Closed petition Require drivers to report hitting a cat, and scans for cats hit by a car
Make it a legal requirement for drivers to report when a cat has been hit in a road traffic accident. The police or relevant local authority should then be required to ensure that any cats hit by a car is scanned for a microchip in order to inform their owner, before the cat is disposed of.
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The Government need to have this law in place in order to ensure that these incidents are reported, and to help grieving owners and to give a family some closure when their pet is missing. There should be consequences in place for those who don't stop and or don't report the accident such as a large fine. Scanning for microchip must also be a legal requirement in order to help families have closure which can benefit mental health.
This petition is closed All petitions run for 6 months
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Share your views on whether drivers should have to report collisions with cats
The MPs on the Petitions Committee have scheduled a debate on a petition calling for cats to be included in Section 170 of the Road Traffic Act 1988, which you have signed. The change requested by this petition would mean that drivers would be legally required to report a collision with a cat to the police, as is currently the case for dogs.
Share your views
Martyn Day MP, a member of the Petitions Committee, has been asked to open the debate. To inform the debate, he would like to hear your views on this issue, including your experiences if you have lost a cat in a road traffic accident. He'd like to know whether the proposed changes could have lessened the impact of losing your cat.
You can share your views with Martyn by completing this survey: https://www.smartsurvey.co.uk/s/MNMMVV/
The survey will close on 7 November at 4.30pm.
Your responses will be anonymous. A summary of responses will be published on the Committee's website, and may be shared with MPs and your responses may be quoted directly during the debate.
Watch the debate
The debate will be held on Monday 28 November at 4.30pm.
- Watch the debate on Parliament TV (from 4.30pm on Monday 28 November)
- Read a transcript of the debate (available a few hours after the debate happens)
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