Canonbury Cat

I turned into my road this evening at the end of my journey home from work. A car was on my tail close behind. Suddenly a black and white cat sprang out from between two parked cars immediately in front of me. I was too close and the car behind too near for me to consider braking suddenly. I hoped it would avoid me. It didn't. I hit it and felt the bumps as first my front wheel and then my rear wheel ran over it. I slowed and allowed the car to pass. I half expected the car to stop but it didn't. I did a U-turn and looked in the road for a feline corpse or at least a trail of blood. There was none. Someone was sitting on a garden wall filling in a form on a clip board. I asked if he had seen a cat. He pointed to a brown one nearby. That was not the one. A young woman on the other side of the street then said that the black and white cat had dashed away as though it had had the mother of all frights. She pointed towards a garden. No blood. No sign of the cat. I rode the last few yards home and inspected my tyres and wheels. No sign of any damage.

If only pedestrians were like cats.

Cats always seem to double back on themselves when confronted with on coming traffic when crossing the road which seems to increase their chances of being hit.If they are badly hurt but can still move they will always hide away to lick wounds or die.
I ran over a hedgehog one evening. Did'nt see it until it was too late and i felt both wheels go over it.I did aa U-turn when up to it and the poor thing did'nt move for ages.Then it started to get up and casually walk across the road.Did'nt even get a puncture!

Don't think a cat could survive that. Poor bugger.

oh dear,, is there anyway of blocking the bendix from seeing this thread?

why not go back to the neighbourhood and knock on a couple of doors and say what happened?

why not go back to the neighbourhood and knock on a couple of doors and say what happened?

the rage would take over and he'd end up having another go

I think cats run and hide after they have been hurt. A friend of mine ran over a cat in his garage (which was sleeping under one of his car wheels). He saw the cat leg it so assumed it was ok until he went outside and saw it further down the road totally FUBAR.

Sorry Clive =[, you can always hope that it escaped injury though.

Cats are pretty resilient. I remember ours bein stuck almost flat under our garage door at home with tongue sticking out. They have softer bones than people-folk I think.

Anyway, she was fine.

cats are pretty tough. most animals are. i once saw a lamb that had been stuck under a heavy metal gate for hours. it's pelvis was totally spatchcocked. lifted the gate off it, thinking it would be paralysed. picked it up, then put it down expecting it to collapse. it woddled for the first few steps, shook itself then ran off. totally fine.

so hopefully the cat is just bruised....

The dog that got run over in the video shot of the bike race - someone find and link it please - got up and walked away so it should be OK.

Edit - just remembered your pic on Will's poster - RIP kittie

The dog that got run over in the video shot of the bike race - someone find and link it please - got up and walked away so it should be OK.

Edit - just remembered your pic on Will's poster - RIP kittie

Ha-fucking-ha ;o)

I ran over a hedgehog one evening. Did'nt see it until it was too late and i felt both wheels go over it.I did aa U-turn when up to it and the poor thing did'nt move for ages.Then it started to get up and casually walk across the road.Did'nt even get a puncture!

I nearly ran over a hedgehog too once. I really didn't want it to get run over by someone else but didn't really know what to do. I was tempted to pick it up but settled for just willing it across the road while watching out for cars. It got 2/3rds of the way to freedom when teenage chav on a scooter bombed up the road. I pointed out the hedgehog but instead of avoiding it he purposely aimed for it and sent it flying to hog heaven :(

My resulting rage was so extreme I am actually really glad I didn't have the speed to catch up with the chav..

When I was a teenager I was riding home one night with my useless Ever Ready front light dimly illuminating a patch of road the size of a 5p piece in front of me. Just as I came to our drive, our cat appeared briefly in the gloom and stopped dead. I ran the poor thing over with my front wheel and thought I'd killed the poor bastard. As I was looking for the corpse, he gave me the fright of my life by bumping his head against the back of my leg, seeking attention. My breeches (I was a teenager long time ago) were damn near filled.

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my useless Ever Ready front light dimly illuminating a patch of road the size of a 5p piece in front of me

I had one of those too. Maybe we should source some, and do an Ever Ready TNRC. It would be 2009's extreme sport par excellence.

Can we keep this thread on topic please - Cliveo is a cat killer and is only too happy to boast about it.

Lock up your kitties everybody!

Cliveocats.

Cliveocats.

Clive1cats0

Will is not going to like tis.

Will is not going to like tis.

'tis'?

Who stole my H?
should read this.

Who stole my H?
should read this.

I am not Pete Doherty.

Who stole my H?

Let's see, you're on the Island, where the prison is full of scousers who have been attempting to push smack. I think I can guess who stole your H...
Was it Andy Kershaw?

Andy Kershaw is the yellow, wellied warrior.

We have a new prison, the facilities are better than most of the schools. This makes me sad.
http://www.gov.im/dha/prison/newprison.xml

I nearly ran over a rabbit on the way to Stonehenge on Saturday evening. It was sitting right by the kerb on the A418 and just as I saw it, about two feet ahead and slightly to the left of my front wheel, it darted out and immediately back again. It was very fast but only escaped with centimetres to spare.