To think that you should STOP if you run over someones cat in a village!!

[rebelmum1]

Someone in a car ran over a cat in the village I drive through this morning and didn't stop!! We swerverd to avoid the poor twitching creature. This is not a main rd it is a village next to the local primary school. I'm horrified!

a) it could have easily been a child
b) little children will see it on the way to school
c) it could get squashed again
d) if you have squashed something that belongs to someone and is obviously loved it's courtesy to STOP, at least move it off the bloody rd!

Why to people become so disconnected when they get in their car?

Is it not common courtesy to stop or am I being unreasonable?

lwegally, sadly,. you dont have to stop for anything but a human. i ran over a squirral once. was soon after i passed my test. wasnt nice.

Well i think you are as bad as the person that hit the cat to be perfectly honest, you SAW it happen and didn't stop to move/help or see to the poor cat.

You keep saying "if i was driving i would have stopped" could you not speak? would your dh not have understood "please can you pull over?", how odd and completely ridiculous!

Last year driving home i saw a cat at the side of the road, trying to get up, some git had hit it and left it, but I pulled over, picked the cat up and while knocking on doors trying to find the owner the cat died in my arms unfortunately, it was really upsetting for me but i am glad the cat wasn't alone and cold at the side of the road.

I found the owner who presumed i had hit the cat, and i explained it wasn't me, the owner was glad i found them and let them know.

I agree that the op is as bad as the person who was responsible for the hitting the cat.
She did see it and failed to ask her dh to stop.
Terribly sad.

My friends cat got run over last winter, was fouund lying in the road very badly injured. The driver hadn't stopped, but he was found by someone who knew him and returned him to my friend.
He was taken to the vets, but only survived a few days, as he was so badly injured and the vet thought he might've been lying in the road for a few hours - it was a really cold and frosty day.
I've never seen my friend so upset, she cried for weeks, and couldn't understand why the driver didn't stop to help him.
On a happier note, I have a cat who seems to obey the highway code, each time he crosses the road, he looks left and right.

i have seen a cat be hit and then the driver continued to drive on - but in their defence it was their back wheel that got it so i doubt they knew. It was one of the most upsetting things i've ever seen. the cat was flipping around all over the place - then it just died. God i could still cry about ti

Last year i was on my way to work as a Home carer so time was not on my side.
As i went down a narrow country lane, came accross a Muntjack deer just sitting in the road.
Looked like it had been hit by a car as it was bleeding from the nose and it seemed dazed.
No way of going round it so basically had to push it's rump to get it to go in the field.
Was planning on coming back after doing my rounds a couple of hours later.
When i went to look for it, could not find it (had a torch), but at least it was off the road.
My DH once hit a pheasant and it richoched off our car bonnet and accross the road and bounced off another car coming in the opposite direction and the thing still managed to fly away!
But another time we ran over a baby rabbit and we could see it writhing on the road behind us.
DH reversed and i got ready to get out to pick it up and he RAN OVER IT AGAIN!. To put it out of it's misery.
But at the same time a car was coming in the opposite direction with little kids in it and they went past with horrified looks on their faces...Ohh the shame!

ripeberry, how could he drive back over it! i think i would've screamed. i understand why he did but i honestly couldn't do it.

You've experienced a fair amount of road kill i see!

YANBU to think they should have stopped,but for you to then drive past and see the injured cat and not stop yourself,makes you just as bad as them.
If you saw a person twitching in the road,would you also drive past,thinking they weren't going to make it?

I hit a cat once - it ran between my wheels. When i looked in the rear mirror, it was tumbling down the road . I stopped the car but it had run (or limped off) so I was uab.

It's easy to say you should or shouldn't have stopped but not everyone is aware that these things have happened.