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To think you take a killed cat to the vets, not dump it on a grass verge

646 replies

CoastalWave · 07/01/2022 13:43

Post on FB says 'Found' a dead cat in the middle of the road. Couldn't do anything other than move it to the side as I was busy. " Posted the FB update five hours after doing this.

Cat had been moved about 4m from the road so quite a distance and was hidden from site (not quite sure even how they'd moved him the state he was in)

Poor thing was in a really bad way. I had to put my big girl pants on and take a lot of deep breaths before I dealt with him. I took clean towels and gave him a dignified trip to the vets.

No, I don't like picking up dead cats - particularly after losing one myself to an RTA. But AIBU to think that if you've got time to shift the cat, you've got time to take it to the vets to be scanned?? Or did they move it because they were the ones who killed it?!

Would you stop to take a deceased cat to the vets?

OP posts:
FinallyFluid · 07/01/2022 13:45

No

ShowOfHands · 07/01/2022 13:47

I have taken a deceased cat to the vets but that doesn't mean I'd always have time.

What about a teacher or emergency services worker or somebody on the school run with a 4yr old in the car and a billion other examples. People who can't be late. Without being too graphic, I needed several towels when I did it and I could nip home and fetch them. Not everybody has that luxury or room in their car or time to do so etc.

plinkplinkfizzer · 07/01/2022 13:47

No

Tal45 · 07/01/2022 13:47

No I wouldn't stop to take someone else's dead cat to the vets unless I hit it.

ShowOfHands · 07/01/2022 13:48

It would take me 2 minutes to move a cat to the side of the road in my village. It would take me an hour's round trip to get to a vet. No they don't necessarily take the same amount of time.

Justcallmebebes · 07/01/2022 13:48

Unless I knew said cat, then no

DeepaBeesKit · 07/01/2022 13:48

It takes 5 mins to shift a dead cat.

It could take 40 to get one to a vet. If I'm on my way to work or taking kids to school, my employer/their teacher doesnt count "taking a dead cat to the vet" as a reason for rocking up probably an hour late.

RedCandyApple · 07/01/2022 13:48

No I don’t agree, If I saw a dead cat there isn’t anything I would do as I don’t drive and my local vet would be 2 buses away no way would I be taking a dead cat on the bus, never mind if I was busy or not

Bookworm20 · 07/01/2022 13:49

Sorry no, but I wouldn't.
It was dead, what is the vet going to do?
At least they posted so whoever cat it was could go and retrieve it if they wanted.
And having time to just shift a cat off the road and having time to take it to the vet is a very different amount of time!

SlashBeef · 07/01/2022 13:49

No I wouldn't. Locally it seems to be the done thing to move it off the road and let people know where they can find it if they're missing a cat.

DeepaBeesKit · 07/01/2022 13:49

However what I probably would do is report the cat to the lady from the local rescue who has a chip scanner as she would probably come out herself and scan it and report it.

WorraLiberty · 07/01/2022 13:50

But AIBU to think that if you've got time to shift the cat, you've got time to take it to the vets to be scanned??

Fuck me, how big was the cat??

The two time frames are completely different, even if they ran it over right on the Vet's doorstep.

WhatATimeToBeAlive · 07/01/2022 13:50

Depends on whether I had the time and stuff on me to deal with it. WRT the Facebook post, maybe the admins had only just released it hence it being 5 hours later.

You sound rather judgy.

Foodymucker · 07/01/2022 13:50

The vets round here charge you to dispose of any animal you take in even if it’s not yours

SickAndTiredAgain · 07/01/2022 13:50

AIBU to think that if you've got time to shift the cat, you've got time to take it to the vets to be scanned??

That doesn’t follow at all - taking it to the vets would take considerably longer. Of course not everyone has time for that.

Kitkat151 · 07/01/2022 13:50

No definately wouldn’t do this

WakeUpLockie · 07/01/2022 13:51

No I wouldn’t move someone’s dead cat. I’m rarely without the kids anyway and if I was, I would have no idea if you can just turn up to a vets with a dead cat. I would assume you have to ring around the local vets and make an appointment. Clueless!

Butchyrestingface · 07/01/2022 13:51

No. Not unless I'd killed it, and even then, I suspect I'd struggle to handle a mutilated animal.

Alieninmybody · 07/01/2022 13:51

Is this a service vets provide?

PatriciaHolm · 07/01/2022 13:51

But AIBU to think that if you've got time to shift the cat, you've got time to take it to the vets to be scanned??

One takes a minute or two, the other potentially hours! It's in no way equivalent. And no, I would imagine that many people couldn't just stop for an hour or two to do that.

I think many people might be concerned about being asked to pay vet charges too, and if you don't have pets you probably wouldn't realise about chips either.

BettyfromBristol · 07/01/2022 13:51

No. I would probably post on the local fb page so the owner could sort it though.

Retrievemysanity · 07/01/2022 13:51

Errr, no, it totally doesn’t follow that if you have time to move it to the side of the road, you have time to go to the vets!

ConstanceL · 07/01/2022 13:52

I think it was enough for the person to move it off the road. There is no way I would put a dead animal in my car and drive around looking for a vert. I don't randomly keep a load of towels in my car in the off chance I would ever want to do that anyway.

jimmyhill · 07/01/2022 13:52

You take live cats to the vet. You call the council for dead cats.

Vet don't want your random dead cats!

RichTeaRichTea · 07/01/2022 13:52

I almost certainly wouldn’t have time to do this, and my employer would be very unimpressed if that was the reason why my clinic had to be delayed or cancelled.

“ Posted the FB update five hours after doing this.” if it was on a local FB group it may well have awaited admin approval rather than that the person who wrote it waited that long