@Renee 145165 wrote:
Hey guys
I’m not an animal rights activist or anything. I eat meat. I’m not a vegetarian nor a vegan of any sort.
However, last night I was driving home from dropping a friend off at her boyfriend’s house and as I was around the corner from my own house I noticed that something was crawling across the road.
As I got closer to it I realised it was a possum, so I pulled over and got out to move it off the road. Another lady did the same to help me. This is a really busy road.As we went over to help the poor animal who had been hit by a car, I was trying to get the oncoming cars to slow down so they didn’t hit it. Some stupid woman wouldn’t slow down so I walked straight in front of her car to make her slow down. The other lady started screaming obscenities at her, then she drove off…
So we put a blanket over the possum and walked it over to the side of the road..
I tried using my mobile to call WIRES (wildlife service) however the Optus lines were down and I couldn’t make a single call.. not happy with optus right now.
So after about 5 minutes of the possum slightly struggling, it finally passed away. We put it in a bush because there was nothing else we could do.
As I was driving home I thought to myself ‘how could someone hit a helpless animal like that and just leave it there to die’. It made me cry.
It also made me think of my poor kitty Mase who, a few years back, was also hit by a car. Noone stopped to help him. I found him in shock and took him to the vet where they had to put him down because the impact gave him brain damage.
I guess the point of me posting this is to urge people who have accidentally hit an animal on the road to at least pull over and help the poor animal because it can’t help itself.
That’s all.
Thanks for reading.
Where are you based again? Never go to New Zealand as I heard that running over possums is a national sport over there. Which is probably due to the fact that the possums have spread like mad and are endangering the Kiwis (the bird not the people :tongue:) among other species.