[Closed] I just ran over a cat...

A few years ago I ran over a cat on my road bike - both wheels 🙁

It bolted off, no idea where it went and we wern't by any houses at the time so no doors to knock on.

Still feel bad about it

A cat hit me recently (honest, it looked like it was going to cross in front then panicked and ran along side the car and then I guess panicked again and ran into my car, luckily it just bounced off the wheel and then ran off :p ) but I did wonder what I'd do if I squashed one. It's unlikely it would be from the houses immediately around so I guess it would be a case of me taking it to the vet but then who pays? Call me callous but I don't fancy paying £100's for someone else's cat that had a death wish...

Once ran over a kitten with a quad bike on the farm. A couple days of care and clostrum from the dairy and it was right as rain.

This one was gone, nowhere to be seen.

It just ran out from a drive and I was doing about 30, went striaght over its middle. It did a comedy American wrestling writhe around from what I could see in my RVM but was gone by the time I pulled over and walked back.

Driving through Holmfirth many years ago and a fox jumped over a wall straight under my front wheel and did the whole bumpity bump thing.

It was about 80 miles before I dared to stop and look in case I found a seriously pissed off fox glaring at me from the wheel arch.

I was run into by a badger. My lights smashed miles from home in the dark, badger okay.

I have cycled into a New Forest pony. Both of us shocked and okay

My Dad drove into a golden retriever and wrote of his Peugeot, the dog was okay.

A deer stuck it's head in front of my car. Smashed the headlight and left the head embedded in the radiator, deer did not survive being decapitated.

I head butted a pheasant while on a moped. I was okay, the pheasant was sat there stunned so I tweaked it's neck and took it home for dinner.

I hit three fox cubs in one go once 🙁

A duck that was trying to cross the M1 on foot.

I hit three fox cubs in one go once

You're a monster.

I once hit a chicken crossing the road.

There is no punchline.

It died.

Is there anything you won't do to get some pussy?

Maybe you can take a picture, put a witty caption with it and start a "Lolflats" website

My dog caught a cat while my wife was taking her on a walk. It gave it a good shake. My wife got the dog of, tied it up and went to check on the cat but it had gone.

I head butted a pheasant while on a moped. I was okay, the pheasant was sat there stunned so I tweaked it's neck and took it home for dinner

haha, brilliant! Can just imagine someone riding a moped with a pheasant hanging off the back.

A lot of road kill there, are you up in Scotland?

[i]I once hit a chicken crossing the road.

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Why did the chicken cross the road?

To see it's flat mate

Maybe you can take a picture

I had my camera phone at the ready, but as I say it was gone. 🙁

Cotswolds... this was my first domestic kill.

Not quite the same as running it over, but I have given a badger a chinese burn

I ran over a pheasant once. All feathers and stuff in me grill.
Friend who was following was all upset and emotional and tried to rescue it. Silly veggies.

Not quite the same as running it over, but I have given a badger a chinese burn

I doubt that. A badger would have torn your face off before you even got into optimum grip position.

All feathers and stuff in me grill.

Nothing worse than heading for a night out, and getting a pheasant all up in your grill.

When I was a kid my dad hit a cow. We were in a Morris Oxford, came round a corner in Dumfries somewhere (heading for Stranraer), wall to wall cows, he hit one side on at about 15mph, took her legs clean out, she did a perfect roll up the bonnet, screen, roof and boot, landed perfectly on all four hooves and walked off, cool as you like. All the other cows looking on going WTF! Mum dad and four kids in the back screaming and turning to jelly. Don't know how we made the ferry that night. Not a mark on the car, either.

A barn owl flew through the windscreen of my lorry when I drove for Parcelforce. I flicked it out of the cab and drove back over it.

There must be a few soft badgers in the world Jamie.

There must be a few soft badgers in the world Jamie.

...but can you risk it though? You creep up on what you think is a softie.......THEN BOOM!

Badgers got your balls.

was run into by a badger. My lights smashed miles from home in the dark, badger okay.

I have cycled into a New Forest pony. Both of us shocked and okay

My Dad drove into a golden retriever and wrote of his Peugeot, the dog was okay.

A deer stuck it's head in front of my car. Smashed the headlight and left the head embedded in the radiator, deer did not survive being decapitated.

I head butted a pheasant while on a moped. I was okay, the pheasant was sat there stunned so I tweaked it's neck and took it home for dinner.

Flippin eck WCA - you do seem to be living up to your moniker.... 😀

I read that as 'chinese BUM'........

Various pheasants, rabbits, pigeons and a couple of cats. Had a pheasant the other month flew out of a hedge straight into the side of my van, dried pheasant blood doesn't wash off easily 🙁

Some cats do have a death wish. One walked out in front of me cool as a cucumber the other day when I was doing about 30. Emergancy stop screeched to a halt 6 foot in front of it and he just sat down and licked its nads. Beeping the horn only made him momentarily look up before continuing the job at hand (Tounge).
In the end I had to get out and nearly boot it just to get it to move out of the road.

I hit a pheasant at 90mph+ in my XR2 up Buxton way many years ago, ripped both spot lights off and smashed the front grill to many pieces.

Biggest road kill had to be a Labrador when I was 16. I used to nick the keys for my old mans VW beetle that was stored in a garage across town. Anyways came through a village a bit stoned and a bit too fast and hit a Labrador head on. It was a horrible noise of skull against solid metal bumper. I can still hear it to this day. Not my proudest moment and couldn't stop due to the lack of licence. To top it all off it was still on one of those extendable leads.! Never took the car out again after that as I don't think I could have lived with myself if it was a child, killing a doggy was bad enough.

Oh the follies of youth.!

Xckeith, why do you think it didn't bite my face off?

A mate crashed into a badger night riding, the badger caught a glancing blow and spuin off into the bushes. We came around the corner to find a gibbering mate, still clipped into his pedals whilst lying on the floor whilst lyin on the floor screamin "jessus it's commin for me" and trying to fend off a grumpy badger with his camelback. The badger looked at us, made some grumbly badger noises that were the the equivilent of " yeh I'd have you all, one paw tied behind my back" and then mooched off into the woods.

I killed a cat on my motorbike, it was dark and I did not see it and it hit my foot. I went back to check on it and its head had turned round 180 degrees, so I think it was dead.

I have also hit 2 wood pigeons and a barn owl. The barn owl was a bit strange as when I went back to check on it there was another one lying dead in the side of the road. I wonder if the one I hit was its mate and it was pining for other one in the place where it had died?

to find a gibbering mate, still clipped into his pedals whilst lying on the floor whilst lyin on the floor screamin "jessus it's commin for me" and trying to fend off a grumpy badger with his camelback.

PMSL... would've been hilarious to see, I trust you don't (and never will) let him live this one down? 😆

Let me see...
Crow through headlight
Badger through radiator and cracked the front bumper
Pheasant full on at 60mph+ whilst overtaking.
Chased a Pheasant for 1/2 mile up the road before I finally got it, stooopeeed bird!

Rabbit and a Squirrel confirmed kills 🙁

The Rabbit was on the MTB... took it home,skinned and ate it 🙂 Quite Nice and it tasted of ..............

tazzy... It's the stuff nightmares are made of...

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Quite Nice and it tasted of ..............

Chicken? High rollers?

I took out a whole pile of possums once in a oner.

Car in front of me hit a cat once, so I stopped, the poor thing was still alive. Sent boyfriend to call the owners, me and the lady then had a competition for who could cry the most in a public street as it kind of twitched and howled for a while, then breathed it's last.

This is the kind of thing that keeps me awake when my cat is out on night patrol...

I hit half a dozen cows yesterday afternoon. Slowly though, just to encourage them along a lane and out of my way, so I don't think it counts.

You can have as many cows as you like as long as you don't have potatoes or bread with them.

Oops, sorry, wrong thread.

I hit a pigeon once...it was still alive in the grill when I arrived 2 hours later.

Grill needs to be on high for 20 minutes to cook a pigeon

A mate of mine had a horse run into his car in the centre of Middleton (town near Oldham). All over the bonnet, thrashing around, owner screaming. The horse was fine but his Capri 2.0 Laser was written off. Good result in the end I think.

I hit a squirrel, right over him with the brakes locked. Squeezed his insides out like a tube of toothpaste. (grey one).

I was ok with this but there was a young girl sat in a parked car at the side of the road who witnessed the whole thing and I could see she was scarred for life. I still feel bad for the girl.

Anyone else managed to hit a bird with their windscreen?

An old colleague of mine hit a cow on his motorbike. Went straight through the middle of it. The cow and the blokes shoulder were never the same again.

Guy I know hit a seagull at 70 on his motorbike, it cracked his helmet and gave him a pretty major concussion. He managed to stop, get off, put the bike on its stand and turn the engine off before he collapsed. He has no recollection of this.

Another friend hit a rabbit, whilst giving a lift to a rather lefty, militant vegan girl whose pants he was trying to get into. His cry of 'my baby!' as he hit the said rabbit rendered that quest forlorn.

haha... I hope he swerved to get it 😈

Hit a dumb coyote once. He just wouldn't shift and stared at me as a headed downhill to run into him. Over the handlebars and he left the scene, didnt even leave his name and address! Pah. It was in the states on the great divide. Narrowly missed a grizzly on the same trip. Am happy I missed him!!!

Me and a load of mates were driving through to Edinburgh many moons ago in our ex Police Sherpa van, which for some reason we called Vernie, clattered a pheasant on the way there. Never thought much more of it but as we got further into town we could smell a weird cooking meat smell. We parked up on George Street (for any of you who don't know Edinburgh George Street is right in the centre and this was during the festival...) as we were looking for a space we saw loads of people pointing at the van in a disgusted fashion, which we couldn't understand, Vernie was a fine if somewhat utilitarian looking van. It turned out the pheasant had got jammed in the smashed headlight and was being slowly broiled in its own blood on the roasting proper old school headlamp that was still churning a quite incredible amount of heat... 🙂

I hit a seal once. A job's a job

I narrowly missed a group of sheep that ran out in front of me on my way home from work about 10 years ago. Unfortunately I didn't miss the ram that was chasing them, if he'd kept running he would have made it but he stopped dead and just lowered his head. Dead ram, though my crappy old Seat Ibiza was untouched.

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That was I believe a phesant

Cat may look run over, but the scrumptious little baby is only snoozing 😀

My boss ran over a rat once. It was in the middle of the road and he just kept driving assuming it would move out of the way. It didnt and got squished. He pulled into a supermarket carpark which was where he was heading, and the person in the car behind him was an old lady who witnessed it all and proceeded to tell him off in the carpark.

I had to kill a lot of birds, mice and sometimes rabbits after my cat brought them home. I found a shovel was sometimes the best option...particularly if the cat had chewed it a bit and it was a bit bloody.

I once had to kill a mangled blackbird that the cat put on the end of my bed...I missed and scalped it.

When I was young a friend hit a pheasant, we got out and wrung it's neck and i had it in a bag between my legs. I looked in the bag and it winked at me...much fumbling and 're-wringing' ensued.

Did you know hitting a game animal and stopping to collect it is technically poaching...although you can pick it up if you're the car behind.

When I was a boy my dad was driving and a deer jumped out in front of a mini going the other way...the deer went flying and the front of the mini was all stoved in.

Think I caught or just missed a rabbit the other day . . .

I came around the corner to find 3 rabbits having a conflab in the middle of the road, they didn't seem at all bothered and only half-assed moved when I was past them!

With all the fields around in Shropshire, makes you wonder why they decide to sit in a very dangerous position, . . . . maybe it was some kind of game of chicken, . . . or a suicide pact!!

Crazy . .

Tag teamed a pheasant with a Stobart lorry once. It was running across the road, glanced by my bumper then was stumbling around dazed in the road as it walked into the path of the lorry heading the other direction. Cloud of feathers. Comedy.

The Southern Yeti - Member
Anyone else managed to hit a bird with their windscreen?

20 years ago driving through Southend in my old LHD Beetle, I watched as a pigeon slowly flapped down towards the road in front of me. It turned to see my green machine bearing down on it.

I would never have thought that pigeons' faces could show panic but this one defintely did.

It missed my windscreen but bounced off the rounded bonnet in a blizzard of feathers. I never saw it again.

The panicky pigeon face still haunts my long nights.....

(I also drove into a pheasant in Yorkshire once. It lodged in the grille and filled the car with the pleasant smell of cooked pheasant.

I rode over a male peacock's tail once. Just loss of dignity for the bird.)

Got it proper good, went back to check it was dead but it'd scarpered.

anyway - once hit a deer. killed it and my mondeo was written off. score draw.

workmate once hit a gull with his 205 gti - it came straight through the windscreen. took a while to peg out and there was blood and guts all over the car. he was panicky when a gull came near his car for about a year afterward

also, a much, much younger version of me on a scooter headbutted a transit. repairs to transit headlight and my head needed sewn back together.

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Fair point. I did go back to finish it off. Pretty sure it won't be alive my sundown.

own up, who was it?

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Have had the misfortune to collide with several creatures while motorcycling. A little sparrow-type thing hit me on the head and made quite a mess and a blackbird once flapped lazily out of a hedgerow and caught me square on the shoulder it was like a good thump from an 11-year old. Various rabbits/squirrels have literally run between the wheels they are very nimble and/or have a death wish. Mate had a Mustang and we hit a pheasant you think American cars are tough the pheasant was toast but so was the Mustang's grille and bumper.

Have also hit a cat it exploded like a wet paper bag not good, not good at all.

I hit a rabbit once. It smashed my front bumper 🙁

I had to swerve several times as it kept darting about but eventually I got the bugger!

my cat was killed by a car 🙁

It's not all bad news Philly. Female colleagues love a story about a cat being killed. 🙂

What about this.... Bambi in a Beemer

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Ouch!

I give you Chicken v's Porsche..

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i lied.... it was severely mangled, had to have it skull wired back into shape and efferyfing! he lived for another 12 years though cos he was, like surfmat, awesome.

couldn't tell his skull was funny just looking at him, but if you looked at him in the mirror it was instantly obvious... very odd.

hit a cat with a mini once on the way back from a date in guildford, it was in upper-hale and the thing darted into the road - slowed down - darted back up onto fence - sped up- darted back into front of car 🙁 knocked ona few doors (was 3am, no collar on the cat... gave up after the nth angry person told me to go away). felt terrible!

hit a pigeon once, doing 62mph on the bus up the A1,
i saw it flying towards me, but it veered upwards at the last second.
i didnt hear any thud, so i assumed i had missed it, but about 5 seconds later it came sliding down the screen.
it was a double decker bus, when i glanced at the upstairs passengers they looked a bit white!

ohhh as a kid we had a pidgeon type thing explode on the windscreen at 140mph on the autobahn... made us all jump and using the windscreen wipers to clear it off just spread blood and guts everywhere

What about this.... Bambi in a Beemer

I though Bambi was actually a fox, remember reading the original story, apparently it happened at silly speed on an autobahn, and lit up every single light on the dash like a christmas tree!

Oh and I was a in a hire that me and my boss hooned around canada for 3 weeks at silly speeds, we hit a sparrow sized bird hard enough to leave a crease type dent in the roof, which we were pretty proud of...

FuzzyWuzzy - Member
A cat hit me recently (honest, it looked like it was going to cross in front then panicked and ran along side the car and then I guess panicked again and ran into my car, luckily it just bounced off the wheel and then ran off :p ) but I did wonder what I'd do if I squashed one. It's unlikely it would be from the houses immediately around so I guess it would be a case of me taking it to the vet but then who pays? Call me callous [b]but I don't fancy paying £100's for someone else's cat that had a death wish... [/b]

Hundreds of pounds! That's either a cheap vet or all your doing is burying it.

Four grand the vet charged to rebuild our cat after he was hit by a car. Mind you he is mostly titanium now 😀

Matt

1 x pigeon on the windscreen whilst on the A1. Was a glancing blow rather than head on but was still an explosion of feathers.

Had the standard issue Pheasant in the grille more than once. Not always a whole pheasant once I had noticed though.

Nine suicidal bunnies on a 3 mile stretch on road early one morning took some believing though.

Four grand the vet charged to rebuild our cat after he was hit by a car. Mind you he is mostly titanium now

Bugger me! You could get a new bike for that!!

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...what did we do before Google image search.

I hit a cat with the car a number of years back. It was dark, cat was black with no collar, I hit it in the head. I stopped and checked the cat - big gash/hole in head, very nasty head injury.
I picked it up, took it to the side of the road and rung its neck. Not nice, but hopefully a quickish death. Although the worst thing was, its not like a chicken's neck, a lot thicker and tougher, I really struggled, but eventually the light faded from its eyes. RIP poor kitty.

Killed a hare a couple of years ago on my way to work. It decided to run at top speed straight up the lane and under the front wheel of the mighty Kaffenback.

It was being chased up the road by another two, so guess I saved it from some kind of three-way-non-consensual action. Several holes in me and a lightly bent Open Pro was the outcome, think I can safely say that I won on that occasion.

Hit loads of things in the car, most gruesome was having to extract the back end of bird from the grill at the end of a long journey in NZ.

pigeon flavoured carnage ensued after I hit a flying rat at just over 100mph. Clipped it with the very top of the windscreen, all I saw in the rear view was a cloud of feathers. hey ho...

Was a passenger in a car that hit a fox, again at an offensive speed. My mate said 'I think we should go back and check it's alright, I'm in the RSPCA you know'. Despite this being around 15 years ago, he still pays his £10 per month RSPCA donation. We didn't go back...

Just for the other side - I swerved to avoid a bird (feathered) on the road, rolled the car corner to corner leaving it with no body panel undented and no glass in it at all. Bird was untouched.

TJ - I was taught never to swerve away from an animal. I guess that's why.

Knew a girl who did something like that once. Put the car into a hedge swerving to miss Mr Floppy ears in the road. Silliness of the highest order.