I WAS driving home from work on October 31 along Station Road in Westbury near Ross Hillman, when I saw a cat being knocked over by a moped-type motorbike.

The cat was obviously hurt. He was arched in pain and so frightened when he hopped very awkwardly down a dark alleyway. The motorbike did not stop and he knew he had hit him as he was not going very fast at all and the area in which it happened was lit up.

I pulled over and parked my car peering down this alleyway in the hope of finding the poor animal. I knocked at the house which was nearest to the direction he went, but of course what a night to be knocking at doors (Trick and Treat).

Eventually the lady in the house answered. It was not her cat as she first thought, but said she and her husband would kindly look for it.

I came away feeling worried and upset, helpless to help the cat which obviously needed urgent veterinary attention. I returned the next day but they had not been able to find him so I just prayed that he would have managed to get home where his owners would have taken him to a vet.

The reason I am putting this letter in the paper is, although unfortunately the law says you do not have to stop for a cat as you do a dog, to say how sickening that this person on the bike had no thought or conscience about this unfortunate animal's suffering.

So I just hope, mate, you are reading this and get your just desserts.

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