Honestly, If you........

i would definitely stop. i think it's so mean if someone doesn't, the cat could be hurt and need help.
sorry to hear about your cat, i hope he recovers well.

if i did i would do my best to find its owner door knocking around the neighbourhood, gee i would feel terrible!!! 2 of my cats have been hit, one costed $800+ for a major op on its leg, and the other (its brother when we moved so different house) was hit so bad that he had to get put down which costed us lots too (had to have xrays etc...to check) the cost of owning a pet i guess, still an apology would of been nice if they could of. i understand sometimes it isnt easy though as cats wander the neighbourhood and you cant knock on everyones door.... hope your cat is ok linelle

i dont know if i would..... if i was driving at night with the kids in the car and i hit a cat i prob would keep going. poss i might move the cat off the road and call someone (not sure who - the police?) but as to canvas the neighbourhood to find the owner - no.
if i hit a dog i would prob do the same.

One of our cats has been run over twice and no one came to tell us about it..

I stop along side the road quite often when I see an animal lying down to make sure if it is really dead or not. I dont care who or what it is. (okay lying. I am terrified of snakes so dont go near them.)

Must say had no need to stop in NZ yet.

I think it is so irresponsible not to stop. Why or how could you leave a living thing in the middle of the road or even to the side, and not care about how much pain that animal is going through. A quick call to the SPCA is all it takes.

When our cat got killed the lady knocked on our door after asking a neighbor and she was in tears and was so apologetic, I felt so bad for her we actually brought her some flowers a couple of days later to say no hard feelings.

I hope your cat's ok!

oh linelle i hope your cat is ok!!!?

my darling pusspuss was hit and killed a couple of years ago while i was in nelson. the person that hit her didn't stop but she was found by another lady who gave us a call to tell us where she was.
if i hit an animal, i would definately stop because that's what i'd hope someone would do if it was my pets!

If you rang the police they would probably laugh at you - better to ring the SPCA. I would and always have stopped for animals, whether they have already been in an accident or are just playing "chicken" with the traffic. When I was still at uni, I found three cats on the road in the space of a month in my old neighborhood, none of whom anyone had stopped for... was completely heartbreaking to have to tell the owners.

Hope your cat pulls through Linelle

I lost my own cat from being hit by a car she came home with mega internal injuries and ended up going back to where she was hit and dying i was sooo heartbroken!

Mum has lost heaps of cats to cars and not ONE has fronted up!

Am so sorry to hear about your little cat - I hope that they are okay. This must be awful. I cant imagine how I would feel if one of my fur-babies was hit by a car.

I had an awful experience about a month ago, I had my 2 year old nephew in the car, and we hit a cat - it bolted out straight in front of me, and I tried to stop, but if I had swerved I would have hit on-coming traffic and with my nephew in the car I couldnt take that risk. I was DEVASTED, the poor little thing was dead, (I think it died instantly - for the record I WASNT speeding, I was only going 45, and it was a very busy road) I moved it to the side of the road, and then got my nephew out of the car and started knocking on doors looking for the owners. I was in tears, my nephew was starting to get distressed about me being upset so I only managed to get to 4 or 5 houses, no-one was home in any of them and I didnt know what else to do. I felt so awful, and DH had to calm me down on the phone. If the cat had been injured and still alive I would have taken it straight to the local vets, but as it wasnt I didnt know what to do, so just made sure it was off the road and left it there. I still feel really guilty about it and think I should have done something else - and in hindsight I prob should have rang the local vets and told them, or put an ad in the local paper.