I just have to voice my anger and sadness about a recent loss weve suffered about 3 months ago, its not personal but against the people who know who they are.

My beloved male tomcat Scatty who lived to 18 yeard old and would have lived longer, was tragically knocked over by a car and left in the road for dead.
Luckily some neighbours see him and took him to the local vets before coming and telling us, what they must of felt when coming up to our door i'll never know.
The loss was bad enough, but someone stole his collar while he was laying in the road, his beautiful new collar we had just brought him was gone when the neighbours found him.
Who would take the collar from a dying cat and not even help?
Im crying with sadness and anger as i write this and think of my poor boy, we got there just too late and he had passed, his heart wasnt strong enough to restart, my poor boy who i had had since the age of 4 years old was gone and i didnt even get to day good bye because someone was so cruel they just left him.

If anyone ever hits an animal please have the decency to find the owner or at least take the poor animal to the vets, my Scatt may of lived if there was a shread of decency left in this world, sp please put your own feelings aside and find the owner knock on every door if you have too, its the least you can do.

I'm very, very sorry to hear about this but this is the reason myself & members like Goldmali keep our cats indoors or secure in their gardens.   No cat can fend off a car/airgun pellets/savage dog etc.  It is the poor cat who comes off worse, at least kept confined you always know where they are & that they are safe.

So sorry to hear of your loss Rach, but unfortunately that's the way society is :( As someone mentioned in another post a lot of people will say 'Oh, but it's only a cat'. B*ll*cks! I've lost a cat on the road, and my son's cat also died on the same road a few months later (we were looking after her after a break-in, but she decided to go home and escaped from the house) so believe me when I say I know the heartache it causes. Luckily my cats were killed outright so didn't feel anything. I won't make any attemp to keep my other cat in, but I will not be getting another. Roads are just killers. Very few people stop for a cat, in fact some don't even stop for a dog when they are supposed to by law.

To be fair often the cat takes off and runs only to die later.

I once witnessed a cat hit and I and the driver tried to get to it but it ran into a garden and the home owner couldn't find it either.

On another occasion I was in a car when we hit a cat, it ran into a front garden and we knocked on the front door and asked if it was their cat and that we had hit it but it had run off.

Both of these coudl ahve ended up dead in the road further off.

Friend across our busy road (bus route) had the lady who hit her cat knock on her door.  She had taken it to the Vet and then asked around to see whose it might be.  I think kipper was about 18 also.  He didn't survive.

I'm so sorry for your loss, especially when it happened in such a horrible way. We lost a cat this way too and it put me off having one for years. Someone then told me to keep a cat in at night to avoid accidents like this so we did that and so far Sonny has been Ok - he is 8 now. It might be that whoever hit him didn't know if it happened in the dark. Don't lose your faith in human decency, your neighbours are obviously kind and decent people to take so much care of him for you. Its so hard to lose a pet you've had for so long, I'm sure you must miss him.

I have experienced the same as Barbara.  I saw the cat out of the corner of my eye dash out under my wheels. It was too late to do anything and in my rear mirror I saw it run off the way it had come.  I drove round the corner to park safely and went to look for it - I knocked on the door of the house where I thought the cat had run but they didn't own the cat and couldn't see it in the garden.  As I was going back to the car I saw a woman and a girl looking around frantically.  I asked them if they were looking for a cat and they said that it had been hit and they were taking it to the vet's when it escaped. So the poor thing was hit twice and was still running.  I had to leave them searching in the end so never knew what happened.  So sorry for your loss.
Christine

I'm very sorry for your loss.
It annoys me too.  I've seen numerous cats dead by the side of the road, it makes me so angry.  They are more than likely someones pets after all. 
I posted on a thread recently about this kind of thing - I saw a cat hit by a car, the people that hit it just carried on.  We stopped and took her to the vet....which is what I'd expect anybody to do.  (She lives with my parents now)  One of my cats was killed on the road and the person didn't stop.
My two girls now live indoors - and any future cats will too.  We have a cattery outside and they spend a lot of time in there.  My parents think I'm cruel to keep them in - but the cats are happy, and I know they're safe.
Once again, I'm very sorry for your loss.

Sorry to hear abour loss Rach.  It always hurts when the time comes, in whatever way it comes.  If it makes you feel any better, I'm sure Scatty would have lost his collar before getting hit and that no-one stole it afterwards.  My two are always getting rid of theirs :rolleyes:

Debs

thanks everyone for your kindness xx
we had only just let him out when he was hit and the neighbours see him and the person knew what they had done.
His collar was a special fit which wouldnt have come off and i did search the whole street for it but it was gone.

it kills me more then anything that because of theyre selfishness i didnt get to say goodbye, and his collar would of been a momento of him and i dont even have that.

tragic times......

So sorry to hear about Scatty :(

We lost our last cat when he was run over :(  He had gone missing and we only found out several weeks later that he had been killed on the road.  A lady who lives in one of the houses where he was hit found his body at the side of the road but didn't know who he belonged to.  She is a real animal lover herself and has rescued many waifs and strays over the years (dogs, cats & birds).  She couldn't bear to just leave him there so buried him in her own garden.  We were so grateful when we found out and although we were sad to know that he was dead, it was nice to know that someone had cared enough to lay him to rest :)

Rach
im so sorry to read about Scatty
I hope you find out who did this to youe beloved scatty

Much love
Donna x
(and charliex)

I'm really sorry, how terrible for you, but how kind of your neighbours to take him to the vet there are still some decent, kind people in the world, don't be disheartened, at least he was cared for on his way, I'm sure your neighbour was stroking him and talking to him at least you have that that he did not just die on the road side and felt some care and kindness at the end.

You know my cat/cats spent half their time loosing their collars, I gave up in the end they always seemed to get them off, perhaps some  heartless person did not take the collar after all and it was caught on a bush or something and came off too.

Years ago my cat Smudge was hit by a car.  Someone stopped and threw her over the hedge into a field
She was found the next morning by an elderly lady picking blackberries - still alive and bleeding tangled into the brambles and sadly she died at the vets later that day.  People can be very cruel.