I hit a cat on my way home tonight! I tried to stop by he ran out right in front of me, I heard him rolled under my car and when I looked in my rear view mirror the poor thing was flopping (about a foot off the road for about 2 minutes)! It took my bumper grill out, which I didn't know until I stopped and found my grill on the side of the road. I took him off the road and laid him beside the ditch. I cried all the way home! I have only hit in my lifetime 3 birds and a chipmunk. I am an animal lover and will feel terrible for a long time.

I always have someone dropping a cat off at my house then I find them a nice home, every year I get feral kittens at my door, I domesticate them and find them good homes also. I also make sure they get their immunizations.

 

Some things just happen that you have no control over. Don't know what else to say. I some times wonder why animals couldn't been just a little smarter.

 

i hit a road runner on the highway the other day...
it was funny it just ran under my car when i was doing about 75, i heard a THUD, looked in the rearview and you can see all these feathers all over...looked like a HUGE pillow fight just happened..

 

I had a cat run under my car a couple of years ago, and like you saw the poor guy rolling around in the road. The grass on the side of the raod was high, and I had no chance to avoid him. I felt terrible.

 

Maybe your new username should be wylie coyote!!! Is the back of your HHR full of acme anvils, dynamite, etc?: lol:

 

Sorry to hear that...it is a terrible feeling.......nice to know you stopped at least...most people would just have kept on going. That was very nice of you to do so...

Goose

 

I herby dub thee "The Cat Slayer"


and I got Deer #4 Wed morning with the trailer I was pulling.

 

I'm sorry to hear about that. Poor kitty.
But things happen. I once ran over a Shelty with my milk delivery truck right in front of its owner! Talk about feeling horrible! A pack of neighborhood dogs ran after my truck as I was turning in a culdesac and they basically pushed the little shelty beneath the rear wheels . This was in a time before the stringent leash laws we have today. People were around, but noone tried to keep the dogs from chasing the truck and I had to move it, so a bad thing happened. The owner was understanding, believe it or not after seeing it happen. First day she let the dog outside too.

I just took a stray that comes by the house to the vets. He had an abscess the size of a golf ball growing in his ear. He is the nicest kitty to humans and really did not put up as much fuss as I anticipated while the wound was being addressed. He was shot with penicillin and given a rabis shot too. I went back out since he is not a house cat and tends to beat my cats up. I hope he comes around again.
He loves to lay on my chest/neck and purr for hours. Some strays like him obviously came from a home once. I've had several move in over the years. Cats really do pick their owners.

Anyway, I'm sorry you are in the same club I joined so many years back. Hopefully things like this do not happen again to us.

 

donbb82, as a cat lover, can you explain why people let their cats run free? Surely it endangers their lives.

I'm a dog owner and get very irritated when others complain about my dogs barking but don't do anything about the cats running free that they're barking at. Furthermore, my dogs are fixed yet most cats are not. Is it just the mentality of cat owners are what?

I'm so glad you take the time and effort to care for stay cats. I wish more would do the same!

 

Thank you for renewing my faith in most people. I do this too--take strays to my vet for shots and fixing (I go so much, I think he gives me a discount), feed neighborhood kitty's, etc. I went to Costco yesterday and had two, 48 can Friskie boxes in my cart and a big bag of dry food, the checker asked me how many cat's I had!
(fwiw, I feed and take care of 6 cats and 2 dogs)

I grew up on a farm out in Irvine and was amazed that people would just dump their animals out there--most made it to our yard, many didn't. My mom, bless her soul, never turned an animal away. I got her 'gene' of being a sucker for strays.

Anyhow, Harpozep and donbb82, you have a big hearts and again, folks like you renew my faith in people--donbb82, I'm sorry yours is hurting right now.