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Conference misery::feline_v1

Title:Meower Power is Valuing Differences
Notice:FELINE_V1 is moving 1/11/94 5pm PST to MISERY
Moderator:MISERY::VANZUYLEN_RO
Created:Sun Feb 09 1986
Last Modified:Tue Jan 11 1994
Last Successful Update:Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:5089
Total number of notes:60366

4732.0. "Cat killed on RT62" by BONJVI::PIERCE (I'd rather be tanning) Tue Jun 18 1991 09:08

    
    A cat was hit and killed this morning on RT62 on the Hudson/Berlin, MA
    line, near the exxon gas station.
    
    The cat was white w/ patches of tiger strips.  I stoped and tryed to
    get out of my truck to put him/her on the side of the road, but
    traffice would not stop for me.  So I went to the police station around
    the cornor and they sent somone up right away to remove the poor fur
    face.  
    
    I hope who ever lossed him calls the police/animal control to check on
    there little friend.  I just could not leave him/her there to become
    road pizza.
    
    I asked the police if anyone had called and reported they had hit a cat
    they said NO...How can someone hit any animal and not take
    responsibility for it? 
    
    If you know of somone missing a cat in that aera, please let them know
    abot this note.
    
    Louisa
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4732.1USDEV1::NDCPutiput Scottish Folds DTN:297-2313Wed Jun 19 1991 09:1423
    Louisa -
      Thanks for caring and stopping like you did.  Its nice to know
    there are so many caring folks in this world.  We need them all.
    
    This issue has been discussed many many times in this file as you
    can probably imagine.  I will only say that often people don't
    realize that they've hit something.  I was the witness to the
    death of a squirrel in Southboro ctr yesterday on the way to 
    work.  And the guy who hit the squirrel was heading for MR04.
    There really wasn't anything he could have done.  The squirrel
    ran right under his right wheel.  I was really really angry
    with the driver for not at least hitting his brakes until I 
    realized that the squirrel ran in from the left side of the
    road and while I had a clear view of it, the driver probably
    had no idea he'd ever killed anything.  I still felt bad 
    about the squirrel, but I wasn't angry with the driver any more.
      That's not always the case and there are plenty of awful 
    stories in this file about people deliberately hitting animals
    but unless you've seen it happen, its alot easier on you to
    assume it was an accident.  Your mental anguish isn't going to
    change anything.
      Nancy DC
4732.2Thans NancyBONJVI::PIERCEI'd rather be tanningWed Jun 19 1991 12:446
    
    	Thanks Nancy, Im gald I did the right thing.  I go that way
    to work everyday and I find my self looking at the spot were
    the kitty was..and I get sad
    
    Louis
4732.3CRUISE::NDCPutiput Scottish Folds DTN:297-2313Thu Jun 20 1991 15:264
    Louis -
      A few months ago I picked up a beautiful white kitty from Rt 37
    near my house.  I have the same reaction to that spot.
      Nancy
4732.4THANK GOODNESS SOME PEOPLE STOP AND CHECKWAFER::CORMIERFri Jun 21 1991 16:2111
  Two years ago my friend, who was at Tufts Vet school, stopped to pick up a
  kitten that had been hit.  There was a lot of traffic and no one would stop
  for her - the kitten was in the middle of the lane so all the cars were
  driving over the kitten, luckily not cruching it with their tires.  When
  she finally got to the poor thing, she found it was still alive!  She 
  brought it to Tufts clinic and they patched him up and found a home for him.

  Thanks to all of you who stop to check - 

  Simone