I hate careless drivers who run over neighbourhood pets!!!

[Bryophyte]

I'm surprised you're so upset over the driver and not the negligent pet owner. If you were aware that the cat wasn't being cared for properly, you should have either taken it in your own home or gotten animal control to pick it up and hopefully find it a home. By feeding the cat, you weren't exactly encouraging it not to roam, you were doing the opposite. Feeding it gave it more reason to roam, so it could be argued that you were contributing to the cat's demise. Take full responsibility for the pet, or make sure someone else does. Don't encourage strays (and every rodent in the area) to roam around your neighborhood by feeding them, then expect someone else to take care of shots, fixing the animals, etc.

How do you know that the person who hit the animal didn't turn it in? If you hit an animal, the right thing to do is turn it in so that it can be taken care of. Getting out of your car and grabbing an injured animal will usually end with you getting bitten.

 

[PlatinumGold]

Originally posted by: Bryophyte
I'm surprised you're so upset over the driver and not the negligent pet owner. If you were aware that the cat wasn't being cared for properly, you should have either taken it in your own home or gotten animal control to pick it up and hopefully find it a home. By feeding the cat, you weren't exactly encouraging it not to roam, you were doing the opposite. Feeding it gave it more reason to roam, so it could be argued that you were contributing to the cat's demise. Take full responsibility for the pet, or make sure someone else does. Don't encourage strays (and every rodent in the area) to roam around your neighborhood by feeding them, then expect someone else to take care of shots, fixing the animals, etc.

How do you know that the person who hit the animal didn't turn it in? If you hit an animal, the right thing to do is turn it in so that it can be taken care of. Getting out of your car and grabbing an injured animal will usually end with you getting bitten.

my thoughts exactly when i read the OP.

enabler is what she is.

besides, IT'S JUST A FVCKING ANIMAL. to wish someone dead because they were cruel to an animal is just plain STUPID.

my empathy STOPS when stupid stuff like that is posted.

 

[VIAN]

Originally posted by: Demon-Xanth
Never had an animal run out infront of you, have you?

Yes, plenty of times- It's called a brake.

Originally posted by: Bushman5
yes we should love animals but keep in mind a CAT IS NOT A HUMAN, HOW DARE U WISH THE SAME FATE UPON A HUMAN.

A human's life being worth more than a cat's is totally subjective. And one who would purposely run over a cat doesn't deserve to be worth as much.

Originally posted by: K1052

Originally posted by: Saulbadguy
Keep your cats indoors. Supervise your dogs outdoors. Simple, really.

Indeed, yet most people are shocked when something bad eventually happens.

There was this dog in my old neighborhood that would ALWAYS lie in the middle of the street. Its owners knew full well but just let it go even after other neighbors complained. Eventually a UPS truck killed the dog.

I have nothing but contempt for pet owners that don't care for their animals properly.

If the pet is that stupid, then he deserves to get killed. Maybe the OP's cat committed suicide by car.

 

[OCNewbie]

The problem with putting the anti-freeze out is that pets/animals are dumb; they see a bowl of liquid, they think it's water. In essence you could be luring them into the very area you want them out of, and promoting their deaths. I could see shooting them with a paintball gun or something like that if they come on your property, as a deterrent, but you're enticing them to come drink from the "water bowl" is how they'll see it, and thus killing them unnecessarily.

 

[cavemanmoron]

My former girlfriend's children were never careful
about watching the cats.

3 years, 3 cats ran over by cars.

🙁

I had a dog that if someone opened the door was like a Bullet,
running out the door, gave him away to a lady with a fenced in yard.

He jumps the fence there. :Q

 

[spasticnationboy]

Keep the "Pets" out of the streets, get the cops to put up a speed check, and let the animals fend for themselves.......

 

[PingSpike]

Originally posted by: AnitaPeterson
I absolutely hate stupid drivers! How can you hit an animal like this, on an empty road, and not even stop and try to help? May you die like that cat, with nobody caring!

I went inside the building, knocked at the door of the cat's owners, and told them the news. The girl who answered was quite unfazed. "I'll check it out!" she said, before closing the door.

Poor, poor cat! my heart is broken this morning...

I've had a lot of cats in my life, and at least a few of them got run over. Its sad, but do you really think the drivers are entirely at fault? Cats don't have any natural instincts for dealing with cars, there's cats that learn to handle them well and there's cats that don't. Haven't you ever seen other animals do totally stupid things? Often times rather then waiting until a car has gone by, they become scared by the noise and run across the road at the worse possible moment. I've seen squirrels that were safely out of the way turn back suddenly causing me to run them over without any chance to react, they were probably scared and wanted to return to the spot they knew.

When I was a kid some one dumped a cat off at our house, it was one of those older kittens...you know, after they spot being really cute a lot of assholes don't want them anymore. We had a few cats that were outdoor only and this cat started hanging around with them.

The cat had the bad habit of following us down to the bus stop, he was a pretty friendly cat and might have been an indoor cat for all we knew. We didn't even know if he was a neighbors cat or something. After about two weeks the cat wandered out into the road as the bus was coming. Another car was coming in the other direction and the cat chose the wrong way to run...and was run over right in front of us and the bus full of kids. Honestly I'm a bit haunted by this still, after two weeks of hanging around we'd gotten to the point where it didn't seem like anyone was coming to pick the cat up, we'd started to like it and would probably have adopted it and gotten it some shots. Plus, I was young and it was just horrifying to see the cat killed right in front of me.

But I never blamed the driver, she was cresting a hill and probably doing close too, if not under the speed limit. The roads are dangerous and most animals don't understand them. I wished we'd gotten the cat out of the road, but honestly he hadn't shown a propensity for going out there until that day. I feel bad because I think all he wanted was some attention.

 

[zendari]

Try to keep your animal off the road maybe.

If its a small animal like that that just goes crunch under your tires it doesn't do any real damage to your car.