(You are driving along a busy intersection when you notice an animal by
the side of the road. It's obviously been hit by a passing vehicle, but
has not died yet. It also looks as if it might have been someone's pet.)

(do you stop your car to take a closer look at it?)

22 responses total.

Yes...

Of course...Never would I consider letting an animal suffer...

If the injuries are minor: yes, I would save it.
If it is mortaly wounded: one (or more) swift blow to the head would put it
out of it's misery.

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I might or I might not.  It depends.  I did try to help a cat that was
hit by a car once, but It was too late.

I'd definitely stop to look at it.  What I'd do after that would depend on
circumstances.

This brings to mind a sad incident from my childhood.  A cat was hit
by a car in front of my house.  The driver stopped and threw her
out of the road onto our front lawn.  I went over to see if she could be 
saved and realized that she was pregnant, but dead.  I watched for
what seemed like most of a day, with tears running on my face as the
kits writhed and struggled and slowly died of suffocation.  Had I been
older I might have known about c-setions, and I might have tried to save
the kits.  But at 7 I didn't know.  My mother just said not to touch it.

Hmmm...performing C-sectionds at age 7 is not the best isdea in the world. 
But it might have been woth a shot...the kittens would have died anyways, even
if you had goofed in the operation.
To those who wuld have put it out of its misery I say How?  Pixck up a stick
and club it?  Run it over?  Actually, no I don't have any hard feelings
towards animals, I'm just curious.

The seven year old wouldn't have to know how to do a c section, just that
they were possible.  Knowing that they were possible the seven year old
could have gone and found somebody who did know how.  Not knowing they
were possible, that would have been kind of pointless.

I would probably call some type of vet?

I probably would've called the humain socity

while it is true even the sweetest of animals can become mean spirited when 
hurt, i dont think i would be able to stop myself from trying to help it in 
some way...especially as it is small...

the last not-quite-roadkill I remember assisting was a rabbit that I'd
found while doing my paper route some years ago. my dad and I took it all
the way out to Pittsfield Township because ithad the only animal doctor
nearby that wsa open on a Sunday. Unfortunately, the rabbit died.

Usually, if I find a dead squirrel in the road (I'm usually on bike when I
do this), and the body hasn't been crushed by oncoming trafic yet, I will
pick up the carcass and move it to the side of the road. I wash my hands
later.

If I could see that the animal was definately alive, yes I would stop.  I
have a great love for animals.  A few years ago my sister's dog got hit
on a highway near our house and I turned around the block to see if it was
really him.  Someone had already called the city to come and do something
with his body.  All I wanted to do was go and hold him, because he wasn't 
dead yet.  Nobody, even animals, should have to die alone.

when you do sas much driving as i do you hit alot of animals so you tend to
learn that if an animal is laying on the side of the road it is going to die so
why hold up trajjic; trajjic=traffic; run that sucker down

If i thought the animal could be saved , yes. if traffic permitted.

Yes stop, inspect, dial 911 wait to file report and give observations, remember
in some states it is illegal to leave an accident scene or disregard one.

I most situations yes, I'd stop, but if I was in a REALLY bid hurry I'd just
call the humane socity the next chance I get

If it's not dead, yet, I carefully take it home, kill it, cut it into smaller
pieces if nescessary, and freeze it for later meals.

Generally, I will just run the animal over again to make sure that the critter
isn't in any pain...

If I'm not drunk, I usually stop and take the animal to the vet to be put to
sleep.  Once I put an unconscious but living dog in the bed of my truck...it
came-to  while I was going 75 down the highway and fell out of the bed of the
truck.  Needless to say, I don't stop on freeways.

No, I would not stop. That sounds mean, but this is a game of honesty, right?

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