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has just been run over by someone who didn't bother to stop.
Our neighbour drove me to the emergency vet with her, but on the way she died in my arms. She had severe head injuries.
My wife and daughter are distraught.
Dear Dorothy, you were such a gorgeous mog.
:(:(:(
Electro
01-04-11, 08:19 PM
Some people are completely lacking in moral decency.
Poor pussy, I hope things get better for your family soon.
minimorecambe
01-04-11, 08:23 PM
Sorry to hear that Ed :(
This is the reason I don't have cats anymore. I don't like it that they can just come and go as they please.
I have pulled over and picked many a dead cat off the side of the road that some **** has knocked over and not stopped :(
Sleep well Dorothy xxx
454697819
01-04-11, 08:35 PM
oh ed, you have my uttermost sympathy, we still miss ours two years on, they have a way of working themselves into our hearts...
Gutted...
Awww, really sorry to hear that.
I found a black cat on my drive one morning last year, obviously hit at night, such a shame.
In fairness to some car drivers, I suspect you often wouldn't even know you'd hit a cat if they pop out of the side of the road or from under a parked car, as they are wont to do.
andrewsmith
01-04-11, 08:51 PM
sorry to here that Ed
some people don't have hearts
Sorry to hear that Ed :(
As much as mine annoys me sometimes, I do love having her about.
to be fair tho what's a driver suppose to do? No way of tracing the owners most of the time so they hit the cat pull up and then what? Just being honest i dont think id stop
sorry to hear about your cat tho
MiniMatt
02-04-11, 01:42 AM
Oh crap, sorry to hear that :( Cat's seem to be quite binary and either make it with barely a scratch or they're a gonna, blessing and a curse I guess but at least it means that when they go they go quick and at a time when enough adrenalin would still be coursing through that one would hope it to be relatively painless.
SuzukiNess
02-04-11, 07:27 AM
to be fair tho what's a driver suppose to do? No way of tracing the owners most of the time so they hit the cat pull up and then what? Just being honest i dont think id stop
sorry to hear about your cat tho
take it to nearest vet? cat may have more of chance of surviving if seen to by a vet immediately. i do hope that you would rethink your i wont stop. i know its not a human but a cat is a humans companion and friend.. think about it i'm sure you wouldnt appreciate being left for dead if you were hit and run (yes cats in some peoples opinion dont have feelings but think bout the people that own them)
Ed, sorry to hear about your kitty.. it cuts to the core, its like losing a child.. (white van man knocked mine down in front on my eyes and drove on down the road)
big hugs and love to you & your family xxxxx
-Ralph-
02-04-11, 07:43 AM
Ah Jeez, sorry to hear about the cat Ed! Ours too drives me nuts on occasion, but I would miss it.
to be fair tho what's a driver suppose to do?
Last cat that I saw being run over by the car in front, ran right under the drivers door, and came spinning out the back and ran off almost just on two legs. I stopped and went after it, but didn't have to go far. It ran down the side of a house and up the side of a wooden garage, where it collapsed and gave up. I crawled in lifted it out and it was in such a state that the best thing I could do for it was pick up a brick and put it out of it's misery quickly, though I would have taken it to the vets if I thought it had half a chance. Then I knocked on the house door, explained the situation and asked for a bin bag. Bagged it up and put it in the boot of the car, then went to my meeting and explained the mess my suit was in to my customer. On the way back from the meeting I did a bit of a door to door and eventually found the cats owner, who came out, identified it, took it, and as I suspected might be the case which is why I did all this, went to break the bad news to the primary school age kids.
Call me a big softie, but it's not just about helping the cat, it's what you can do for the owners.
to be fair tho what's a driver suppose to do? No way of tracing the owners most of the time so they hit the cat pull up and then what? Just being honest i dont think id stop
sorry to hear about your cat tho
There aren't that many houses around here and it would be obvious that it was local.
If you could see my 12 year old daughter perhaps you'd change your mind.
So stuff your regret. If you don't mean it, why say it???
being a cat owner myself i am real sorry to hear this ed
dizzyblonde
02-04-11, 07:52 AM
11 years ago, on my birthday, I lived in a rented cottage in a village. My dad had popped round and the cat kept wanting to go out, but I said he couldn't as it was pouring down but eventually he did, cause he was meiowing lots.
I got a phone call five minutes later, and a lady carried him to my door, and swore she thought he was a carboard box, the car in front had hit. She also said she thought he was ok. I saw instantly he'd died, just a small mark on his head. He was a huge cat, and no way the colour of a cardboard box. I was devastated, so was my dad, as he let him out.
He now sleeps in the moorland behind my uncles house, with daffodils growing over him. Uncles a prat, but he loves cats, and gave him a good spot.
Make sure your cat gets a good spot Ed, your daughter will appreciate it.
Specialone
02-04-11, 07:55 AM
Sorry to hear this news Ed, that's terrible :(
One of the reasons we couldnt live on a main road with our two.
Like you, we'd be devastated if anything happened to ours.
metalangel
02-04-11, 08:09 AM
There aren't that many houses around here and it would be obvious that it was local.
If you could see my 12 year old daughter perhaps you'd change your mind.
So stuff your regret. If you don't mean it, why say it???
Wow, that's really uncalled for. You're upset, fair enough, but I think he has a point, however pragmatic and harsh it might seem :(
Wow, that's really uncalled for.
No it isn't. The original post was uncalled for.
If you drive off = you don't care. If you don't care = no regret.
Hypocrisy.
Edit - I posted this when the post I'm replying to was just the first sentence.
Electro
02-04-11, 08:29 AM
Dont bother trying to reason with the idiots Ed. Irons seems to only post a provocative statement to raise an arguement on anything he sees fit. I`d like to see him raise them with the same people face to face and i bet there would be something mildly different to his attitude.
Irons, why bother? Yes this is an open public forum, yes you have your opinion, but sometimes when people are upset about something and it involves a family pet, why cant you show a little respect or dont post at all. Ed might have wanted to show his daughter the posts to help her and to show people care, then she would read your post and see that not all are decent. You really are a bad apple in this forum at times.
Jimmy2Feet
02-04-11, 08:42 AM
really sorry to hear this mate, there is nothing worse, it will be hard for the family for a while, but the pain will ease.
As for stopping, well you definatly should, most cats now will have a chip, so that the vet/rspca will be able to tell exactly who the cat is, and ware the owners live. taking a hit cat to the vets will, as already said increase the chance of survival. and i think almost most importantly put the mind to rest of the owners. One of our cats went missing for a couple of days a few months ago, so we called round to all the local vets and left contact details and description of the cat, so if someone went into a vets with the cat they would call us...... (thankfully she turned up the next day!)
Simple courtecy, anyone who wouldn't stop IMO is just outright out of order. And i would put money on the fact that if there was a stray dog that they hit, they wouldn't think twice about stopping and trying to trace the owner, ware is the morals in that!
Cats like all animals have feelings, they definatly do not deserve to be hit and then left on the side of the road to die in pain!
Rant over!! :mad:
missyburd
02-04-11, 08:43 AM
Sorry to hear this Ed :-( My friend used to have a beautiful black cat called Bellamy, he was all fluff. One day he ran out the front door when my friend's dad was leaving the house for work...the dad ran straight over him and that was the end of that poor cat. In some ways that's an even worse situation when having to explain the situation to the daughter.
Make sure she gets a proper little burial, will make things much easier on your daughter.
to be fair tho what's a driver suppose to do? No way of tracing the owners most of the time so they hit the cat pull up and then what? Just being honest i dont think id stop
sorry to hear about your cat tho
Microchipping is good for this sort of thing and so many more pets have had it done than ever before so there's always a chance.
metalangel
02-04-11, 08:58 AM
Can I make a serious, genuine request for advice in what to do in this situation? If it's 3am and you've got a badly injured cat you've just hit, what the heck do you do? You can't go knocking on people's doors, the cat has no collar, is it a case of trying to pick it up and trying to find a 24 hour vet somewhere? Phone the RSPCA?
My dad hit a rabbit late one night and hadn't even realized it... we (mother and I) both saw it but he didn't.
Jimmy2Feet
02-04-11, 09:04 AM
yeah, RSPCA have a 24 hour number that you can call in the case of an emergancy, and most vets will also have a 24 hr number/center. Best thing to do will be find and pick up the cat, get it in the car to keep it warm and keep him/her calm, and then try and get to a vets, once you have done this the vet/rspca will be able to do everything else, and please make sure that you leave your name and a number, as if you were to do this for our cat i would most definatly want to call and say the biggest thankyou!
Specialone
02-04-11, 09:22 AM
Perhaps I read it wrong, I didnt take irons' post like everyone else had, he probably didn't mean it to come across as it has, the point about stopping and not knowing who the animal belongs to is valid IMO, our cats aren't chipped or collared.
I suspect in Ed's case being a small community it would be easy to find the owner I'd guess, but on a busy, highly populated area it might not be.
Anyway, this thread isn't about this, just wanted to give my slant on it.
Sorry to hear this Ed.
Wish there was something I could do to help but there never is at times like this.
Best wishes to you and yours.
Jimmy2Feet
02-04-11, 10:48 AM
Perhaps I read it wrong, I didnt take irons' post like everyone else had, he probably didn't mean it to come across as it has, the point about stopping and not knowing who the animal belongs to is valid IMO, our cats aren't chipped or collared.
I suspect in Ed's case being a small community it would be easy to find the owner I'd guess, but on a busy, highly populated area it might not be.
Anyway, this thread isn't about this, just wanted to give my slant on it.
I agree with that, not easy to know if no chip or collar, however i still feel at the very least you should take it to a vets or RSPCA, any loving owner i would think would call around to at the very least the RSPCA.
yorkie_chris
02-04-11, 11:01 AM
Ed your daughter must be gutted, never nice to learn the facts of life and death. But if you grow up having never known death and loss you won't appreciate life.
It could be worse, a mate of mine ran his own cat over :(
Thank you people for your kind comments. I've decided not to show the thread to Sophie.
To answer a few of the points, it happened at about 7.20pm - daylight in other words. It happened right outside our front gate. The cat did not have a collar but she was microchipped. I didn't want Sophie to see the extent of the head injury, she would have had nightmares. A cat is always going to come off worse as against a car, but the injuries were not indicative of a low speed impact. So, I am certain that the driver knew what had happened. We have a problem with speeding drivers along here.
But even if I had managed to reach the vets in time, I doubt he could have done anything to save her, it was simply too severe.
Sophie didn't want the cat buried in the garden but instead she has found out that there is a rose called 'Dorothy' and she wants to plant one.
Again, thanks for all your kind comments.
Ed
dizzyblonde
02-04-11, 12:12 PM
Sophie didn't want the cat buried in the garden but instead she has found out that there is a rose called 'Dorothy' and she wants to plant one.
Again, thanks for all your kind comments.
Ed
Signs of a grown up little girl there Ed:cool:
Just don't plant it too near any neighbours who might argue with you over it;)
timwilky
02-04-11, 12:19 PM
Ed, I am sorry Sophie has lost her cat and appreciate she must be gutted.
Maybe it is my view on cats. I do not like them and whilst I understand people keeping them as pets I would say the same rules as dog ownership apply. If you let them outside on the road use a leash. I would also have to say that all domestic animals should have insurance for the damage they cause if involved in a collision on the road.
The vet or RSPCA stuff I have read on this thread make me wonder. I know my nearest RSPCA centre is over 10 miles away and only open 9-5 3 days a week. Would a stranger even know where an rspca/vet was. My local vet closes at 6 and charges for a call out. Why would somebody take an unknown cat to a vet and have to pay for it. (my local one made friends pay up front for their bitch with a stuck puppy before he would even look at it). I think the brick mentioned earlier would apply to a badly injured animal of any sort rather than prolong the suffering.
Sorry to hear about your cat.
No it isn't. The original post was uncalled for.
If you drive off = you don't care. If you don't care = no regret.
Hypocrisy.
Edit - I posted this when the post I'm replying to was just the first sentence.
Thats simply not true though... Even if I hit a wild rabbit or bird I feel guilty and terrible. I certainly don't stop though. It would be the same for a cat too though unfortunately. A lot are feral and owners likely untracable.
Sorry to hear the news Ed, it's not nice to lose pets as they are part of the family, specially in such circumstances, give oer love to Ann and Sophie.
Daryl.
P.S. Irons, you are an idiot for posting what you did. :smt097
Not a nice event, but cats should learn to stay out of roads - lost count how many have ran out in front of me. If I hit a cat, buggered if I'm taking it to a vets. If no owner is traced who pays the bill?
21QUEST
02-04-11, 02:59 PM
No matter how they go, it's never a nice situation to have to deal with..ie loosing a pet. Sorry for the loss of your cat Ed.
Having said that...and I should perhaps add "the above was said and meant sincerely" but if anyone is free to believe otherwise...what nonsense about Irons being an idiot or whaat ever label some folks chose to apply to him.
Someone states their opinion, which in all frankness, certainly doesn't appear to be quite the odd/unusual view and some folks would like to convince themsleves of and an apparent troop of sort want to 'set aboot him'
Are the others folks who have more or less stated the same thing idiots as well? Anyway, probably not the right thread to ask some folks to perhaps think about having a wee drink of reality.
Littlepeahead
02-04-11, 03:07 PM
Sorry to hear this. At least you know what happened. One of my cats got run over and we spent 4 days looking for him before we eventually found his body as so often after being hit they run until they drop. Cremation is an option if you haven't already buried him. Costs about £130 and you get a little urn with the name on it that you can keep somehwere close. Cromarty Cat who died a few weeks ago is on my bedside table.
dizzyblonde
02-04-11, 04:45 PM
As I see it, cats, dog are family pets. Would you hit, then run away from an injured/dying person?
NO? thought not, same thing in my book, I'd feel guilty as sin, running one over :(
Now, if it was a certain antler clad animal, that jumps into your path......feel no remorse, just glad to have survived yourself ;)
Sometimes Ben a little tact and sensitivity goes a long way. Timing can be everything. Even if I thought what Irons posted, I wouldn't have posted it on a thread at a rather raw time.
Electro look at my post's mate its a small amount that have ended the way you state all do, i did not post what i posted to upset anyone and i was genuine when i said i was sorry for their loss. Just because i wouldn't stop does not mean i wouldn't feel a little sad about it. i would feel bad if i hit any living thing (apart from a rat i once ran over)
Maybe its my attitude to cat's, the point has already been made that they should be more controlled like dogs (i would stop if i hit a dog for a number of reasons) People open their door's/windows and let their cat go out and do what it wants, let it crawl in all kinds of crap and then come home and cuddle up to the kids, you cant really teach a cat to cross a road safely but you will let it out to do just that, but im the non caring idiot for not stopping if it decides to run under my wheels?? I dont blame a cat owner as such, its part and parcel i guess.
You cannot compare running down a kid to running down a cat
None of that is to say im not genuine when i say sorry for your loss, if i didn't mean it i wouldn't of said it.
Few other people have basically said the same as my first post and one even bricked one to death because in their view it was the best thing to do and im the only bad guy?? ill get my hat
Please will nobody else post in here.
I've PM'd Fizz to lock it.
Thanks.
fizzwheel
02-04-11, 06:25 PM
Locked as per request.
Sorry to hear this Ed, such a shame, a lovely cat too.
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