Scooter Pie

[mAlice]

You have grown cold.

I don't think that's cold.

 

[kwillia]

You have grown cold.

It's how I protect myself from being overwhelmed. I find I sleep better at night and have better focus on the things I actually have control over.

 

[desertrat]

Scooter Pie was a stray cat I befriended in my neighborhood.
She was a little, solid black, pregnant cat, who wandered from house to house looking for a hand out.
She also reduced tha bird and rabbit community by 1 each. She was a fast cat!
I just started feeding her about 2 weeks ago to keep her near by and was able to touch her just last week.
I had a vet appointment for her to be vetted and spayed, with plans to get her adopted out.

The plan was to pet her, do a quick scruff and plop her in a carrier and off to the vet.

I just ( n hour ago) found her dead on the road.
Clean kill, hit in the head.

Why can drivers slow to avoid killing animals?
I am so upset..and she was not even "my? cat.
Just last night, sitting on the patio, petting her as she ate, I heard her purr for the first time.

Now I have to go bury her.
I hate people who kill animals!!!!!!!!!

Thanks for lettimng me vent and tell Scooters story, as short as it is.

You made the cat happy for a while and fixed her purrer, that counts.

 

[cattitude]

It's how I protect myself from being overwhelmed. I find I sleep better at night and have better focus on the things I actually have control over.

I cut loose people..never an animal. That's how I keep from being overwhelmed.

 

[huntr1]

Why can't drivers slow to avoid killing animals?

We've been over this before. My answer remains the same.

Like what Red Skeleton said "I ain't wrecking my $500.00 car over some $0.50 cat" or something like that. Anything small enough to not total my car is toast.

 

[kwillia]

I cut loose people..never an animal. That's how I keep from being overwhelmed.

I do both and sleep better for it.

 

[desertrat]

It's how I protect myself from being overwhelmed. I find I sleep better at night and have better focus on the things I actually have control over.

It is weird how you, not you I guess, but some people, can read about 33 kids being shot and say, "How awful". Then they see a run over cat and burst into tears.

 

[mAlice]

It is weird how you, not you I guess, but some people, can read about 33 kids being shot and say, "How awful". Then they see a run over cat and burst into tears.

 

[Nickel]

It is weird how you, not you I guess, but some people, can read about 33 kids being shot and say, "How awful". Then they see a run over cat and burst into tears.

There's a difference between reading about a story (sense of detachment) and seeing something dead right in front of you. :shrug:

 

[huntr1]

I try not to hit any animal and I doubt if the cat was just sitting in the road. I'm saying that if an animal darts out in front of me, I'm not going to wreck in an attempt to avoid it.

I try to avoid hitting an animal, but sometimes you can't.

Sorry about the kitty.

I hate to see an animal suffer.

 

[desertrat]

There's a difference between reading about a story (sense of detachment) and seeing something dead right in front of you. :shrug:

True.

 

[Inkpen]

I drove by a squirrel on the side of the road this morning that had been hit by a car. More likely, the critter darted in front of it, as animals have an inclination to do. Anyway, the squirrel was still alive, and appeared to have it's back broken because it couldn't move the back portion of it's body.

Am I a bad person because I didn't stop and rescue it? Or, am I a bad person because I didn't run over it again and put it out of it's misery?

A lot of squirrels brought to get help have broken backs..or sever head trauma from falling off overhead power lines.
All are humanely euthanized.

I would have run over it had I been you.
Me, I would of picked it up and taken it in to be put to sleep.

Everyone does what they do for a specific reason.
I help because I have a passion and respect for wildlife.

 

[cattitude]

There's a difference between reading about a story (sense of detachment) and seeing something dead right in front of you. :shrug:

Exactly. Although seeing the news reports about the shootings on the TV, I cried.

Actually seeing an animal suffer is heartbreaking to me. And perhaps we can help them...it's not like another animal can come along and assist. I'm not arguing a point, it's just me.

 

[Inkpen]

We've been over this before. My answer remains the same.

You could be more aware, drive the speed limit and sow down a bit to give an animal a chance.
Look for eyeshine on the shoulder at night and movement on the roadside by day.
What if it was a little kid darting out on the road?
You gonna hit it to save your car?
No real difference. Just the human value you put on living things.

 

[mAlice]

You could be more aware, drive the speed limit and sow down a bit to give an animal a chance.
Look for eyeshine on the shoulder at night and movement on the roadside by day.
What if it was a little kid darting out on the road?
You gonna hit it to save your car?
No real difference. Just the human value you put on living things.

Oh, please! I'm really sorry about your kitty, but now you're just trying to make people feel bad. There is no way in hell to always stop for an animal, or a kid for that matter, that darts out in front of your car. If I'm doing 45 mph down 235 and either of them step/jump out 2 or 3 feet in front of me, I'm not going to be able to stop in time.

 

[Inkpen]

Exactly. Although seeing the news reports about the shootings on the TV, I cried.

Actually seeing an animal suffer is heartbreaking to me. And perhaps we can help them...it's not like another animal can come along and assist. I'm not arguing a point, it's just me.

Breaks my heart too Catt. I guess that is why I can let go, and try to do to the best I can for my "corner" of the earth.
Still hurts my heart every time one dies though..and it is natures way..But people contribute a great deal to the overall suffering of all animals.
That covers both pet, and wild.

I can't help or save then all, but I can do my best for those I have.

Go to release 3 bunnies Monday!! Got 3 more to go who survived a dog attack and are eating on their own! A few more grams aand out they go!!
Now about the squirrels and possums I have..and the next phone call...

 

[Inkpen]

Oh, please! I'm really sorry about your kitty, but now you're just trying to make people feel bad. There is no way in hell to always stop for an animal, or a kid for that matter, that darts out in front of your car. If I'm doing 45 mph down 235 and either of them step/jump out 2 or 3 feet in front of me, I'm not going to be able to stop in time.

Thank you about Scooter.
But I am not trying to make people feel bad. Not that powerful. Only you can feel as you choose to feel.
People will hit and kill whatever is in their way for many reasons.
One guy got killed down the street from me.
But you can be more aware of your environment as you drive. Look as you drive, see who is in front of you..what is around you..be alert!
Pay attention as you hurl a major deadly weapon drown the highway.
That may make a difference.
No one driving 45 mph can just STOP..but they can slow down if a suspect object enters their live of travel.
Just be more alert is all.

 

[MoochCat]

Yo dude,,sorry 'bout your cat...lots of dead animals on the road and no one seems to notice.
'Lest ya tried to help Scooter..(cute name btw)
for Scooter...

 

[baileydog]

RIP, Scooter. Ink, you did a good thing. Im so sorry for your loss. Your a nice person.