There's loads of cats out where I live and almost every house has 1 or more due to mice and snakes as well as none of them being neutered so breeding goes relatively unchecked.

So there's some background info to put my question into perspective.

What I want to know from you cat lovers is, what it is about cats that makes them wait at the side of the road until the very last nano second and then dart across in front of the car, as I quite regularly almost run them over, mostly at night but it happens in the daytime too.

Is it something to do with their vision.

 

They're vision close up is a actually poor IIRC, they're far away vision is seemingly quite good.

 

could be the noise

 

Perhaps they're gambling amongst themselves, so far they've all won. Maybe you need to run one over and see if they lose their bottle.

 

I thought I was about to last night but it somehow managed to go under the car and not get caught by the wheels, I was only doing maybe 10mph as it's a spot that's 3m wide between 2 houses where they seem to congregate.

 

Where do you live that you have problems with snakes? lol

 

London and they all vote Tory!

 

Rural Croatia, the snakes come around to feed on the mice etc, one in particular is pretty nasty if you get bitten (Nose Horned Viper) I have had a couple of close calls whilst out picking wild asparagus.

I won't have a cat because they upset the balance of nature here IMO and I don't need one as I have Western whip snakes which are much more efficient at getting to where the mice live and also eat the Nose Horned vipers, I also don't like flies and mosquitos but the frogs, birds, bats and lizards take care of them, if I had a cat it would kill everything that moves on the ground and leave me with all manner of flying insects and Nose horned Vipers like most of my neighbours.

 

We get the Western Whip snakes in France too..........biggest b*gger I ever saw was over two metres and about 4" thick in the middle.

Dunno which of us moved fastest when we saw each other.......

 

Never mind cat's vision, I think they make me think that I have 20/20 vision!

We have loads of cats in our village and nearby town and other villages. Welsh and English peeps who live here absolutely love cats and dogs! So whenever I'm driving around and inside those places at night, I'm able to spot a cat from quite a distance, and their amazing eyes reflect light so well!

I remember some rockers from the rock club wearing lenses like cat's eyes. Quite cool on cats, freaky on humans.

In Cat Diaries TV programme, it was said that a cat has 6 times more powerful vision than that of a human.

 

I've got a big one out here that used to live under my stairs until I knocked them down, about 2m long was fun on the few occasions we met at the bottom and scared the living **** out of each other, he's round the back of my garage these days, even ***** the dog up some times. they're one of the fastest moving snakes and they don't half shift, good thing they are shy, but apparently you can train them to stay in one place with milk, then they don't peg it when they see you as they become use to you.

 

Seen those contact lenses and they are very freaky.

So it's nothing to do with bad eyesight then.

 

I know! A few rockers friends of mine wore them, but one in particular, who wasn't a friend but just a regular, had this whole mysterious image thing going. He wore one glass eye and one cat's eye. Obviously black clothes under his black cloak. He had long salt n' peppa hair touching his bum. He wasn't very tall, and walked with a limp, and with the support of a walking stick in his left hand. He NEVER smiled. He just stood at one spot and stared at you if you were dancing or whatever. Very creepy yet theatrical, as it gave me some ideas for my theatre show.

 

Try going faster. That should stop the buggers upsetting the balance of nature

 

Cats are lovely. They are great friends to humans. They should be respected, cuddled and cared for.

Yes, they sit in the middle of the road like some daft fluffy binters sometimes, but you can always beep, and they run off. That's all you need to do.

 

Only bad within a foot or so.

I have noticed they wait til the last minute though. They must think a car is a predator and it might not see them if they stay still but when the car gets closer the cat flees.

My 27lb cat doesn't move for anything.

 

Unless the fridge door is getting opened