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[lisamoe]

So tonight the kids and I had some excitement, but not so much in a good way. We were on our way over to R's, going around the one lane ramp from 75 over to the BA near the river, when I realize the car in front of me is swerving. Then I see a medium sized white dog holding a leg up like he's hurt, but standing up. He looks like he's probably been hit. The kids are very upset and so am I, but there's no place to stop on that curve without me getting rear ended and getting the kids killed, so we get off at 13th street and race back down near the expressway, and I park the kids on SW Blvd, scale an embankment in my platform sandals (brilliant, I know) but by the time I get up there (probably 3 minutes tops from when we saw the dog) someone else has already picked him up. I was happy to see there was no blood on the road so maybe he'll be ok and isn't hurt too bad. I have no idea how I would have gotten him back to the car anyway, but we couldn't leave him, you know?

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[lisamoe.livejournal.com]

I don't think I'd relish trying to explain to the kids why we saw a hurt animal and could do something but didn't.

Do you remember a long time ago outside a Starbase meeting I think, we saw a dog get hit by a car and I was so impressed that jackofalltech ran out there, picked it up and put it in the back of his car (a stationwagon maybe?) and took it to a vet, even though it was bleeding and getting all over his car. I was just a kid then but it made an impression.