Imponderables: Life, Sex & Pizza are all dictated by the stars
POSTED BY: chrisisall
UPDATED: Thursday, January 28, 2010 03:31
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My mom would stop for a squirrel if I let her. She feels bad about hurting any living thing, even a mouse. Our old house was infested with them (fortunately they stuck to the attic) and dad wanted to get one of those poison or snap their neck traps, mom would *not* allow it. She damn near threw a crying fit because she couldn't bear seeing them die. She pouts whenever she sees a dead deer, or whenever she hits a squirrel, gets all sad and woeful for a couple of minutes. I think she'd die of heartbreak if she ever hit a dog, regardless of whether or not the dog lived.
I feel a little bad if I hit a squirrel, but there's not much one can do when they dart in front of a car, and it's not like we can really keep them off the streets. Same thing with opossums. I don't stop for woodland creatures, sorry.
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I'm with you guys on the rodent "woodland creatures" thing. Maybe I'd feel bad for a few minutes, but eh.
I especially hate when birds walk across the street. Why do they walk!?
Though if I had mice I wouldn't get those old fashioned break neck traps. They're sort of evil and also why would you want a bunch of dead mice around? Granted you get rid of them as soon as possible but still you have to get close to them and see them all gross and corpse-ified
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I've only seen two mice in a house in my life. The first one I caught in a shoe box and dumped in our back yard. The second one was found after returning home to a bloody mess and a proud kitty. :-(
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Zeek I'm with you. Stop and check on it. On the highway call animal control and tell them so they can go out and help the animal.
Sadly NV once hit a cat, but in his defense the cat was genuinely suicidal and was known around the neighborhood because it would race out and throw itself in front of your car. Multiple car accidents had been caused by attempting to avoid the beastie.
For the adorably vegetarian Chrisisall... sub out the meat for morningstar farms "ground beef crumbles"
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It's fuzzy-minded liberal thinking like that that gets you eaten.
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O_O I've never known a cat (or dog) to do something like that. Weird.
Quote:I think the SAME exact thing!!!! You have wings!! you can effing FLY across the street. you can fly ABOVE the street for cryin out loud!!
Originally posted by AVeryFineCompanion: I especially hate when birds walk across the street. Why do they walk!?
Zeek: one of my dad's dogs (one he had when he was a kid) would do that with rabbits; she'd catch em and kill em, but I'm not sure if she ever brought them home (she would do the same thing with cats--never killed one or injured one severely, mind you, but would toy with them a little bit before letting them go, similar to what a cat does with a mouse). And another dog in the neighborhood (who was alive at the same time as his rabbit dog) would do that with city rats (from what dad tells me, the rats were bigger than the dog--Pepi was a terrier of some sort) only HE would leave them on your doorstep.
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When it comes to woodland creatures, there's not much you can do. Usually they're small and squishy enough that they just die. I tend not to stop if I kill one of those. Unless it's in an area with lots of foot traffic too where kids might get at it. but usually it's not.
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Originally posted by Navyseils:
When it comes to woodland creatures, there's not much you can do. Usually they're small and squishy enough that they just die. I tend not to stop if I kill one of those. Unless it's in an area with lots of foot traffic too where kids might get at it. but usually it's not.
Woodland creature hater!
j/k I agree that there's not much you can do in that case most of the time. Though if I hit a deer and it was still alive and for some reason my car wasn't damaged enough for me to be forced to stop, I'd be calling the cops to have them get someone out there to take care of the situation. I don't think it would really do any good for me to stop. I don't have a gun so I can't put it out of it's misery. I don't have a car big enough to transport a deer to an animal hospital. I'd basically just be able to sit there and watch. Which would make me feel bad and probably make the deer nervous.
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Well over here no one carries guns to put it out of it's misery. It would just need to wriggle in pain till a vet showed up with the eternal-sleep jab. But of course if I hit a deer I'd stop. I was talking the more squirrel and hedgehog tier of roadkill.
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Firearms are not a requirement for putting animals down. It does tend to do the same thing calling a vet or law enforcement does; kills the animal without a person having it to do it themselves.
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