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If you find an injured cat in the road....
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Posted 7 months ago #
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I would definitely stop, have never run a cat over myself but have been next car along a couple of times. We tossed a coin for who picked it up off the road vs who called the owner. I was lucky both times and got scraping duties.
One was DOA and the other twitched a bit but clearly it's spine had been snapped and it just stopped breathing.
I think I was crying more than the owner.
Lost a couple of nice jerseys there trying to make the cat look a bit less horrible for the owner.
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On the climb over Rivington I came across a listless Duck in the road. I flagged down a car and asked him to run it over
"certainly not, I can't! Can't you ring its neck"?
No!
Another car slowed and stopped. In the end three cars pulled over with four blokes conferring. In the end the third driver scooped it up and popped it into the heather and said 'the Foxes will get it tonight'
GRRR
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Word of warning... cats can look dead but not be!
Took my dog for his evening walk and my wifes stupid cat followed us.. crossing the road a car smacked into my cat and threw him 30 odd meters up the road, car didn't stop... but his brakes on, but then hit the throttle again and sped off.
Poor little Tiiger (I didn't name him!) just layed there motionless and I figured he was dead. Moved him out of the road and figured I would carry him home on the way back to my wife who was going to have her evening ruined.
As I held him he looked at me with his "dead eyes" and then started breathing... carried him home to let him take his last breaths in my wifes arms. although I considered whacking him with a shovel I couldn't bring myself to do it.
30 minutes later I took him to the vets, and three days of: he will be ok, followed by, we need to operate his shattered shoulders, followed by, we need to put him down, followed by, you can take him home.....
He made a full recovery and cost 2 grand in vets fees...Had I not been the squeamish type I would have killed him.
Horrible business....
Hammer.
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Nice driver
BTW- what is the legal position? i.e. if you hit a pet are you legally viable for any vet bills?
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if you hit a pet are you legally viable for any vet bills?
it depends...
Legally you have to stop unless it's a 'wild' animal (badger, fox, etc).
That antelope's being done for failing to stop after an accident, I heard.
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Thats just reminded me. You don't have to report anything less than a dog legally. So I assume you can hit/run over a cat.
Probably due to size/hazard to other motorists/road users (than compassion levels).
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our cat was hit by a car when it was but a young kitten, half a battered/crushed skull, mangled left side of the body....
vets managed to save him, wired his skull back into shape and after several weeks at the vets he got his eyesight back, re-learnt how to walk and how to do so in a straight line without toppling over sideways, how to kinda immitate a normal cats 'meiow' and lived with us a happy cuddly whore of a cat for another 14 years.
i dread to think what some of the people posting on this thread would've done to him if they had found him!
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How do you know it'll pull through and live 14yrs? Its a tough call if you've just come across 'someones' pet.
I'd like to think if my Bingo was ever run over it'd be relatively painless and over quickly.
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think the point a few people are trying to make is that you dont know, so drop it off at a vets where they're a little more qualified to make that judgement call than random drivers
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You don't have to report anything less than a dog legally. So I assume you can hit/run over a cat.
Yup, just as cat owners aren't responsible for their creature's actions, so you're not responsible for anything if you accidently mash one
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There really are some sick ****s on this thread, oh look there's one just above me.
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Calm down dear
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Hora earlier:
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So a poster is showing compassion for a potentially badly injured animal and hes lambasted?
These are the same animals that are stone-cold killers/are programmed to hunt, toy then kill pray.
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lmao at some of the comments but what gives you the right to stamp on an animals head to put it out of its misery. if you see an animal injured & think 'oh i will put it out of its misery' then just keep **** walkin. let the next more humane person deal with it. i would like to see a smackhead run over & crying on the floor so i could get a spade & put the thieving waste of space out of his misery but i am not allowed so i would ignore him & keep walking
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I think you are taking these a little bit out of context.
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Lamb basted - just like hora is being
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I think some of the catophiles need to distinguish between legal responsibility and social responsibility
When neighbour's creature sh!ts all over my garden he bears no legal liability, if his creature doesn't get out of the way of my car/bike in time then neither do I.
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If you have Chinese neighbours you could always wrap it up and pop it in with them. Not as good as the Vets but cheaper.
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but cheaper
and tastier
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if his creature doesn't get out of the way of my car/bike in time then neither do I.
Like I said, sick ****
This thread needs putting out of it's misery.
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"Any injured pets in 'ere?"
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schrickvr6 - Amazed how you can take another human beings compassionate take on a badly injured animal and basically turn them into a Genocidalist?
Bizarre. As I too am fond of cats and dogs but I wouldn't want to suffer.
I'd be more likely to take it to the Vet's and say could you kindly put it to sleep for me (at my cost) than say 'look I've no idea whose cat/dog it is but can you save it at any cost'.
Not ALL dogs or cats are microchipped and here in Manchester I've come across alot of dogs without tags that are thrown out at night to 'walk' themselves. Normally bloody big dogs.
What should I do if I hit one? Drive on or ensure it didn't suffer?
Stop the 'what if' handwringing.
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here in Manchester I've come across alot of dogs without tags that are thrown out at night to 'walk' themselves. Normally bloody big dogs.
What should I do
move to a nicer part of the country
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Hilldodger, the cat has no sense of moral responsibility.
You do.Posted 7 months ago # -
Hora read the quoted text in my post.
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Hilarious thread, I was laughing out loud in the office at the first page and a half (no, not at the thought of an animal suffering).
OP, without the means to get it to a vet in reasonable comfort it's a tough call. Not sure I could have put it out of it's misery - I've killed stuff before but someone's pet? That's a hard one.
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Something was in the dark part of my garden once- I went out and suddenly a full grown Alsation came into view...
Then jumped into my arms (as though you were holding a person sat in your arms).
Utterly bizarre and happened in a flash. It was in quite a poor state and had obviously been thrown onto the streets.
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I'd be more likely to take it to the Vet's and say could you kindly put it to sleep for me (at my cost) than say 'look I've no idea whose cat/dog it is but can you save it at any cost'.
You tight, lying Yorkshire git. I've never seen you buy a round in the whole time I've known you. There's no way you'd put your hand in your pocket put someone else's pet. You'd probably take it home and cook it!
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I always buy you pints binners. Your never there to drink them though
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Hilldodger, the cat has no sense of moral responsibility.
You do.Obviously not.
I'm quite animal aware, had dozens and seen dozens injured/die (all animals both wild stray used to get brought to our house as the local "family who knows what to do with animals"), and fairly capable of realising what's going to survive and what's unlikely. In most cases animals that will survive will drag themselves away unless they have many broken limbs, so those that remain in the road are usually either JUST hit that second or pretty much for the chop, but it would still be a tough call and I'd usually take the cautious side and take it to the vet.
If I were out on my bike I'd call a family member to come and collect me and it and would happily stump up the cash for it being repaired, whether the owner re-payed or not - I can't understand anyone who wouldn't/who's mind thinks about costs before helping an animal in pain. If it was clearly near it's end (I've seen a few cats with large parts of skulls missing meowing silently to the sky, haunts my dreams sometimes) I'd dispatch it with whatever I had to hand, car wheel, seat post, penknife, rock from someone's garden - jesus, Id knock on someone's door and ask them for stuff.
It's just common sense and empathy.
Posted 7 months ago # -
Well said coffeeking
Posted 7 months ago # -
Rusty Spanner - Member
Hilldodger, the cat has no sense of moral responsibility.
You do.As does the cat's owner.
TBH I regard cat's as semi-domesticated vermin, and although I wouldn't deliberately harm one neither would I be too upset if I accidenly killed one, it's an inbred companion animal subject to no environmental or evolutionary pressure and a biological pest.
Vanity creatures and nothing more in my book, sorry if that offends but that's the way it goes.......Posted 7 months ago # -
hilldodger - I have two cats.
However - I agree 100% with your observations!
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