Do not leave dying wildlife in the road!

[Don]

Dear All.

This is a Public Service Announcement.

If you happen to twonk a rabbit with yer motor - please leap out and do the decent thing with your emergency jack/wheel nut spanner or whatever.

If you don't my wife, or someone similar, will find it crawling in its pain onto the drive and I, or someone similar, will need to collect the poor thing and, to end its mortal agonies, do it in with a spade.

Not the nicest of all activities at 7:00am BEFORE MY SECOND CUP OF COFFEE

Thank you!

[f-fuxake]

I read that as wife!!

[Colonial]

What sort of coffee?

Details man, details.

[Don]

Colonial said:

What sort of coffee?

Details man, details.

Kenco Really Rich. Downing it now, thanks. It's not entirely washing away the bitter taste of dealing with someone else's problem.

I HATE unnecessary suffering. Don't worry - I'm not going all veggie - its just that when I do things in they die as quickly and mercifully as I know how to do. Leaving something twitching isn't in my nature.

[Colonial]

Cheers. Important to paint a fuller picture.

The last piece of wildlife I hit was an eastern Brown Snake.

Considering they can kill you I wasn't going to jump out of the car to make sure it was dead.

Rabbits? I'd reverse back just to make sure.

[Nolar Dog]

So you'd hit the rabbit by 7.00am? You must be very frustrated.

[Parsnip]

Wasn't it in local hero when one of the characters said "Hit it with something heavy" "Like a two ton automobile?"

[Don]

Colonial said:

Cheers. Important to paint a fuller picture.

The last piece of wildlife I hit was an eastern Brown Snake.

Considering they can kill you I wasn't going to jump out of the car to make sure it was dead.

Rabbits? I'd reverse back just to make sure.

Well I admit you have some pretty large and/or deadly wildlife in your country. Here in the UK the biggest thing you can hit is a deer - not many would be equipped to do the merciful thing with one of those to be fair - but a rabbit. Yup: simply reversing would have dealt with the problem.

Instead I got the duty. Bah.

[amsie]

I used to work with someone who would have stuck that Roadkill straight in the oven!!!

[chris1roll]

Rabbit for your tea tonight then..

[Don]

chris1roll said:

Rabbit for your tea tonight then..

Well I would have preferred not to waste it but once they've been hit with a car their insides leak into the meat and taint it: you really need to have killed it yourself from fully healthy to want to eat rabbit, IMO.

So I fear I disposed of it in the time honoured tradition: wheelie bin.

[mrmaggit]

Or you could leave it outside for your local fox to take tonight.

[Elskeggso]

Don said:

chris1roll said:

Rabbit for your tea tonight then..

Well I would have preferred not to waste it but once they've been hit with a car their insides leak into the meat and taint it: you really need to have killed it yourself from fully healthy to want to eat rabbit, IMO.

So I fear I disposed of it in the time honoured tradition: wheelie bin.

How long until it's bin-day? I did the same thing without thinking and had to wait about 5 days, LOTS of flies everywhere, and the smell...

[Famous Graham]

Colonial said:

Brown Snake.

Ah, the pragmatic aussie approach to naming conventions

[Colonial]

Famous Graham said:

Colonial said:

Brown Snake.

Ah, the pragmatic aussie approach to naming conventions

Next you'll be mocking the red belly black snake, the green tree python or the red back spider

[fathomfive]

Colonial said:

Famous Graham said:

Colonial said:

Brown Snake.

Ah, the pragmatic aussie approach to naming conventions

Next you'll be mocking the red belly black snake

No mocking, but I'd go to the doctors if I was you.

[AshVX220]

Nolar Dog said:

So you'd hit the rabbit by 7.00am? You must be very frustrated.

Got to agree with the OP though, if it's suffering, do the decent thing, even if it seems hard to do and harsh at the time.

[davemac250]

Be careful though.

I hit a town fox whilst in a marked police car a few years ago.

Being from the sticks originally I got out to put the thing out of its misery.

The complaint that two passers-by had seen a policeman beating a cute fox over the head with a truncheon took years to live down.

Bloody townies.

[Justayellowbadge]

davemac250 said:

Be careful though.

I hit a town fox whilst in a marked police car a few years ago.

Being from the sticks originally I got out to put the thing out of its misery.

The complaint that two passers-by had seen a policeman beating a cute fox over the head with a truncheon took years to live down.

Bloody townies.

It fell down the stairs, sarge. Honest.

[Famous Graham]

Colonial said:

Famous Graham said:

Colonial said:

Brown Snake.

Ah, the pragmatic aussie approach to naming conventions

Next you'll be mocking the red belly black snake, the green tree python or the red back spider

Sometimes you just take the piss, though. The chap who took us through the Blue Mountains was nattering on about wildlife and I asked him what the flightless birds with long curved beaks were in some of Sydney's parks.

"The Bendy Beaked Bird" was his reply.

They were sodding Ibises