to be ignoring the fact there is a dead cat outside my house?

[inandouttheeagle]

Pretty black and white but dead cat is on the road directly outside our house. we live in a terrace. we didn't run it over, there's a lot of parked cars on our street. could've been anyone. think it's been there all night...

can't face picking it up. don't want DCs to see it though.

What is the form in these situations???

Eh?
Your kitty is curled up in a basket? How unusual for a cat.

But it won't help the poor dead cat outside the OP's house which is, by now, probably being treated as a kebab for the feral dog.

What did you do, OP?

Pandemoniaa-good point well made.

I really miss my cat

My binky has been gone four months

That's shit, Glitta, sorry

Oh please go outside and remove it and put it in your garden in a box or something.
I was driving home from work once and there was a poor little cat who had been run over. I drove home and sat for half an hour thinking about it and I couldn't just leave it there so i got my marigolds, my plastic washing basket and two blankets and went back for it.
I phoned the number on the collar and the lady came and collected her cat. She was so lovely and couldn't thank me enough for my kind actions.
About a week after that I received a letter in the post. It was from the owner just again thanking me and in the letter her daughter had drawn a picture of me and the little cat with wings on. I burst into tears and it is still on my fridge. : )

Missbakewell

When you do a kind unselfish act especially one that 'costs' you your light (that is your soul btw) shines just that bit brighter.

I sing 'this little light of mine I'm gonna make it shine' to myself when I do something hard to face but right to do.

we brought in a not quite dead cat from the road outside our house a while back and took him to the vet, no microchip, but at least he was being stroked by me and ds1 when he died. we put a notice up outside our house, and later that evening the owners came by, they were able to collect his body and were grateful that he had been looked after at the end. hope OP managed to sort something out.

Inandout, I have cats and my worst nightmare is them disappearing and never coming back. As hard as it would be to hear that they had been run over, I would appreciate it so much if someone went out of their way to let me know.

One of my friends had her cat disappear, she didn't find out what had happened for a week until her neighbour told her she had seen the council cleaners pick up a cat off the road and take it away, it had a collar on but they didn't even bother to call her and let her know.

I know it will be hard, but you have to put your squeamishness to one side for the sake of doing the right thing, what if it gets run over again? Do you have any pets? Try and imagine it was your animal, what would you like to happen?

Hope you do the right thing, YABU

Thank you Beesimo. I think my Mum has taught me well.
She had a feral cat in her garden for years which we would feed when we were growing up. He would spit and hiss at us for the first two years when we fed him. Then we built him a little makeshift house with blankets in when he started sleeping on the backdoor steps.
Winter times he would get a hot water bottle in the house to keep him warm. Then about year three he would follow us about in the garden (no hissing or spitting any more) and by year four he adopted us completely. We couldnt let him in the house as my mum had a cat already but "scabby cat" was just as well looked after and loved as our domestic cat. We looked after him for ten years (how he survived some of the winters we will never know.. hot water bottles changed every few hours in his house i guess!)
Three years ago I had gone to my mums and had gone into the kitchen and noticed that his little face wasn't at the window (no matter where he was as soon as the kitchen light came on he would appear at the window) and I opened the back door and found him lying there - clearly struggling. I let him come into the kitchen while my mum called the local vet. I sat on the kitchen floor with him on my knee in a blanket and stroked him until she came (I probably caught fleas but who cares!). The vet confirmed that he was dying (we think of old age as he was an older cat when he found us) and she took him and put him to sleep. We asked her if we could come and collect him, given we had no right to him and she agreed. He is buried in my mums garden under the the blossom tree and she has a photograph of him that sits on the windowsill.
I now have a little rescue cat whose owner had died and nobody wanted her.. and if anything ever happened to her then I would hope someone would do something kind for her. No good deed goes unrewarded. Sometimes just knowing you did the right thing is reward enough.

I have had two cats run over and killed [careless emoticon] and both times I have been very lucky that people knocked on my door to tell me, and i'm very grateful to them. Although I did have to pcik them up (wrapped in a towel) and deal with the disposal myself. I'm very squeamish about that.

If you don't tell someone and/or move it, it may get further squashed by a car, or kicked around by kids, which would be horrid. Do the right thing, or send in a big tough man. Wrapped in a towel and put in a box it's really not that bad.

Missbakewell

The apple don't fall far from the tree, I knew chances were you must of had a good rearing from a fine Mam because you are a very good lass.

Night Night

Beesimo xx

Oh that's so sad

I'm glad you've called the council. Our cat had an accident the other day and a neighbour found him collapsed in her garden, she wrapped him in a blanket and brought him round. He's still at the vets and we still don't know whether he's going to survive; I can't thank her enough for taking the time to comfort him and go door to door asking who he belonged to. I'd hope if he'd been killed, and no one knew he was mine, then someone would have had the decency to let someone know and have him taken care of properly. Poor owners

Where are you? FFS If you're near me I'll come and pick the cat up. I am sure it won't be very pleasant but I'd be very upset if someone just left my cat in the gutter like that. Sometimes you just have to do unpleasant things - this is one of those times when you need to step up to the plate and either deal with it or find someone who will now.

for all cat lovers out there.

The council claimed they would sort it and call me back but they never did. Useless. Whilst waiting, and unbeknown to me, opposite neighbour removed cat and put in black bin liner in their bin.

Cue desperate neighbour from end of street knocking on everyones doors. They know their cat is dead because people have seen it but they don't know where the body is. Horrible thing is it seems like the cat wasn't run over but had been ill and had just dragged itself out to die. I think maybe the council have come to pick it up and I never noticed. but eventually we discover the neighbour who has put it in the bin who then got it out again and cat owner got custody of the body so to speak.

With hindsight we should have just covered it and waited for people to get back from work/start searching for the cat.

poor thing

At least they eventually found their poor cat.

For reference, although vets are not a public service, we are human and have empathy, and would always scan a cat brought to us, and keep it's body until an owner claimed it.

Bit at your neighbour putting the body in his/her bin. An animal's body is not general waste, and shouldn't be treated as such

Glad they got their cat back but very sad for them. When my old boy was in the final stages of his illness I would never let him out unsupervised for just this reason :(