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Yes, I've ran over a rabbit in my car.
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yes once I swerved to miss a dog and ended up running over a smaller dog because of it.
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Yes, I hit a squirrel with the car.
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I hit a bird once. I gasped and held my breath until I saw it come out behind my car in my rear-view mirror. It sort of tumbled and flopped, crooked, in the middle of the road. I cried!
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Yes I stepped on a chicken and it broke its neck.
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Sadly a bird did a head-on dive into my windshield once on the freeway... I don't believe it survived. :(
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Yes, Once I was very sick and didn't get out of bed for 3 days. When I finally did I realized that no one had taken care of some 6 breeding parakeets we had in an outside aviary. They were all dead:-( Ran out of food and with their fast metabolisms they can't go 48 hours without food. I had a hard time forgiving myself. It was all my fault.
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i ran over a squirrel driving a transit van there was nothing i could do to prevent it
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Depends on how small. I seem to hit a lot of bugs with my windshield a lot. Then the largest animal I hit was a deer. But yes if a bug can be called a small animal. Then I can say I hit them or they hit me all the time.
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Yes, several times. I've hit two birds by car and a dog (not all at the same time) of course and I was sad about it.
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yes it hit my car. And I went back to make sure it was dead. It was (thank goodness).
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My mom and I ran over a squirrel. Not a good feeling.
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Sort of. But not directly. I was walking on a sidewalk and I accidentally spooked this cat that was hiding behind some bushes. It took off and ran across the street where a car ran over it and killed it. Sad huh? Yeah.
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Not by accident myself, but I've been present when a pal of mine shot an arrow skywards for the helluvit ( we were 16...you do that at 16)and it landed in a bush thicket. Big jack rabbit on the pointy end. I wouldn't have believed it if I didn't see it. Naturally, waste not want not. Not a bad BBQ.
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Sadly yes. I was driving along a country road and saw a dog, swerved to miss it and ran into a second dog that was behind it. My friend and I took the dog into town and saw a vet (had to call them and wait as it was out of hours). The vet said the dog was too sick to get better and put it down. It had no collar or anything so no one could really be contacted about it. It really upset me at the time.
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No, but one of my friends did when she was younger, by sitting on her gerbil.
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I am sorry to say yes. I once lived and worked in a rural area, sadly one night when I finished work, it was dark and foggy, I hit a wombat. I am a slight thing, so moving it was almost impossible. I did manage to get it off the road, it had died. It was in the middle of absolutely nowhere, at about 2am. It could just as easy have been a kangaroo, or a dear. My legs shook all the way home. It was horrible.
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yeah and it's not nice :(
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Sadly, yes. When I was a child I stepped on a crawdad, my mom had to console me for 20 minutes on that one. I hit a cat once, and my husband had to console me for about an hour. I was riding one of my old horses when he stepped on (and crushed) a turtle, and I yelled at him for the entire ride back :(
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Yeah, all road kill. The one that upset me most was a black cat in a dark street in the middle of the night. By the time I saw it I had hit it. Another time I hit a rabbit while riding my motorbike at 140 kph ( = 87 mph ), I've hit a bird with a car and two other birds while riding a motorbike. Also, while riding a motorbike I've hit a great big thing that I don't know what it was. I only hit the side of it but I was doing approx 100 kph (62 mph) at the time. It was dark, I was in the middle of nowhere and I couldn't be bothered stopping so I don't know if I killed it. It had four legs, might have been a dog but I can't say for sure.
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Yes. Flies usually hit my car's windscreen and are killed.
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Yes I was driving down the highway at night, and all of a sudden I saw these 2 glowing eyes in my headlights, and then the poor little kitten ran out into the road, and it was too late for me to stop, or swerve to miss the poor little thing. I cried for 2 days after that : (
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Being a commercial driver who has logged over a million road miles, most of them at night, I have never hit a ground dwelling animal, but I have hit three owls over my years. Two hit the windshield of my big rig, one cracking it, and another small owl got stuck in the grill of my truck, that was a mess. I always feel bad for animals killed by vehicles, they don't understand fully what is going on and I'm sure the highways scare them, especially cats and dogs that wander onto the freeway.
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Yes I built a run for my sons guinea pig because I hated the cramped cage set up. I'd put him in it and let him play in the grass in the back yard and stretch his legs. One day the neighbors dogs got in my yard and they over turned the caged and killed the little thing. That was the last caged animal I ever had.
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I was driving on a country road and a cat ran out and i accidently hit it, i heard a thump, looked back and it his a mail box
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My brother (when he was 3) picked up our cat & simply said "Fly!" before letting it go off the balcony. It did land on its feet, but from 6 storeys up, it broke all its legs & died from trauma. I guess he was too young to know much better :(
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Yup, a tiny bird flew into our window and practically committed suicide so my dad drowned it. Seems harsh but the thing looked in pain and obviously wasn't going to recover =(
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Yes, I was present at 6 mercy killings of my cats.
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Yes, a couple of my own cats who had been hit by cars and a bird that crashed into a window.
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a kitten that liked to sleep under the car :( ex wife accidently ran over her one morning
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Sadly, yes. My wife raises small Parrots and once a baby was hatched deformed (read un-sellable) and I put it down using laquer thinner fumes in a warm, dark container. My hope was that the poor thing would just quickly lose conciousness in as comfortable setting as I could create. I was also able to not have to actually kill it with my bare hands. ( I'm not that macho). It was a horrible thing to do but we have to think of these animals as livestock and not pets, as this is a money-spinning hobby. Also, there is that old cliche: a man must shoot his own dog. If your going to have 'em/raise 'em/ sell 'em you should be prepared to clean up the mess.
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I once had to kill a mouse after the cat was done with it. Poor thing.
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Yes. I had to put a sick kitten down, but I was inexperienced, and the job went horribly, horribly wrong. The poor thing wouldn't die! It finally suffocated while unconscious. That's all I'm saying.
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A few fish- a puffer that was suddenly so weak he was getting stuck to the filter, and a few inbred mutants. Sounds silly but i was bawling when i put down the puffer, he was just so friendly and adorable. Haven't done anything furry, not sure i could handle it.
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Yes. His name... was Richard Simmons.
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Well, I've seen two dogs suicide while chasing my car's front tire. But when I was a kid, my mom started screaming that there was a mouse in the room. So I got out a broom and started whacking at it, intending to scare it good and shoo it out. The bristles stabbed it instead. Mouse kabob?
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Yes. An aphid was missing most of its legs, its abdomen was smeared all over the place, but it still twitched feebly. It's amazing how touched I was by this brave little insect.
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only killed spiders to put girlfriends out of their misery
- M.C.S. - Dave 
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