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ROADKILL :(
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12-03-2011 9:14pm#1I have on a few occasions stopped on the road after seeing a dog who has been hit and no one bothered to stop. Once I had to call out a vet to have a poor puppy PTS, worst experience I ever had to go through. I never found the pups owner put I am glad I was there in its final hours as he took his last breath. Later I got a box and blanket and buried it. The vet was jsut going to leave it on the road side
However I have not always been able to bring myself to stop when I see a animal dead on the road. I usually think of the poor animal all day and hope it wont be there on my way home if in a rush that day. Especially when you know it is a pet. I usually do carry a blanket and cardboard in my car just in case.I wish there were better arrangements about hitting and killing any animal. like give it a bit of dignity and at least put it in a field and not leave it to be run over again and again.
How do you feel about road kill? What would/do you do?3
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I have a cheery story about "Roadkill" if it helps
I was visiting a friend who lives on a small but relatively busy country road. When I was there her kids came in to say that there was a dead cat out on the road and that they wanted to go out to move it off the road so it wouldn't get more squished. My friend's daughter is 12 and wants to be a vet, and as I used to work as a Vet's Assistant I said I'd go out with them, so that I could help her learn to deal with dead/dying animals or shield them if it was too awful for kids to see.
So we went out and there was this gorgeous perfect kitten (7/8 months) lying on the road, looked just like my own cat, jet black. I went over and nudged it with my foot, because if it had been there a while and was very stiff I wanted to warn the kids. But no, he was still soft, a recent victim. So I went to lift him, still being careful in case he had a serious injury that I couldn't see (it was getting dark and he was jet black), but he was perfect. So we moved him off the road into the grass, he was still warm in his armpit but I could feel no heartbeat, so I just rubbed him and talked to him a bit and left him safe where he wouldn't get destroyed on the road. There was no way of knowing who owned him as there's just fields around there.
The kids went out a few hours later, the cat was gone. No one else lives on that stretch of road, nobody was around, so the only conclusion we came to was that he was just concussed, and got up and went away. My grandad said it used to happen all the time on their farm when he was a kid, cat would get a belt of something they shouldn't be near, be knocked out for a while then just come around.
So if we hadn't moved him he would definitely have been run over, even though he was still ok.
I always stop if I think the animal is still alive/dying, or can be moved off the road. I hate seeing dead dogs on the motorway because I can't really stop, I saw one lie on the inside of the fast lane for a week once, I called the local SPCA twice and they said they'd go out, but if they did it took them 5 days, while someone's pet lay there 0 -
I have a cheery story about "Roadkill" if it helps
I was visiting a friend who lives on a small but relatively busy country road. When I was there her kids came in to say that there was a dead cat out on the road and that they wanted to go out to move it off the road so it wouldn't get more squished. My friend's daughter is 12 and wants to be a vet, and as I used to work as a Vet's Assistant I said I'd go out with them, so that I could help her learn to deal with dead/dying animals or shield them if it was too awful for kids to see.
So we went out and there was this gorgeous perfect kitten (7/8 months) lying on the road, looked just like my own cat, jet black. I went over and nudged it with my foot, because if it had been there a while and was very stiff I wanted to warn the kids. But no, he was still soft, a recent victim. So I went to lift him, still being careful in case he had a serious injury that I couldn't see (it was getting dark and he was jet black), but he was perfect. So we moved him off the road into the grass, he was still warm in his armpit but I could feel no heartbeat, so I just rubbed him and talked to him a bit and left him safe where he wouldn't get destroyed on the road. There was no way of knowing who owned him as there's just fields around there.
The kids went out a few hours later, the cat was gone. No one else lives on that stretch of road, nobody was around, so the only conclusion we came to was that he was just concussed, and got up and went away. My grandad said it used to happen all the time on their farm when he was a kid, cat would get a belt of something they shouldn't be near, be knocked out for a while then just come around.
So if we hadn't moved him he would definitely have been run over, even though he was still ok.
I always stop if I think the animal is still alive/dying, or can be moved off the road. I hate seeing dead dogs on the motorway because I can't really stop, I saw one lie on the inside of the fast lane for a week once, I called the local SPCA twice and they said they'd go out, but if they did it took them 5 days, while someone's pet lay there
Good point too, how are we to know if they are dead or alive if we dont check, poor things. As for the SPCA... ahem I shall stay quite on that.0 -
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faw1tytowers wrote: »I thought this but when I stoped recently for a puppy who had been hit they let the girl who hit it go as she was so upset (more about her car if you ask me even though it wasnt marked). I stayed called the vet as no one else had thought to after half an hour!!!!! its back leg was shattered and broke thru and it was hardly moving blood in nose and ears so I knew not good. It was on the edge of road as far as it could crawl. I didnt move it further as it was in pain. Vet came and dragged it in with no concern for dog and looked at it and pts. Then was jsut going to leave it there. End of. Irelands law apparently is not so strict.
Vets actually aren't allowed to put down animals they find on the road no matter how much pain the animal is in, even if it is screaming in agony they have to wait until a member of the gardaí gives the go ahead or until they find an owner and the owner gives consent.
It kills me to see dead animals on the road, I don't like seeing dead wildlife but I have hardened to it in the last few years because of where I live there is a large population of badgers and rabbits, but people's dead pets be it dog or cat really in a way annoys me, it could so easily have been prevented by keeping the dog enclosed in a garden and the cat indoors. I don't yet drive (been put on the long finger for a long while :rolleyes:) but I dread the day I hit an animal.0 -
Vets actually aren't allowed to put down animals they find on the road no matter how much pain the animal is in, even if it is screaming in agony they have to wait until a member of the gardaí gives the go ahead or until they find an owner and the owner gives consent.
It kills me to see dead animals on the road, I don't like seeing dead wildlife but I have hardened to it in the last few years because of where I live there is a large population of badgers and rabbits, but people's dead pets be it dog or cat really in a way annoys me, it could so easily have been prevented by keeping the dog enclosed in a garden and the cat indoors. I don't yet drive (been put on the long finger for a long while :rolleyes:) but I dread the day I hit an animal.
Well I presume the fact that I called the gardai first meant that the vet had authorization.0 -
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Vets actually aren't allowed to put down animals they find on the road no matter how much pain the animal is in, even if it is screaming in agony they have to wait until a member of the gardaí gives the go ahead or until they find an owner and the owner gives consent.
Technically true but in reality untrue. No Guard is going to overrule a Vet. They will be relieved that it is out of their hands. Also a Vet swears a Hippocratic oath to prevent suffering to animals in his/her care. No Court would ever rule against a Vet who put down an animal in distress where the owner was unknown at the time. Even if the dog had a name tag & the Vet/Guard phoned but didn't speak to the owner it would still be acceptable to put the animal down to prevent further suffering.
The powers of the Gardai are as follows:
“If any member of the Garda Siochana finds any dog or cat which has been fatally injured in a public place and which appears to him to have been fatally injured, or so severely injured that undue suffering would be inflicted on it if he complies with the subsection (1 ) of the PrincipalAct, he may in the absence of its owner forthwith destroy the animal or cause or procure it to be destroyed in such a manner as to inflict as little suffering as practicable, and may remove the carcass or cause or procure it to be removed.”0 -
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Oh God...this thread has brought back a horrible memory.
Was few years ago just leaving the pub from my lunch heading back up to work when I saw my boss and co-worker out in middle of road and cars moving around them.....
I knew my boss was on the beer but was like what the flip is she doing in the street?
Then I saw it
Poor little black kitten and heard the miaowing and it's wee legs trying to move. It had been hit by car but was still alive, but unfortunately had part of it's face/skull flattened to the road. The boss and co-worker were preventing other cars from running it over fully but they had no idea what to do.
They eventually found someone to help and remove the kitten but it died due to the injuries.
Just few days ago me and my Mum were driving to town and saw a freshly hit badger. I know it was recent enough as it looked mostly intact...no idea if it was dead. Wanted mum to stop the car so I could move it but she wouldn't as I had no gloves, she was worried in case maybe it had diseases or if still alive could bite or claw me in distress. Can understand her point but was raged at same time. Told her when I have my own car I'll have towels and newspaper and a crate and crap loads of gloves, so I can move the dead animal or if it's alive take it to vet!!!
I know there is a shelter the one in Kildare that looks after injured wildlife but would your own local vet know much about how to treat wildlife?
I live in the country and no one round here would even dream of taking an injured wildlife animal to the vets. They barely take their own pets :mad:0 -
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I saw a deer in a ditch at the side of a Wicklow road last weekend, hate to have seen the car that hit that :eek:
Also seen a truck that hit a cow on the n11 some years back, not a pretty sight at all
If I hit a wild animal I'd stop to check for damage to the car and check the animal, and do anything I could within reason. If I hit a pet I'd stop to check for tag/ owner etc to make sure any damage to the car will be paid for, and obviously help the animal if at all possible.0
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