Petition to change law for cats

[wolf63]

It is 2am so I am unable to write a coherent chunk of text.

The following link explains what changes are needed to make motorists obligated to report hitting a cat on the road.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/...ucestershire-15457756

If this is something that you think is a good idea this petition is up and running

https://submissions.e...ov.uk/petitions/19369

I know that some local authorities scan dead cats to see if there is a microchip which will indicate the name and address of the cat and its staff - but many don't. Maybe that is something else that could be considered.

[LoftyLottie]

That is so sweet - and they say Cats don't need people. All the cats we have had have been tremendous companions. It's the way you treat them - they all have individual personalities!!

[LoftyLottie]

That's an interesting, and breathtakingly stupid & absurd, leap of logic Lofty Lottie.


Really, I don't think so. If you run a pet
cat over and don't bother to try and inform it's owner who's pet it is then you have no human compassion for others.

If you have no compassion for animals then I and many others, would say that you have no compassion for people either. See the quote from Dr Filth.

[flip_flop]

Then you would be wrong.

You are effectively equating a dislike of cats with a dislike of humans and that's, well, a bit weird.

[rowanwitch]

Respect for life is never wrong.... we have made wild animals our pets, placed them in a dangerous environment to suit our need for companionship there fore it is hardly a leap of reason to accept we have a responsibility for their well being. Why should that not extend to a respect for them in death...

[LoftyLottie]

Read what I have said Flip Flop. You dislike cats, fair enough. However, if you don't feel that you should have the courtesy and respect to let a cat owner know that a you have run over a cat, then you have no respect or regard for humans either.

[DrFilth]

flip flop there is a link to people hurting animals ,children and adults, , they did a study on killers and found a positive link

i think i posted a link to this a long time ago, i have tried to find this document again but have had no look

it made very interesting reading

[DrFilth]

change look for luck

[LoftyLottie]

Compassion has nothing to do whatsoever with whether you like something or not. You dislike cats, FlipFlop - as I said 'fair enough' Compassion is about empathy and realising that any living creature can feel pain and distress whether you like them or not.

'Liking' has nothing to do with the matter.

[flip_flop]

Dr Filth - you are getting confused with knowingly and purposely hurting an animal with unwittingly hurting an animal, so your post was a waste of keystrokes.

Lofty Lottie - I have read, and understood, your post. It is still wrong.

[LoftyLottie]

'A waste of keystrokes'

No it wasn't, it was very relevant. It came up in discussion because of other comments, not necessarily directed at you, FlipFlop. It was an interesting point and one I agree with completely.

[DrFilth]

flip_flop if you don't tell the owner and just say sod it you will be knowingly hurting the human owner


when my cats went out at night i use to stay up and wait for them to come back home, i have been out onto the field at 3-30 am with a torch looking for them.

no matter how tired i was i always made sure they were safe in the house before i went to bed

[ummmm]

I always have a window open for my cat. Although he does preferr to meow at the front door. I swear he just like to see us standing up :-)

[LoftyLottie]

LOL ummmm. Typical cat. When the back door is open, our cat comes in he open quarterlight window next to it. If the window is open and the door is closed she shouts at the door and if we aren't there, she goes round the house looking through all the windows and then 'knocks' at the front door by hurling herself against it several times!!

[ummmm]

It's the bathroom window we leave open.....It is always covered in foot prints. I haven't a clue why he feels the need to walk round the bath!!

[rowanwitch]

The wrong side of the door game is one of the many ways they reinforce the idea that they are in control

In fact Tinkerbell was nicknamed okey cokey kitty

The cat goes in the cat goes out
In out in out she's mucking us about
Shes the okey cokey kitty when you turn around
Shes back by the door again

[flip_flop]

As Dr Filth's opening paragraph referred to me Lofty Lottie, I think it was a reasonable assumption that his comments were directed at me - would you not agree?

Further, it is also a reasonable assumption that Dr Filth feels that if I run over a cat thereby hurting/killing the cat, that I could/would also hurt children and adults as there is a connection with hurting animals and with murderers.

Whilst there could be "a positive link" between animal cruelty and murderers, Dr Filth has confused unwittingly killing an animal and wittingly killing an animal.

Using the leaps of logic so far shown in this thread, if I accidentally step on a spider, my family had better sleep with one eye open because I may turn into the new Crippen.

[tastymorsel]

Rowan.That poem made me laugh.So true of cats behaviour.Flip flop I think the point being made here is not whether you accidentally step on something would you care,but if you knew the owner of it would you not want them to be told so as not to have them spend forever wondering and worrying about their pets fate.I personally would want to know even if it was bad news.

[LoftyLottie]

I think flipflop has trouble understanding that simple fact.

No one on this thread has accused flipflop of knowlingly killing anything!!

[rowanwitch]

Hurting not as in deliberate causing of pain but by omission allowing the pain to occur.... Neglicence rather than malice

[LoftyLottie]

Basically boils down to consideration of other people's feelings. If I killed unwittingly another person's pet spider/earwig/ant/worm I would feel upset for that PERSON , regardless.