Cats

[BGD 6,436]

 

 

Yes, you're right....I'd add that the onus should be on everyone who drives to avoid any animal if at all possible.

The reason i brought drivers into it is because i remember a few years ago driving along at a reasonable speed and almost having a head on collision with a young family trying to avoid a cat running across the road....i think its an automatic reaction to try to avoid any animal running across the road but it made me realise how close i came to wiping out an entire young family in order to avoid a pet cat that was somebody elses responsibility.

I did hear before about not being allowed to swerve for animals in the road and it was the law gnasher.maybe it's the law or not im not 100% sure though.

 

 

If you cause an accident because you swerved to avoid an animal in the eyes of the law you're the one at fault

[king 11,972]

Would any of the dog owners on here let there dog shit in next doors garden night after night.

I don't think so that's because most folk on here are responsible dog owners.

But cat owners don't think twice about letting there cats out at dark.

To shit any were they like.

[j j m 6,533]

pay the bill mate it was a accident

[Greyman 28,142]

I,m sorry I have missed a few pages, but in answer to the op, I have had the same experience, though it was many moons ago, cut a long one short, I had just acquired a little whippet X and took her to my parents to show them, anyway while there she killed the neibours cat,police, fisticuffs the full monty followed, I had to attend an interview at the station and was told the cat is a natural enemy of a dog and the only thing I had done wrong was allowing it to kill cat outside our property, I was told to keep it muzzled and on a lead in public and that was it, also once received a £500 bill from someone who hit and killed my dog in a car, for damage to car, I told em to issue a summons and heard know more, I think hy are civil matters and unless they have lots of money to back em up I doubt they will follow anything through, I would however have my dogs looked after as a precaution till it settles, good luck

[gnasher16 30,025]

 

 

Yes, you're right....I'd add that the onus should be on everyone who drives to avoid any animal if at all possible.

The reason i brought drivers into it is because i remember a few years ago driving along at a reasonable speed and almost having a head on collision with a young family trying to avoid a cat running across the road....i think its an automatic reaction to try to avoid any animal running across the road but it made me realise how close i came to wiping out an entire young family in order to avoid a pet cat that was somebody elses responsibility.

I did hear before about not being allowed to swerve for animals in the road and it was the law gnasher.maybe it's the law or not im not 100% sure though.

 

I see.....this was a single carriage 60mph road so " swerve " didnt come into it.....just a little twitch to the right was enough to be in a head on collision.

[Brewman 1,192]

If you hit a cat with your car you don't have to report it to the police but if you hit a dog you do.

I live in the country and occasionally when driving along all sorts of wildlife would come across my path ie rabbits and assorted birds. One day a cat was on a collision course with me so I slowed down a little and didn't swerve. Wifey went nuts being your average non hunting animal lover. So explained I wasnt yanking on the brakes or swerving for a cat when I've kids in the car especially not for a cat. If people can't look after them tough shit. The cat got hit and ran off limping and wifey was flecked off because I wasn't to bothered by it.

[gnasher16 30,025]

If you hit a cat with your car you don't have to report it to the police but if you hit a dog you do.

I live in the country and occasionally when driving along all sorts of wildlife would come across my path ie rabbits and assorted birds. One day a cat was on a collision course with me so I slowed down a little and didn't swerve. Wifey went nuts being your average non hunting animal lover. So explained I wasnt yanking on the brakes or swerving for a cat when I've kids in the car especially not for a cat. If people can't look after them tough shit. The cat got hit and ran off limping and wifey was flecked off because I wasn't to bothered by it.

I dont make you wrong to be honest.......but when you catch the little f****r out the corner of your eye from the left its instinct almost to deviate to the right......given thinking time id slow down but thats about it now.

[Brewman 1,192]

I'll slow down and swerbe under control if it's safe to do so but never had the sudden 'oh shit watch out' and take action for say a dog. But for birds they're fcuked any way so don't bother for them.

[Bracken67 7]

 

 

 

Yes, you're right....I'd add that the onus should be on everyone who drives to avoid any animal if at all possible.

The reason i brought drivers into it is because i remember a few years ago driving along at a reasonable speed and almost having a head on collision with a young family trying to avoid a cat running across the road....i think its an automatic reaction to try to avoid any animal running across the road but it made me realise how close i came to wiping out an entire young family in order to avoid a pet cat that was somebody elses responsibility.

I did hear before about not being allowed to swerve for animals in the road and it was the law gnasher.maybe it's the law or not im not 100% sure though.

 

I see.....this was a single carriage 60mph road so " swerve " didnt come into it.....just a little twitch to the right was enough to be in a head on collision.

 

Quite right. As I said "avoid if at all possible", certainly not swerving to cause a head on collision. That would be idiotic.

[terryd 8,383]

I think the jist of it is the less species that is on the dogs kill list the better and an easy and more enjoyable life is had by all.

Be nice to turn up at a permission where the owner has cats and your dog blanks them instead of doing cartwheels on the lead. Its not a good look

One place i go the lady has cats running around every where. I asked do they go up into the woods and she said no but I bet they do. So I was constantly on edge worrying about them while we did a bit of ferreting.

My dog is not broke to them and its going to take a bit of doing . But I would like him to be and I do my best

[lurcherman 887 13,082]

c**ts shitting in my flower beds did i say that already lol??? Ive put random things in the bed now like a spade a jerry can and tin of paint and a fake cat ? its stopped it.but me flower bed looks like a jumble sale

[terryd 8,383]

c**ts shitting in my flower beds did i say that already lol??? Ive put random things in the bed now like a spade a jerry can and tin of paint and a fake cat its stopped it.but me flower bed looks like a jumble sale

[General lee 979]

I've said in previous threads there is a neighbour here with at last count 19 cats they wonder all over my dog barely gives a glance when hies on his lead and if he is loose he will watch them but a little no from me and he doesn't bother with them but the owner if you could call her that said her cat isn't scared of dogs and will often walk right up to them it coming right out in front of the dog must have just triggered something he has seen cats since this happened and same as before not really bothered

[terryd 8,383]

accidents happen for sure can't be helped mine has had a few and no doubt will have more