Dog Suicide

[wiirenet]

thanks for the kind reply, i'm kind of waiting to be flamed for making a 'preaching' post, but maybe i'm just used to some not-so-nice forums. plus i havent been posting much so people will probably be like 'who the eff is this?'

i actually have a 24hour emergency vet number in my phone. Look, I did some of the work for you guys, http://www.pets911.com/services/emergency/ write in your zipcode and get the closest 24 hour hospital and just put it in your phone. heck, even if you call them and they say you need to bring in the animal and pay for it, and you dont care to, just tell them what happened and where. Maybe whoever answers the phone will care enough to get the animal. its really not that hard just to call and let someone know.

[41magmag41]

Thank you for some human compassion out there. There is hope for human kind.

[auxmike]

I searched for and wrote down the local 24HR ER for pets by me.
Great idea, thanks!

[roxy1]

Originally Posted by wiirenet

please think about the animal you accidentally hit and its pain, its family, and how easy it is to google a number and call it.

i just cant imagine accidentally causing horrible pain or death to a living thing and caring about your car damage. i'm sorry.
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im with you 100%, especially an animal that is likely a family pet. i really wouldn't gove a rats *ss about my car.

[aeipee13]

i've seen suicidal deer before up in the local mountains around Los Angeles. the group of them run along the sides of your car (similar to what dolphins do with boats) then one will suddenly dart 90 degrees in front of your car. after a few accidents my friends and i realized that once they get ahead of your car the headlights spook them so they dart towards them.

because the deer are basically surrounding your car while you drive you can't hit the breaks because they just slam into the sides and rear breaking stuff along the way. so we learned you have to turn your headlights off and keep some speed so the the deer don't get spooked and can run around you.

same works with a "deer in the headlights" situation. shut your lights off and start honking, they just snap out of it and get out of the way. your speed can be a problem but it works better than slamming on your breaks with your buddies following close behind you.

[auxmike]

This can ruin your day....

[Yaris Hilton]

What spooks deer out in front of cars is that the headlights cast moving shadows from the trees behind the deer that look something like a pack of wolves charging in behind them. They look suicidal, but they're trying to escape what looks like a worse threat than the car. They don't have instincts to avoid a lighted moving object, but dark shadowy ones.

[RABYARIS]

Originally Posted by auxmike

This can ruin your day....

Wow...that is scary...hate to see what would have happened if it were a Yaris instead of a truck.

[Yaris Hilton]

[eric81]

^ One day, Mr. Ed comes home to find Stan with his mare, Sally. Having a loss for words for the first time in his life, he runs to the big city to join the Budweisser Clydesdales. Unfortunately for him, he was also color blind, and didn't see the black car that forgot to turn it's headlights on.

[Yaris Hilton]

[GeneW]

Then we have this horror show....







Gene

[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

[auxmike]

Originally Posted by GeneW

Then we have this horror show....







Gene

Looks like a fox, not a deer....

[Polar]

WOW! Was that Beemer going 190 mph on the autobahn?

I saw a show on Discovery called Pig Bomb, and well, wild pigs are out of control. There is evidence of Eurasian boar blood mixed with current feral wild pig populations. And the pigs are reportedly getting bigger (up to 400+pounds), and more cold hardy. Apparently hunters have been releasing Russian boars into the wild purposed for sport hunting. I don't know how accurate the claims are; I mean, where does one exactly acquire a Russian boar. Supposedly, wild pig populations are about to blow up. Where I'm from people hit more deer, and even more cows, than wild pigs. Although, I suspect wild pigs are smart, and smarter than DOGS! At least until I hit one going 190 mph.

Dogs are most active (20-35 mph) in the morning and evening; an unaccredited expert (12th man at the bar) told me this. Cats can run 30 mph! In Europe they make land bridges over the highway so critters can cross (Discovery).

[Yaris Hilton]

Hunters have been importing European boars for generations. We're seeing an explosion of wildlife coming into contact with people, partly because of habitat destruction, encroachment of human habitation into former wilderness, and I suspect improved survival as winters become milder. 2 years ago there was a mountain lion in my neighborhood for several weeks. Bears are rather common. I've got to go take in the cat dishes and bird feeders in a few minutes. The raccoons will be out, and I don't want to encourage the thugs.

[eric81]

I saw that BMW picture and story over a year ago. The whole story is the guy was driving on the auto-bon doing almost 200 mph. He hit the deer, then managed to drive the car to the dealership before turning it off. From the outside, it looked like something hit the grill and bounced off. Except it smelled like something was burning badly. And there was blood on the windshield. But then they opened the hood, and there was the deer, stuck inside the engine. The car wouldn't start again, and they ended up totalling the car.

[regal]

I hit a 40 lb deer and did $5k damage