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

[wolf63]

I have never been in your situation but you did 'something' and that is something most people would not have done.

If it had been day time then you could have asked around to find where it lived - but they can wander quite a distance so you might not have had much success.

I would hate for one of my cats to be killed in such a way and for me to never find out what happened.

[tigwig]

This happened to me a few years back and I got my boyfriend to move it as I was so upset and didn't want to touch it. He picked it up and layed it on the grass nearby but when we got home I felt so bad (as I had a cat then too) that we went back and it had gone! He insisted it was dead so unless it had just been stunned the owner had obviously found it.

[joko]

yes i hope the owners find it.

im hoping i get a missing cat notice through the letter box soon so i can ring an let them know...

i wonder if street sweeper machines would pick it up?

i hope someone has taken him somewhere and he/she is not just in a binbag ...

[lankeela]

I would have taken it home and kept it somewhere cool for a couple of days, put notices up near where it was killed and hope the owners got in touch. If not I would have buried it after a few days.

I drove along a busy road one morning and saw what looked like a black kitten dead in the middle of the road. Later that day I passed again and it was in the gutter, and I could see a red collar on it. Feeling bad I parked up the road and went back to pick it up. When I got close, I realised it was a black sock with a red ring round the top! I carried on walking as though I was going somewhere, before turning back to my car!

[JustJenni]

Ive had this problem before, I've been walking home and have found a cat near the road, im a cat lover and i couldnt leave it there, if it was my cat i'd hope someone would move them for me. thankfully it was only down the road from my house so i brought her home and popped her in the garage so the kids that live near us didnt see, as i was new to the neighbourhood i knocked on a few doors and found who she belonged to they were very upset but were really grateful i moved her.

[boxtops]

When my cat was run over and killed, several roads away from here, a kind lady picked her up and took her to the local vets (which fortunately was mine). I would do the same - I know what it's like for a cat to go missing and never finding out what happened to it. I will always be grateful to that lady who took the trouble to take her to a place where they could identify her and let me know.

[welshlibranr]

I found a young cat in a similar situation a few years ago, it was bearly alive, and died a few minutes after I found it, I knocked on every door nearby, and found the owner, at least they knew the fate of their pet, and were able to bury it in the garden, it didn't end up as 'mush' on the road! I know that the law says that we don't have to stop if we run over a cat, but we surely should! They are someone's loved pet!............I always would!.............

[boxtops]

Hi Lucy - you miss the point and are clearly not a cat person.

[boxtops]

It's like Marmite, Lucy - you either are or you aren't. I am. Most people on this post are.

[Dris]

Newsdesk boxy -best to ignore-just look at the number he is on:(
this is difficult as the last thing i would ever want to do is guilt trip anyone (joko). We all deal with things differently in the cold light of day/or the dark of the night.
So in saying that I would i'm almost positive have moved it onto the side of the road so it wouldnt get mashed up anymore.
I cannot bear to even see my cat with flea bites but if the unthinkable happened I would hope that when I saw my beloved Buddy he didnt look like he had suffered.

[jaydah]

Waste of a good pelt - recycle it into mittens

[Hopkirk]

Lucy doesn't mean it, he just likes winding people up.

[MarkRae]

I love ***.

[boxtops]

;-) Joko - you did the right thing for you, at the time. Don't worry about it.

[Dris]

Mark I have to pick you up there on your lack of input.*** does not constute a word -expand please
jaydah -away and pick your nose and eat it..

[Dris]

bugger *constitute*

[joko]

yes, i suppose i should have moved it myself, and i was debating it on my way back to the car but i was hoping the man walking by might do something, and im glad he did...i dont know if i could have done it ... i also have nowhere to put it - no garage or anything, nor did i have anything in the car to put it in...i was trying to think what i had in the boot ... like a box, binbags etc ...but nothing suitable really.
as for knocking on houses...just far too many in that bit...could have been anyones...kind of a crossroads and a main road...plus it was about 2am...

it was right in the middle of the lane so my car went over it but didnt touch it thankfully.


lucy - theres no fuss...only the one you are making...