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The squirrel video reminds me of the one I once saw in my sociology where the showed a video of a bird performing a similar action when his mate was hit by a car. We had a discussion on whether or not animals had emotions and a soul; or only humans had emotions and a soul. Obviously based on the dog video above, some humans don't have emotions or a soul.
 
RatsForever said:
The squirrel video reminds me of the one I once saw in my sociology where the showed a video of a bird performing a similar action when his mate was hit by a car. We had a discussion on whether or not animals had emotions and a soul; or only humans had emotions and a soul. Obviously based on the dog video above, some humans don't have emotions or a soul.
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And if we humans had half the instinctive understanding that critters do we wouldn't even be asking if they had emotions or souls :roll:

I got tears rolling down my cheeks like crazy here, over both videos. So glad both dogs lived and the 2nd one wasn't hurt! I'm feelin' the love -but no surprise.. Can't help putting that in context with the recent video of people walking past the man in the subway who was dying after trying to save a female from an attack...
 
There was another video I watched of a man who was killed walking his dog.. the dog sat by his body for hours and would not leave.. It made me cry.. animals have such big hearts while humans seem to be so cold.
 
I didn't watch the video, I don't want to see animal being hit by cars...

That preface made, Unfortunately it is sometimes simply NOT safe to stop. It's easy to say "Oh they should have stopped", but not knowing how busy the street really was, how people drive, etc, you can't really make the judgment. I personally could NOT not stop, as long as it is safe to do so. However there are some roads out here where A) people drive 40 mph above the speed limit, B) one lane each direction, and C) there is no emergency lane. If you tried to stop on one of those roads, you would be dead, along with the animal you hit, and possibly several other people as well. I'm sorry, but if I hit an animal on one of those roads, I am not going to stop and endanger myself and others.

Having said that, I HAVE stopped before. One time I was driving on a road, it was night time and all of a sudden there's a dog in front of my. My husband was fortunately in the car, he jumped out at the first stop light (the ONLY place we could safely pause on that street), while I drove around the block until I could find a place to park. The dog was fine, went straight to its yard. If I was alone however, I probably would not have found the dog by the time I was able to safely park my vehicle and exit.
 
Sorraia said:
I didn't watch the video, I don't want to see animal being hit by cars...

That preface made, Unfortunately it is sometimes simply NOT safe to stop. It's easy to say "Oh they should have stopped", but not knowing how busy the street really was, how people drive, etc, you can't really make the judgment. I personally could NOT not stop, as long as it is safe to do so. However there are some roads out here where A) people drive 40 mph above the speed limit, B) one lane each direction, and C) there is no emergency lane. If you tried to stop on one of those roads, you would be dead, along with the animal you hit, and possibly several other people as well. I'm sorry, but if I hit an animal on one of those roads, I am not going to stop and endanger myself and others.

Having said that, I HAVE stopped before. One time I was driving on a road, it was night time and all of a sudden there's a dog in front of my. My husband was fortunately in the car, he jumped out at the first stop light (the ONLY place we could safely pause on that street), while I drove around the block until I could find a place to park. The dog was fine, went straight to its yard. If I was alone however, I probably would not have found the dog by the time I was able to safely park my vehicle and exit.
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I'm sorry, I respect your opinion but IMHO there is NO excuse. You can safely pull over on a high way . Just use your directionals, slow down, and pull into the breakdown lane then you can walk back to where they are or stay in your car and call for help, or park in the breakdown lane just behind them with your flashers on and stay in your car and call or help but that way you are causing people to slowdown before they get to the dogs. If there is no breakdown lane the least you could do is pull over somewhere close by or call for help. I could not bear the thought of leaving him there in the middle of the road to possibly get hit again and again, dying in pain. I guess my point is if it were a person or say god forbid a child nobody would argue the fact that you NEED to pull over and do something no matter the road and I don't think threre should be different standards, a life is a life. Then again maybe its just me I hit a groudhog on my street once and not only pulled over but cried about it for a while and still feel guilty two years later. :sad3: I would feel the same way if it was a squirrel , chipmunk, or mouse; they all have the right to love and our stupid cars are an unfair danger to them.

That said, animals are AY better than people! :thumbup:
 
Slapdash said:
Sorraia said:
I didn't watch the video, I don't want to see animal being hit by cars...

That preface made, Unfortunately it is sometimes simply NOT safe to stop. It's easy to say "Oh they should have stopped", but not knowing how busy the street really was, how people drive, etc, you can't really make the judgment. I personally could NOT not stop, as long as it is safe to do so. However there are some roads out here where A) people drive 40 mph above the speed limit, B) one lane each direction, and C) there is no emergency lane. If you tried to stop on one of those roads, you would be dead, along with the animal you hit, and possibly several other people as well. I'm sorry, but if I hit an animal on one of those roads, I am not going to stop and endanger myself and others.

Having said that, I HAVE stopped before. One time I was driving on a road, it was night time and all of a sudden there's a dog in front of my. My husband was fortunately in the car, he jumped out at the first stop light (the ONLY place we could safely pause on that street), while I drove around the block until I could find a place to park. The dog was fine, went straight to its yard. If I was alone however, I probably would not have found the dog by the time I was able to safely park my vehicle and exit.
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I'm sorry, I respect your opinion but IMHO there is NO excuse. You can safely pull over on a high way . Just use your directionals, slow down, and pull into the breakdown lane then you can walk back to where they are or stay in your car and call for help, or park in the breakdown lane just behind them with your flashers on and stay in your car and call or help but that way you are causing people to slowdown before they get to the dogs. If there is no breakdown lane the least you could do is pull over somewhere close by or call for help.
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No, there really are roads that you CANNOT safely do that without killing yourself and others. I mean this very seriously. There are roads in my area that are literally only two lanes - one in each direction, with NO pull-over lane, NO turn-outs at all, are 55mph where people frequently drive 70+ mph, tight blind turns, and even steep drop-offs on at least one side. If you pulled over, you'd pull off the road. If you stopped in the road (with or without hazard lights on), you'd cause a major accident because by the time someone saw you they would have NO time to slow down safely. You can pull over at the next available place, but that might not be for several miles down the road, and even if you called for help you'd be lucky to be taken seriously, assuming whoever you called was even able to safely pull over or find the animal (assuming the animal hit was still in the road by the time they were able to get there).
 
You can see in the video there is a little half-lane pullover there, but then another lane merged in immediately, no place to pull over by the time you heard a thump. Fair enough for not pulling over. I'd like to think people would pull off at the next exit, we don't know how far it was or if anyone did and called for help or ran back if it was close enough....
Doesn't change the fact that the other dog was willing to brave an onslaught of cars to save the other.
 
In the UK it's actually illegal to stop or swerve for an animal in the road, but that doesn't stop most people. I remember when a large dog got loose on a main road near my house and everyone was stop-starting their way down and beeping as the dog played chicken >.<
 
slightly random but thought it fits :)
We have baby geese on a busy road by our house right now (what goose nesting ground doesnt i guess lol) anyway - its a busy 4 lane road, speedlimit is only 50 but its not uncommon to see people going 60, 70 km/h anyway - people stop for the geese when the cross the road :)
Its been this way for the years that we've lived here - but i was jsut reminded again the other day. There was actually a woman who got out of her car and was trying to shoo them across the rd (lol! good luck :wink: ). But it was nice, to see all 4 lanes stopped for quite a ways to facilitate the little stinkers' crossing (even a big ol town truck lol)

And as im sure many of you know....Canadian Geese are not the most loved creature by all
 
Cityratt said:
And as im sure many of you know....Canadian Geese are not the most loved creature by all
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There's a couple of geese that Mike and I drive by every day, and the gander threatens to attack cars as they go by if he's close to the edge of the road. It's honestly kind of funny.
 
The video is no longer available due to a use of violation thing. I remember seeing that car hit a cat about a year ago and he didn't even stop either. I tried to help the cat but unfortunately he died. I never found the owner of that cat.

It is time that pet owners learn not to let their dogs and cats on the lose like that as risks of being hit by a car are great.
 
Today alone I have seen four black cats dead on the side and middle of the road. One did have a rabies tag, Monday I am calling our two local vets and having them run the # and hopefully they will be able to contact the owner.

It astounds me. Keep your animals INSIDE. No one gives two craps about animals, especially not ones that get in front of their car.

Also saying that, I have a ridiculous wife who crashed her car and severely injured herself as a result to miss hitting a dog. If she had done the smart thing and stayed true to her course, and HAD she actually hit the dog, she no doubt would have stopped and done something.
 

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