about people hitting animals and not stopping. I can see you hitting a rabbit or a squirrel and not stopping, but what about a pet like a dog or a cat? I'm serious...tonight someone hit my mom's dog and didn't even stop. He wouldn't have been out there, but he slipped out of his collar while we were walking him. The really sad thing is that they didn't even slow down (no skid marks or anything on the road). He was hit in the middle of the road, so you can't tell me they didn't see him unless they weren't paying attention...he is also not a small dog. I wish I knew who hit him. I don't know what I would do, but I would at the least let him/her know how much he hurt my family. If it were an accident and he/she didn't mean to, they could have at least stopped to tell my mom or to move the poor thing out of the middle of the road. Grr, I'm so mad...

4/20/2006 8:20:04 PM

there oughta be a law
there oughta be a railroad
that takes you away

4/20/2006 8:20:53 PM

people > animals

4/20/2006 8:21:13 PM

goddamn

what is with all the poor animal this, poor animal that threads

boo hoo.

one night on my way home i ran the fuck over a cat. thing darted out of the night directly under my tire. plowed over it, kept going. my friends and i laughed about it later.

4/20/2006 8:24:55 PM

people are animals too

[Edited on April 20, 2006 at 8:25 PM. Reason : ^ you get points for making me lol]

4/20/2006 8:24:55 PM

I dunno, I've met some people who are more like fungus.

4/20/2006 8:25:55 PM

it's their way of committing suicide

4/20/2006 8:26:43 PM

Maybe it was some ninety year old lady that can barely see over the steering wheel and honestly did not see your pet.

Or, maybe it's time to grow up and realize that the majority of human beings are self absorbed assholes who rarely think about any except their own immediate pleasure.

Either way, I am sorry about your mothers pet.

4/20/2006 8:30:21 PM

surely he wasnt just sitting in the road. I dont think anyone would risk their own safety and car to purposefully plow into a large animal in the middle of the street.

sorry 'bout your dog though. some people are crazy protective over their pets and people dont wanna deal with that

4/20/2006 8:31:09 PM

I'm sorry. Assholes that run over pets and don't even feel the least bit bad should not be allowed to own pets. It's a shame how irresponsible people are.

4/20/2006 8:35:50 PM

i once hit 3 foxes after trying to avoid them by swerving and slowing down (the gf was beside me screaming)

normally i drive as normal or speed up, assuming it's not a cow or deer

4/20/2006 8:36:51 PM

4/20/2006 8:40:42 PM

I hit a dog once, it ran out in the middle of a busy 4 lane road. WTF was I supposed to do, I couldn't swerve b/c of heavy traffic and couldn't brake in time. It walked away limping though so whatever.

4/20/2006 8:41:51 PM

my dog used to chase cars.. i was hoping one would give him a good wallop one time 'cause he just wouldnt listen to me (otherwise, he was awesome!). well one did give him a good wallop but he didnt learn a damn thing from it

4/20/2006 8:44:33 PM

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"I'm sorry. Assholes that run over pets and don't even feel the least bit bad should not be allowed to own pets. It's a shame how irresponsible people are."

im sorry, but whats irresponsible is letting your pet loose, on purpose or not, near a busy road where something could happen to it.

and fuck no i didnt feel bad when some dumbass cat streaked out in front of my car while i was going 50 mph. im not going to endanger myself or others on the road by slamming on brakes or swerving all over the place for some cat with a death wish. if that makes me an asshole, so be it. but get your priorities straight.

Quote :

"people > animals"

[Edited on April 20, 2006 at 8:46 PM. Reason : .]

4/20/2006 8:45:44 PM

YES... BECAUSE WHAT WE NEED IS A LAW THAT WOULD REQUIRE PEOPLE TO UNSAFELY STOP ON THE SIDE OF THE ROAD AND TRY TO HELP AN ANIMAL

OR.... INSTEAD... MAYBE WE COULD MAKE LAWS THAT RESTRICT PEOPLE FROM LETTING ANIMALS RUN FREE. WAIT... WE ALREADY HAVE THAT

IM NOT REALLY TYPING IN CAPS TO BE AN ASS, I JUST DIDNT NOTICE IT WAS ON AND DIDNT FEEL LIKE STARTING OVER

4/20/2006 8:50:05 PM

4/20/2006 8:50:21 PM

cue the asian woman stepping on the cat picture

4/20/2006 8:53:23 PM

just because you didn't see skid marks doesn't mean they didn't slow down, it just means they didn't slam on their brakes. And if your dog didn't have a collar on, how were they supposed to come find you to tell you it was dead? Were these psychic car drivers? Was it right in front of your driveway?

4/20/2006 8:59:01 PM

In high school I was leaving my girlfriend's house coming home late one night and this dog jumped right out in front of my car as I was going about 70...I didn't have time to do shit, and if I did I would have ended up in a ditch.

I could hear the dog ripping to pieces underneath my car...and the motherfucker took out one of my foglights...that shit was like $200. I felt bad....but I'll be damned if I'm going to try and go door-to-door with half a leg and a tail and asking people..."does this look like the leg and tail of your dog??? Because the rest of him is either stuck under my car or scattered about the road." Although I should have found the owners and asked them to pay for my foglight. Dumb fucking dog running out in the middle of the road.

4/20/2006 9:01:35 PM

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"im sorry, but whats irresponsible is letting your pet loose, on purpose or not, near a busy road where something could happen to it. "

No, what's irresponsible is not stopping after you hit someone's pet. And FYI asshole, my mom lives on a back country road with little traffic...so stfu about calling us irresponsible.

They could have very easily stopped in my mom's driveway and told her about it or at the least moved him out of the road. It's not like it's beyond their control to drive up the road and turn around...I'm not saying pull off on the side of the road...my mom has a driveway as I said.

I'm also sorry that some of you bastards on here try to troll me because our dog got off of his leash. I'm not blaming the person who hit him for hitting him, I'm simply pissed because they didn't stop.

4/20/2006 9:03:53 PM

damn, some of you people are inconsiderate cold-hearted fucking dickcheeses. TheTabbyCat, I'm sorry about your dog and someone should have stopped to at least tell your mom about it. Damn, she just lost a family pet, you people could show a little compassion.

4/20/2006 9:06:33 PM

Quote :

"No, what's irresponsible is not stopping after you hit someone's pet."

no it isn't

4/20/2006 9:08:34 PM

no there shouldn't be. you shouldn't let your dog out if it cant cross the road


animals = property. if you throw your property out in the road to be destroyed, it's your fault, not mine. Actually, I bet you could be liable for damages, too

[Edited on April 20, 2006 at 9:11 PM. Reason : sdfsdf]

4/20/2006 9:08:46 PM

YOU ASSHOLE HOW DARE YOU

4/20/2006 9:09:23 PM

Quote :

"YES... BECAUSE WHAT WE NEED IS A LAW THAT WOULD REQUIRE PEOPLE TO UNSAFELY STOP ON THE SIDE OF THE ROAD AND TRY TO HELP AN ANIMAL OR.... INSTEAD... MAYBE WE COULD MAKE LAWS THAT RESTRICT PEOPLE FROM LETTING ANIMALS RUN FREE. WAIT... WE ALREADY HAVE THAT"

4/20/2006 9:09:25 PM

Yeah, the person making this thread should be behind bars for cruelty to animals, how could they be so cold hearted to let that happen?

4/20/2006 9:10:41 PM

Whatever, I should have known better than to post something like this on here...most of you people are rude and obnoxious...my bad for thinking someone might actually have a little compassion for animals....


PS - Can someone please delete this thread before it gets any uglier?

4/20/2006 9:11:16 PM

I have a lot of compassion for animals, like NOT LETTING MY DOG RUN IN THE DAMN ROAD, that is like having a child get hit by a car and the parent not taking any blame

4/20/2006 9:13:29 PM

I would be fucking devestated if I accidentally killed a dog with my car, but I'm not about to go hunt you down to let you know about it. I didn't let the fucking dog loose, and once again, you said it was out of its collar, so how would I find you anyway?

4/20/2006 9:14:08 PM

so, being the animal loving family that yall are, why not view this as a chance to adopt a dog from a shelter?

4/20/2006 9:15:46 PM

Maybe the person who hit your dog felt really really bad and didn't want to deal with the whole situation of a depressed/pissed off owner.

4/20/2006 9:16:19 PM

A valid point was brought up though, and I think you are taking your hurt out on others pointing out the obvious. The dog didn't have a collar... therefore he looks like a stray and on a country road, that's not a horrible assumption to make. How is someone supposed to stop suddenly and not hit a dog? What could they have done if they stopped? There was no ID on the dog. For all you know, the person DID stop, saw no collar, figured it was a stray and went on their way.

I'm not about to go to some random house in the country and say "Oh btw I hit a dog, have a good day".

4/20/2006 9:38:06 PM

our neighbor acroos the street hit our cat when i was little. she brought it over in a dog food bag.

4/20/2006 9:46:03 PM

the dog was right in front of our house...we are the only house on the road for probably 2 miles...from how it was laying in the road, you could tell that it had either just walked out of our driveway or walked out from in the shrubbery in front of our house...you can see my moms house from the road...we were even outside calling the dog and looking for it when it got hit...the dog was laying there alive in the road severely injured...im just saying, if it had been me, i would have turned around to figure out who the dog belonged to so they could get it to a vet, if it were still alive.

[Edited on April 20, 2006 at 10:42 PM. Reason : asdf]

4/20/2006 10:41:44 PM

Actually, if I am not mistaken you can be charge with a hit and run. At least that is what the Sheriff said when asked about it. Any vehicle accident is supposed to be reported.

Oh and you should probably get a ticket for not having your dog on a leash, accidental slip or not.

4/20/2006 10:47:57 PM

Quote :

"the dog was right in front of our house...we are the only house on the road for probably 2 miles...from how it was laying in the road, you could tell that it had either just walked out of our driveway or walked out from in the shrubbery in front of our house"

Not to contibute to the asshattery but most people aren't forensics experts and certainly aren't going to take the time to look at a dead dog and determine the angle at which they entered the road and the likeliness (especialy without a collar) that the dog (on a back road) came from any of the nearby dwellings.

Personaly I can understand not wanting to wait around or track down someone, people can be real assholes and I'd hate to meet up with the owner in a situation like that.

4/20/2006 11:11:33 PM

The person may not have felt safe stopping at a stranger's house, especially if they were alone driving in the country.

I'm sorry about your dog though.

4/20/2006 11:24:32 PM

To be perfectly honest, TheTabbyCat, I would have stopped, found your mother (the owner), and then bitched her the fuck out for putting me in a position like that. She woulda had to call me a fucking cab because there's no way I'm getting back behind the wheel for at least week after I kill a fucking family pet.

I'm sorry for your loss, but at least you weren't the one who actually killed your dog. You put that particular burden on somebody else.

(And by the way, I don't buy this big dog "slipped out of his collar" nonsense for shit.)

[Edited on April 20, 2006 at 11:38 PM. Reason : sss]

4/20/2006 11:29:46 PM

shit happens

4/20/2006 11:31:38 PM

Yea, I'm gonna stop and confess to something like that to somebody who's gonna be pissed off(even though it was their fault).

Right.

4/20/2006 11:32:51 PM

To be perfectly honest, Bridgetsomethingletters, I rolled my eyes at the begining of your post, then I saw the rest of it, and now I applaud you.

[Edited on April 20, 2006 at 11:34 PM. Reason : #]

4/20/2006 11:34:34 PM

4/20/2006 11:37:14 PM

i hit a dog a few years back just outta my driveway... i kept going. he was a stray though. when i left later he was gone.... maybe a huge ass buzzard ate him

[Edited on April 20, 2006 at 11:43 PM. Reason : ssssssssssssssss]

4/20/2006 11:43:31 PM

or he wasn't dead on impact. that ragged creature probably coughed it's last breath after hobbling towards the owner--a spirited, optimistic youth deeply invested in it's beloved pet.

4/20/2006 11:49:13 PM

^gg

4/20/2006 11:51:44 PM

well, if an accident is caused by a person slowing down to avoid an animal, that person is held responsible.

my thoughts are this:
because of worry like that (and insurance wont pay anything if you veer off the road into a ditch and not hit the animal) and the person does hit your dog, is it plausible for them to come to you with a bill for damages because your dog was off its leash?

4/21/2006 12:22:16 AM

nm

[Edited on April 21, 2006 at 12:39 AM. Reason : a]

4/21/2006 12:37:36 AM

^Okay, perhaps "bitch out" was a little extreme. I probably would have gotten all pissed, said "What the fuck is wrong with you?" and then calmed down...

(I already read it before you deleted.)

[Edited on April 21, 2006 at 12:41 AM. Reason : sss]

4/21/2006 12:40:50 AM

I highly doubt anyone would get out and bitch someone else out on their own property.
TheTabbyCat takes great care of her animals (and this was not her animal from my understanding), and all you fucking assholes need to stop making her look like a bad pet owner--when she was walking her mother's dog on a leash when it got loose. The only time someone should not slow down to avoid hitting an animal would be in heavy traffic or rain. I'm saying SLOW DOWN, NOT SWERVE.

(^I don't care, I accidentally posted it as him thinking he logged out. heh.)

[Edited on April 21, 2006 at 12:45 AM. Reason : k]

4/21/2006 12:40:55 AM