I wish it wasn't true

I went to Wal-mart late tonight, well, it turns out I didn't have enough money for these facial wipes I needed. So, I came home, got more money, got more gas because I had negative empty in my car....Neway, so I got some gas, drove out to wal-mart, go my facial wipes. Then, as i was driving home a light on my car came on telling me to check the tire pressure.

In the few seconds that i looked down, then back up again, There was a racoon, RIGHT THERE. He was almost under my car and he was trying to shield himself..I hit him..It was the sadest thing I have ever seen, him trying to protect himself, ducking and tucking his head...I drove back and he wasn't on the road, i'm positive i didn't hit him with my tire, it was the little scoop below my bumper.

I'm almost so paranoid that I want to go back tomorrow when it's light and look in the ditch or something I know it's stupid and pointless, but...just from what i saw it was heart breaking. It will give me some assurance at least >hopefully<, if nothign else.

 

You killed one of mother natures children with your air pollution controled machine.

 

Facial wipes....say it a few times and see if it puts the same image in your head as it does in mine

 

aww this even made me feel sad. i have hit a cat before and it just made me sad for days and day, I still think of it sometimes. I am sorry you had to go thru this. so sucks

 

cant say ive had the pleasure

 

Facial wipes? That's fuckin hilarious.

 

Lol i'm still trying to work out the humour in that....?????

i hit a deer once...full on and it still managed to run into the woods... at 2am i was searching the woods for almost an hour and i couldnt see it anywhere...
3 weeks after i passed my test a puppy ran into the side of my car.... i was soooo furious with the owner for letting it off the lead near a busy road... i took puppy and owner to the vet and it had broken its leg in 3 places...poor thing..it screamed all the way... almost put me off driving for life...but i kept in touch till he was all mended..
oh...i hit a pheasant in the lane to my cottage... he wasnt so lucky

 

i havent hit any animals but if i did i woulda been soooo sad.

neways, just remind yerself it wasnt yer fault, eh?

 

Heheheh, I was thinking the same thing!

Seriously though, I would have been devastated if I had hit an animal. A month ago when I was in Florida, I woke up in the wee hours of the morning to accompany my husband and my mother-in-law on a fishing expedition. Now I had never fished before, and I was a bit hesitant, but they reassured me that I could throw back whatever I caught and that it could live on, no harm done. Looking back, I think I was such a cruel person for doing such a thing. Stupid! Never again!

So anyway, what do you know, I caught a fish on my very first cast. I was so proud of myself, that is, until I realized what was involved with unhooking the poor fish. First off, for some reason, the hook had gone through his eye. Well that sent me into hysterics. Then, as my mother-in-law tried to free him, that poor fish was making noises. I never knew that a fish could make noises. I stood there horrified as my mother-in-law worked to get the hook out and kept yanking on it, saying it was stuck. At that point, I was sick to my stomach, regretted coming along and I felt like a horrible person. Finally she was able to free him, and put him back in the bay. I didn't see him swim off, I kept moaning that he was probably dead because of me, but my husband and MIL claimed that he had quickly swam off. I don't know, part of me thinks they were just saying that to calm me down because I felt so horrible. Anyway, all I could talk about was how I hurt and blinded a poor little fish. Seriously, I was really worked up about it. After that, my mother-in-law was actually asking if it was alright if she swatted a fly, or if it would offend me, she wouldn't do it. *lol* I'm not THAT bad.

But I still think about that fish, I still feel bad about it. Pathetic, huh?

 

nah I don't think its that pathetic...
I use to hunt but after numerous encounters with animals that were not quite dead after shooting them I had to reevaluate my hunter habits....
there were three actually...one was a deer and if you have seen powder you kinda know whats up...this poor deer was not my first ...my father taught me that we only kill what we eat or what we can use ...furs and such....well I am not a bad hunter I killed my first deer with a shot straight thru the heart so it wasn't so bad...I didn't like having to drag a dead body but ya know its food and I am a meat eater...
but this deer the one that didn't die right away...poor guy...he had a look of well lol I'm not sure cause I don't really know what he was thinking but it looked horrible...like he was so confused and scared
then as if that wasn't bad enough my father and my brother and I were driving down this dirt road and my dad spotted a raccoon...well he wanted to shoot it and sell the fur..and maybe it was because I was the only girl and somehow that meant I should "get" to shoot or maybe my dad thought I wanted to...I dunno...but what I do know is that I killed it...a quick shot to the head and it was dead...now I was feeling very sorry because I was not going to be eating this coon and it just felt wrong but to make matters even worse when we went to pick it up there were three lil raccoons.... I had just killed a mommy
but being the good hunter I was it wasn't over yet...on many occasions I had gone fox hunting with my father and I enjoyed this time immensely but the very last time I shot anything was on the very last time I went hunting fox with my father...
he had shot one but it wasn't dead yet and really the only choice is to chase after it and finish the job...well I am an idiot and when we chased I forgot the bullets...so when we caught up to this poor innocent dieing fox there was an empty gun, I have skinned foxes and not felt to bad...see blood and guts don't gross me out....but seeing this animals eyes when my father was whacking him with the butt of his gun was soo incredible horrible...sad I just felt soo sad

so yeah I do not shoot animals anymore...
but hey I still eat dead cow

haha I kinda went off there ...anyway sorry you hit a raccon with your car ArgScalawag

 

i shot at birds with a bb gun cause they were attacking my dog....

 

We hit a dog once, it was really snowing hard at night and someone was just letting their dog run free in town.......people like that don't deserve pets.
It ran right out in front of the car and (i wasn't driving) we slid right into it..it went under the car and out the back. It ran away, I have no idea how badly it was hurt...

I was crying....

 

i guess i'm pretty heartless.

 

I don't think I've ever hit anything, though I was in the car once when my mom hit a pigeon. It was flying over the road or something, and we smacked it with the windshield.

It's always sad when you kill a fish. I've had several, too small to even keep, that swallowed the hook and had to be killed. It's a shame because it's such a pointless death. I won't ever fish again if I'm not planning to eat what I catch. Sport fishing is ridiculously stupid, like playing with lives.

I'm wondering why your dad didn't kill that deer with his knife? Surely he must have been carrying a knife, why not just slit it's throat?

As far as the raccoon goes, well there's nothing you can do about it. If it's alive, good, but you won't find it, if it's dead, it's dead. It won't go to waste, it will feed many bugs and birds, it's bones will be gnawed by rodents, and it will recycle back. Nothing ever goes to waste, remember that.

That said, this is a major problem in American highways (and probably other countries too). It's one of the leading causes of animal death.

 

RE: Then, as i was driving home a light on my car came on telling me to check the tire pressure

What model car is this? Are you sure it wasn't to check the OIL pressure?

 

im a good driver so i cant relate to you fucks.

 

Haha your so random.... were the birds hurting the dog?

 

haha, yeah, they were swooping down and pecking him, and I just tried to shoot at a few, but missed horribly

 

I think its funny when girls get all shook uup when they hit a small animal. I think its even funnier when guys get all tore up like that

 

my mom has wicked aim with her blow darts. i'm just kinda inured to the death of animals anymore. everywhere you goo out here there's an animal dead for some reason or another. i hit a rabbit once. it's kinda nasty cleaning the undercarriage of your car if you wait too long. bigger animals = bigger mess.