How can people do this and sleep
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On Sunday night someone ran over Minnie my beautiful little cat. We live in a cul de sac, no need for anyone to drive at any great speed. Then they pushed her to the side of the road to die.
I took her to the vets this morning, gave her my love, said my goodbyes, held her, and left her in the caring hands of our vet to sort out the cremation.
I’m heartbroken and disgusted how could anyone knock down a small cat and then leave her to die on her own. It’s not a big cul-de-sac ... I’m lost for words.
Here she is, her heart was so big she had to put some of it on her paw pad
I took her to the vets this morning, gave her my love, said my goodbyes, held her, and left her in the caring hands of our vet to sort out the cremation.
I’m heartbroken and disgusted how could anyone knock down a small cat and then leave her to die on her own. It’s not a big cul-de-sac ... I’m lost for words.
Here she is, her heart was so big she had to put some of it on her paw pad
So sorry to read that, humans really are disgusting,
I recently saw a cat get hit by s car, they didn’t stop, I pulled over, tried to save the poor thing but it was too late.
Called the RSCP and 3 local vets, all of which said, sorry if it’s dead were too busy to come and collect it.
I managed to pick it up and take it into the vets but it was heart breaking even for me the level of I don’t care that’s about.
It stayed with me for quite a few weeks and I was really quite upset for a couple of days, I found it so much sadder than even when I saw a man get hit by a car.
I recently saw a cat get hit by s car, they didn’t stop, I pulled over, tried to save the poor thing but it was too late.
Called the RSCP and 3 local vets, all of which said, sorry if it’s dead were too busy to come and collect it.
I managed to pick it up and take it into the vets but it was heart breaking even for me the level of I don’t care that’s about.
It stayed with me for quite a few weeks and I was really quite upset for a couple of days, I found it so much sadder than even when I saw a man get hit by a car.
Not going to lie, if that was my cat and I found out it was someone who knew about it and did nothing knowing it was your beautiful cat, they would be feeling the back of my hand.
I read this as my cat attacks the can of Pringles on the sofa with me. They certainly get under your skin!
A few years ago the car infront of me hit a cat which had shot out from nowhere, we both stopped but couldn't find it.
One of our cats was hit and killed by a bus outside our house, the driver stopped, one of our neighbours came out and told him that she knew who's cat it was and she'd deal with telling us.
One of our cats was hit and killed by a bus outside our house, the driver stopped, one of our neighbours came out and told him that she knew who's cat it was and she'd deal with telling us.
Sorry to hear the news about Minnie, I've lost a cat to a car a few years back, and another to illness, so I understand what you're going through. My wife won't let our cat out now, she's a house cat for this reason.
Unfortunately, drivers don't legally have to stop if they hit a cat.
I personally would, but I wouldn't expect the general public to do the same.
Some don't even stop when they hit people...
Unfortunately, drivers don't legally have to stop if they hit a cat.
I personally would, but I wouldn't expect the general public to do the same.
Some don't even stop when they hit people...
So you own a cat, let it loose, take no responsibility when it murders wildlife, and buries turds in peoples flower beds because "it's in its nature". You fail to teach it the Green Cross Code, but when it gets struck by a vehicle, the driver is some sort of hideous beast?
I witnessed the aftermath of a cat being run over a few years ago. Main road into town, well sighted, well lit, 30 mph speed limit. The driver ahead of me was going along at well under the speed limit, at about 2300 hrs, so well into dark o'clock. I didn't see the cat, I just saw the brake lights of the car ahead as the driver stood it on it's nose to try to avoid said cat, but the stupid animal insisted on running into the road anyway.
That was an unfortunate accident. What happened next truly sickened me. The cat's owner, and several animal loving neighbours came out to see what was going on, as the driver stood over the cat trying to work out what to do. The driver was surrounded, abused, threatened with violence, and had to lock himself in his car with his passenger. They were prevented from leaving, the car was damaged, and the police had to be called. All the while the cat's owner, a Weeble-shaped woman in a velour tracksuit, sat in the road wailing theatrically with the cat wrapped in a towel on her lap, and the whole circus was completely blocking the road. So I can understand why a driver might be reluctant to stop, even presuming they knew what they'd done. Because saying it was "pushed to the side of the road to die" presumes quite a lot. Maybe it was knocked there by the impact? Maybe it dragged itself there? Maybe someone not involved in the collision put it there but felt they could do no more? But you just crash into "someone murdered my one true love" mode and presume it was a deliberate evil act by some animal-hating psychopath.
So here's the rub. The reason why a collision with a cat is a non-reportable incident is precisely because cats are not under their owner's control and free to roam the roads and railways of the nation, chowing down on Bluetits and Dunnocks, burying their filth in gardens, etc. You can't have it both ways. You want legal protection for the cat population? Take responsibility for it's safety then. Walk it on a lead. Keep it in your house/garden when it isn't being walked. Install cat-proof fences if need be. In short, stop inflicting your lifestyle choices on other people.
I read the thread title and thought it would be a distasteful act of deliberate, calculated animal cruelty on a large scale being investigated by the authorities. But no, it's just a feral animal been run over by a car. What next? Statutory protection for Brock and Bambi so that drivers who hit any animal on the road need to call the PDSA animal emergency ambulance? Where does the line get drawn? Rats? Mice? Voles? Stag Beetles? Wood Ants? I hit a blackbird once, it just swooped down in front of my car. I felt absolutely awful for days. I'm not some hideous, heartless monster here, but you need to get a sense of perspective. The cat is free to roam, and therefore free to run out into traffic. If it does, it is small, difficult to see (especially at night) and I'm sorry to say that in most cases a collision with an animal that size probably won't even register on most drivers' "WTF happened-ometer".
How can Network Rail do this and sleep at night? I mean, they operate a third rail electrified railway locally. No doubt some poor animals, possibly including cats, must have been killed by this silent steel assassin? I crossed a pedestrian level crossing yesterday afternoon (on a non-electrified line). There, sat right next to the rails, twitching his tail and eyeing up some feathered friend (it's nesting season, birds are compelled to collect nest material, and so more vulnerable to the attentions of Tiddles) or a tasty morsel of rodent was a mean-looking black and white cat. If the Felix doppelganger was paying too much attention to his potential plaything (because lets face it, cats seldom actually eat what they kill or injure) and failed to notice a couple of hundred tonnes of Class 220 bearing down on him at 100+ mph, would it be the train driver's fault that Felix went under the wheels, or got ripped along the track bed, tumbling like a dishcloth in a spin drier, drawn along by the air pressure under the carriage set?
This kind of loss, I'm afraid, is the trade you make when you take on a cat and let it outdoors. If you don't think you can cope with this, buy a hamster. My neighbour lost her cat last year. She searched, she use local facebook groups, she put up posters, and registered him on 'findmycat' type sites. He never turned up, neither his body, nor collar. He was chipped and carried a tag with her phone number on it. But we live near the M3 motorway, and the cat wasn't the type to be stolen, he was a handsome, but unremarkable, ageing tabby. So my neighbour slowly came around to the idea that she'd never see him again. I've had the sad job of informing an owner that their cat had died when we moved into a rented property. The cat's body was found in the shed, and had been there for some time. I boxed it up, and took details from the collar to call the owner. I also found a cat's collar in another property, but that one had a happy ending - the cat and collar had become separated but it was happily curled up on it's owner's lap when i called so I posted the collar, bell, and tag through the letterbox when I was passing. So put a collar, and a BELL on your cat, and then, if the worst happens, someone might call you with news of their fate. If you let the bird-murdering b
d out without ID, then how do you suppose anyone who finds the body is supposed to trace the beast's owner?
I witnessed the aftermath of a cat being run over a few years ago. Main road into town, well sighted, well lit, 30 mph speed limit. The driver ahead of me was going along at well under the speed limit, at about 2300 hrs, so well into dark o'clock. I didn't see the cat, I just saw the brake lights of the car ahead as the driver stood it on it's nose to try to avoid said cat, but the stupid animal insisted on running into the road anyway.
That was an unfortunate accident. What happened next truly sickened me. The cat's owner, and several animal loving neighbours came out to see what was going on, as the driver stood over the cat trying to work out what to do. The driver was surrounded, abused, threatened with violence, and had to lock himself in his car with his passenger. They were prevented from leaving, the car was damaged, and the police had to be called. All the while the cat's owner, a Weeble-shaped woman in a velour tracksuit, sat in the road wailing theatrically with the cat wrapped in a towel on her lap, and the whole circus was completely blocking the road. So I can understand why a driver might be reluctant to stop, even presuming they knew what they'd done. Because saying it was "pushed to the side of the road to die" presumes quite a lot. Maybe it was knocked there by the impact? Maybe it dragged itself there? Maybe someone not involved in the collision put it there but felt they could do no more? But you just crash into "someone murdered my one true love" mode and presume it was a deliberate evil act by some animal-hating psychopath.
So here's the rub. The reason why a collision with a cat is a non-reportable incident is precisely because cats are not under their owner's control and free to roam the roads and railways of the nation, chowing down on Bluetits and Dunnocks, burying their filth in gardens, etc. You can't have it both ways. You want legal protection for the cat population? Take responsibility for it's safety then. Walk it on a lead. Keep it in your house/garden when it isn't being walked. Install cat-proof fences if need be. In short, stop inflicting your lifestyle choices on other people.
I read the thread title and thought it would be a distasteful act of deliberate, calculated animal cruelty on a large scale being investigated by the authorities. But no, it's just a feral animal been run over by a car. What next? Statutory protection for Brock and Bambi so that drivers who hit any animal on the road need to call the PDSA animal emergency ambulance? Where does the line get drawn? Rats? Mice? Voles? Stag Beetles? Wood Ants? I hit a blackbird once, it just swooped down in front of my car. I felt absolutely awful for days. I'm not some hideous, heartless monster here, but you need to get a sense of perspective. The cat is free to roam, and therefore free to run out into traffic. If it does, it is small, difficult to see (especially at night) and I'm sorry to say that in most cases a collision with an animal that size probably won't even register on most drivers' "WTF happened-ometer".
How can Network Rail do this and sleep at night? I mean, they operate a third rail electrified railway locally. No doubt some poor animals, possibly including cats, must have been killed by this silent steel assassin? I crossed a pedestrian level crossing yesterday afternoon (on a non-electrified line). There, sat right next to the rails, twitching his tail and eyeing up some feathered friend (it's nesting season, birds are compelled to collect nest material, and so more vulnerable to the attentions of Tiddles) or a tasty morsel of rodent was a mean-looking black and white cat. If the Felix doppelganger was paying too much attention to his potential plaything (because lets face it, cats seldom actually eat what they kill or injure) and failed to notice a couple of hundred tonnes of Class 220 bearing down on him at 100+ mph, would it be the train driver's fault that Felix went under the wheels, or got ripped along the track bed, tumbling like a dishcloth in a spin drier, drawn along by the air pressure under the carriage set?
This kind of loss, I'm afraid, is the trade you make when you take on a cat and let it outdoors. If you don't think you can cope with this, buy a hamster. My neighbour lost her cat last year. She searched, she use local facebook groups, she put up posters, and registered him on 'findmycat' type sites. He never turned up, neither his body, nor collar. He was chipped and carried a tag with her phone number on it. But we live near the M3 motorway, and the cat wasn't the type to be stolen, he was a handsome, but unremarkable, ageing tabby. So my neighbour slowly came around to the idea that she'd never see him again. I've had the sad job of informing an owner that their cat had died when we moved into a rented property. The cat's body was found in the shed, and had been there for some time. I boxed it up, and took details from the collar to call the owner. I also found a cat's collar in another property, but that one had a happy ending - the cat and collar had become separated but it was happily curled up on it's owner's lap when i called so I posted the collar, bell, and tag through the letterbox when I was passing. So put a collar, and a BELL on your cat, and then, if the worst happens, someone might call you with news of their fate. If you let the bird-murdering b
d out without ID, then how do you suppose anyone who finds the body is supposed to trace the beast's owner?yellowjack said:
usual long winded drivel
You should be ashamed of yourself, people love their pets, losing them is akin to losing a member of their family. Your views may be 100% correct but they serve no purpose in this thread other than shouting 'look at me'. This is someone's grief your ego is stamping all over, shabby behaviour.Sympathies OP, I have been in exactly the same position and it is indeed horrible.
ehonda said:
yellowjack said:
usual long winded drivel
You should be ashamed of yourself, people love their pets, losing them is akin to losing a member of their family. Your views may be 100% correct but they serve no purpose in this thread other than shouting 'look at me'. This is someone's grief your ego is stamping all over, shabby behaviour.Sympathies OP, I have been in exactly the same position and it is indeed horrible.
I can fully accept that it may not have been the drivers fault that the cat was hit. I also accept that there is no law stating that you have to stop for a hit cat, but I for one couldn't drive off. Last year I came across a dead cat in the road which had been hit, and I felt obliged to stop. I knocked at the nearest terraced door, and it wasn't hers, but she knew who it was some doors down. She was mortified, but thankfully trusted that I was just the messenger.
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