warning: do not read this if you are faint of heart and have a soft spot for feline creatures

So - I was sitting at my desk tonight, which is right next to the window that overlooks my horribly overgrown garden, and through the music I had playing I started hearing an awful, strangled-sounding meowing noise. My heart jumped, and I nervously stopped my music. The meowing continued - it sounded like a poor, crying cat who was perhaps in excruciating pain.

I turned my music back on in hopes of drowning it out - remembering the cat-baby we found in our basement last year, and his dead brother who stank up the apartment a couple days later - but whatever was torturing him only intensified and his incessant howling pierced through my music and, well, scared the crap out of me.

Then suddenly there was one last excruciating, drawn out yelp, and then silence.

And then I was depressed. :(