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Rejected petition: Make it an offence to run over a cat and not report it.

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Allow cats to have the same rights in law as reporting a hit and run scenario concerning a dog.

All animals deserve to be treated equally and cats are beloved pets to human owners as are dogs.
There should be a legal right for cats to be recognised in the same manner.


Why was this petition rejected?

There’s already a petition about this issue. We cannot accept a new petition when we already have one about a very similar issue.

You are more likely to get action on this issue if you sign and share a single petition.

You may wish to sign the following petition, which calls for similar action:

Require drivers to stop and take cats to the vets if they hit them in their car
https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/728011

We only reject petitions that don’t meet the petition standards.