Vibes for dog hit by a car, please?

Oh poor baby!!  I would have had to stop too!  I'm praying he is ok and that his owners are reunited with him and take good care of him through this!! 

Many and prayers being sent for this poor baby. You and the others are angels to stop and help him. Hopefully his owners are frantically looking for him and will find him. Please let us know if you hear anything.

Bless you and the other people for helping that poor dog. Sending lots of  that he makes it through and his owners can get there.

I just don't understand the mentality of people sometimes.

Not that I'm defending the driver, but it's very possible that the driver hit the pup without realizing it, especially if he was driving a high profile vehicle (like a big truck or SUV). Heck, I probably couldn't see a small dog or a cat if it ran out in the road right in front of me and I drive a car. There is a reason why I pull into the entrance to our driveway, get out and feed the outdoor cats, then inch my way in little by little. Yes, my car is now a "herding" vehicle.

A friend of my at work recently was in the same situation. He left for work, got there with no problems, then he gets a text from one of his neighbors informing him he hit his dog. The wife actually saw it happen. The kids were at the bus stop and she was keeping an eye on them until the bus came. The dog (a beagle mix named Bandit) somehow got out of the fenced in yard and was running to play with the kids. Yes, this all happened in front of the children. 

Luckily, the dog survived, my co-worker was able to leave as soon as he found out able it and go to the vet to put his name on the bill. Luckily it was just minor injuries and Bandit was fine in week or so but it wasn't his fault. He honestly just didn't see him and didn't realize he hit him

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Originally Posted by valanhb 
I really don't want to call them again on the just-in-case-he-didn't-make-it chance. Since I just went through losing my beloved Ophelia I know how raw my emotions were. I couldn't bear talking to people close to me, let alone strangers.
I'm going to stick by the Pollyanna stance that he got the care that he needed and is either with his family or his regular vet. They have my phone number on the caller ID and I left it in the first message, in case they got home before help arrived. So I'm going to continue to send healthy to him wherever he is and keep my head in the sand.

Heidi, you did everything you could. Stop beating yourself up over this. You're still dealing with your own lost. Think of it this way....if the pup went to RB  YOU are the one that he bonded too and helped him in his last hours. He didn't die unloved. If he didn't go to RB, you are the one that made this possible by finding him help ASAP. I'm sure Ophelia is proud of what you did you help him which ever the case may be. You made her proud so what else can you ask for?  ((hugs))((hugs))

So sorry to hear about Riley. 

I was hoping, too, and I'm so sorry he had to go to the Bridge. RIP, sweet Riley.

Oh I was so hoping for a happy update.  For you and for Riley.  And  to everything Laurie said.  I know it's what I would want to know if that happened to one of my precious babies.

 

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Originally Posted by LDG 

Oh Heidi, I can't imagine how difficult that was. How just horribly tragic this happened while the family was on vacation! But it must have been so comforting to for Riley's dad to know that his baby was not alone, that people cared, and tried to help.
I'm so sorry he didn't make it.
Wait peacefully over the bridge for your daddy to one day join you, Riley.
for his family.

Oh, I am so sorry. Thank you for caring about him, RIP sweet boy. :(

That is so sad. I think you are awesome for stopping to try and help the poor thing.

I know it isn't the same but...a couple years ago my husband found a squirrel in our yard. Was barely moving, back legs looked paralyzed. We got him in a cat carrier and searched til we found a wild animal rescue in the area. We took the squirrel in and had to fill out some paperwork. Poor thing was barely hanging on but we didn't want to think of it just miserable in our yard unable to move its entire back end. I got an update from them a week later that however he was injured it was too severe to save him, he was a young one too. I cried :( And I am not even a fan of squirrels.

Also a couple months ago, my husband and I were driving near a park in our area one day and hit something. We felt the car bump something and looked back in the rearview and saw a small brown lump in the road. We turned the car around and drove back that way and saw nothing. We stopped the car and saw blood in the street so we went searching and a couple minutes later saw a small animal on the side of the road. I wanna say it was a possum, but honestly I don't remember....either way, I tried to call the wild animal place for 20 min straight. It was hot that day, in the mid 90s and this animal crawled under our car to get shade while we stood on the side of the road not knwoing what to do. We knew we couldnt transport it to the wild animal hospital bc we had nothing to put it in. I ended up starting to walk to the ranger station and was able to flag down a park ranger who captured it. He said they have contacts at the wild animal hospital and was supposed to get it transported there. I tried to call the next day to check but never got through or got a return call.

I can't imagine someone wouldn't stop to at least check out a bump while driving...One of my biggest fears driving in my neighborhood is that a couple neighbors have outside kitties...I always drive slow on my street...I can't imagine hitting someones pet, I would feel absolutely horrible.

RIP Riley :(

I don't usually come to the Bridge, even when it's one of my own.  Somehow, this caught my attention and I read it.  That's such a sad story.  Bless you and the others who helped.  I feel terrible for the owner, as well.  The way DH and I came to own a dog (RIP, Bo) was that we were on our pick up dinner at a restaurant and saw a dog get hit on the very busy highway.  He ran into a ditch and a friend of DH's (on the way to a horse show with a trailer of horses) saw us by the side of the road and stopped, too.  The dog was bleeding from his mouth and coughing up blood. We called our vet and she came out, though it was pretty late on a Friday night.  We thought the dog would have to be PTS, but other than a broken leg he was fine.  We could not locate the owner, so we kept him.  And I'll never forget that the people at the restaurant held our take-out order for hours until we could get there to pick it up.