RIP little cat. What should I have done??

[Christine (Blip)]

This is the worst circumstance but without veterinary knowledge and equipment, there is nothing you could have done beyond what you did    Moving a dying animal will only add to his distress 

[Janeyk]

How awful for you, you did what could at the time please don't reproach yourself 

RIP sweet little one xx

[Lesley Frankie]

Thanks Gill, I know it would have died but I feel awful to have left it when we went for help but I didn't want to move it again and cause it more pain. Aren't some people horrible, the ones who hit it must have known and did nothing.

[Gill (sneakiefeline)]

I think you did as much as you could and even if you had been able to put the little cat in the car and drive to a vet , it would have died on the way there. 

I dont know if this cat had any identity or whether it could be scanned for a chip so its owners fould be told, or maybe put a poster up near the place it was found and bury the poor little one.

RIP Little Cat

[Lesley Frankie]

Today as we were driving to a friend's house for lunch, we found a little cat in the middle of the road, obviously hit by a car. I assumed he was dead and wanted just to move him out of the road but I realised he was alive but very badly injured. This is rural France on a Sunday, no vets anywhere. I didn't have a clue how to help the poor soul so we left him off the road and rushed to our friends, just a few minutes away in the hope that we could locate a vet. No luck with a vet so my husband and a friend returned to the cat, but he had already died. In my opinion there would have been nothing a vet could have done to save him but I feel awful that the little mite died alone and in pain. What should I have done? Is there anything I could carry with me to at least help with pain and/or sedation in such a situation?