AIBU cat run over

[hocuspocusbitch]

Ok, so on my local FB selling page, I saw a post by a woman saying "I run over a cat but I didn't stop because it was too cold and frosty, and I wanted to tell the owner "!!
WTF?????

Then later on she says she didn't stop because her young daughter was in the car.... ok, I kinda understand that but why not pull over and call the SSPCA or another animal charity....

AIBU to think this was shitty thing to do to an animal???

Yes, but it’s not a legal requirement to stop so not much that you can do about it.

I’d have stopped and tried CPR, but I’m soft!

It is shitty but legally you don't have to stop or report hitting a cat. You do for a dog though.

Horrible thing to do. I’m guessing she’s getting a flaming on Facebook?

I think is cruel to the cat and the owners. What a horrid person teaching horrid behaviour to a child. Of course she should have stopped.
Hope the same happens to her on a cold frosty day.

Yeah, I get that it's not a legal requirement so she's not wrong in that sense but I think morally she is!
She certainly got a flaming on FB anyway!
And someone went to try and find the cat, but she wouldn't say where she hit the cat, so went up and down the road

There’s no legal obligation to report if you run over a cat.

Whether she’s being unreasonable depends on several factors - were there only a few houses to ask at or was it a residential street in a city where the cat could have come from any one of hundreds or thousands of houses? Is there a nearby (and open) vets she could have taken it to? It may not have been feasible for her to do anything herself in the immediate moment.

She should have made an effort to call the RSPCA and let them know once she was home and not driving however, as they’d know all local resources.

I think that's horrible. Someone hit my cat and I didn't know. I reported her missing and found out a few days later (someone took her to the vet who called me). I was (and still am) devastated and hate thinking about her lying there alone.
It's not fair. That cat is someone s pet and they will be going through hell when it doesn't come home.
So what if it was cold and frosty? It's not the north pole. She wouldn't have frozen to death

Absolutely rubey

This is local to me, I've seen the posts too. What an awful way for the owners to potentially find out.

Awful. My dog was run over a few years ago. She was only small and managed to get through the gates in the space of about ten minutes. I lived in a village. I'm assuming they thought she was a fox (not that it makes it any better) A passer by who had been in a car had knocked on our door to tell us she had been knocked over. She was lying on the side of the road, so I think she limped to try and get back to our house. Awful. It's not nice losing a pet at the best of times, but in those circumstances, it makes it a hell of a lot worse.

It sounds awful and having had many cats run over I sympathise enormously with the owners. However, once I was behind a car where a cat ran out from the side of the road and sort of ran into the car’s wheel. It was awful to see but worse was that actually in fairness to the car driver stopping would have been dangerous and pointless. I considered stopping but the sheer volume and pace of traffic meant that frankly there was little left to do.