[QUOTE]Originally posted by purrley:
[QB]This reminds me of a horrible incident that happened to me about 9 years ago - I will never forget - it haunts me to this day. I was driving home on the freeway when I noticed what I thought were a lot of crazy drivers up ahead - swerving and acting really crazy. Well when I got closer I saw this little white dog trying to avoid cars. I was in the middle lane - had a car on my left and my right and this little dog was in my lane. I hit the poor thing at about 65 miles per hour. I looked in my rear view mirror and saw it spinning in the lane. I pulled over as soon as I could which wasn't till I could get off the freeway at about 100 yards down the road and immediately became violently ill. I threw up over and over and I was so tramatized that my daughter had to come and get me. I needed to be sedated and it was weeks before I could sleep at night. I know this little dog was killed immediately and I will never, never forget - I could have been in a terrible accident. There was no way I could have avoided this poor little soul. I know it wasn't my fault but I will never, never forget about this till the day I die [QUOTE] [QB]

That is SO sad It was absolutely not your fault. One way of looking at it is that that little dog was sent to rainbow bridge by someone with love in their hearts, instead of hatrid. Another Pet Talker recentlly had the misfortune of also hitting a dog

This past Friday I spent about an hour and 1/2 trying to capture a terrified female dog with a belly full of milk. She would run in a flat out run out into the road which was supposed to be a 25 MPH road, but it's usually driven on at 35 MPH or so. I first tried to catch her but she was so terrified and ran from me, so then I just decided to try to herd her away from the busy, fast moving road and onto the quieter side streets. When she'd run out into traffic despite my attempts I had to cover my eyes and turn away just in case she was hit...I just could not take it. I did have to give up the chase when I noticed my stomach was starting to get really upset...from all the stress I think. The really crummy part (aside from failing to save her) was that when she ran out into traffic a couple of times I ran out with her (when there was a little gap in traffic as a light was red so traffic was slowing down quite a bit, so I wouldn't risk getting hit myself) and I put my hands out on both sides, like a traffic guard while the little dog ran out into the road and some drivers actually honked at me angrly here I was obviously doing all I could to rescue a terrified, innocent dog and people were mad at me for stopping traffic!!! I assumed they would rather run over a dog with hate in their hearts then have some empothy and let me do my best to rescue her

I don't see how she could have lived through her dodging in and out of busy traffic, but I pray the the person that ended up hitting her (assuming she was hit) was a loving person and mourned for that lost soul, as opposed to some of the other jerks who were honking at me for holding up traffic!

[ December 03, 2001: Message edited by: AdoreMyDogs ]