Hercules was present in Fitzroy Road, Primrose Hill
A GRIEVING cat proprietor has referred to as for harder penalties for drivers who kill pets and flee the scene after her cherished “purrbag” was killed in a hit-and-run.
Luisa Motta has been left “devastated and heartbroken” after her Hercules was fatally wounded in Fitzroy Road, Primrose Hill.
The 56-year-old stated she noticed two automobiles with hazard lights on subsequent to the dying cat, however they each drove away. Ms Motta, who lives within the Oldfield property, stated: “Maybe, he might have been saved? I’d have stopped. They will need to have heard the bang, he wasn’t a small cat.
“I hit a cat many years ago and I remember the bump. I remember thinking I had to make sure the cat was ok otherwise I couldn’t live with myself. But this person just ran off. It’s awful. It has killed me.”
She added: “He was my family, my baby – he was called King Hercules.”
Recalling the traumatic expertise, she stated: “I went to do the recycling and I saw two cars there with safety lights on flashing. I thought ‘what’s going on?’ I could see something on the floor. It was orange and I thought it was a fox. But as I got closer I realised it was not a fox it was my baby.”
Luisa Motta with Hercules
She added: “I actually saw my world flash by when I saw him. He had a blue collar, it was lying next to him. I screamed his name: Hercules!”
Ms Motta referred to as out for the drivers to attend as she rushed to get her neighbour who’s a nurse, however by the point she got here again they’d pushed away. Ms Motta rushed the cat to the vet however he was already useless.
“I got him ten years ago as a rescue cat and I loved him like he was my baby,” she stated. “Everyone in the estate where I live knew him. He became like a mascot for the Oldfield estate.”
She stated the Persian cat “loved sunbathing and he followed me like he was a dog”, including: “He liked to run up to the top of the trees. He was big and almighty, very suited to his name.”
Hercules
But Ms Motta added: “Now I cannot bear to stay at home, because I live alone. When I open the door he used to greet me. I cannot stay at home. I miss him terribly.”
In 2019, London Assembly Member Sian Berry additionally moved a movement calling on Mayor of London Sadiq Khan to make it necessary for useless cats to be scanned for microchips.
Ms Berry stated on the time: “Effectively cats have no more status than squirrels as far as most councils are concerned.” In 2023, a debate in Parliament was triggered after an earlier parliamentary petition reached greater than 100,000 signatures.
But the federal government stated: “The Government has no plans to make it an offence to drive off after hitting a cat. A focus for this government is to make roads safer for all users, which will in turn reduce the risk to all animals.”
The organiser of the petition shared by Ms Motta stated that their cat had been hit by a automotive that didn’t cease, and the driving force had left “our fur baby alone and lifeless on the side of the road”.
