Animals vs Car

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This is bugging me. I was driving on the freeway, going 65 mph to Ft. Lauderdale. A cat randomly bolt out in front of me. I hit the cat. It happened in a split second. No I didn't slam on the breaks because it happened so fast. There was nothing I could have done to prevent or stop it.

All this time I couldn't stop thinking about it. The cat, it's possible owner. How do you get over this shit? I had pets all my life. I never ran an animal over. If I see them and if I had time to stop, I'd slow down and wait for them to cross. I got a sense of remorse for killing it. If you hit an animal. Say like a pet. Cat or Dog. How would you handle it?
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Posted by Aquistorm
This is bugging me. I was driving on the freeway, going 65 mph to Ft. Lauderdale. A cat randomly bolt out in front of me. I hit the cat. It happened in a split second. No I didn't slam on the breaks because it happened so fast. There was nothing I could have done to prevent or stop it.

All this time I couldn't stop thinking about it. The cat, it's possible owner. How do you get over this shit? I had pets all my life. I never ran an animal over. If I see them and if I had time to stop, I'd slow down and wait for them to cross. I got a sense of remorse for killing it. If you hit an animal. Say like a pet. Cat or Dog. How would you handle it?
You don't handle it. There is road kills control who does.

And please, I avoid every cheapmonk but there are people killed daily...get real man!
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I would cry but try not to blame myself. These things happen.
I'm just in deep thought because of it. I know it is not my fault. But some kid or elderly woman is without their pet.
Yeah I understand. It sucks.
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Good time to get some weed and try to smoke and chill from this. Or just sit and think.
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No I haven't but ..

1. My brother almost but did not, but instead he hit a stop sign and he had to pay out of pocket because insurances doesn't cover it. And to avoid hitting the cat one morning that's what he did. His car was messed up and every now and then he goes that's the spot when we pass it.

2. My cat got ran over 2 feet from my house. My brother found her instead, and I was at work. I am a cat inside owner only. But no one brought the cat in because well well they didn't care. My mom told me when I got home. She wrapped it in a box so I could say bye and I dug a grave for in our backyard. The whole family was grieving especially my brother.

3. I was on my way to work on night. I happened to be driving and the truck in front of me hit something thumped the cat or dog with its back tire or front something like that. He pulled over and I was damn someone just lost a pet porridge thing. i bet the owner of the truck felt just like you too because it happens so fast.
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Yeah there are donkeys that block the road over here by me, and I have seen many patients of mine in hospital, broken bones, and damaged cars for driving on a canyon where the donkeys just sit there and can't do anything about it either. If you don't watch it they come out of nowhere and you would be driving 65 and bam in my hospital as my patient.
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Yeah there are donkeys that block the road over here by me, and I have seen many patients of mine in hospital, broken bones, and damaged cars for driving on a canyon where the donkeys just sit there and can't do anything about it either. If you don't watch it they come out of nowhere and you would be driving 65 and bam in my hospital as my patient.
If I slammed on the breaks or swerve, there would been some bad consequences. Me getting hurt/killed, getting anyone behind me killed just to avoid the cat. I think in this situation it is ether me or the cat. The force of hitting the cat at 65 mph actually knocked my fender slightly off.
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That's fast driving .. so it must have been an interstate, rather than a freeway.

It's doubtful a pet would be on the interstate ... it must have been a stray.

Cats don't always die from being by cars ... they have the uncanny ability to flip themselves over, so you only run over their back legs .. then they crawl to a ditch and suffer for days.



did you even bother to go back?



If there is a neighborhood close enough to the interstate, in where the cat could have lived ... it would have been a nice gesture to go back and scoop the cat up (if it's dead) and go lay it on the sidewalk or curb of the subdivision so the owners could find it, and bury, and get closure ... rather than see it as a pancake on the road.



But, then again .. most people think about their own feelings, and how they, themselves are going to deal with their own feelings of grief.
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That's fast driving .. so it must have been an interstate, rather than a freeway.

It's doubtful a pet would be on the interstate ... it must have been a stray.

Cats don't always die from being by cars ... they have the uncanny ability to flip themselves over, so you only run over their back legs .. then they crawl to a ditch and suffer for days.



did you even bother to go back?



If there is a neighborhood close enough to the interstate, in where the cat could have lived ... it would have been a nice gesture to go back and scoop the cat up (if it's dead) and go lay it on the sidewalk or curb of the subdivision so the owners could find it, and bury, and get closure ... rather than see it as a pancake on the road.



But, then again .. most people think about their own feelings, and how they, themselves are going to deal with their own feelings of grief.
No I didn't. I didn't look back at it. If I did, it would of been dangerous of me stepping onto the highway because it was busy with the speed limit of 70.
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That's fast driving .. so it must have been an interstate, rather than a freeway.

It's doubtful a pet would be on the interstate ... it must have been a stray.

Cats don't always die from being by cars ... they have the uncanny ability to flip themselves over, so you only run over their back legs .. then they crawl to a ditch and suffer for days.



did you even bother to go back?



If there is a neighborhood close enough to the interstate, in where the cat could have lived ... it would have been a nice gesture to go back and scoop the cat up (if it's dead) and go lay it on the sidewalk or curb of the subdivision so the owners could find it, and bury, and get closure ... rather than see it as a pancake on the road.



But, then again .. most people think about their own feelings, and how they, themselves are going to deal with their own feelings of grief.
No I didn't. I didn't look back at it. If I did, it would of been dangerous of me stepping onto the highway because it was busy with the speed limit of 70.
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Maybe late tonight when there's barely traffic, you can go find the kitty and take the remains to the nearby subdivision. I'm sure it's family would rather see it's remains, then have to live with the thought that the cat is lost, or even worse ... injured.

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That's fast driving .. so it must have been an interstate, rather than a freeway.

It's doubtful a pet would be on the interstate ... it must have been a stray.

Cats don't always die from being by cars ... they have the uncanny ability to flip themselves over, so you only run over their back legs .. then they crawl to a ditch and suffer for days.



did you even bother to go back?



If there is a neighborhood close enough to the interstate, in where the cat could have lived ... it would have been a nice gesture to go back and scoop the cat up (if it's dead) and go lay it on the sidewalk or curb of the subdivision so the owners could find it, and bury, and get closure ... rather than see it as a pancake on the road.



But, then again .. most people think about their own feelings, and how they, themselves are going to deal with their own feelings of grief.
No I didn't. I didn't look back at it. If I did, it would of been dangerous of me stepping onto the highway because it was busy with the speed limit of 70.


Maybe late tonight when there's barely traffic, you can go find the kitty and take the remains to the nearby subdivision. I'm sure it's family would rather see it's remains, then have to live with the thought that the cat is lost, or even worse ... injured.

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Here in Southern Florida the highways are always busy. Day or night. It doesn't matter. Where I hit the cat was near Ft Lauderdale. I live in Doral which is west of Miami.