Giving: £50.00
Location: United Kingdom
Donation of £50.00 to CatsMatter, including the purchase of 2 x window stickers.
It started with a cat named Henry. In the early hours of April 29th, 2017 Henry was struck by a vehicle and left to die alone in the night. Born through the pain of his loss, the CatsMatter co-founder determined that it was time to change not only the way that people drive around cats, but also how they react when they do hit one. It is with Henry’s story they hope to create a better level of awareness amongst all drivers, with the ultimate goal of saving cats lives everywhere.
I have been impressed with the level of activism, proactivity and knowledge-sharing of this grass-roots organisation. I hope my donation will go towards funding their online activity to spread awareness of how to deal with a cat hit by a car, and ultimately I hope many more families receive closure as a result.
I leave an excerpt from Henry’s story below:
His name was Henry. But then, if you had stopped to help him, you would have known that from the tags on his collar.
I don’t know whether it was his fault because he simply spooked and jumped out in front of you leaving no time to stop, or whether you were going too fast. The vet who did the post-mortem said you were…and that you knew you hit him. Is that true? We’re you being reckless? Maybe you were drunk? There are a lot of things I don’t know about his end, because you just left him. Only you and Henry know what happened that tragic night.
What I do know is that an integral member of our family bled out from internal injuries alone in the night, without anyone there to comfort him as he left this world; and that’s a heart-wrenching picture that I will never be able to erase from my mind, and you shouldn’t get to either. I didn’t have the chance to hold him as he left this world and say a final goodbye, because you left him there to die like he was nothing. Like he meant nothing.
But he meant everything. Read more…
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