Let me tell you a little story...
My friend goes out to her barn this morning and finds two of her horses are out next to the road...her third horse is missing....frantically they search everywhere for it, and eventually they do find the horse about 3 miles down the road.....But it was too late... the horse was laying on the side of the road, with its back legs smashed and a pool of blood beneath her head.
She had wandered out of the broken fence and run down the road... where at some point during the night she had been hit by a car....thed driver of the car was nowhere to be found and she had been laying there in agony for at least 4 hours based on the size of the pool of blood beneath her. A sheriffs deputy doing his regular patrol found her thrashing on the side of the road and realizing she was beyond help shot her in the head giving her a mercy killing... He did not know who the horse belonged to so all he was able to do was pull her carcass the rest of the way off the road and go to the station to write his report.
My friend was the one to find her body this morning...She called her mother, grandfather, and my father and they went and loaded her body into the trailer...
Now I understand, these things happen...Animals break out, people cant react fast enough to stop in time...
:evil:WHAT I WANT TO KNOW IS WHERE THE HE** the person that hit the horse went? is it so freaking hard to stop, get out and check on the animal and CALL FOR HELP?!
Or even if they were nervous out on the dark road alone call someone and say "hey i just hit a large animal. i was driving on such and such road, near whatever and its still there. I didnt stop because i was really nervous but can you send some one to check on it and give help or mercy killing to it?"
Obviously they would had to have been stopped at some point cuz most small cars(the report said it was a small 4 door car) are gonna stop pretty quick when theyre front bumper kisses a 1300 lb animal?
are they really so inconsiderate of the animal that they cant even call the sheriffs department, or animal control or ANYTHING to get some help for the horse or at least move the body?! did they pause for one second and just think "holy crap i just took out a horse! i wonder if its alive?" or even look in their rearview mirror and see the horse thrashing around bleeding everywhere? did they really just keep driving without a thought to its life?
so PLEASE PLEASE if you are ever in this situation PLEASE call the sheriff, police, animal contro, or go to the house next to the stricken animal for help...it could save alot of heartbreak and alot of money...dont be the one that my friend will now hate forever for leaving her horse laying there alone in agony to die slowly.....
My friend goes out to her barn this morning and finds two of her horses are out next to the road...her third horse is missing....frantically they search everywhere for it, and eventually they do find the horse about 3 miles down the road.....But it was too late... the horse was laying on the side of the road, with its back legs smashed and a pool of blood beneath her head.
She had wandered out of the broken fence and run down the road... where at some point during the night she had been hit by a car....thed driver of the car was nowhere to be found and she had been laying there in agony for at least 4 hours based on the size of the pool of blood beneath her. A sheriffs deputy doing his regular patrol found her thrashing on the side of the road and realizing she was beyond help shot her in the head giving her a mercy killing... He did not know who the horse belonged to so all he was able to do was pull her carcass the rest of the way off the road and go to the station to write his report.
My friend was the one to find her body this morning...She called her mother, grandfather, and my father and they went and loaded her body into the trailer...
Now I understand, these things happen...Animals break out, people cant react fast enough to stop in time...
:evil:WHAT I WANT TO KNOW IS WHERE THE HE** the person that hit the horse went? is it so freaking hard to stop, get out and check on the animal and CALL FOR HELP?!
Or even if they were nervous out on the dark road alone call someone and say "hey i just hit a large animal. i was driving on such and such road, near whatever and its still there. I didnt stop because i was really nervous but can you send some one to check on it and give help or mercy killing to it?"
Obviously they would had to have been stopped at some point cuz most small cars(the report said it was a small 4 door car) are gonna stop pretty quick when theyre front bumper kisses a 1300 lb animal?
are they really so inconsiderate of the animal that they cant even call the sheriffs department, or animal control or ANYTHING to get some help for the horse or at least move the body?! did they pause for one second and just think "holy crap i just took out a horse! i wonder if its alive?" or even look in their rearview mirror and see the horse thrashing around bleeding everywhere? did they really just keep driving without a thought to its life?
so PLEASE PLEASE if you are ever in this situation PLEASE call the sheriff, police, animal contro, or go to the house next to the stricken animal for help...it could save alot of heartbreak and alot of money...dont be the one that my friend will now hate forever for leaving her horse laying there alone in agony to die slowly.....