Posted on 09/01/2009 9:57:40 AM PDT by JoeProBono
"...Someone out there owes us an explanation. Someone not human enough to stop Sunday evening after they ran over my cat not three yards from my driveway.
Thankfully, the cat didn't suffer. As I gently scooped my orange-furred pal off the road, I wondered what kind of person drives away after killing a member of my family.
His name was Doctor. I'm not a cat person, but if you knew Doctor, you didn't have much of a choice. He threw himself at you until you had no recourse but to love him. His eyes were slightly crossed and he drooled when pet more than 30 seconds. There were times I went outside at night to commiserate with him, when he was the only living thing willing to listen to my problems. The raccoons just hiss at me.
At the very least, his killer could have summed the courage to come to the front door and explained why they couldn't evade a slow, 10-year-old cat who was three-quarters the way across the street....
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LOLOLOLOLOLOL!
A call to 911 in my area will summon an officer for animal dispatch. It has the potential to cause further accidents.
I have three housecats who were a great comfort to me when my late wife died. And I have a herd that I feed and care for that are feral to the area ...
But that's still funny ... I don't care who you are ...
LOL & Crying!!!
Poor kitty.
I’m glad you have a sense of humor. I’m not really THAT mean. 8d nails would suffice. ;-)
Oh, I am so sorry for your loss. May Doctor rest in peace. I hope Justice is served for Doctor./Just Asking - seoul62......
How about the stapler taht I carry in my office supplies?
If I hit a cat, dog, demoCAT, etc., I am not stopping to search for the possibly insane owner (Ahem...cat owners? Nuff said) so they can cry to me, yell at me, jump me, shoot me, etc. If you have a cat, live by a road, and let them run about the neighborhood know that your cat is at risk of ending up under someone’s tire.
I don’t blame the person for not stopping.
People who bitch about cats killing birds are slightly silly(I hesitate to use the word idiot, perhaps because it is used so much on FR). Birds are wild, they take their chances. There has never been a bird species that has become extinct because of feral cats. They catch rodents far more frequently than birds.
I have to species in my area I wish the cats would take down, black birds, both red wing and ordinary, and Canada geese.
I have two cats, I love them so I let them roam at certain periods of the day. If you cat cooped up all the time you don't love them much, cats are made to roam, that is what they are born for and most of them pine for the outside.
Keeping a cat, or dog for that matter, cooped up all the time is animal abuse, IMO.
I accept the risk that one of my two cats may become road kill, that is the price I pay for allowing them to be their own cat for about 3 hours every night. I also don't declaw my cats, what a terrible thing to do to a cat!
People who confine their pets trying to keep them safe are analogous to people who want to wrap their children in plastic. When I was young we were allowed to roam because we had to learn about taking risks and how to survive in life, adults knew that then, they don't now, and because of that we have a generations of children who will never grow up and will want mommy and daddy to take care of them(in the form of the government)for ever.
People who confine pets are doing the same thing, trading a somewhat free existence for safety. No thanks, and when my cats die I know they will have lived a full life, regardless of how they go, and I won't condemn anyone if they happen to run over them, as long as it is an accident. I have seen people deliberately run down a couple cats just because they thought it was great fun.
I’m sorry for your loss, but I’ve taught all three of my now grown kids to NEVER swerve if an animal jumps out in front of their car. Never swerve, brake if you can, and if you can’t brake, grip the steering wheel tight and keep it under control as you flatten the animal. One little bobble to the left and you can cross the center line and hit an oncoming vehicle head on. One little swerve to the right and you can end up like an elderly church friend did yesterday trying to miss a dog, go off the shoulder, roll it twice and total your vehicle. Luckily they survived with bumps and bruises, but it wasn’t worth missing the animal in the road.
"Accidents happen."
Pinned a note to the cat!!!!!
Mike Gallagher told a story on his radio show about how he’d stopped in the middle of a multilane freeway to rescue a dog that was in the traffic. The dog got in the car, he didn’t get hit and there wasn’t an accident of those swerving around him.
He was grateful there was no injury. He said that the dog looked up at him with yadayada eyes.
And then he told about how this dog was up for adoption.
He endangered everyone on the road to rescue that animal. He went on about how the dog seemed grateful. And then he rejected the dog.
Way to go, Mike. Way to go.
The insurance guy heard the story and said, "If you hit a deer and do this kind of damage, we pay you right away. It's not your fault, OK? However, if you take it upon yourself to drive your car into a tree, then things don't look so good for you. All we see is that this is your fault."
Back in North Dakota when I was a Deputy Crew Commander My Commander and I were traveling back to base from E-0 around noontime. A Caprice Classic blew past us like we were standing still and up ahead I saw a small herd of Whitetail in a farm field.
I pointed to my Commander and told him to watch as a young buck ran from the pack, into the road and was hit by the Caprice. The deer flew about eight feet into the air and landed on the shoulder, still alive but unable to stand.
We stopped, assessed the situation, called the base for them to call the locals and then I took my Swiss Army knife, opened the razor sharp saw blade, then grabbed the antlers and cut the jugular vein.
Put the wounded deer down in about a minute. No more suffering.
Of course, if I did that in MA they'd arrest me for hunting without a license. ;)
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