They really shouldn't post before their medication kicks in.
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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The cats that I’ve seen hit have dived in front of oncoming cars. Same as squirrels. I’ve seen some animals get 3/4 across a street and then get hit as they dart back.
See? Cat owners!
That cat has it paw on the trigger with no target—bad kitty!
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My brother who is our insurance agent has made that point to us many many times. Thanks for mentioning it.
They really shouldn't post before their medication kicks in.
al qaeda suicide cats....also deer, waiting for an unsuspecting American to come along; then “allah akbar” and whamo! Another infidel down..
blackbirds and canada geese don’t have much to fear
esp from cats. there are some bird species that beotchslap cats (mockingbirds for one).
But they do take out far too many of the smaller birds
and thats a reason why cats should be indoors.
Half-way across in two seconds. Flat.
Wow. Your cats are people, and you can read their minds. I’m impressed.
The late Muffin was a drooler. He did love getting pets and tummy rubs.
Hey Tony Hicks,
You set in motion the circumstances that resulted in your cat dying. Don’t you accept your responsibility for letting the cat roam free to dart in and out of traffic? Even 10 year old cats can move quickly when frightened.
And you don’t even consider the very real possibility that the driver never knew s/he had run over the cat.
You are a self-absorbed idiot. If you get a replacement cat, keep the bugger indoors.
As a young kid, someone, as I stood by and watched, ran off the road to hit my dog. That changed my life in many ways. I think it is why I love animals so much and tend to go out of my way for them much quicker than I do humans. God gave us pets, and all animals, for more than food. How we treat an animals is a direct reflection of our true souls.
I encourage cat owners to let their pets run loose and unsupervised from their homes. They get hit by cars, attacked by dogs, get abscesses from fighting other cats, get diseases from other cats, get poisoned, get diseases from birds and mice, and suffer many other maladies. Its good for business. I make my living off irresponsible animal owners.
That’s funny??????? Question’s rhetorical since I’m sure you’ll say yes, and in that case-——sick sense of humor!
Most people fence their yards for their dogs. Don’t put try to put one over on people that cooping pets up is inhumane. Only a small percentage of pet owners neglect their pets. Remember, these are DOMESTICATED animals and they are not needing 24/7 open country to roam. Now go ahead and let your cats roam at will, messing with people’s yards, sandboxes, upsetting dogs in fenced yards so the whole neighborhood is blaming the dog for barking but it is because your darn cat is trappsing across HIS yard. As far as birds; city birds have lost a lot of fear because people are feeding them and they do not have anywhere near the predators stalking them that they have in the wild. A house cat can easily destroy nests filled with young birds and you would never know, other than to think your cat has lost it’s appetite for some reason.... Keep your CAT ON A LEASH!!!
It was funny in its casualness...it caught me off guard.
I’m sorry to say I witnessed an auto/cat accident. The cat was running to cross the street just as a car came by. The cat flew into the car and broke it’s neck. The driver never knew he/she and the cat collided. It was so sad. I did go tell the owner what happened so they wouldn’t have to go through the pain of not knowing.
So you don’t give a crap about the humans who will be heartbroken over the loss of their pet? Stopping to say “I’m sorry, it was an accident” can help ease their pain. My niece’s little dog was run over when it escaped the house on a rainy night, and it meant a lot to her and the rest of the family when the woman who had hit the dog came by the next day to apologize (after trying another house and being told where the dog’s home had been) — she explained she just hadn’t seen the little black dog until it was too late, and had stopped long enough to ensure that it was dead and couldn’t benefit from any help, but due to the late hour and weather, decided to wait until the next day to find the owners and apologize.
I’ve never hit a cat (or any animal) in 32 years of driving, and quite likely for the same reasons, I haven’t hit any humans either — I make a serious effort not to. I don’t speed, I don’t drive when I’m too tired to drive safely, I don’t engage in distracting behaviors like animated conversations or texting/e-mailing/talking on the phone while driving, and lo and behold, I don’t run into things.
When I come upon a pet it the road that’s obviously been hit very recently, if it’s at all safe to do so, I stop and get out of the car, move the body just beyond the edge of the road to avoid further mangling (and if the mangling is only on one side, I put lay it down with the “good” side up). If it’s not at an unreasonable hour, I knock on the door of the nearest home to ask if anyone knows who the pet belonged to. In one case, the neighbor whose door I knocked on knew immediately whose it was, and knew that there was grade-school aged child in the family. No one was home at the pet’s former residence, so the neighbor agreed to let me put the pet under a bush in the front of HER yard, and tell the adults herself, so that the child wouldn’t come upon the cat with the crushed head and eye popped out, on his or her way home from school later on. The cat went quickly, and there was nothing to be done for the cat, but there plenty to be done for the *people*.
>>So you don’t give a crap about the humans who will be heartbroken over the loss of their pet? Stopping to say “I’m sorry, it was an accident” can help ease their pain.<<
Think of it as “tough love”.
Yes, I do care about the humans. I actually learned that when I hit a golden lab while I was driving, of all things, a church bus. I didn’t hit it. I ran over it - both axles.
I was heartbroken for the owner who responded as though she just lost her husband. The dog was just so much meat.
But some people feel the same about their car or motorcycle.
My feelings are not for the animal. They are for the owner. And it can be good that they learn the value of animals and put it in the correct perspective.
>>My niece’s little dog was run over when it escaped the house on a rainy night, and it meant a lot to her and the rest of the family when the woman who had hit the dog...<<
For some reason I feel completely different about dogs than cats. I WOULD try to find a dogs owner. Cats I see as somewhat domesticated squirrels. They are nowhere near as communal as dogs. To my dog I am an alpha dog. To my cat I am a source of food.
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