Wont be bothering with dinner tonight

[Purple_Popple]

Just saw a cat get knocked down on a busy main road, then someone's dog slipped its lead and ran out after the injured cat ! Owner pulled dog off cat, I pulled over further down the road, as no one else seemed to be stopping, the owner of the dog just ran off, picked the cat up out of the road to the grass verge, poor kitty was wearing a collar and tag so I've left a very upsetting message on someone's voicemail :( I'm in bits....

[B00]

Awww no, how horrible for the poor cat, and you to see it. If its any consolation to you at all, it does sound like it was quick, and it didn't suffer. Was there a contact number on the collar?

[B00]

oh, i see- you rang the number on the tag- that was nice of you x

[friedgreentomato]

How terrible for you but well done for phoning them at least they will know what happened to kitty.

[Purple_Popple]

Not sure if whoever knocked the cat is legally obliged to stop ?

[furrypusscat]

Sorry to hear that. It must have been awful for you to see and then to have to leave a message for the owner. Thankfully though you were there, someone else may not have bothered.

[furrypusscat]

No it is not a legal requirement but it would have been nice if they had.

[friedgreentomato]

No their not, only if you knock down a dog or sheep etc

[RATTER15]

No, not legally obliged to stop, once released out the front door its considered wildlife and susceptible to the ways of the world, life and death.

[shoota]

http://www.roadtraffi...and-practical-advice/

[Prudie]

That's horrid for you PP,I'd find it really upsetting. At least the owner will know and not go searching so well done for that. I don't know if it's changed but it used to be that motorists don't have to stop or report cats but dogs they do.

[NOX]

Still morally the right thing to do to stop, irrespective of the law. People who don't stop after hitting cats get right up my nose.

[boxtops]

well done purple, I will always be grateful to the lady who reported my cat when she died in the road - at least we could say goodbye to her, and we knew what had happened. Otherwise we would never have known. Big hug to you (()).

[Purple_Popple]

Awww, thanks all, I guessed that was the case - considered 'wildlife' as Ratter has pointed out, but still dreadful.

[China Doll]

I had a cat get go missing for a day and a half and one day came home and saw her tail sticking out the top of bush she'd been chucked in after being run over. I burst in to tears there on the spot (I'd called her name thinking I'd found her alive) and it was in the middle of a roundabout at a university so it was a very public outburst which is most unlike me. I'd have loved not to be the one who found her, she was chipped but I guess people don't think to take a dead cat to a vet to see if they're chipped and their owner knows. I'm not sure it's practical to report every cat that gets run over thought if it's not obvious who they belong to, much as I wish it was.

[EvianBaby]

I've picked up a few dead cats off the road, once bringing the A41 to a halt but never was able to track down any of the owners. It's very sad. The precise reason I found a house as far away from the main roads as possible. Would be destroyed if it happened to mine.

[EvianBaby]

Oh and I buried them all in my back gardens.

[boxtops]

So sorry china, how horrid for you - but that's what happened to my cat, she was identified by the chip. (and that's the way Rover came home last Christmas god bless the chip) In looking for Rover (no stone unturned), I was told by the street cleaners that they do have a chip checker, and the RSPCA should chip-swipe any cat they are called out to collect.

[rsvp]

Well done P_P - not nice for you but the right thing to do - I'm sure the owners appreciated your involvement

[excelsior-1]

Purple_Popple.

i join everyone else in commending you for what you have done in the aftermath.
i am sure also that, despite being very upset by the news, the owners will also appreciate yoiur sympathetic efforts.

kudos to you.