I’ve run over several in my lifetime. I’ve never stopped. I don’t fully understand why I would.
Honestly, I don’t understand AT ALL why I would.
I’m with you. I don’t get it either.
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*.
I’ve run over several in my lifetime. I’ve never stopped. I don’t fully understand why I would.
Honestly, I don’t understand AT ALL why I would.”
Of course you don’t understand AT ALL why you would. And, running a few over is NOT the worst thing you’ve done to cats. Right?