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(Warning...NOT for the fainthearted) Yesterday, the kids and I were driving around the corner to go pay some bills in another town. We went down the hill and around the curve. There was this yellow corvette in front of us, stopped in the road. I realized he stopped because there was a small doe sitting in the road. She apparently had been hit by a car. Her mouth was bleeding and she wouldn't move. The yellow corvette guy finally went around her and then I slowly passed. I called my dh and asked him who I needed to call-the local police? They have an Animal Control. The doe needed to be moved out of the road so she wouldn't get ran over and make a mess. (That part of the road is rather ddifficult to see, so the possibility of someone hitting her was very likely) I call the police explain who I am and the situation. The dispatcher said Animal Control had gone home for the day, but they'll send an officer out. Sometime during this whole situation, my youngest dd, broke down and just started crying...."Mommy, I don't want that deer to die" awww bless her little, precious heart...she's so tenderhearted. I could understand this coming form a 4 or 5 year old, but my dd is now 10. I explained after we had turned around to make sure the doe didn't get hit, while waiting for the police that sometimes it's better for the deer to die than to suffer. Glad I did...when we wnet back the doe had got up and she was hobbling bad. Her hoof was kinda just hanging on. It was rather yucky...(thank goodness I told my dd not to look) She had hobbled into the woods next to the road. I got out of the car to keep an eye on her. The policeman came and I showed him where she was. I was hoping he'd put her down instead of making her suffer and continue in pain. I think she had blood coming out of her nose too. We left... My dd was still crying...which then I started crying. I tried to explain to dd well at least it wasn't a person...it would be better if the policeman put her down than for her to suffer...this wasn't going well...I was still crying..."How do you think Mommy felt when she ran over the birds?"...not helping!!! Then I thought of my friend ~C...and how she would be laughing over us crying over a deer... (if you go see ~C's blog, you'll know what I mean...) and that sorta cheered us both up...at least for a little while... then there was before bed again... that girl will NEVER be able to work as a vet or a medical person...she'd break down too often! |
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