What would you do?

[urbpan]

Imagine you are driving along a pretty busy highway and you see a badly injured animal in the road. Its innards are out a little, but it's alive and conscious. For the sake of the example, the animal is one that is common, but not invasive, like a possum in the eastern US or a red fox in the British Isles or Europe (can't think of an example for Australia, but you get the idea, right?)

What do you do? Do you move the animal off the road (with a shovel or something so you don't get bit)? Do you try to run the animal over and kill it more quickly? Do you try to kill it with something in your car (a shovel, some other tool)? Suppose it's a weekend or at night, and you can't get a hold of a rehabber, vet, or animal rescue org, what then?

Many of us have experienced something close to this, and I'd guess that most of us didn't feel any better after the experience.

Your thoughts?

Comments

[mellawyrden.livejournal.com]

I don't know, it's kind of a nightmare scenario of mine. I would want to euthanize it painlessly but don't know if I could hit it hard enough to do a quick job, or if my aim with the car would be good enough. If I had a gun I would use that but I wouldn't be able to look. I'm not good with atrocities.