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Woman upset at disposal fee for dead cat
Lancashire Evening Post ^ | Mar 6 2010 | Chris Visser

Posted on 03/09/2010 5:47:38 AM PST by Daffynition

A Good Samaritan who took a dead cat to the vet was left angry after being asked to pay a "disposal" fee. Deepdale trainee solicitor Sara-Jayne Pritt, of Isherwood Street, found the animal lying on the side of the pavement in nearby Skeffington Road on Thursday, February 25.

But instead of ignoring the cat's corpse, she picked it up and followed advice to take it to the nearest vet.

Because she was working, the 25-year-old asked her sister Gemma Pritt and dad David Pritt to take the cat to Vets4Pets in Moor Lane.

But she says that after the vet discovered the animal was not microchipped and the owner could not be located, he demanded a disposal fee of £12 from her family, which was later reduced to £5, with the vet insisting the pair take the dead animal home with them if it was not paid.

Mr Pritt paid the fee but his solicitor daughter wrote a letter to Vets4Pets complaining at the charge.

She wrote: "For my family to involve themselves in such an honourable deed to find themselves being asked for a £5 disposal fee when the cat did not belong to us is disgraceful – but to be told that if she didn't pay the fee she would have to take the dead cat away with her is absolutely disgusting.

"It is not surprising that people walk on by and leave suffering and deceased animals by the roadside if they think they are going to be accountable for the fee and the charge involved."

She told the Evening Post: "I was so angry. I was really shocked with what happened and find it disgusting. I should not be charged for being a Good Samaritan and taking the animal to the vet."

Miss Pritt, who owns six cats herself, was also shocked that no-one in Deepdale had reacted to the deceased cat sooner.

She said: "The cat was stiff – it had been there for a long time. People had walked by it and were walking in the road.

"When I was stood there with the cat, crying my eyes out – and it wasn't even my cat – people didn't even acknowledge me."

She was given advice to take the cat to the vet by a surgeon who operated on one of her own cats, who was also found lying in Skeffington Road after being hit by a car last year.

Miss Pritt called the surgeon, who used to work at the Vets4Pets surgery, about the dead cat and he advised her to take it to his former surgery so the animal could be identified, if it was microchipped, and disposed of safely.

A Preston Council spokesman said she could have called the authority to have the animal removed for free.

He said: "If the council receives a call about a dead animal on the highway the street cleansing team will deal with this as part of their work.

"So yes, if she had called us it would have been removed at no cost to her."

Despite repeated attempts to contact them, Vets4Pets were unavailable for comment.


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Pets/Animals
KEYWORDS: cat; deadcat
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1 posted on 03/09/2010 5:47:38 AM PST by Daffynition
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To: Daffynition

Send the bill to PETA.


2 posted on 03/09/2010 5:49:17 AM PST by Loud Mime (Liberalism is a Socialist Disease)
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To: Daffynition

Sounds like a fair price.


3 posted on 03/09/2010 5:49:46 AM PST by stuartcr (Everything happens as God wants it to...otherwise, things would be different)
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To: Daffynition

File it under “No good deed goes unpunished!”


4 posted on 03/09/2010 5:51:22 AM PST by ConorMacNessa (HM/2 USN, 3/5 Marines, RVN '69 - St. Michael the Archangel, defend us in battle!)
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To: Daffynition

If I were her dad, I would have left the office and carefully laid the deceased cat upon the threshold of his office door.


5 posted on 03/09/2010 5:54:01 AM PST by Anitius Severinus Boethius
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To: Daffynition
She could have just given it away...

6 posted on 03/09/2010 5:54:04 AM PST by TSgt (RE-ELECT NOBODY - VOTE THEM ALL OUT!)
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To: Daffynition
A Preston Council spokesman said she could have called the authority to have the animal removed for free.

..but she would not have made the news

7 posted on 03/09/2010 5:54:23 AM PST by Doogle (USAF.68-73..8th TFW Ubon Thailand..never store a threat you should have eliminated)
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To: ConorMacNessa

I guess they will now find dead cats on the doorstep after the dead of night.


8 posted on 03/09/2010 5:54:29 AM PST by RebelTXRose
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To: Daffynition

Sheesh, take it to Hunan Palace and make a buck.


9 posted on 03/09/2010 5:55:56 AM PST by Tijeras_Slim (Live jubtabulously!)
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To: ConorMacNessa
Do-gooders are usually the ones who advocate fees and fines to create their utopia.
I remember a while back some residents were asked about an outrageous tax
and even though they didn't like it, went along with it.

It's the citizens who are screwing themselves.

10 posted on 03/09/2010 5:56:28 AM PST by MaxMax (Conservatism isn't a party)
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To: Daffynition

11 posted on 03/09/2010 5:58:14 AM PST by JoeProBono (A closed mouth gathers no feet)
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To: Loud Mime

Where’s that chef in SF when you need him? ;-)


12 posted on 03/09/2010 5:58:49 AM PST by red tie
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To: Daffynition
Free Cat


13 posted on 03/09/2010 6:00:19 AM PST by VastRWCon (Drill Baby Drill - Sarah Palin 2012)
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To: RebelTXRose
I guess they will now find dead cats on the doorstep after the dead of night.

You are dead right.

14 posted on 03/09/2010 6:01:11 AM PST by mlocher (USA is a sovereign nation)
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To: mlocher

What happened to the “Cat Detector Van”?


15 posted on 03/09/2010 6:03:35 AM PST by massgopguy (I owe everything to George Bailey)
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To: Daffynition

What’d the cat look like?

Flat.

No no before he was run over.

Surprised.


16 posted on 03/09/2010 6:04:54 AM PST by DManA
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To: JoeProBono

I’m a doctor, not a cat embalmer.


17 posted on 03/09/2010 6:05:47 AM PST by DManA
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To: massgopguy

I guess it died.


18 posted on 03/09/2010 6:07:16 AM PST by mlocher (USA is a sovereign nation)
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To: MikeWUSAF
LOL ....I wanted to post that image but I refrained since it's breakfast time ...thanks for doing it for me! Have I become PC?.............ARGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!


19 posted on 03/09/2010 6:09:16 AM PST by Daffynition (What's all this about hellfire and Dalmatians?)
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To: stuartcr

“When I was stood there with the cat, crying my eyes out – and it wasn’t even my cat – people didn’t even acknowledge me.””

No one paid attention to MEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!
(wahhhh, sniffle, snort)


20 posted on 03/09/2010 6:09:33 AM PST by mdmathis6
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