What affects us affects cats
This has been a long time coming. It is very reasonable to place an obligation on drivers of vehicles who hit and kill a domestic cat on the road to report the incident to the police and/or the local authorities because a lot of cats are killed on the road but their owners don’t …
Beth Davies and her daughter Kez were distraught to discover that their cat, a ginger tabby, had been killed on the road and the local authority waste disposal service had picked him up and thrown him onto the back of a lorry and taken him to a landfill site where he was dumped like …
This is a doctor (a GP), Linda Smith, living in the country in England who lives near a main road (Stanghow Road near New Skelton) where cars can legally travel at 60 mph. She has lost four cats in four years on the road. She wants the council (Redcar and Cleveland Council) to reduces …
A remarkable outpouring of grief has occurred at the passing of the Bus Stop Cat, Missy. Local people have created a sort of shrine at the bus stop that she frequented. It is beautiful but I can’t help feel that her death was so unnecessary if she was killed on the road as has …
This is an odd cat story. It’s about a guy who has a rescue cat who is three-years-of-age. The cat is an outdoor cat (this took place in the UK). The man, Matt Strong, was walking to get his hair cut when he saw a lady tending to a severely injured cat by the …
This is an example where it would have been better if, in the UK, there was a legal requirement to report a road traffic accident that resulted in the death of a cat. It is an anomaly that it is not. Harry, a microchipped, handsome ginger tabby with very faint markings, was sitting in …
By Elisa Black-Taylor This article is a bit off of the beaten path from what I usually do. I imagine a lot of you are probably going “huh?” at the title. Bear with me, and I’ll explain how an object to prevent hitting a deer can possibly also save a cat. I’m doing this …
