by Nathan Explosion on May 6th, 2008

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Have you ever found an injured animal on the road and felt that you just had to do something? What did you do?

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by Gold_Autumn on May 6th, 2008
Of course i'd do something! I've adopted many an animal that i've found on the side of the road or abandoned in a park. I think there were only 2 cases where the animal was so bad s/he had to be put down, which was very sad. But every other time i've had them fully checked and treated by a vet and taken them home as a new member of my family.
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- That is awesome! I take it these have generally been homeless pets such as cats or dogs?
  
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  by Nathan Explosion on May 6th, 2008
- Mostly cats and dogs, A few birds and ferrets too. I found a couple of snakes (live near the bush) but i'm not equipped to keep reptiles, i called in 'WIRES' they fix them up and release them safely in the wild.
  
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  by Gold_Autumn on May 6th, 2008
- What is "WIRES"??
  
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  by Nathan Explosion on May 6th, 2008
- Sorry, it's a wildlife conservation company, Australia..
  
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  by Gold_Autumn on May 6th, 2008
- So it's someone you call when there's an injured animal?
  
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  by Nathan Explosion on May 6th, 2008
- It's like the RSPCA but they cater for a wider variety of animals and do releases into the wild and stuff like that.
  
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  by Gold_Autumn on May 6th, 2008
- Ah I see. Thanks!
  
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by girlpower on May 15th, 2008
Yes, I found a injured deer on the road & pulled him away from direct traffic. I was picking my husband up from work & told him that if he was still alive (he was in bad shape) when we went back he had to put him out of his misery. I couldn't bare to shoot him myself. Thankfully he had passed by the time we got back.
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- Awe that sucks! That was very cool of you to pull him out of traffic. I found an injured raccoon that I knew wasn't going to make it through the night and all I wanted to do was put it out of it's misery but it was in the city so I couldn't shoot it. I ended up calling the police and all they could do was move it to the side of the road.
  
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by fgreen on May 13th, 2008
yes, i found an injured baby chick only 4 days old, laying on it's side, but i was too, late., it was dying, labored breathing. there was really nothing i could do about it. i felt really saddened.
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- Awe! That sucks! Baby birds are so fragile I sometimes wonder how any of them survive!
  
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by Anonymous on May 7th, 2008
Yep ! We found a dog ( A yellow Lab) in the middle of the road that had been hit by a car and left for dead. We stopped & picked him up and rushed him to an emergency vet center where they were able to stablize him and treat him until we could get him to a surgical specialist. The next day we took him to the surgical center and his pevis that had been broken in four places was repaired and he made a full recovery. We adopted him and he has a Great home now and is spoiled rotten : )
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- That is so cool! He is so lucky you found him!! Just out of curiosity what did you name him?
  
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  by Nathan Explosion on May 8th, 2008
- He is an awesome dog ! We named him Toby. He just looks like a Toby ;-)
  
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  by Anonymous on May 8th, 2008
- That's a rad name! Some dogs just have the look that fits a certain name and you have no other choice!
  
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  by Nathan Explosion on May 8th, 2008
- That is so true .. What was cool about it is that he took to that name so quickly. It's like he was saying
  "Yep! That's my name " !
  
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  by Anonymous on May 8th, 2008
- One of our dogs was the same way. We named him Bruce (after Bruce Campbell) and he took to it like he knew his name was Bruce all along!
  
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by Galeanda on May 7th, 2008
Several times. One was a hawlk that had been shot by someone that my husband found on his way to work. He grabbed the bird, stuffed him in his sidebags and quickly drove back home, shoving this bleeding wreck at me and driving off:-)
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- Did the hawk make it?
  
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  by Nathan Explosion on May 8th, 2008
- Sure did, we had it for several months and she healed and we released her locally. She found a mate and had many families of red-tailed hawks. She was easy to recognize as the site of the injury grew back a patch of white feathers so we could keep an eye on her;-)
  
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  by Galeanda on May 8th, 2008
- Wow! That is SO cool!
  
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by deltabtry on May 7th, 2008
Found a injured Raccoon, I ended up shooting it.
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- To put it out of it's misery? I found one in the city so shooting it wasn't an option although I really wanted to end his pain and suffering.
  
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by Penal Colony is wicked marrying Andy on May 7th, 2008
A couple of times. Once I was on a camping trip with my friends, and we saw a farm dog get hit by one of those huge trucks that carries a bunch of cars on it. The dog's poor arm was snapped right in half, and there was blood everywhere. Luckily, one of my friends is a vet, and he handled the situation pretty well. We called the cops and he got the dog to the nearest animal hospital.

Another time I saw a skunk that had been obviously hit by a car, but it wasn't dead. Just the lower half of its body was smashed to a pulp. I thought I was going to throw up when I saw it, but I still slowed down and ran over its head to put it out of its misery. :(
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by jaek on May 7th, 2008
Saw a pup on the road. Bought a bag of dog food and feed the little guy. He was pretty much the happiest dog in the world after that.
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by Someguy on May 7th, 2008
Yep. We adopted the puppy and had him for 13 years.
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by DreAnna on May 7th, 2008
Was following a driver that hit someones german shepard and just kept going, I had to stop and drag it into my car. I took it too the closest animal hospital:)
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by DiSTurBiA on May 7th, 2008
a truck in front of me smashed into a deer, and just kept going, that poor thing was so messed up, I did the only thing I thought was right, and took it out of it's misery. with a broken spine, looked like a broken neck, it's rear end was demolished. I did only what I thought was right, then took the license plate number off the asshole that hit the poor thing and fled, gave it to the police.
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by Vellygirl on May 6th, 2008
omg, I stopped to help what looked like an emaciated stray kitty walking along the ditch, the cat ran off and I almost walked into a black and shocking yellow spider with a back the size of a golfball. I got spider issues with those wee lil white house types that nestle themselves into corner cocoons, the encounter cured me of such trivialities. This was my first and last experience chasing pussy
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by erikko on May 6th, 2008
I found a weak cat in our street, I treated it and cared for a month. I tried to set it free but it didn't go so it turned out to be my pet
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- That rules! My wife and I had a very similar experience with one of our cats. She was a neighbor's cat and they weren't feeding her and she had sores on her head so we started feeding her and eventually she just became one of the family!
  
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  by Nathan Explosion on May 6th, 2008
- aww.. that your kitty in the pic? All my kitties have been rescues from the pound, the one chase didn't work out too well
  
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  by Vellygirl on May 6th, 2008
- Vellygirl: You are a very awesome person in my book to have gotten all your kitties from the pound!!
  
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  by Nathan Explosion on May 6th, 2008
- most have been seniors, so we don't have them long, but at least they spend their later years comfortable and cared for.. I dig cats :)
  
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  by Vellygirl on May 6th, 2008
- That's very kind of you! I love cats also!
  
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  by Nathan Explosion on May 6th, 2008
- aww thanks, but they do give back so much in return, they are not geneticly loyal or devoted pets, so when they choose you, it's because you click, they like ya, and they let you know it with respect, gratitude and the odd dead animal left at the door. what's not to love?
  
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  by Vellygirl on May 6th, 2008
- LOL! Very true indeed!
  
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