(June 22, 2015 at 5:02 pm)Catholic_Lady Wrote:(June 22, 2015 at 4:49 pm)abaris Wrote: I'm the same with every animal.
I can't say I stop for the wild animals. Unless I could tell they really were alive, in which case I would absolutely stop.
But for cats and dogs, yes. If I can't tell be 100% sure that they are dead, I stop. One of my cats was a kitten I found in the middle of the highway right after having been run over. I still don't know how he survived.
We had a couple out for a walk find a Golden Retriever that they thought was dead....until they got to within 10 feet of it when it moved its head. He was in bad shape so they wrapped him in one of their jackets and carried him home. While the wife gave him water the husband went online and called our Rescue. Within an hour we had one of our volunteers out there making sure that he was a Golden ( his coat was so red that he might have been an Irish Setter ) and then drove him to the vet. One of our vet liaisons arranged for him to be admitted...after hours... to our primary vet who stabilized him and operated on his leg ( he had been hit by a car and had a badly fractured rear left ) the following morning.
Today - 18 months later - he is merrily adopted, running around like a nut ( which is what est. 3 year old Goldens do) and driving in and out of the pool. But, it all happened because that original couple went to see if he was still alive.
Call a Rescue or a shelter in your area. They always need volunteers.
