How can people be so cruel!

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Was on the way home from the yard this morning and saw a dog running about in the road so we slowed down and found round the corner there was a cat lying in the road. We thought cat and dog where playing
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So we waited and the cat didnt move (Apart from tail)
So we got out and it was having a fit and must have litterally just been hit by a car
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So we picked her up and took her to the nearest house who said she was a stray and stayed with her in their garden but unfortunatly she died before the RSPCA got there
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But what shocked me is they must have hit her and LEFT her staggering around the road, theres no excuse as its a straight road and they would have seen the poor cat
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Yes it didnt have a collar but any deacent person would at least move her to the side of road.
What B8stards!!!!
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Rip little cat xxx
 
They were probably driving too fast or something. Idiots. Poor kitty, sounds like she had a horrible end, but at least you managed to get her somewhere safe and quiet and she was with someone who actually cared at the end.

My little cat did have a collar on, someone ran her over on the next street and left her there. A nice lady picked her up and rang us until she got through. It's good to know there are decent people like you out there when the world is so full of nasty ones.
 
I lost my little cat Alfie about a month ago, was run over on a fairly quiet but fast road that leads into the housing estate where i live. It was late, but they must have seen him as he was a big white fluffy thing (cat in my sig) and he had a collar with my details, yet they didnt even bother to stop, and it was a stranger walking his dog that took him to the vets later that night. He was killed outright anyway so nothing would have saved him, but still cant believe how unkind and thoughtless people can be sometimes when its clearly someones beloved pet theyve killed or injured.
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Poor Kitty...I'm ashamed to be human at times...

I found a cat that had been hit in a road that is used as a rat run. I stopped on my bike but he was dead.. There was no collar so I moved him to the verge and covered him in undergrowth. I was in my local shop a few days later and a cat of the same description of the one I found was advertised as missing. I called the number and it was their cat.. Horrible to tell them but they rang back and thanked me and he was taken back home and buried.

Well done for stopping and helping xx
 
Poor cat
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I've lost two cats over the years due to them being knocked down. Wee Rosie was found at the side of the road by my mum, its breaks my heart to think that someone hit her and drove off and then goodness knows how many others jsut drove by and left her there when they could have helped her.
Thank goodness there are still people like you around who are willing to put themselves out to help another wee life. Very sad
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Ditto this!!

I nearly failed my driving test coz I stopped for a cat, he said you don't have to stop for anything smaller than a dog!!
In reply I said but a cat is bigger than a chihuahua, and that is a dog!!!!!!!!!!!! (or so I'm told)
 
How dreadful. It could have been that the dog chased the cat into the road and therefore it got run over. I would always stop and check for anything I hit, I have turned the car round countless times in the past to check that the animal (whether it be rabitt, cat, badger or fox) lying prone in the road is actually dead. I would always attempt to take a collar off a squished dog/cat if it wasn't too gory a job to do.

Dad saw a cat hit by the car in front of him one dark winter night so got out the car and picked the cat up. He was frantically trying to find the cats owners but it died in his arms. He put it on the back seat and brought it home as he didn't really know what else to do with it. I told him to take it to the vet in case it was identichipped but when the vet scanned it unfortunately it hadn't been chipped. The vet agreed to keep it his his deep freeze in the surgery for a week in case the owners came forward - meanwhile I made a few posters and put them up in the area. Weeks later the owner came forward to say that he had two cats, the first escaped and ran across the road and the second followed (which was then run over). The first cat was found weeks later at an animal shelter. Very sad.
 
Only about two weeks ago i found a dead cat in the middle of the road so i picked it up and put it on the side of the path near the hedge. It had no visable signs of being hit by a car but thought to my self the poor cats owner did not need to see it after lots of cars had run over it thats why i moved it. Within a few hours it had gone so hopefully the owners had found it and at least knew what had happened to it rather than never know.
 
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whats horrible is that is actually the law, you do not have to stop, or even pull over to check for a cat! Which I think is totally unreasonable being an owner of 2 cats!
and yes my boy cat is DEFINETLY bigger than a chihuahua!
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but I would be devastated if anything happened to him!

well done queenbeex for being so considerate and caring!!
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That must have been awful seeing the cat having a fit
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Our kitten was run over in the summer, we have a lot of feral cats around us which we feed, had most of them captured and spayed but still get the odd kitten, he became a pet straight away, slept/eat in the house, would lay on our laps etc. Then one morning I was coming back from the stables and saw him in the next road, I parked at home then walked round to get him and someone else had run straight over him, only one lady stopped to help us as me and my sister were in tears, everyone else drove past just staring, what upset me the most was that someone had driven over him again.
 
How cruel. I hate drivers like that; I remember a few months back a squirrel ran into the road in front of the car in front of me, we both swerved, hit the brakes and avoided it. A van coming the other way made no effort to do either, actually revved his engine and caught its back end, leaving it to drag itself to the side of the road. The car behind finished it off for good.
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I just can't understand why anyone would see any living creature in the road and not try to avoid it - let alone somebody's pet. I find it unthinkable.
 
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Ditto this!!

I nearly failed my driving test coz I stopped for a cat, he said you don't have to stop for anything smaller than a dog!!
In reply I said but a cat is bigger than a chihuahua, and that is a dog!!!!!!!!!!!! (or so I'm told)

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Rubbish – you don’t have to stop for any animal, only people! Obviously, if it’s a horse or deer sized, then you better had or your car will be wrecked but technically, you shouldn’t slam the breaks on for dogs, cats, birds etc. I would, unless it was on a motorway or something like that where my stopping would be dangerous; I have hit birds on a motorway before but I would be devastated if I had to hit a cat. I would stop and check a cat or dog unless it was quite obviously dead or it was too dangerous to do so. I have done so before; just put my hazards on and made people wait – tbh, I don’t give a sh*t what they think or if it slows them down, not my problem.

To OP - Well done for caring for the little cat, at least she died warm and cared for, not at the side of the road. I’m choking up thinking about it; I’m so soppy with cats that anything like this makes me feel really teary but I’m glad you did the right thing.
 
Sadly it doesn't surprise me - over the years I've had 3 cats run over and left in the road. 2 of them were picked up by kind people who found them and then contacted us, but the other one we only found out weeks later when someone told our neighbour they had run him over!

Last week someone at our yard saw a dog hit by a car and the driver reversed, went round the dog and drove off. They took the dog to the vets but sadly he was too badly injured and had to be pts.

It is bad enough to lose a pet in this way, but to have them left in the road as if they are of no consequence is even worse.
 
Nothing surprises me anymore.

A few years back we lost a very large labrador. When a very nice farmer called about a month later to say that he had found her body it turned out that she had been hit by a car (friend who is a vet picked her up for me and told me this). That meant that someone had hit a 35Kg lab and then driven off! She must have damaged their car and they still couldn't care.

Some people and heartless and cruel, thankfully there are also people like the OP who care for any animal whether it's theirs or not.
 
I was bringing a visitor to meet my horse last summer.As we were in sight of the gateway, there was a cat thrashing in the road. I put my hazards on and jumped out - and the car that had obviously just hit it drove off at speed. I was so shocked that anyone could do that, outside a house and leave it to someone else. The cat was terribly injured and rapidly bleeding to death. Luckily my visitor was a veterinary nurse and she stayed with the cat while I fetched the owners (it was completely obvious that nothing could be done)( as I had recognised it as one of the farm cats. It died within about 2 minutes. Unfortunately this road (a country lane) is a terrible rat run and you wouldn't believe the speeds some people drive along it. I once knocked down a cat when I was nearly home. I definitely hit it and saw it get up and run off. I spent ages looking for it and knocking on doors to see who it belonged to. I never did find out and am wracked with guilt that it crawled off and died in terrible pain. I would rather have squashed it outright.
 
Im sooooo soppy, i dont drive yet, and when im with my mum i cringe even when theres a pidgeon miles off in front lol.
My mum hit a pidgeon a few weeks ago but it wasnt squased just seemed to be knocked out and then it flew off
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Ive got a pet cat (house cat shes a real wimp!!!!) luckily she only has the occasional stroll round the garden!
Even if its not law you stop for animals you should
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Its not nature as cars arnt natural!!!
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How cruel. I hate drivers like that; I remember a few months back a squirrel ran into the road in front of the car in front of me, we both swerved, hit the brakes and avoided it. .

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Completely understand this must have an instinctive manouvre on both your parts....probably would have done the same without thinking...you do, don't you?........but I think the point in the Highway Code about not taking evasive action for small animals is so that you don't accidentally mount the kerb and injure/kill a pedestrian......
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How awful.

I have to admit I've killed a couple of rabbits on roads over the years, and it makes me cry everytime.

I could never just leave an animal if I suspected or knew it was still alive.
 
Poor cat
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I found a cat on the road recently that had literally just been hit by a car. Luckily it was dead, looks like it died on impact.

I would have taken the cat to the local vet rather than wait for the RSPCA, I don't think any vet worth their salt would turn away a cat that had been hit. you wouldn't have to pay the bill etc but they could have put it out it's misery quickly.
 
I found a mouse that had been hit and took it to the vets that's how soppy I am!!! Just can't bear to see anything suffer!!!
 
I once hit a cat and spent hours looking for it as it ran away and refused to drive on that road for about 3 years as it just brought it all back. I think i would die myself if i ever killed an animal on the rd. Also lost my cat to the rd about 7 years ago we found him on xmas day not the best pressy
 
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