Really wierd, not nice feeling!

Phil W

Phil W

Phil W

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Seeing dead animals on the side of the road is pretty much an every day occurance. You find rabbits, badgers etc all the time that didn't *quite* run fast enough across the road, and met their maker at 30+ mph.

I've never hit anything with the car before, nor have i ever seen anything hit and still alive!

Tonight i got home from work and forgot my keys, so instead of pulling my car out of the garage, my mum ran me back down (2min drive.) Couldn't find them so got back in the car and headed back.

All of a sudden my mum looks in the rear view mirror, then slams her brakes on and starts crying and screaming hysterically "oh no, go out and move it quickly". I look across and theres a rabbit, its back legs and i'd say most of its rear end had been obvioulsly ran over by a car (surrounding the road is fields either side.)

I say i can't get out and move it, but theres no traffic about and mums fit of hysterics seems to be getting worse, so i get out of the car and run across the road. As soon as the rabbit catches sight of me, it starts squealing, but i pick it up as gently as i can and carry it over to the hedgeways near by, and put it through as far as i can.

Get back into the car and go home and still can't find my keys, so mum takes me back to work again, and theres a woman stopped by the road, who is standing by the area i put the rabbit in, so we stop and do the window down and ask her if she was the one who hit the rabbit, she replied she had seen it around.

At this point her jumpers covering the rabbit as its obviously quite scared, as she's also on the phone to her friend shes asking whether she should take it to the vets, but by the time she had finished talking to us and got off the phone, the rabbits pulled itself away and dissapeared into the undergrowth.

Now, i know there are thousands of rabbits, and i dare say dozens if not hundreds get killed every day, but maybe its because my mum was hysterical, but for some reason i feel really cr*p and down?!

I suppose thats where compassion and feelings shine through in people, but man, do i feel strange :confused:

Anyway, thats my little bit vented for the evening, thanks for (an ever so slightly depressing) read.

Phil
 
*hug* it's ok, i cry when i see roadkill that's blatantly been dead for weeks.. i'd feel pretty sad if i killed a poor rabbit, it was probably thumper from bambi :( now bambi has lost his mom and his best friend..
 
So you found a wild rabbit, with its back end smashed by a passing car. It was squealing, had zero feasibility of survival, so you stuck it in a hedge out of compassion :confused: Next time do the poor bugger a favour and neck it, tbh. If you're not comfortable with that (necking rabbits is a bit of a skill to be fair) just give it a good HARD whack on the back of the head/base of the skull - aka "rabbit punch".
 
Oh wait a minute, we didn't hit the rabbit, someone else did, we just saw it crawling up the opposite side of the road :(
 
You feel that way because you were in the car that ran it down. It is in pain and you just moved it to the side of the raod.

You could have taken it to the nearesd PDSA center where they would take them in but I guess you did not know this. A run of the mill Vet would do nothing as they would loose money treating it whereas the PDSA is a charity that normally treats animals in such instances.

edit: noticed you reply saying you didnt run it down... idk why your mother was so bad over that.. pff. And I agree with one of the above posters, should have ended it or tried to help it. Not move it to the side of the raod but meh, it is just a rabbit as some people say
 
[TW]Fox;12097202 said:
All that over a rabbit?
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Unfortunately yes, didn't mean to waste 2 mintues of your life ;)

I think it was made worse by the fact that mums currently "babysitting" my GF's daughters hamster while she's between houses (waiting to move into our own place) and a rabbits small, and furry, like a hamster :confused:
 
Rainmaker said:
So you found a wild rabbit, with its back end smashed by a passing car. It was squealing, had zero feasibility of survival, so you stuck it in a hedge out of compassion :confused: Next time do the poor bugger a favour and neck it, tbh. If you're not comfortable with that (necking rabbits is a bit of a skill to be fair) just give it a good HARD whack on the back of the head/base of the skull - aka "rabbit punch".
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Wouldn't have the first idea about "necking" a rabbit to be honest, hardly carry a shovel in the boot for such occasions either :D
 
I've taken out a who warren before with a shotgun, they did had myxomatosis though seemed the right thing to do, did get a few looks though as it was about 200ft from a A road in a farmers filed, looked like I was going nuts blasting the dirt!
 
Grrrrr said:
Christ you didn't kill the poor thing? That's why you're feeling crap and down
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No, was one of those situations where i sort of just did what was asked of me, i didn't even notice it until i had a hysterical parent (who happened to be driving a car - not good!) screaming at me!

In hindsight the better thing would have been to "finish it off".
 
it's ok, it's probably dead by now... or still bleeding to death and squealing loudly, begging to be put out of its misery?? who knows?
 
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