depressing (warning:very sad animal story)

I was driving in brooklyn the other day on eastern pkwy near jackie robinson pkwy entrance. I came around a corner and traffic was stopped. The cars were pulling out of my lane (the middle lane). The car in front of me moved and I saw that there was a cat that had just been hit, dying in front of my car. My husband and I stopped to see if we could do anything, the cat just bled out and died in front of us within about 2 seconds. Meanwhile another woman stopped to help and we moved it out of the road. She was really kind to do so, I was just a mess. I have a 12-year old cat.

What kind of person hits a cat and DOESN'T STOP?? And all the other people who were pulling around it? What's wrong with people? You just run a living being over and keep going while it lies there dying? I still feel totally depressed about it. Sad for the cat, sad for me that I couldn't do anything to comfort this poor animal, sad that so many people just lack basic compassion.

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I'm so sorry... That sounds really upsetting. It was good of you to stop, even though you couldn't help.
Your 12-year old cat is so lucky to have you. Give your cat lots of love. It won't make up for it, but we can only do our best...
Suddenly I wish I was at home hugging my kitties!

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findcate wrote: I was driving in brooklyn the other day on eastern pkwy near jackie robinson pkwy entrance. I came around a corner and traffic was stopped. The cars were pulling out of my lane (the middle lane). The car in front of me moved and I saw that there was a cat that had just been hit, dying in front of my car. My husband and I stopped to see if we could do anything, the cat just bled out and died in front of us within about 2 seconds. Meanwhile another woman stopped to help and we moved it out of the road. She was really kind to do so, I was just a mess. I have a 12-year old cat.

What kind of person hits a cat and DOESN'T STOP?? And all the other people who were pulling around it? What's wrong with people? You just run a living being over and keep going while it lies there dying? I still feel totally depressed about it. Sad for the cat, sad for me that I couldn't do anything to comfort this poor animal, sad that so many people just lack basic compassion.

I don't know what traffic conditions were like, but it's not always safe to stop and then try to go back or whatever. I would stop if I could, but I can imagine scenarios where it would be dangerous to myself and others to do so. In those cases, I'd keep going and live with it. And yeah, I had a cat squashed once - it managed to make it back to the house in pretty awful shape before it expired.

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Drano wrote: [quote=findcate]I was driving in brooklyn the other day on eastern pkwy near jackie robinson pkwy entrance. I came around a corner and traffic was stopped. The cars were pulling out of my lane (the middle lane). The car in front of me moved and I saw that there was a cat that had just been hit, dying in front of my car. My husband and I stopped to see if we could do anything, the cat just bled out and died in front of us within about 2 seconds. Meanwhile another woman stopped to help and we moved it out of the road. She was really kind to do so, I was just a mess. I have a 12-year old cat.

What kind of person hits a cat and DOESN'T STOP?? And all the other people who were pulling around it? What's wrong with people? You just run a living being over and keep going while it lies there dying? I still feel totally depressed about it. Sad for the cat, sad for me that I couldn't do anything to comfort this poor animal, sad that so many people just lack basic compassion.

I don't know what traffic conditions were like, but it's not always safe to stop and then try to go back or whatever. I would stop if I could, but I can imagine scenarios where it would be dangerous to myself and others to do so. In those cases, I'd keep going and live with it. And yeah, I had a cat squashed once - it managed to make it back to the house in pretty awful shape before it expired.

There was a guy in my high school back home who hit a dog, stopped to check it out and then got killed by a passing truck.

Yes, nice to stop for an injured animal, but not at one's old peril.

The people who hit the cat would not have been able to bring their car to a stop until they were far downroad of the cat. Even if they wanted, they probably couldn't've parked and backtracked safely on an expressway. Traffic slowed because of the cat in the road and had stopped by the time you arrived, making it relatively safer for you to act.

ETA: You guys are definitely faster typists than I.

I started reading this thread not having any idea what it was about. I didn't finish reading it once I saw it had to do with a cat being run over. Had I known that, I would have never clicked the thread.

Would you mind changing the title to something that indicates what the thread might contain? Thanks!

It wasn't on an expressway. It was on eastern parkway on a slow bit near the end & it was safe to stop...anyway, yah, I totally hugged my cat after.

sorry Flexichick.

BTW, really there was no excuse not to stop. We had just been stopped at a traffic light and came around a small turn up to another traffic light, whch was green but cars were still stopped. Traffic wasn't going that fast...Other people stopped after I did--to yell stuff from their car at me (is it dead? did u hit that cat?)

It was totally safe to stop. I wouldn't have been so upset if it was on the highway and was a life-threatening situation to stop.

Thank you (she says while keeping one eye closed so as not to see the dead cat story)!

Neato cat YTMND to cheer everybody up:

http://catsinurstuffdoingthings.ytmnd.com/

Daughter loves it.

findcate wrote: It wasn't on an expressway. It was on eastern parkway on a slow bit near the end & it was safe to stop

Good. My misinterpretation, sorry.

Drano wrote: Neato cat YTMND to cheer everybody up:

http://catsinurstuffdoingthings.ytmnd.com/

Daughter loves it.

"Bat country." That's the best...

Drano wrote: Neato cat YTMND to cheer everybody up:

http://catsinurstuffdoingthings.ytmnd.com/

Daughter loves it.

that was hilarious, though i forgot my volume was cranked all the way up so me and the sleeping pooches all jumped in the air when the music started.

hee hee