I'm not sure I could do that. I mean, sure, I'd want to end their suffering, but I wouldn't be sanguine I'd be sure-handed enough.
Last year I came across a possum hit by a car in the middle of the road near my house. It's guts were burst out, but it was still alive, and unsuccessfully scrabbling with front feet trying to move to cover. I put on my hazard blinkers, placed my car in front of it so more cars would not run it over -- and got a lot of cursing and honking at me for it, despite there being PLENTY of room to go around me on the road -- put a box over it to shield it, and called Animal Control. Got a recording. They never showed up. All I could so is scoop the poor thing into the box and put it by the side of the road, knowing full well it's injuries were fatal, and hope it went into unconscious shock soon enough.
An LJ friend of mine who works at the Franklin Zoo tells me he carries a very heavy shovel in his car just for such roadside accidents, so he can swiftly dispatch with a blow to the head. I wonder if I could. :-<
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Date: 2010-11-07 08:33 pm (UTC)Last year I came across a possum hit by a car in the middle of the road near my house. It's guts were burst out, but it was still alive, and unsuccessfully scrabbling with front feet trying to move to cover. I put on my hazard blinkers, placed my car in front of it so more cars would not run it over -- and got a lot of cursing and honking at me for it, despite there being PLENTY of room to go around me on the road -- put a box over it to shield it, and called Animal Control. Got a recording. They never showed up. All I could so is scoop the poor thing into the box and put it by the side of the road, knowing full well it's injuries were fatal, and hope it went into unconscious shock soon enough.
An LJ friend of mine who works at the Franklin Zoo tells me he carries a very heavy shovel in his car just for such roadside accidents, so he can swiftly dispatch with a blow to the head. I wonder if I could. :-<