Had the unpleasant experience of finding a recently-runover cat last night on our way back from walkies.
Not far from home we'd just stopped off to pick up a pizza for tea, turned the corner and there was something lying there in the road. Instantly we thought it must be an animal and on getting closer we saw that it was a cat: though as we got closer, one of Newlands buses came bowling past and drove clean over the cat, so if it wasn't quite dead then, it sure was now.
Yes I'm sure the bus driver didn't see it, but it doesn't change how callous it seemed that the poor cat should be crushed beneath the wheels of a big green bus!
We stopped, turned around and came back, parking up so we could go and pick it up. Shaz grabbed a towel and picked it up, taking it to the pavement to see if we could find a pet tag or at least some form of id. Alas although the cat had a council yellow registration tag on its collar, there was no name or phone number, so what can you do except leave it there and go try calling the SPCA (Society for Protection of Cruelty to Animals)?
Being Saturday night, no-one was answering the SPCA phone, but we got hold of someone on Sunday morning who said we should just let the local council know, which we did and who came and picked 'him' up.
When I think about our dogs, how they're part of our family and how we'd feel if something like that happened to them, it makes me sick and sad about how there was no way to get in touch with the cat's owner and let them know. Why didn't he have a name tag on, or a phone number at the very least?!
2 comments:
Sad indeed.
But to answer your question, you don't put name tags on cats as they climb trees, fall and hang themselves.
Maybe it was micochipped? Ours are.
Fair point mate. Would have nonetheless been handy if it'd had a phone number on a collar tag though, felt so useless not being able to let the owner know.
As the council came and picked it up, I'm sure they would have the means to check any microchip, hopefully.
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