Dead cat found....?

Question

I was walking back from my night out last night, a lil drunk but i was ok! Saw a dead cat in the road, so i saved its dignity and carried him to the side. Do i need to call someone as it had no collar? Or does this law just apply to dogs??? Please help me as im worried sick and i cant get it off my mind...

Answer 1

You can call your local humane society. They would be able to dispose of the body properly.

Answer 2

The law only applies to dogs

But it will ,ease your mind and be a comfort to the family
who's cat it was ,
to put a notice up in a nearby shop and your local newspaper , giving a description of the cat and where it was found .

The cat most probably died instantly, with no pain

It is hard to lose a family pet , and harder still ,
when you do not know ,if it is alive and suffering or dead

It was so kind of you, to remove the cat from the road

This further gesture, of trying , to contact the owners ,
will give you peace of mind
you will then, have done everything you can possibly do .
You really are a kind and thoughtfull person

>^,,^<

Answer 3

I can understand how you feel, the matter will play on your mind until it is resolved.......you are obviously an animal lover and although you had no participation in this cats demise you somehow feel responsible for it because you were on hand so to speak soon after it's death....... You certainly did the right thing by moving the cat out of the road and placing it out of the way.......I don't think there is any more you should really do.......have you thought that the owners of the cat would miss it and would possibly look for it......finding it might well bring them heartache but at least they will have their cat back to bury plus they will know what has happened to it........many people lose an animal and spend months searching for it wondering where it might be or what had happened to it possibly because the animal has been moved away or perhaps it died out in fields or another unlikely place.....it may even have moved in with some other people not too far away.....Hopefully the family will find their cat and the matter will be resolved.....

Answer 4

Thank you for doing what you did. No you do not have to inform anybody. Hopefully someone will recognise the cat and inform the owner. If you had not moved the cat it would have been run over again. Can you imagine the distress of the owner if this happened ( I mean it would take some effort to remove cat from road -sorry) Thank you again. Feel good about yourself you did the right thing even when "a lil drunk".

Answer 5

Please contact the RSPCA. They can pick up the cat and check if it's microchipped so the owner can find out. All of my cats are in case of something bad. I think you were right to move it off the road. The family might have found it if they looked later. Better on the side rather than road-damaged.

When I found one I took it to the local vet, after having knocked at a few doors asking if they knew where she came from. When the vet discovered she wasn't microchipped, I went back and put a few notices up around where I found her, so the family passed by later, they could contact the vet. I also contacted another vet in the area to describe the animal in case their owner phoned them. She was beautiful, not old and well fed, so someone obviously cared.

Good karma deserves good karma. You were right to help, even if the cat had died already.

Not all loved cats can wear collars - one of mine gets excema so can't wear one, but I do worry if he's late in for breakfast!

Answer 6

Unfortunately, there is no law in the UK that says you have to report a dead cat. Personally, as the owner of eight cats, I think there should be. What you can do is contact your local RSPCA, Cats Protection League and local vets and let them know that you found it. They'll ask for a description, obviously, but then at least some poor person won't spend forever wondering what happened to their kitty. As I still am. It's really sweet of you to have moved him/her. Most people would have ignored it. xxxxxxx

Answer 7

You could call your local animal welfare ,or speak to a vet ,the cat may be chipped .I think here, it is a case of what is right and you are a kind thoughtful person.Cats should be protected ,they are members of family and beloved to us all. Every time a cat is killed a little piece of every cat lovers heart breaks a little more.I have lost many cats under the wheels of cars .I keep my cats in most of the time.We live in a very quiet, area ,the road is busy at certain times,so I keep mine in till the traffic slows down.Luckily my cats stay away from the road, as we have a small paddock but I still don't take chances.

Answer 8

You don't say what country you are in. But in English law, which also covers Wales, a cat is not a domestic animal, so has no rights.
You did what you could for the cat, which is more than a lot of people would have done under the same circumstances.
Stop worrying...you must be a nice person. You did your best.

Answer 9

You did a good thing. You don't have to report it legally, and you will probably find that the body will be removed by the council anyway. If you can remember anything about the cat i.e. colour, or even markings it would be useful to contact a local animal rescue centre as they may have been contacted by someone looking for a lost cat with a similar description. I would want to know if it was my cat.

Answer 10

I am glad you at least had the courage to move the animal. Hopefully you used something to keep yourself clean! I would call the local animal control or the police department. You could help provide a description of the cat in case someone is looking for their pet. Sometimes, people also place microchips in their pets even if they don't have a collar.

Answer 11

Please call the shelter or the vet's office, DON'T assume it was a stray simply because the cat wasn't wearing a collar, especially if it was well-fed! I have my cats chipped for identification; all vets here in my country have the ability to read the chips, and I don't want a collar 'cause of the risk of choking (I've seen that happen even with a break-away collar) and rubbing (my older cat had a bald patch no matter what type of collar I tried, I tried many kinds for years before the electronic chipping became this easily available). Also some cats tend to wriggle out of their collars, another cat of a friend's never kept the collar on for very long, unless we almost choked him. And of course there are people who just don't put identification on their cats at all, which I think is pretty irresponsible, but that still isn't a reason to just bury the cat without even trying to find out whose he was.

The vet or shelter will check for electronic identification, write down any markings, possibly take a picture, so that if someone calls looking for a lost cat they'll be able to tell if it was the animal you found.