Petition calls for drivers to report hitting cats

Tens of thousands of people have signed a petition that asks for a change of law to be mandatory for drivers to inform heating cats.

Kellie Watson, 47, from Killingworth, North Tyneside, said she was “devastating” when his 11 -month -old Martha kitten was hit and repeatedly hit by cars until a stranger touched her veterinarians.

She said she could not see Martha “for the last time”, since the veterinarian advised him against the seriousness of the kitten’s head injuries.

The request of Mrs. Watson, backed by the beneficial organization of North East Pawz for her thinking, has more than 40,000 signatures, but the government said they were not “plans” to amend the Council of the Code of Roads of the Law to inform any collision that invests an animal.

Mrs. Watson said her usual kitten would wait at By for her to return from work.

Earlier this month, when Martha was not there, Mrs. Watson said she knew something had happened.

“She was only with us a short period of time, but it was our baby,” he said.

Mrs. Watson said her older cat, who is 18 years old, was “Frint” without her.

“She is not eating, sick, because she cheated her,” he said.

“I can’t understand that drivers just listen to a cat and leave them in the middle of the road.

“You would do that with a dog, so why do that with cats?”

Drivers has to If they hit animals such as dogs, horses and sheep and Mrs. Watson said: “It is time for us to also extend the same legal protections to our feline colleagues.”

Pawz, based in Sunderland, to think that a change of rules would give exterior a chanswers “instead of looking for months.”

Operations Manager Lorraine Thornton said the beneficial organization “constantly receives calls from owners with a broken heart looking for their missing cats.”

“Our pets are part of our family and for some people their only family,” he said.

As of June 2024, all cats in England in 20 weeks must be microchips and registered in a compatible database.

The transport department said that CAT’s micraqueciation rules “would facilitate national roads and local authorities Gather cats with their guardians“