Is it humane to finish off roadkill??

TheDriver · 26-02-2014 01:03AM #1

Hypothetical situation but lets say you ran over an animal with your car and stopped. It was still alive but obviously on its last legs (no pun intended). Would you throw her into reverse and save the pain or let nature take its course?

shopaholic01 · 26-02-2014 01:05AM

I'd probably cry.

:(

mfergus · 26-02-2014 01:05AM

Personally I think you should do whatever way would end the animals life quickest, providing you believe it's incapable of recovery...

Cookie_Monster · 26-02-2014 01:05AM

smack it with the tyre iron

juniord · 26-02-2014 01:06AM

depending on what it was , if i could feed it to the dog it would be coming home with me

freyners · 26-02-2014 01:07AM

anyone else think of house of cards?

catallus · 26-02-2014 01:08AM

If there was absolutely no hope of the animal surviving and being brought back to health, then I'd have to run over it again, either that or "smack it with the tyre iron" as it is so succinctly put above. But I'd have to really wind myself up to do that.

TheDriver · 26-02-2014 01:09AM

to add to the question, would you do it with people looking on?

beano345 · 26-02-2014 01:10AM

TheDriver wrote: »

Hypothetical situation but lets say you ran over an animal with your car and stopped. It was still alive but obviously on its last legs (no pun intended). Would you throw her into reverse and save the pain or let nature take its course?

Had to do those a few years ago after running over a pheasant one morning

TheDriver · 26-02-2014 01:11AM

beano345 wrote: »

Had to do those a few years ago after running over a pheasant one morning

that was a posh dinner sorted.....

beano345 · 26-02-2014 01:14AM

TheDriver wrote: »

that was a posh dinner sorted.....

That pheasant still haunts me in my sleep!

.Henry Sellers. · 26-02-2014 01:18AM

Reversing over an injured animal runs the risk of further injuring it and adding more pain, anything small enough to be reversed over could have its neck broken by hand or dispatched with a tyre iron. Reversing over a deer is ambitious, I would think it'd be better off to have it shot or have a vet put the animal down, just a nasty situation to caught up in.

mfergus · 26-02-2014 01:21AM

.Henry Sellers. wrote: »

Reversing over an injured animal runs the risk of further injuring it and adding more pain, anything small enough to be reversed over could have its neck broken by hand or dispatched with a tyre iron. Reversing over a deer is ambitious, I would think it'd be better off to have it shot or have a vet put the animal down, just a nasty situation to caught up in.

I can picture that scene from me myself and Irene...

holystungun9 · 26-02-2014 01:48AM

I got in some sh1t with a gf about this and prob some people on here soon. Driving around the town and there was a cat half squashed and I really mean squashed. It wasn't just hit but it was rolled over, prob only a minute or less beforehand. Its head was moving a bit but there was no way this cat was going to stay alive. I saw the situation, evaluated it quickly (and accurately in my opinion) so swerved to put it out of its misery. Sorry everybody, didn't feel great about it but was certain that was the thing to do. GF was way behind on seeing the situation and only got up to speed by asking did I hit something. I should have just said nothing.

HomelessMidge · 26-02-2014 01:54AM

I can just think of The Inbetweeners squirrel episode.

Muise... · 26-02-2014 01:54AM

It seems a bit rude somehow to drive over a near-dead animal - insult to injury really. I think it deserves the courtesy of getting out of the car, apologising, and a swift dispatch by a blow to the head/breaking neck.

bogwalrus · 26-02-2014 01:59AM

freyners wrote: »

anyone else think of house of cards?

First thing that came to mind.

I have a syringe and morphine hid in the house in case the dog gets knocked down. Would hate to see my dog in pain after being hit by car so would have to inject him.

stefan idiot jones · 26-02-2014 02:02AM

I know a guy who was driving near his house down a country lane who thought he had clipped a cat.

He stopped, got out and saw a cat limping badly down the lane.

He panicked, saw the cat limping, put two and two together and put the cat out of it's misery.

Two days later a worried neighbour called around looking for their pet cat. They said he couldn't have gone very far as he had a deformed back leg and didn't wander off.

The guy went down the lane again and found the cat he had clipped dead in the hedge.

He will burn in Hell.

The Diabolical Monocle · 26-02-2014 02:03AM

This is acceptable for humans too right ??

I mean a prison sentence does nobody any good.

Not that I ever...nothing happened really.

Renegade Mechanic · 26-02-2014 02:05AM

ALWAYS finish your roadkill, OP.. Its good for you.

Galwayguy35 · 26-02-2014 02:22AM

This happened to me yesterday morning, a hare ran out in front of me and had just made it across when he for some unknown reason decided to double back and went under the wheel of the car, I got out to see how badly injured he was but he was dead.

No way would I have been able to hit him with the tyre iron or drive over him again though.

I felt like shít afterwards though.

endacl · 26-02-2014 02:27AM

Humane doesn't come into it. If it's still twitchin' it doesn't count as roadkill. Bang of a wheel brace. Just to keep this thread accurate, like.

:pac:

tim3000 · 26-02-2014 02:32AM

holystungun9 wrote: »

I got in some sh1t with a gf about this and prob some people on here soon. Driving around the town and there was a cat half squashed and I really mean squashed. It wasn't just hit but it was rolled over, prob only a minute or less beforehand. Its head was moving a bit but there was no way this cat was going to stay alive. I saw the situation, evaluated it quickly (and accurately in my opinion) so swerved to put it out of its misery. Sorry everybody, didn't feel great about it but was certain that was the thing to do. GF was way behind on seeing the situation and only got up to speed by asking did I hit something. I should have just said nothing.

I think you were right to do it. Its not the most pleasant of methods but at least its fast and you might have saved the cat a few minutes of agony. Kudos for having the ability to gauge the situation .

BillyMitchel · 26-02-2014 02:33AM

HomelessMidge wrote: »

I can just think of The Inbetweeners squirrel episode.

Or the one when they're on a boat and can't kill the fish

Tokyo · 26-02-2014 03:01AM

Have had to do it quite a few times - lived in the NT, Australia, and it was pretty common to have something come out in front of the 4WD. Depending on the size of it, I'd break its neck or shoot it (usually had a rifle in the back of the 4WD) or cut its throat. Hell of a lot more humane than leaving it there, or backing over it again.

Had a cat fall from a 4th floor balcony one night a few months ago, while. drinking outside a bar in Poland. Cat hit the table umbrella before it hit the ground, which stopped it from being killed outright, but broke its back. Found out that night that it's NOT a good idea to put an animal out of its misery in front of other people....

Totofan99 · 26-02-2014 04:34AM

I killed a badger one night. Felt bad for the poor fella. Felt bad about the damage to my car at the same time though. I think that finishing off an animal in that situation is definitely the most humane thing to do. Having said that, I'm not sure what I'd do if I hadn't killed that badger outright. Might be fairly difficult to finish him off like....

diomed · 26-02-2014 08:01AM

Cookie_Monster wrote: »

smack it with the tyre iron

About 30 years ago in Africa I ran over a bunch of mongooses. I heard a bump and stopped. One was lying in the road. So with a heavy heart I opened the car bonnet to get the car jack.
Someone had stolen my car jack! Then I looked again and the mongoose had got to his feet and was staggering away to join his mates.

dmc17 · 26-02-2014 08:16AM

TheDriver wrote: »

Hypothetical situation but lets say you ran over an animal with your car and stopped. It was still alive but obviously on its last legs (no pun intended). Would you throw her into reverse and save the pain or let nature take its course?

It'd be a shame to waste it

Is it humane to finish off roadkill??

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