When the seasons change and the really cold weather starts I am sadly reminded of an incident from Holidays and Pets my childhood.  I was pretty young, probably 5 or 6 years old, and at the time my mother was working the third shift at the local hospital as an RN.  It was winter and one night she came in and woke me up to tell me that when she went to start the car my young cat was accidentally killed.  He had crawled...