Hi community,

I feel awful writing this but a cat ran out right in front of my car on North Cove road just before Forbes (traveling south) at around 6:30 this morning. There was absolutely nothing I could do about it. It ran under my car and I felt a slight impact. The cat must have continued across the road into the lower Burchell hill area because I didn’t see in my rear view. It shocked me. I didn’t stop right away because I was picking up Chad but came back around 2 minutes later, no sign of it. Both Chad and I have leg/foot injuries and I didn’t have the right shoes to go off the road and into the forest to look.

It was so fast and I didn’t get a good look at the cat. It was mid sized and dark in colour but not black, maybe a dark grey tortoise shell/medium length fur. I feel terrible, and it’s hard to share this publicly but I know if it was my fur baby I would hope someone would speak up.

With sadness,
Steph Cottell
stephanie.cottell@gmail.com