Calls to make drivers report hitting a cat law
Currently, drivers only have to report hitting dogs, horses, cows, asses, mules, sheep, pigs or goats.
Dr Nichola Lloyd, who lost two cats after being hit by cars, said it was "completely bonkers" that collisions with cats did not need to be reported.
Jersey became the first place in the British Isles to make it law to report a collision with a cat, carrying a fine of £10,000.
Dr Lloyd lost her cat Freddie in 2024 after he was hit by a vehicle outside her home.
"It was awful, we'd only had Freddie around a year. We'd just got married about two weeks before and we were settling into a new house.
"I wasn't lucky enough to have children so my cats are my children, it was like losing a member of the family. I still really miss him."
Dr Lloyd has joined in the calls to update the law to make reporting a collision with a cat a legal responsibility.
"I was looking up and a cat doesn't come under the definition of an animal under the Road Traffic [Ordinance]," she said.
"You've got to stop for a lot of things, I appreciate that cats being cats are possibly more likely to be run over than other animals, but that doesn't make them any less an animal."
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Steve Byrne, manager at animal charity GSPCA, said volunteers saw around 200 - 300 incidents of cats being run over every year.
"If they aren't reported quickly then obviously you've got a potentially suffering animal in the road and you'll have a very worried owner not knowing where the animal is," he said
Mr Byrne said one of the challenges the charity faces is reuniting injured and dead cats with their owner.
"Sadly, only about 80% of cats are microchipped so there is a good portion of these cats that sometimes you've got no identification to try and find the owner.
Kayleigh Mills started an online petition after she witnessed a cat get hit by a car on her road in St Peter Port.
"There are constantly posts on social media saying, 'my cat has been hit in this road, my cat's been hit in that road', and I just think that it is about time people reported it," she said.
"If you hit a horse or a pig or a goat, you have to report it, but for cats it doesn't feel like a priority."
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