Anyone every run over a pet
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One time I was out working in door 2 door sales many years ago when the Rep I was shadowing ran over the potential customers dog.
The dog was fine but the Rep lost that sale as string of four letter words followed "I am calling from xxxxx Ltd sorry I ran over your dog but are latest product has"
The dog was fine but the Rep lost that sale as string of four letter words followed "I am calling from xxxxx Ltd sorry I ran over your dog but are latest product has"
I took someones dog out with my '57 Morris Minor. The 
owner called it across a main road. I flatspotted both of the front tyres. I shat myself but the dog was OK. I reckon the experience scared me more than the dog.
If that happens again, I will take no evasive action at all. I went up the verge because of it. Sadly I was too shaken up to go and shout at the woman.
owner called it across a main road. I flatspotted both of the front tyres. I shat myself but the dog was OK. I reckon the experience scared me more than the dog. If that happens again, I will take no evasive action at all. I went up the verge because of it. Sadly I was too shaken up to go and shout at the woman.
busta said:
The other day on a shoot my friend shot a cat, mistaking it for a rabbit. (?! it was black with a collar!! ) He kicked it down a rabbit hole so nobody found it only for the dog to retireve it the next day. Turns out it was called Lizzy.
Bernie
what a bastard. the very least he could have done (after not shooting it in the first place 
) would be to call the owner. Do the poor sod of an owner the courtesy of giving him/her a bell, people get very attached to their pets, probably beside themselves with worry. Some people just have no decency
>> Edited by nicecupoftea on Tuesday 18th January 22:00
Once driving thru a small village, legal speeds, saw a group of 8-9 year old girls on side of road, one holding a cat, bells started ringing in my head so moved far right away from it, last second cat bites girl and runs over road, straight under my wheel.
I stop, cat is screaming and dying, girl is screaming and crying, rest of the girls are crying,
Father of the girl comes out, we look at the cat, in a bad way I say "you know you have to put the cat out of it's misery" yes was the reply but he could not do it,
So I did the swift twist and pull chicken style - nice not
G Man
I stop, cat is screaming and dying, girl is screaming and crying, rest of the girls are crying,
Father of the girl comes out, we look at the cat, in a bad way I say "you know you have to put the cat out of it's misery" yes was the reply but he could not do it,
So I did the swift twist and pull chicken style - nice not
G Man
d3ano said:
i went over a fox this morning on a bike!
ok well it was already dead. Was on the A2 this morning filtering and i had no choice. bump bump, maybe i have been punished for this.
Not as much as my husband was when he hit a dead fox on the sliproad of the M56 doing a cool (very fast speed)!!!!!!IN MY TREVOR !!!!!!!!
Think I still have bits of fur attached to the bolts on my chassis.
not really a pet, but i used to work in the outback in oz and we came across a co worker who had hit a wild sheep. the animal was obviously knackered and thrashing around on the road so he put it out of its misery. he did this by backing up and then driving over its head. to be fair to him, it was clean and the best thing he could have done. however, i watched, and the sight of a sheeps brain spurting out of the back of its head has been with me forever after
In the early 80's my mother was driving through France in her Simca 1000 and a Large Alsation ran out in front of her. She hit it head on doing about 70 and it totalled the Simca!
She was ok, and she ran over to the side of the road to see how the dog was. It looked up at her and growled so she ran back to the destroyed simca and awaited help!
That car never drove again.
She was ok, and she ran over to the side of the road to see how the dog was. It looked up at her and growled so she ran back to the destroyed simca and awaited help!
That car never drove again.
I hit a big dog down near Truro last autumn...
Following a transit van at 40 in a 40 limit, reasonable distance. The dog ran out from a gate in a near vertical 6ft grass bank (those Cornish Hedges!), straight behind the transit, right in front of me.
I piled on the brakes, couldn't drive round it as there was a truck coming the other way. Didn't run it over, but picked it up and dumped it at the side of the road with my nearside headlight/bumper.
I think it was ok, more shocked than anything - but after I'd knocked round all the houses and found the owner - the extremely upset woman owner (I thought she was really gonna lay into me at one point) started saying that he was old (13 years), deaf as a post, and always getting into trouble out on the road.
Bloody people - why let an old, deaf, *huge* dog outside, when your gate opens onto a main(ish) road at 11pm at night. Stupidity really....
Following a transit van at 40 in a 40 limit, reasonable distance. The dog ran out from a gate in a near vertical 6ft grass bank (those Cornish Hedges!), straight behind the transit, right in front of me.
I piled on the brakes, couldn't drive round it as there was a truck coming the other way. Didn't run it over, but picked it up and dumped it at the side of the road with my nearside headlight/bumper.
I think it was ok, more shocked than anything - but after I'd knocked round all the houses and found the owner - the extremely upset woman owner (I thought she was really gonna lay into me at one point) started saying that he was old (13 years), deaf as a post, and always getting into trouble out on the road.
Bloody people - why let an old, deaf, *huge* dog outside, when your gate opens onto a main(ish) road at 11pm at night. Stupidity really....
I was about 16, about the time I was learning to drive round the garden in our old Metro. Dad wanted me to reverse the car from the driveway for some reason. I started to reverse back, but felt some 'resistance' soon followed by a loud yelping 
Our dosy Labrador had only decided to catch 40 winks behind the car! Luckily the rear wheels only went over her back legs and she jumped up and hobbled off. Poor thing was ok luckily, but I was very upset and lost the confidence to drive again for a while - kept thinking I could have killed her 
Our dosy Labrador had only decided to catch 40 winks behind the car! Luckily the rear wheels only went over her back legs and she jumped up and hobbled off. Poor thing was ok luckily, but I was very upset and lost the confidence to drive again for a while - kept thinking I could have killed her I remember when my Mum came in one day with her hair looking like she'd been on a Van der Graaf generator, I said 'what's up ?' she replied I've just run over Dinky. He was a Yorkshire Terrier that belonged to the woman a few doors down from us. My mum said that the husband picked the dog off the road, it had obviously checked out and the woman was crying 'Oh God my baby, my baby'
Now this dog had been in that family for years and was totally doted on, red bow ribbons etc. The woman never spoke to my Mum again after that, wasn't her fault though.
Now this dog had been in that family for years and was totally doted on, red bow ribbons etc. The woman never spoke to my Mum again after that, wasn't her fault though.
Seventeen years ago the people who gave us our first cat (it was a rescued stray) ran over him outside our house. He was killed instantly, thankfully. There was a lot of crying that night.
My old boss ran over his dog of fourteen years last year. He had to take the day off work. He buried it in the garden outside the office. That was a very sad day indeed for all of us.
My old boss ran over his dog of fourteen years last year. He had to take the day off work. He buried it in the garden outside the office. That was a very sad day indeed for all of us.
In a line of traffic two up on my Rickman Mettisse trials bike when a tennis balls fired across in front of me closely followed by a scottie. Stoopid kids plying ball with the dog through an open gate!
I went bump bump both wheels over the dog, and one of the kids ran out and scooped it out of the road and made it back onto the pavement. How he wasn't hit by the car following me I'll never know. Pulled over and gave the kids a minor bollocking, but was glad the dog seemed ok. Tough little gits those scotties!
I went bump bump both wheels over the dog, and one of the kids ran out and scooped it out of the road and made it back onto the pavement. How he wasn't hit by the car following me I'll never know. Pulled over and gave the kids a minor bollocking, but was glad the dog seemed ok. Tough little gits those scotties!
jessica said:
i went over a fox this morning on a bike!
ok well it was already dead. Was on the A2 this morning filtering and i had no choice. bump bump, maybe i have been punished for this.
Not as much as my husband was when he hit a dead fox on the sliproad of the M56 doing a cool (very fast speed)!!!!!!IN MY TREVOR !!!!!!!!
Think I still have bits of fur attached to the bolts on my chassis.
had been punished, as some chavvy barstool keyed the Chim last night.
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