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My thoughts exactly when I stop to think of Chip. Now don't get me wrong, I
understand accidents, I know sometimes when a dog darts in front of you it can
be impossible to avoid hitting it. I also understand that you can not risk the
safety of your family in a car in order to swerve to avoid an animal if to do so
would cause you to wreck. (I am so thankful that so far, I have never been the
one who has had to make the quick decision!) However, people who drive
recklessly, make no attempt to "miss" an animal, talk on the cell, ect., they
irritate me. The people who just don't care...they make me mad!!
MY mom hit a neighbors cat once. I can still see it's little body flying
through the air. It was an accident she couldn't avoid....the cat ran out in
front of her after a ground squirrel. However, we stopped the car!! We got the
cat and took it to the vet!!! I paid the bill!!! Unfortunately, the cat did not
make it, but we tried. We cared!
Had the person who hit Chip stopped, he maybe would have lived. He was
still bleeding when I found him, so he hadn't been dead more than a few
minutes!! He lived a while....if they had only stopped!
Marsha
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Saturday, November 05, 2005 7:22
PM
Subject: Re: [Chihuahuas] Re: "Dear Mom
and Dad" - Cyndie , Marsha
Hello everyone. I just wanted to comment on th "Dear Mom and Dad" post
going around. This is the cruel reality, but people are a lot more cruel than
this. I belong to another group and the owner of the other list wrote this
earlier. This is truly horrifing.
I need to vent. I hope you'll grant
me this one time. Yesterday, I went to New Braunfels to Radio Shack to
pick up a couple of connectors for my ham radio shack (I am WI5O). As I
drove down Business I-35 towards San Antonio through New Braunfels, I came up
on a stoplight. About twenty cars were stopped.
Then, the light turned green. And as it would be, about every car
floored the gas pedals and sped away. In front of me, I saw an impending
tragedy. A brown Chihuahua in the four lane busy street, trying to make
his way to safety on the other side of the road. He was scared and
runing hard.
A woman in
a white SUV sped up and held her lane and hit the little Chihuahua. It
was awful. I was about three cars behind and had to witness this.
Being a Chihuahua lover, it really hurt to watch the little Chihuahua fold
up. I immediately looked for a place to pull off and see if I can rescue
the little fellow.
Now this
is where I need to vent. Please stick with me. What in the hell is
happening to people in America? No one would stop and give four of us
the chance to get that little dog out of the road! It was a road with a
speed limit of 30 MPH, but everyone was driving around 50 MPH. Some
arrogant people even honked us out of the way and finally, one driver had so
much ignorance that she ran over the Chihuahua a second time and that just
wasted me and three ladies and kids that were also trying to help that
Chihuahua. That killed the Chihuahua.
No one seems to care about living creatures
these days. I wonder how they would have felt if they were the ones
lying in that street? I have now doubt that the idiots would have ran over me
had I walked in the street. You see, "Green
Means Go". No matter what to
humans. They don't care who or what they run over to get to their next
bargain.
We
eventually got a red
light to move the little Chihuahua
out of the road. What a beautiful little Chihuahua he had been at one
time. He is at the Rainbow Bridge, waiting for his master someday.
He will not have to worry about these people with rudeness and haphazard
manners over the bridge.
People,
slow down when you drive, be careful, courteous, and remember that bargain
will be there when you finally get there. Little pets like that
Chihuahua are color blind. "Green
Means Go" just as much to the
Chihuahua as it does to a human. Now go figure - who has more
intelligence to decide what to do? Chihuahua or human?
That was very sad to watch as the Little
Chihuahua ran head on into the left front tire of that car and fold up
instantly. Worse, I didn't get a chance to pick him up and try to get
him to a vet because some ignorant human decided that he had not been run over
enough and did it again. Oh yeah, I could not forget, the lady that hit
the little Chihuahua the second time was wearing a mobile phone upon her
ear.
I hope the
little Chihuahua has green pastures over the bridge.
Lacey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I
also appreciated this post. It does make you realize how much we
love
our babies. It's horrible how some people do these things, but
it is way
too common. And Marsha, so sorry to here about Chip. My
thoughts and
prayers are with you. ~Lacey
In [email protected],
"Cyndie & John" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>
>
This is reality. I read it & cried & as Marsha said it made me
> appreciate the babies I have. I didn't send it to upset or offend
> anyone, I sent it because as a lover of those I have & lost it
made
> me stop & think.
> Cyndie
> --- In
[email protected], Diane Drake <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
wrote:
> >
> > this is as disturbing as our local
newspaper 'the press
> enterprise' running a story with graphic
pictures on the front
page
> of dead and dying animals at the
shelter on christmas morning.
yes,
> they chose to run this
on christmas morning.
> > i don't understand the need to try to
make people feel bad about
> things they can't control. this
isn't a wake up call, it's just
> mean.
> >
>
>
> >
> > Cyndie Castelletti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> >
> > Dear Mom and Dad,
> >
I died today. You got tired of me and took me to the shelter.
> They were overcrowded and I drew an unlucky number. I am in a
black
> plastic bag in a landfill now. Some other puppy
will get the
barely
> used leash you left. My collar was
dirty and too small, but the
> lady took it off before she sent me to
the great beyond.
> > Would I still be at home if I hadn't chewed
your shoe? I didn't
> know what it was, but it was leather, and
it was on the floor. I
> was just playing. You forgot to
get puppy toys.
> > Would I still be at home if I had been
housebroken? Rubbing my
> nose in what I did only made me
ashamed that I had to go at all.
> There are books and
obedience teachers that would have taught you
> how to teach me to go
to the door.
> > Would I still be at home if I hadn't brought
fleas into the
> house? Without anti-flea medicine, I couldn't
get them off of me
> after you left me in the yard for days.
>
> Would I still be at home if I hadn't barked? I was only
>
saying, "I'm scared, I'm lonely, I'm here! I want to be your best
> friend."
> > Would I still be at home if I had made you
happy? Hitting me
> didn't make me learn how.
> >
Would I still be at home if you had taken the time to care for
me
> and to teach manners to me? You didn't pay attention to me
after
> the first week or so, but I spent all my time waiting for you
to
> love me.
> > I died today.
> >
Love,
> > Your Puppy
> >
> > -author
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> >
> >
> >
> >
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