Please watch out for animals on the road!

[Porker]

Guys,

 

wanna relate an incident I chanced upon earlier.

 

Was walking along Indus Road (off Ganges Ave) just outside Emerald Park and I saw this black cat ran over by a silver IS200. I'm not sure why the driver missed the cat because he was going very slowly.

 

The cat convulsed and flipped in the air for a good 30-60s before laying motionless in the middle of the road. I know its extremely painful for her to be ran over in that manner and my heart just broke seeing the pain it went through and yet there's nothing I can do.

 

I brought her semi-unconscious body to the grass patch (at the bottom of a big tree) by the road and laid her there. She was in a horrible state. Her eye popped out of the socket and her head was twisted in a weird angle and there's no doubt that she'll die. She was pretty bloody as well and I got my hands stained. I left her there because there ain't nothing further I can do short of giving her a burial but she was still alive at that moment. Undoubtedly, she would have moved on as I'm typing this message.

 

So please drivers... PLEASE WATCH OUT FOR THE ANIMALS ON THE ROAD! BE KIND AND SLOW DOWN FOR THEM BECAUSE YOU WILL NEVER KNOW THE PAIN INFLICTED ON THEM BY RUNNING THEM OVER!

[Beei]

Did the cat dashed out suddenly or was it on the road?

[Porker]

Think it was already on the road

[Beei]

Think the driver is cok-eyed...

but sometime really quite hard to see animals on the road...remember one time a birdie fly straight onto my car

[Carndablues]

Can't really blame the driver in a lot of these cases as animals' behaviour are totally unpredictable, but the least that driver could do was to pull over.

[Porker]

The thought of confronting the driver crossed my mind as he was caught in the red light just a few metres ahead but I helped the poor cat instead. Thats the very least I can do for her before she moves on.

[Octopus]

Nice of you to stop and do what you can for the poor cat.....

 

Sometime I saw a (stray) dog wandering near the road I always worried for the animal, hoping it will be safe....

[Elfenstar]

I can't decide if you were being nice or being cruel to the cat... maybe you should have run it over properly so that it wouldnt suffer as much than just lying by the side of the road and dying slowly and painfully.

[Powerkeong]

I saw something like a Komodo Lizard minced body lying on SLE towards CTE today. Chunks of meat lying on the road. the whole body was smashed. very disgusting...

[Lorbinhoot]

I once encounter a Cat dash out when my Car was passing by.

 

I saw the Cat standing in the middle divider of the road when I was approaching.

So, I slowed down my speed and move on while hoping it won't dash out.

But to my horror, it's wait till I'm near then dash out

 

Ka na sai dunno wat that Cat is thinking . . .

 

Anyway lucky for the cat or maybe me it dash thru the right side below of my Car and came out from the Right.

I see it running from my rear mirror after pass by.

 

When think back I'm really delighted that I made the correct decision to slow down in the first place

[Whyeme]

tragic indeed

 

the biggest roadkill animal i have seen in my 7 years of driving was a big stray dog the size of a golden retriever lying motionless along boon lay rd

[Porker]

I wasn't the driver.

 

And its easy to talk on the forum saying that we should kill the cat by giving it the final blow but it ain't that easy when you're holding on to its wrecked body full of blood.

[Tehkb]

The thought of confronting the driver crossed my mind as he was caught in the red light just a few metres ahead but I helped the poor cat instead. Thats the very least I can do for her before she moves on.

 

I think you did the right thing. It's sad to see animal run over by a vehicle.

[Lengendcf]

Good, you did wat you can.

I admire your courage..

I won't dare to do wat you have done..

[Slayer666]

U are so going to Heaven man!

I'm glad over what u did. Not many ppl like u around.

Hopefully the cat is dead by now... Enuff of suffering already.

Sigh....

[Porker]

Thanks bro.

 

I believe the cat was over her worst state after the flipping about in the air. Not much pain can be felt in the semi-unconscious state so its just a matter of time before she blacks out and move on.

 

Should be over in a matter of minutes.

[PointyEwe]

The thought of confronting the driver crossed my mind as he was caught in the red light just a few metres ahead but I helped the poor cat instead. Thats the very least I can do for her before she moves on.

 

Confront the driver? What for?

Who in the right mind would purposely run over a cat and risk damaging his car and spend 1 day cleaning away the guts?

 

Obviously this is unintentional and it just bad luck for both the driver and the cat.

 

Recently on AYE while travelling on the first lane, I saw a dog on the divider. At the speed I'm travelling, I could only hope the stupid animal would not dash out. Well too bad for the idiot tailgating me, the dog chose to dash out right after my car had passed.

 

I could see the dog fly up to the air in my rear view mirror and the tailgater switching to road shoulder to examine damages done to his car.

 

Pure bad luck.

[Darth_mel]

Sometimes it could be that those animals have suicidal tendencies as well.

 

Quite stressful for both animals and humans to survive here, you know ?