Submitted on Saturday 7th March 2020
Rejected on Thursday 12th March 2020
Current status: Rejected
Rejection code: duplicate (see below for details)
Make car accidents involving cats a reportable offence
There are 10.9 million cats in the UK. 230,000 of these will be hit by cars annually. 25% of incidents will prove fatal, meaning 75% will rely on drivers seeking help for them if they are to survive. Cats are important, loved and valued family members to many owners and the law should reflect this.
Cats and dogs are different species, and should be treated as such. Tacking cats to legislation already in place for dogs would not be feasible. DEFRA are in receipt of the alternative avenues for cats, which we would like to be considered further. An offence would not necessarily be the nature of the driving, but the failure to report incidents. Asking drivers be made responsible for seeking help for an injured cat should be a perfectly reasonable ask in this so called animal loving nation.
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The Government e-Petitions Team gave the following reason:
There's already a petition about this issue. We cannot accept a new petition when we already have one about a very similar issue.
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We think it's similar to this petition -
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/300310
If you would like something different, for example not amending the Road Traffic Act, you'll need to explain why in the petition.
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