Makes Me Mad as Hell
@nanette64 (20364)
Fairfield, Texas
May 24, 2018 9:26am CST
Everybody here knows that I'm a critter lover. One thing that sets me off more than anything is hitting an animal with a vehicle. I realize that there are some circumstances where out of the clear blue that a squirrel, rabbit, or something of that nature will literally scramble out across the road and it's too late to stop.
HOWEVER....#1; you DO NOT deliberately do it. #2; if it is already dead, you DO NOT deliberately drive across its body and #3; you don't go out of your way to deliberately hit it.
Example: yesterday when I was coming home from town, I spotted a Turtle in the road. I stopped the car, put my flashers on, got out of the car so I could move it to the side of the road. As I got to it, I realized that someone had deliberately hit it.
It's shell was cracked open and it's innards were hanging out of his body and the saddest part was that he was still alive. I picked him up as gingerly as I could and carried him over to the ditch.
Whoever did that should have the hell beat out of them. Let's face it....it's not like the turtle RAN across the road in front of a vehicle. Turtles pick up on vibration, so if there was a vehicle approaching, he would have stopped and pulled his head inside of the shell and waited.
So whoever did it; did it on PURPOSE!!!!! I was so upset and there wasn't anything I could do for him because he was hurt so badly.
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@WorDazza (15833)
• Manchester, England
24 May 18
Mrs WorDazza and I once got verbally abused because we stopped traffic on a country road to allow frogs to cross to their spawning pond. I ended up picking them up and carrying a lot of them because some idiot was getting seriously irate. I sarcastically thanked him for his patience when the frogs were safely across. He didn't pick up on the sarcasm!!
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@nanette64 (20364)
• Fairfield, Texas
25 May 18
Bless you and the Mrs heart @WorDazza . You did the right thing and SCREW the jerk.
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@MALUSE (69413)
• Germany
25 May 18
When the time has come that frogs start marching to their spawning ponds, people belonging to a nature organisation put up small fences along the roads. At night they come with torches, collect all the frogs which sit at the fences, put them into buckets and carry them across the roads.
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@nanette64 (20364)
• Fairfield, Texas
26 May 18
@MALUSE Oh how cool is that!!!!! What a terrific idea.
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@nanette64 (20364)
• Fairfield, Texas
25 May 18
Now that was a great guy @AmbiePam .
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@FourWalls (62172)
• United States
24 May 18
I brake for animals. It hurts me so much to see a squirrel hit. I've hit a couple of animals in my time, and I've literally cried over it.
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@nanette64 (20364)
• Fairfield, Texas
24 May 18
Me too @FourWalls and it's horrifying.
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@nanette64 (20364)
• Fairfield, Texas
25 May 18
Maybe 'they' need to get run over @nela13 . Paybacks are a bi*ch.
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@nanette64 (20364)
• Fairfield, Texas
26 May 18
@nela13 I went back by there yesterday and couldn't find where I had left him. I'm assuming a coyote or something else ate him.
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@nela13 (55700)
• Portugal
25 May 18
@nanette64 How can someone be so cruel? Do you know what happened to the poor turtle?
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@dgobucks226 (34370)
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25 May 18
I remember having a bird fly into my car I felt so bad. My friend had 2 of her cats run over by kids speeding through their neighborhood. Now that is criminal in my view. My natural instinct is to immediately brake for animals.
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@nanette64 (20364)
• Fairfield, Texas
25 May 18
Yeah, I think the bird would be the toughest to predict @dgobucks226 . I always break too. And with people on their cell phones all the time; they ain't paying attention to nothing.
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@nanette64 (20364)
• Fairfield, Texas
26 May 18
@dgobucks226 Boy ain't that the truth.
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@dgobucks226 (34370)
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25 May 18
@nanette64 Good point about the cell phones. We live in a society of distractions!!!!
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@skydancer (2101)
• United States
25 May 18
Ugh! I am by no means one of those hippie animal rights activists. However, I cannot STAND animal cruelty. One job I could never have is roadkill cleanup... it would just be way, way, WAY too upsetting.
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@nanette64 (20364)
• Fairfield, Texas
25 May 18
Oh I agree, that job would be extremely distressing @skydancer . I'd be bawling all the time.
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@nanette64 (20364)
• Fairfield, Texas
24 May 18
OR strap him to the road while I drive over him @vandana7 . 
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@nanette64 (20364)
• Fairfield, Texas
25 May 18
It's a lot tougher when it comes down to food or the critter @xiaolisu .
@nanette64 (20364)
• Fairfield, Texas
24 May 18
And it happens all the time @Cristi_Ichim .
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@amadeo (111948)
• United States
24 May 18
Mike save a turtle the other day.While walking the dog he noticed this.Brought Ms.Ruby home as he went out again facing traffic to save this wonderful turtle and he did.Picked him up and brought it near a brook at the the back of the old library.
This is not the first time.We had one in our driveway.What a beauty.Yep Mike saved him and to the brook.
Gotta love that man.lol
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@amadeo (111948)
• United States
24 May 18
@nanette64 thank you.Yes we try to save a much as possible
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@nanette64 (20364)
• Fairfield, Texas
24 May 18
Bless his heart @amadeo . Now that's what I call a good man.
@Tampa_girl7 (49010)
• United States
24 May 18
We see so many turtles crossing the road . We even saw one yesterday and I was praying that it made it across.
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@nanette64 (20364)
• Fairfield, Texas
25 May 18
And I just happen to have a rope too @DianneN .
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