dead cat in road...

[joko]

last night i was driving back froma friends house about 2am, andf came to a dead cat in the road...i got out to look incase it was still alive, but its was quite clearly very newly dead...

what should i have done? i just left it because i was a bit upset and couldnt bear to touch or or anything...

but as i was walkin back to my car, a man came past...he went over an hoofed the cat to the kerb...probably so it didnt get totally squashed, by the next car...(the cat was still intact except for a bit of blood on the face) - but then he just walked off

whats usual thing done in these circumstamces? someone must move them? maybe the owners wil find him today and take him, but what if not?

thanks

[Dris]

joko -I can almost guarantee the next driver but one would have moved it.Very very rarely do you see a squashed cat on the road -on the verge(hopefully not squashed) but not on the road.We all are faced with situations and until youre there you dont know.
I was driving home from work one night -back of 5 but dark and the car in front hit a fawn.I stopped and me and my 2 mates got out.The wee thing was still alive but dying.So we gently lifted it onto the verge and cuddled it and stroked it until it died.We then took it to the nearest police staion (protected animal) and they gladly took it off our hands... im glad we stayed with it until it passed peacefully and we were all in tears:( Dont know if i would have done it on my jack but I am impetious and I usually dive in and dont think until after so i probably would have on reflection

[joko]

lucy...if this is what you class as a fuss i'd hate to see how you would react if there really was a fuss...

on second thoughts you'd probably just be as obtuse and dull as you are being now...

glad no-one is rising to it though...haha run along and play...

[Gromit]

I had a similar dilemma a few weeks ago, but the moggy was quite motionless on the kerd at the side of the road I went up to it and there was no blood, so I summised it had just peacefully passed away. I step over it and left it, but felt I should have done something, but didn't know what.

I passed the same spot a fortnight later, and the same deaf old puss was alive and well and after my assistance in trying to get into its own. Needless to say, I again wandered on without helping the fleabag.

[lankeela]

Good job you didn't take it home and bury it Gromit!