Quote Originally Posted by Kirsten
A couple of years ago, the car right before me hit a cat, and the driver didn't even stop. The cat made it to the pavement, and I stopped to look after her, but there was nothing I could do but staying with her until she passed over. It was just traumatizing and I cried for days. The picture of this dying cat will haunt me for the rest of my life and I really hope that it will never happen to me, and that I'll never be responsible for the death of one of these creatures.
I second this Kirsten. I live on a quiet residential road and I stepped out my front door to go to work one morning last year to be greeted with a car speeding up the road and hitting a cat right outside my house. The driver looked at me and then drove off. I dropped my bag etc, ran up the path to the kitty to be met with the most horrific sight. Without going into too much detail, the kitty had been hit in the head and was bleeding heavily....all it could do was meiow at me. Despite the blood and the sight I held that cat in my arms as it took it's last breath. It broke my heart that day and I will never forget it. I had nightmares for several weeks after....firstly about that particular cat, and then they turned into replays of the incident with my own cats.

There was no need for that car to be speeding that day - i'm just glad (on some level) that it wasn't one of the little 7 year old twins that live a couple of doors down from me that play out there.