[Closed] I like cats but....

I'm going to hang about on the classifieds and abuse people who try to sell crap stuff.

Unfortunately its the main risk of cat ownership, and in the modern fast paced world its largely unavoidable.

For whom the Tinkerbell tolls.

Op think on it like this, your ambivalence potentially means the cat is alive and ok. You could potentially have killed it by the action of going back and checking.

The cat is both dead and alive at the same time, thus keeping everyone on the forum happy.

slimjim78 - Member
For whom the Tinkerbell tolls.

😀

Dave Vanderspek - Member

I had to scrap him off the road.

CAT "C" write off?

Genuine lol. Post of the day.

More of a dogs but(t) man myself.

Console yourself with the act there's nothing you could really do James. Had something similar a few years back, but with a fox. It was a case of it or me (and surrounding traffic). No contest really. Felt bad after, especially so when having to pick bits of skull from the wheel arch.

uro - Member

Felt bad after, especially so when having to pick bits of skull from the wheel arch.

Ah jesus. I couldn't face inspecting the wheel arch when I got home so left it till this morning, but luckily (for me at least) there were no traces.

so left it

Don't do that, I ran over a frog with the lawnmower this Spring, couldn't face inspecting the underside. After several days in the warm weather in a shed with a corrugated plastic roof, it didn't arg whiff.

His fault - he jumped in front and kermitted suicide.

luckily (for me at least) there were no traces.

Clean kill. Result 😀

Kryton57 - Member

His fault - he jumped in front and kermitted suicide.

And the puns just keep on coming!

So much bad taste on this thread!

I thought furball warning deserved better tbh.

Euro - Member
More of a dogs but(t) man myself.

Bestiality's best boys, bestiality's best.

I ran over joe cocker. killed 'im dead I did...

monkeysfeet - Member

I ran over joe cocker. killed 'im dead I did...

You must mean Joe's cocker...surely. Joe Cocker is alive and well. Isn't he?

😆

Ah jesus. I couldn't face inspecting the wheel arch when I got home so left it till this morning, but luckily (for me at least) there were no traces.

I hit a pheasant with a works van once. Made a hell of a bang and I stopped at the next lay-by to check for damage. There was a crack in the grill but not much else apart from feathers.

Delivered the van back to work and it went back to the guys house who usually used it. About a month later he's backing it out from his house and spots something on the drive - a severed pheasants head.

Pops the bonnet and the theres the rest of a pheasant distributed all around the engine bay 🙂

Pushing that 'little' crack in the grill it turned out the half the grill was able to pivot around then spring back.

Wow, this thread has legs unlike, oh...

Someone will wake up this morning wondering where their cat is...probably worried why it didn't come home last night. I've been there myself and it's not nice. It's 'smushed' and won't be coming home. Nice touch by OP by not stopping and some quality giggles about the demise of someone's pet...probably by dog owners :-/

I'd love to hear you describe the process of how you would stop and go back to inspect the damage, like a modern day road side Francis of Assisi.
Please elaborate.

Don't forget to mention it was dark and raining Jim, maybe then people will forgive you for not trying to find out if it was still alive.

Sorry, but if your cat doesn't come home and you live near a main road. It's pretty obvious (to me) what may have happened.

Jimjam was in the area...

Once ran a cow over on a motorbike... gross oversimpification I actually hit it on the arse - the cow won and only gave me a side glance as it wandered down the road as I picked myself and my 350 Elsie off the road.

Once ran a cow over on a motorbike... gross oversimpification I actually hit it on the arse - the cow won and only gave me a side glance as it wandered down the road as I picked myself and my 350 Elsie off the road.

Did you start a thread about it though so a bunch of bellends could have a good old laugh?

Did you start a thread about it though so a bunch of bellends could have a good old laugh?

If I remember correctly, I think the cow did.

LeeW - Member

Don't forget to mention it was dark and raining Jim, maybe then people will forgive you for not trying to find out if it was still alive.

I can't really convey how little I care about the forgiveness of anonymous internet strangers. However it does amaze me that people have the arrogance and lack of awareness to comment as though they would "do the right thing" based on absolutely no relevant contextual information.

I mean, it's almost as if people are just chiming in to signal how virtuous they are without knowing whether I was driving a car or an articulated lorry, whether I was being tail-gaitted by a line of cars, where the nearest house was (if any) whether there was anywhere safe to pull in at all or any other piece of relevant information. And best of all I love how the act of going back to check on a cat which, if not killed instantly would certainly have been seconds later, is somehow more important and more worthy than not causing a car crash.

oldtalent - Member

Did you start a thread about it though so a bunch of bellends could have a good old laugh?

A second arbiter of thread worthiness arrives.

But the point is Jimjam you could have stopped when safe to do so and checked the poor creature was dead and taken it to a vet to check for a chip or at the very least posted on the local missing pets fb page - you did that? Common decency would suggest that as a minimum after all there is a possibility you have just killed someone's well loved pet. You're not from Croydon by any chance?

Why would the guy stop on a 3 lane road during rush hour to check on a cat?

perditus - Member

But the point is Jimjam you could have stopped when safe to do so

Where was it safe to do so? How far away would that be from the cat? How far would you walk along an unlit road in the dark with no footpath and traffic traveling at 60+ mph? Were there any vets open at that time? Where is the nearest vet? Would you stand in the middle of a road at night, in the rain, in heavy traffic to sift through cat remains for a micro chip? There's a local FB page for missing pets?

You're not from Croydon by any chance?

Ah, this explains everything.

Where was it safe to do so? How far away would that be from the cat? How far would you walk along an unlit road in the dark with no footpath and traffic traveling at 60+ mph? Were there any vets open at that time? Where is the nearest vet? Would you stand in the middle of a road at night, in the rain, in heavy traffic to sift through cat remains for a micro chip? There's a local FB page for missing pets?

I don't know Jimjam - you're the cat killer so the obligation is on you to take the most appropriate course of action in the circumstances.

perditus - Member

I don't know

Correct. Remember that.

The levels of bellendery on here remind me why I stopped visiting the place for several years.

You didn't stop and go back to check?

No I did not.

Oddly hitting a cat and not reporting it is not illegal, and yet hitting a dog is.

https://www.askthe.police.uk/content/Q434.htm

Which I don't think is right. At the very least anyway I'd stop, check it for identification and if near houses, knock on doors to see if it's theirs. Hassle yes, but pets are a member of people's families, and some love them more than humans. Otherwise report to police anyway or local council.

Cats are feral while dogs are considered working animals hence the requirement to tell the police. Same goes for sheep, horses and cattle.

Where do the seemingly more sensitive folk draw the mandatory other-people’s-pet-welfare-responsibility line? Rabbit? Gerbil? Spider?

catfood - Member
The levels of bellendery on here remind me why I stopped visiting the place for several years.

We noted your absence but presumed you'd been run over.

As we've seen from other threads on here, loving your pet but being pragmatic about the fact that shit happens and that they don't live that long anyway, actually means you don't love your pet at all. The point where someone said they'd spent £800 having both their pet rabbits hind legs amputated made me realise just how wobbly the slackline of sanity that us humans teeter along...

This thread certainly has [i]...made me realise just how wobbly the slackline of sanity that us humans teeter along...[/i]

The point where someone said they'd spent £800 having both their pet rabbits hind legs amputated made me realise just how wobbly the slackline of sanity that us humans teeter along...

- two key rings for £400 each!

Edit- actually if it’s the hind legs of both pet rabbits that’s four keys rings at a much more reasonable £200

slimjim78 - Member
Where do the seemingly more sensitive folk draw the mandatory other-people’s-pet-welfare-responsibility line? Rabbit? Gerbil? Spider?

Had a spider living in the bathrooom that was doing no harm so left it to itself. Got quite used to it. I'd have been outraged if someone squashed it 😀

Unlike the False Widow that moved in. That had to go. Humanely tried but it set up camp in a web next to the toilet, so a big load of nope. It didn't survive.

Although I quite like the look of False Widows, even if they can give you a bit of a bite (bee sting level apparently). Nice pattern on their back.

Well today on my way to do some mountain bike driving I almost killed a large hare on an icy mountain road. Almost, despite his best efforts and crossing the road three bloody times. I managed to brake (brake checking my friend in the process) and the hare remains intact and free to do hare things. Hopefully this in some way mitigates the two crows, the red squirrel and the cat I have killed this year.

Also I thought I would share this. This was my buddy. [img] [/img]

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Without doubt the biggest, meanest, surliest and most aggressive cat I have ever known. About 6 years ago I moved into a house and the woman who had previously lived there owned him, when she moved she abandoned him ( it became obvious why). A few nights after moving in he showed up covered in blood with a bite out of his ass and half starved. 100% against my wife's wishes I brought him in, cleaned him up, fed him and let him live in the house. I named him Padhraig (pronounced "paw-rick" not pod-rig) He regularly bit me, clawed me, clawed my face, hissed at the wife and was a general lout of a cat. Once we got a mouse in the house and he just sat and looked at it.

Despite this I loved him, and in his own way he loved eating the food I gave him and he reciprocated by letting me rub his belly, and then biting me. He would go out around mid night every night to fight and make rough love to the lady cats and then return around 7am to get fed.
I bought a house nearby and took him with us. But then one day he just never came back. I still miss him, but take solace in the fact that every other cat in the area looked like miniature versions of him 😈

When Mrs S hit a tawny owl she decided, once shed arrived home in hysterics, it'd be better if I went to check the beasts condition. So, having been stood at the edge of an unlit dual carriageway on a wild November night beating a mortally injured raptor to death with a stick, I have some sympathy with the ops position.

Just in case the o.p. slays another kitty ,I had a book when I was younger which may be of use .
"101 uses for a dead cat"

Padhraig

I like the cut of this fellas jib. A good tail told well.

- two key rings for £400 each!

Well played sir 😀

Someone will wake up this morning wondering where their cat is...probably worried why it didn't come home last night.