been was a hole. He was also missing his ear on the same side, his left foot appeared to have been badly broken at one time, and had healed at an unnatural angle, making him look like he was always turning the corner.
Ugly would have been a dark gray tabby, striped type, except for the sores covering his head, neck, and even his shoulders. Every time someone saw Ugly there was the same reaction. “That’s one UGLY cat !”
All the children were warned not to touch him, the adults threw rocks at him, hosed him down, squirted him when he tried to come in their homes, or shut his paws in the door when he would not leave. Ugly always had the same reaction.
If you turned the hose on him, he would stand there, getting soaked until you gave up and quit. If you threw things at him, he would curl his lanky body around your feet in forgiveness.
Whenever he spied children, he would come running, meowing frantically and bump his head against their hands, begging for their love.
If you ever picked him up he would immediately begin suckling on your shirt, earrings, whatever he could find.
One day Ugly shared his love with the neighbor’s dogs. They did not respond kindly, and Ugly was badly mauled. I tried to rush to his aid. By the time I got to where he was laying, it was apparent Ugly’s sad life was almost at an end.
As I picked him up and tried to carry him home, I could hear him wheezing and gasping, and could feel him struggling. It must be hurting him terribly, I thought.
Then I felt a familiar tugging, sucking sensation on my ear. Ugly, in so much pain, suffering and obviously dying, was trying to suckle my ear. I pulled him closer to me, and he bumped the palm of my hand with his head, then he turned his one golden eye towards me, and I could hear the distinct sound of purring.
Even in the greatest pain, that ugly battled scarred cat was asking only for a little affection, perhaps some compassion. At that moment I thought Ugly was the most beautiful, loving creature I had ever seen. Never once did he try to bite or scratch me, try to get away from me, or struggle in any way. Ugly just looked up at me completely trusting in me to relieve his pain.
Ugly died in my arms before I could get inside, but I sat and held him for a long time afterwards, thinking about how one scarred, deformed little stray could so alter my opinion about what it means to have true pureness of spirit, to love so totally and truly.
Ugly taught me more about giving and compassion than a thousand books, lectures, or talk show specials ever could, and for that I will always be thankful. He had been scarred on the outside, but I was scarred on the inside, and it was time for me to move on and learn to love truly and deeply. To give my total to those I cared for.
Many people want to be richer, more successful, well liked, beautiful, but for me…I will always try to be Ugly. - plebness69, on 04/08/2008, -22/+458awwwwww! poor kitty.
but brave kitty is brave - bossm4n, on 04/08/2008, -5/+197And if you see something like this in person, just stop and do something about it. Too many people ignore strays thinking someone else will do something. And please follow Bob Barkers advice and have your pets spayed and neutered to prevent the birth of so many unwanted cats and dogs. And if you want a pet, please don't buy one, adopt from a local shelter.
- CraigCarlyle, on 04/08/2008, -2/+192I don't know, I think this one might be worse:
http://img153.imageshack.us/img153/7061/1206227922 ...
:( - LacY, on 04/08/2008, -1/+141I choose to believe that after the photographer took this picture, a nice person picked up the cat, took it to a vet & got him/her all fixed up, then took it home to his nice home, with plenty of other cats to play with, where it is living a warm and happy life. They just forgot to put the "and they all lived happily ever after" part in the caption.
/rose-colored glasses - doctechnical, on 04/08/2008, -91/+222Please - don't just leave cats on the sidewalk like this.
Recycle them. The make great food for large snakes. - AEdgett77, on 04/08/2008, -11/+139At first I was thinking "ever?"
then i clicked the link :( - ajb2015, on 04/08/2008, -6/+118im in ur streetz, bein' mangee
- cutething, on 04/08/2008, -1/+106god damn it. thanks a lot. i was all cool and eating rita's. now i'm crying and eating rita's.
- FFandMMfan, on 04/08/2008, -1/+101We shall dub him Bravecat and he shall be brave.
- Lokishot, on 04/08/2008, -8/+100Wife=right hand.
- shaka776, on 04/08/2008, -11/+100Cue the picture of the starving child being followed by a vulture. That is the saddest picture I still have ever seen...
- ijacker, on 04/08/2008, -7/+95wife=you?
- BedPost, on 04/08/2008, -1/+87That story better not be true. Please don't let it be true... nooo ugly.... :(
/dayruined - Planets, on 04/08/2008, -5/+90Is that blood on the cat?
- TekTrixter, on 04/08/2008, -12/+94Next time cite your source: "Ugly" by: Karen Stone
http://www.independentliving.org/column/stone2_00. ... - korupture, on 04/08/2008, -24/+105cats > you
- gothelium, on 04/08/2008, -1/+77:( Sad... I would've stopped and taken the kitty home..
- inactive, on 04/08/2008, -4/+74http://img100.imageshack.us/img100/5223/sadbe0.jpg
:( - hollywoodphony, on 04/08/2008, -16/+86For everyone who's going to say "it's just a cat" or point out that we should be focusing on actual people or whatever, ***** off. It's a living thing and it's clearly suffering. If a person was walking around covered in blood, people would do something about it. But it's a cat so nobody cares. It's sad because people are so willing to turn their backs and it's emblematic of all the problems in the world that you think are more important.
- micahned, on 04/08/2008, -18/+86wtf
- inactive, on 04/08/2008, -12/+77I do, but I can't eat a whole one by myself.
- Jalh, on 04/08/2008, -20/+83i don't like cats , but i feel really bad.
- fluidfoundation, on 04/08/2008, -7/+70Thank you digg for making my wife cry yet again.
- noseeme, on 04/08/2008, -23/+85Your wife cried at this? Here is my suggestion:
http://www.oomsa.com/files/admin/image001_10.jpg - ludar, on 04/08/2008, -2/+63nope, its catsup
- dafragsta, on 04/08/2008, -4/+61Poor Li'l Brudder. He can make it on his own!
- random12345, on 11/16/2008, -0/+55Nice save!! I felt like I wanted to cry... now I feel like drinking some Mountain Dew
- MichaelVG, on 04/08/2008, -4/+57It's an Aristocat in real life! Poor Aristocat...
- mpuv6y, on 04/08/2008, -13/+66And this is why digg sucks.
- inactive, on 04/08/2008, -1/+53Damn, I just read all of that, lucidly. That was epic.
- Emnsta, on 04/08/2008, -1/+51I see it now
- CyberSol, on 04/08/2008, -1/+51ceiling cat is watching you blow a gasket
- skunkman62, on 04/08/2008, -0/+49can i haz a home now, pleaz?
- KISSOLOGY, on 02/16/2009, -5/+52NOO!! I want to find that kitten and take it home and love it!
- gr3yn3t, on 04/08/2008, -2/+49Note: he didn't write this. Its a somewhat common story.
- noseeme, on 04/08/2008, -1/+48If only he was a cute little kitty.
- kimcheefreak17, on 04/08/2008, -1/+45I've got an idea to why you're being buried...
- m1zl3d, on 04/08/2008, -14/+58Wow...I must be evil because this picture made me laugh uncontrollably.
- Shootfast, on 04/08/2008, -1/+44:'(
- CyberSol, on 04/08/2008, -5/+47Brave won't help this picture of the kitty was taken in Beijing
- KISSOLOGY, on 02/16/2009, -3/+44I can't digg you up for that. But it was clever.
- Patori, on 04/08/2008, -3/+44You, sir, are an *****.
- h4mx0r, on 04/08/2008, -3/+42It's a *****' vampire cat. Everyone get down!
- Adam420, on 04/08/2008, -0/+38My kitty died today so this isnt as sad as it can get.
:( RIP - db0255, on 04/08/2008, -4/+42the right hand is posting on digg...it must be the left.
- tazx, on 04/08/2008, -0/+37There's hundreds just like it at your local shelter.
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