What i wont to know is how you feel when a driver hit's an animal with there car kill's them or hurt's them real badly? i hate people that dont pay any attenion to the road, just plan out dont care, or they want to hit them. Now this question for the people that hate this too i want to know if there is anyone out there that feels the same way i do. I HATE SEEING ROADKILL! An if someone that want to say mean stuff like they got in the way or anything like that dont say anything!!!!
2006-06-11 03:01:03 · 7 answers · asked by a_lil_witchie 2 in Pets ➔ Other - Pets
Like the other day i saw a poor lil baby bird hopping into the street cuz of me :( and i was looking at because it was cute and i saw a car coming and i saw the driver talking to sameone and i knew what was going to happen...and my fear came true....poor thing bearly had a life
2006-06-11 03:22:21 · update #1
sometimes it's just an accident. i hit a skunk, killed instantly. it was in the middle of the night & it was completely an accident. i went home, got a box & a towel & picked up the skunk, put it in my trunk & set it in the woods nearby. i know some people might think thats not necessary but i couldn't leave it there. the sorrow i felt. also, i seen a dead cat in the middle of the road so i pulled it to the side of the road by it's tail...stopped traffic & all. another time my sister & i were driving & there was an opossum that got hit by a car but was still alive. suffering in pain in the middle of a busy street. i stopped & my sister jumped out & threw a shirt i had in the car over it & pulled it to the sidewalk. (i left the shirt there too)
i just try to do my part in treating animals with the respect they deserve.
2006-06-12 21:13:34 · answer #1 · answered by naturegrrl 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I don't care how much attention you pay to the road, someday you will hit something!!! A deer can dart out in front of you in a split second!!!! I had one run out of the woods and go right into my passengers side window. It thankfully did not go through the window, but it hit it!! What could I do to avoid that?? I was going 5 miles under the speed limit due to rain and I WAS paying attention to the road. You can't avoid them all.
I think if someone tries to hit an animal, they should be run over themselves, but just because yousee roadkill, it doesn't mean that people are not watching the road. If you deive long enough, you will eventually hit someting. I bet you don't realize how many birds and bats are hit by cars!!!!!! It is a lot and people do not often realize thay they hit one. They do not usually get stuck in the grill either. It is hard to avoid something you don't see.
I hate seeing roadkill also, but you have to realize that on a highway especially, people do not have the reaction time to avoid an animal and it can also pose a danger to a lot of other cars on the road. You can't just swerve out of the way in a busy highway. I really do not think that most of the roadkill is from people not paying attention, or trying to hit them. It just happens. It sucks for the animals, and for the people who feel bad about hitting them, but there really isn't a lot you can do.
And for the first post....I am really sure that drunk drivers are to blame for the majority of the roadkill. That is a totally dumb thing to say!!!!!!!! Animals run across roads...there are cars on roads....therefore cars and animals will come into contact with each other.....car is bigger. That is life..and death. Unless we all start walking or taking our horses to work, it will happen.
What about the caterpillers that cross the road???? I love those Wolly Bear caterpillers, but should we pull over and get them all across safely?????? Who far can we take this????????
Sounds like some people have a problem letting their dogs run loose in the road. I hate it when people do that and then they get hit and it is the drivers fault. It couldn't be the fault of the bad dog owner that lets the dog wander???? God, take some blame!!!
It is not the same thing as when a raccoon gets hit!!!! They have no owner that should be keeping an eye on them. Dogs do. It is human erroe if they end up in the road!!!!!!!!!!!
2006-06-11 03:23:52 · answer #2 · answered by ARE YOUR NEWFS GELLIN'? 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If your family were driving down a road and there was a furry little animal sitting in the middle of your lane, the driver would have, basically, 3 choices. 1) keep on driving and hit the creature, 2) veer to the right or left to avoid hitting it, or 3) come to a stop, get out and make the little thing move. You don't like option 1 and most people wouldn't blame you. But under option 2, if the driver veered suddenly to the left, your entire family could be sitting in the path of a speeding semi-trailer truck. Does that sound like a good idea? Or, if the driver veered right, your car could fall off the road, turn over, and catch fire. Under option 3, the cars immediately behind your car could crash into you, killing a lot of people. A driver needs to make a split second decision -- kill the animal or kill the people in the car. And think about this -- if the animal is just sitting in the road even in traffic, it may already be dead, or just too sick to move. Road kill isn't pretty, but usually it's not anyone's "fault" -- it's just a fact of life.
2006-06-11 03:19:38 · answer #3 · answered by CarolO 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I know what you mean. Like a week ago, we live in the country and we have 2 neighbors that speed down our gravel road like their racing in nascar and they hit our other neighbors big half lab/ half chow female dog and knocked its teeth completely out of her mouth and killed her and they killed my mothers cocker spaniel too. So yes I hate it when someone is driving and doesn't pay attention to what is in the road. They could hit a little kid and wouldn't know it.
2006-06-11 11:05:26 · answer #4 · answered by puffalump200385 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i hate it too! It's careless and cruel...i mean...animals are just like us...WE are animals. Its just as bad as killing a human..I love animals and would do anything to stop this..but..there are people that get drunk all the time and are too careless and mean so they run over anything that tries to get in their way....its so sickening
2006-06-11 03:09:15 · answer #5 · answered by Kris 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I hate that too! It always makes me soooo sad to see roadkill
2006-06-11 03:14:35 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
yes i do i hate it so much then all u see there is an animal there all u know. then other people don't care and they just do the same thing over and over again.people these days. :( :(
2006-06-11 03:11:42 · answer #7 · answered by tomboy123 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋