Hit and Run Drivers!!

On the way home I see one of my mates standing at the side of the road with hazard lights on his car on. I stopped to see what was the matter and the car in front of him had run over a cat and just driven off. We moved her to the side of the road but she was already dead Anyway, he didnt see the car that did it, it just swerved and sped off. Well he had to get to an appointment so I said i would go and knock the doors on the road to find out whose it was. It was the second house I tried and I think it was one of the hardest things I had to do, to tell a family with 2 kids that their cat had been run over. I had tears in my eyes while I was telling the mum.
People who just drive off after doing that are so heartless, it made me so angry I was shaking. I know accidents happen, I've had a few near misses with cats myself, especially when they hide under cars, but to just drive off with not a care in the world??
I hope you all had a better day than I did x

Zoe thats horrid what a pants day, nice one that you found the home, people won't stop and far less care to fing its family and let them know. You did a great thing , and as being a none driver myself have never been in the predicament, but you did a great thing and well the driver, I believe in karma.

Awww some people are heartless , its so sad when a healthy animal gets killed like this im glad you were there for the families sake at least. I had a cat a few years ago I rescued her as the owner decided he was going to drown her as they were having a baby
Anyway she had a great healthy life but in her final 12 months she started acting strange and when I came home in the car she would run in front of it so I had to park up down the lane get the cat into the house then put the car on the drive. One day someone knocked on the door and said she had run over my cat I asked her in checked the cat the woman asked did I feed her cause she was so thin I nearly smacked her one. My cat was 27 but still looked young, sadly I had to have her pts 2 months later she had kidney failure it broke my heart but I had her 24 years xxxx

Gosh Gem that is a fare age.. my cat was 23 when my dad hit him
He was Deaf and didnt hear the car and ran out under it.. broke my dads heart too.
He was a lucky old thing... our GSD had him pinned quiet a few times and he cheated death with them too lol

Back to the original post.. DISGUSTING.. to say the least !

Yes she was a very old girl and when I had her pts it didnt feel right as she could still climb the 7ft gate but she was just skin and bone and I dont really blame the woman for accusing me of starving her it just wasnt nice to hear. Me and the vet tried everything to put weight on but her thyroid wasnt working and her kidneys were failing fast so it was the kindest thing to do in the end and saved her from suffering x

I believe in Karma too Janey, sometimes I think I must have done some really bad stuff in a former life! The only slight comfort I took in the whole thing was that from what I saw she died instantly, I wouldn't have been able to cope if she was suffering.
Gem I'm sorry to hear about your kitty cat x

Well I hope it was painless. And you did a great thing by finding the owners x

Strange, isn't it, how if someone runs over an animal they don't consider it worth stopping for?

Years ago, when I was going out with a boy I really liked, he was driving me home & ran over a cat. I demanded that we stop & we were 2 streets down before he agreed, I'd had such a go at him. I went back & found the poor thing, dead I'm afraid. I too knocked on doors till I found the owner, and although they were really upset they were grateful that I'd told them so they could get the body & bury it in their garden.

I finished with that boy when he got me home that night.

Caryll wrote:Strange, isn't it, how if someone runs over an animal they don't consider it worth stopping for?

Years ago, when I was going out with a boy I really liked, he was driving me home & ran over a cat. I demanded that we stop & we were 2 streets down before he agreed, I'd had such a go at him. I went back & found the poor thing, dead I'm afraid. I too knocked on doors till I found the owner, and although they were really upset they were grateful that I'd told them so they could get the body & bury it in their garden.

I finished with that boy when he got me home that night.

i dont know why but iv known people that have said you dont have to stop for a cat as there classed as vermin and ferral so should know better but if you hit a dog a drive off you can be prosicuted at they dont know better ????

some people have verry poor ideas

In the law, that's true. Cats are classed as feral. But morally, how can anyone not stop?

Caryll wrote:In the law, that's true. Cats are classed as feral. But morally, how can anyone not stop?

I guess they must just be a different breed to us Caryll. I had to go and find the owner as a) I thought it was the right thing to do and b) it was on the road where the school is and I know most of the kids walk that way, thats the last thing they need to see.

I know, and any right-thinking person would do the same.

Zoe you did a great thing.. horrible for you but the right thing..
just think of those kids and what they would have seen... not something that they would have coped with either
x

You did a good thing Dizzy. I used to have a beautiful cat named Pearl. She was different that one! but that's another story. I had a friend visiting from Korea and I was out of the house when my friend rang me to say that Pearl had been run over. A man had ran over her and had then knocked on the door to tell the owner. When he found out that I wasn't in, he left his number for me to call him.

I rang to thank him for leaving his number but he wasn't in. I spoke to his wife instead. She said that her husband had been shattered after running over my cat. I found that to be very comforting, that someone would take the time to try to contact me and say sorry, not sorry for running over her (as it was not the car driver's fault) but sorry that it had happened.

Ive gotta say there are some people out there that care and some that dont

There is no excuse......but nice one Zoe......never nice being the bearer of bad news.....but it is worse when you don't know whats happened. Like you said at least they have the chance to bury the cat in the garden and have a proper send off

I know they are heartless a client at my work partner had this happen to him just after christmas he had a terrier type dog and had tied it up outside the shop on his estate just while he called in to get a paper when he came out the dog had slipped its collar and had ran off towards the road and a white van driver doing about 40 on an estate with kids cam speeding round and hit it stopped for a sec and just drove off how heartless can people be