Cat thrown from moving car
Thursday 15th April 2010, 3:30PM BST.
Stephanie Benting, from Wrekin View Vets, Wellington, with the cat
A pet cat had a miraculous escape after being flung from a moving car in a Shropshire village.
RSPCA bosses said they were “appalled” at the incident and said the cat was lucky to survive after being tossed from the car as it was being driven through Ruyton-XI-Towns. They are calling on anyone who knows who threw the animal out of the window to contact their national cruelty line.
The cat escaped serious injury and is now being cared for at a veterinary surgery in Wellington.
Judith Haw from the RSPCA said: “We are appalled that anyone could do this.
“Obviously throwing a cat out of a car could easily have killed the animal.
“It could have been killed on impact with the ground or being hit by another vehicle.
“Somehow it has escaped relatively unscathed and does not have any broken bones.
“It is getting eyedrops right now because its eye is injured and that may have happened when it hit the ground.
“We would like to hear from anyone who knows anything about this.
“We got a call from a witness on April 8 who said at about 7.45pm they saw the car slowing down and the window being wound down before a cat was flung from the vehicle.
“The car drove off. We sent an animal welfare officer to collect the cat and it is now being cared for by the Shropshire branch of the RSPCA at Wrekin View in Wellington.
“There was no description of the car given but the cat is a black and white female and is about five to six years old.
“It does not have a collar and has not been microchipped so we don’t know who owns it.
“We believe it is a pet cat because it has been very well cared for and is in very good condition and is very affectionate so perhaps somebody is missing a cat and does not know where it has gone.”
Anyone who knows about who threw the cat is asked to contact the RSPCA cruelty and advice line on 0300 123 4999.
Anyone missing a cat should call (01743) 244270.
By Iain St John
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Of course, this wouldn’t have happened if the cat was properly restrained in the vehicle by a seatbelt or leash.
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Can we find out who did this to the poor cat, so we can then throw the low life out of a window to see how they like it?
Poor little cat, at least she’s OK. Why not just take her to a shelter if you don’t want her though?
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@H. St. John Peasbody: Sometimes it would be better to keep your unique brand of “humour” properly restrained.
Personally, I find your comment quite disagreeable and in poor taste.
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Yes Mr. Peasbody, of course someone who is planning on dumping a cat on the road is going to make sure the animal is safely secured in the car it’s going to be thrown out of
Doh!
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Of course this is barbaric. But as I have said many times, cats are vermin. Right now, millions of them are roaming around beyond their owners control, raiding the nests of our native song birds. It’s nothing less than genocide. Cats should be hunted with hounds, just as the fox was. It would satisfy the bloodlust of the hunting brigade and solve the vermin problem to boot. Everyone wins.
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I hope someone does come forward with some information, so that the culprits will be delt with, as no animal deserves to be treated like that.
As for the commentby Mr Peasbody, are you reading the same bit of news, as your comments seam a little strange !!!
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Mr H. St. John Peasbody,
Please don’t make light of this cruel act – that may be someones beloved pet that has been taken as a spiteful trick – or equally nasty, has been thrown out without a care for its welfare. I don’t ask that anyone be an animal lover – just don’t harm them – they are harmless creatures, and people that can do something like this are sadly very cruel. If an animal is unwanted there are great people that will take them in – so there is never an excuse for this behaviour.
Mr Peasbody, I think you may well have made this as a light hearted comment, but I respectfully ask that you just think how it would be if you had a child whose lovely pet that is.
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Maisy (#3): You don’t get light-hearted comments from me. It’s a serious point. If laws were in place to restrain cats in vehicles, this could not have happened.
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I hope Tristram Ffertyle isn’t seriosuly suggesting that it’s acceptable to hunt people’s pets with hounds (mind you with the amount of control the South Shropshire hunt has over its hounds it’s a wonder more pets aren’t killed)? I can vouch for my cats not being out killing birds at the moment – they’re all inside asleep. Cats are people’s pets, not vermin – what a truly stupid comment you’ve made.
And humans do as much (more?) damage to the song bird population – locally hedges are still being cut despite it being nesting season, and nearby about an acre of trees is being cut down for no reason at all.
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This is a truly dispicable thing to do, poor kitty, i hope they find out who did this to her, she is looks a lovely cat x
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…then Mr Peasbody, I’m sorry I was gracious enough to give you the benefit of the doubt.
As you are, or should be aware, this was hardly an escaped pet. I’m sorry you do not have the compassion thankfully some other readers share with me.
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I would never stoop to say that KB is stupid, though it would seem to be the truth.
For his/her information, 75% of cats in this country are feral. Even regular cat owners are totally unable to control their murderous pets. It is estimated that the average moggy will kill 12 song bird chicks each spring. Do the maths and you will find this amounts to millions of deaths…and for what? So that so called ‘cat lovers’ can feel good about themselves!
For cat lover read selfish apologist for genocide.
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There I was, wondering just what kind of sick person would throw a cat from a moving car.
Then Tristram posted his comments, and I wondered no more…
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I’d love to know where Tristram is getting his figures from. Feral cats control vermin, we’d be overrun with rats and mice if it wasn’t for cats helping to keep their numbers down. And not all cats go outside, not all cats catch birds (we have 2 that can’t, friends have indoor cats or cats that just don’t hunt) and, judging by the dozens of sparrows and chaffinches that come into my garden (where I feed them – when the cats are shut inside) the bird population is coping OK with my “genocidal” cats.
When farmers stop cutting down hedges in bird breeding season, then maybe people can start to accue cats more fairly of causing problem with bird numbers. 3 long stretches of hedges round my area have been cut this week, while birds are nesting – that’s going to have killed off a lot more young birds than my cats can manage in a year between them.
Regardless of the figures anyway, how on earth can TF (I can’t be bothered to give him the pleasure of seeing his full name typed out) justify throwing a cat from a moving car? TF is as sick as the person who did this, if not more so.
As for HstJP, I fail to see how a law requiring cats to be restrained in cars is going to stop a sick individual from throwing the cat out of the car. Any sensible, caring cat owner will have their cat in a carrier, suitably contained. This was obviously not a caring cat owner.
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If KB would care to read what I have said, he/she will find that I do have not sought to justify the throwing of this (or any other) cat from a moving vehicle. The first five words I posted in this thread make my feelings on the matter quite clear.
My figures come from the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds.
I would point out to KB that the cutting or removal of hedges has no bearing at all on the slaughter of millions of wild birds by cats and seems little more than a convenient (if not very effective) smoke screen. It is typical of the cat owning classes to say he/she will only accept and deal with the problem when someone else acts first. Rather like their cat’s defecation, the problem is someone elses and not their own.
I note how esily KB resorts to insult yet again.
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It strikes me that Mr Peasisbody’s babyish sense of humour is what needs restraining.
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