Dog Suicide

[GeneW]

Thought that a Yaris would not take medium sized animals. This proves my supposition.

My pet dog got smacked by a car when I was a kid. He had a depressed skull fracture, unevenly dilated pupils, was bleeding out of his ears and leaking cerebral spinal fluid too. When we came on him he was breathing agonally. He died shortly thereafter.

I go to great trouble not to run over any animal. The Yaris won't take it, and little kids who get their dogs smashed don't take it well either.

Gene

[ZING]

Originally Posted by GeneW

My pet dog got smacked by a car when I was a kid. He had a depressed skull fracture, unevenly dilated pupils, was bleeding out of his ears and leaking cerebral spinal fluid too. When we came on him he was breathing agonally. He died shortly thereafter.

Gene

That image must have haunted you for a while.


We hit a deer while driving in Norway once, destroyed most of the cars front. Deer died. Another time hit a Deers behind, he survived, but he broke both his hind legs, poor bastard was crawling the whole time..called some guy, brought the rifle, one shot to the head, dead. And another time we almost hit a damn moose driving around 80km/hr, safe to say that if we hit it I wouldn't be here to tell the story. That's about it.

[GeneW]

Originally Posted by ZING

That image must have haunted you for a while.

I've seen worse since then but at the time it upset me a lot.

Originally Posted by ZING

We hit a deer while driving in Norway once, destroyed most of the cars front. Deer died. Another time hit a Deers behind, he survived, but he broke both his hind legs, poor bastard was crawling the whole time..called some guy, brought the rifle, one shot to the head, dead. And another time we almost hit a damn moose driving around 80km/hr, safe to say that if we hit it I wouldn't be here to tell the story. That's about it.

Where I work is located next to a research complex, whose Corporate owner is run by the spouse of an "Animal Rights" activist. As a consequence the deer there are as thick as flies. I've seen herds of up to six or seven standing placidly along the roads, watching cars.

Last fall the deer hunters came out with bows and arrows in force so perhaps that's not as much of a problem as it used to be.

Gene