squishy and fleshy

I stepped on a dead cat today.

I was walking home from work around 7pm and when I turned onto my street, I stepped down from the curb and my foot encountered something squishy and fleshy. I stumbled a little and almost took a spill, and for the split second while it was still a possibility that I'd fall on my face, I thought that I'd stepped on a human body part, perhaps a thigh or kidney. I managed to recover and not make a fool of myself, and when I looked at what I had stepped on, I realized it was a dead orange and white calico cat.

:-(
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