Sad Sight on Morning Walk

[nancielle]

While taking Chloe out for her morning walk we encountered a very sad sight. One of "Little Houdini's" (aka Hunter aka Brat Cat...he figured out how to open the back door ages ago) buddies had had a run in with a car...and lost. His little body was still in the middle of the street and another neighborhood cat was sitting by his side, as if guarding it. A neighbor attempted to coax the surviving cat away from the body but he was having none of it. He stayed there until his friend was taken away.

[BleeckerSt_Girl]

Cats and car traffic don't mix. A sad story, too often repeated.

[solobiker]

That is so sad. I remember when I was young, about 8 yrs old my Grandparent's neighboors had two puppies, brother and sister if I remember right. One ran out into the road and got hit by a car then the other ran out to see if his sister was okay and got hit too.

[arielmoon]

There were 2 dead racoons in the the road near my house this morning and I wonder if something similar happened there too. Animals and vehicles are a bad mix for sure. I get really depressed when I hit a sqirrel.

[alpinerabbit]

I remember the sad figures of raccoons splayed out on the midline like little tiny jesuses... last time I drove in rural Louisiana.

[deeaimond]

Riding on the trunk roads in Malaysia its very common to see monkeys that have been run over. This ride back I saw an adult monkey, one baby monkey, a kitten, Many snakes, a huge monitor lizard and some u could not tell what they had been except for some fur and bones fused to the road.

I saw one where the monkey had just been run over and the other monkeys were crying in the nearby bushes...

[smilingcat]

It just makes me soo mad that some drivers will deliberately try to kill an animal/bird...

quick tap on the horn and/or a tap on the brake could spare so many of the creatures. I just don't understand the lust for killing. Yes some happen so fast that you can not avoid it but those you could, why not spend an extra 1/2 second or second... Makes me sad and mad.

In our rescue group, we have a cat who lost his tail from a car. He is such a sweet boy.

[badger]

a co-worker told me she had come across a bit of slow traffic. When she came near what others were avoiding turned out to be a racoon trying to drag his/her friend to the sidewalk after he/she was hit by a car (dead). I never cared much for racoons but when I heard that my heart broke.

I once saw a squirrel being hit by a car and had to pull over as it traumatized me. If I should ever hit an animal, I will be in really bad shape. And to think people purposely go out of their way to hit animals... makes me sick.

oh, and have any of you seen that clip (you can find it on youtube) of a dog in Mexico that got hit on a highway and out of nowhere another dog came in and dragged him to the side. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dgjyh...eature=related

[copperlegend]

I think animals 'feel' far more than we give them credit for sometimes. I live on a huge pond, and it's a daily occurrence a little after 5pm every day to see a line of cars on the busy main road, all stopped to let the geese (and baby geese in the spring!) cross the road. One day someone went around the stopped line of cars and plowed down 4 of them. I saw this from my kitchen window and started crying. Other drivers blared their horns at the horrible excuse for the human being, and the rest of the geese looked frantic. There's a special place in hell for people like that driver.

Also, I rarely see my dad (retired homicide investigator) cry, but one night he accidentally hit a bird with his truck and came home all sniffly. It almost never bothers him when dealing with the deaths of humans, but the death of an innocent animal ALWAYS upsets him. I'm the same way.

[channlluv]

My daughter and I drove cross-country a few weeks ago (and we're about to head back to San Diego this weekend) and on our way here we encountered three birds in three different states who flew into my antenna. The first was in Yuma, AZ, and it was part of a smallish flock that just seemed to be swarming in an disorganized manner over the Interstate. I swerved to miss one, and hit another as it swooped into our path. It was freaky. I know I caught its wing, but it flew on.

The next was in New Mexico, and it was a single bird flying across the highway right into my antenna again. We were amazed that it would happen again so soon - this was the next day from the incident in AZ.

A couple of days later (after a side trip to Carlsbad Caverns), near rural Pecos, TX, a small gray bird and a few others flew up from the grasses by the side of the highway and boomp, right into my antenna again.

I don't know what happened to the birds, but I can't imagine they'd have been able to fly far. I've never had a bird fly into my antenna before, and then to have it happen three times in relatively rapid succession, it was kind of freaky.

Last week on the approach to the Lehigh Trail here in Palm Coast, I saw a full-sized deer carcass in the ditch by the side of the road.


Roxy

[nancielle]

...In our rescue group, we have a cat who lost his tail from a car. He is such a sweet boy.

Before Hunter took ownership of me, his former owners had him out all the time. Unfortunately he's not very savvy when it comes to getting out of the way of on-coming cars and in January '08 he was hit by one. His owners didn't take him to the vet but his tail was broken. Now it sort of looks like a question mark when he has his tail up.

I've been working with him to make him more accepting of being an indoor cat (which is probably why he's spent time figuring out how to open the back door! ) but my street, while residential, has too many drivers who think the street is a NASCAR or Indy track.

[badger]

my cat, Morley, came into my life after being hit by a car. I took him on thinking he was quite disabled, but he recovered quite well to the point he was outside again in no time. But his reaction isn't quite 100% so he must have been hit again, albeit lightly. I saw that he had some road rashes and his claws were tattered (from grabbing the ground).

When I moved into a condo 7 years ago, he could no longer roam outside like he once did. Which, I'm actually glad as I never fully stopped worrying when he wasn't home. But he could not adjust, was agitated all the time and was starting to take his frustrations out on the dog. I had to medicate him, and he was for 6 years until I finally took him off earlier this year. He's mellowed with age but still yearns to go outside. But only now he's quite content being on the patio chewing on some grass

[LoriO]

My Aussie Shepherd was intentionally ran over. It happened down in GA not far from Stone Mtn. A girl with one of the rescue groups saw him walking down the road and was trying to pull over and park so she could catch him when a pickup truck coming the other way sped up drove off the road and hit the dog and then took off. She wasn't able to get the license plate of the truck but she was able to get him to a vet in time to save his life.

I was the lucky one that got to adopt him and he has turned out to be the best dog a person could ask for. He is permanantly handicapped with nerve damage in his front leg (dropped paw) and a paralyzed tail.

This was taken the day we picked him up from the resuce to bring him home. (Please don't look at me, I hate how fat I was then!!!! Biking has helped alot since then!!)

[badger]

god, I truly hope there is a special place in hell for people like that. But your dog must have had at least one angel looking out for him when the rescuer was there.

[smilingcat]

Hi Lori,

Ohh your dog looks so happy and so sweet. Someone was definitly looking out for him. He deserves a wonderful home. The pictures says it all. Wish you and your Aussie Shepherd many happy years to come.

He is very cute.