Seeing a dog get hit by a car...

[jim]

Man I can't shake this. Saturday I was on Wisconsin state highway 14 when I saw a beautiful yellow lab on the opposite shoulder of the highway. No sooner did I pass it going one direction when I saw the dog enter the road, and an oncoming van had no chance. I can still see the dog in my mirror spinning across the road.

I own a yellow lab which makes it worse. Dang it I just can't get that out of my head.

[cardinalkarp]

That would disturb me for awhile too.

[omaha_red]

thanks for putting the image in my mind

[jim]

I won't go into the specific details that bother me. I'm just reaching out for a little GRB hug here.

[TheoSqua]

[thrill]

Sorry to hear about it, Jim. Probably somebody's pet.


I love dogs.

[Radbird]

Incredibly sad thing to witness.

[jim]

Sorry to hear about it, Jim. Probably somebody's pet.


I love dogs.

That bothered me too. It almost certainly was, way too beautiful to be just some random stray I would think. Then I kept thinking about some kid....

[haltz]

I hit a dog once at night. There were two of them running across the street and I swerved to miss one and hit the other that I didn't realize was there. I can actually still picture it appearing in my headlights like ten feet in front of the car and not being able to avoid it.

It limped off into the night dragging its hind leg and I couldn't find it. Really sad.

I was also out with a girl for I think the second time in our short relationship. That really put a damper on the evening.

[lukethedrifter]

I ran over a kid once. Seriously. Fortunately I was going really slow and only his hand ended up under my tire.
I was freaked out for weeks, mostly about what could have been.