[Poll] What Would You DoFollow

Please tell me it was on a short leash...

The dog could have been on a leash, that's the part you do not know. However, it is still beside the point. She should not have gone out there, lose your dog or your life. Pretty simple to me.

Stuff like that just makes me cringe. Not the whole dog and person dying, AFAIC she deserved it if she ran out on to the highway for her dog. Its the fact that these people put their dogs so high up on a pedestal they become to them a person. Yeah yeah I know a lot of people do that, but I've watched people become so attached to their pooches that they tend to forget or care about the rest of their family *cough cough MIL* Sometimes, people can take that adoration of an animal that licks it's own crotch or another dogs butt then goes to lick your face a bit too far.

i'd be like GET OVER HERE! and then i would run out in traffic to save another living thing.

I bet they taste delicious.

"Death in Yellowstone" - Essential Reading.

The best story is the parents who painted honey on their child's head so they could get a cutesy photo of a bear licking it

You can guess the rest.

He stabbed them in their sleep? That's what they get for humiliating him like that.

I'd run after my dog, after making sure there were no semis barreling down the freeway! At that point, poochie is on his own.

It's hard to say what I would do. Most expressways have enough exits that it would be much safer to pull of and walk the dog away from the freeway.

One of our greyhounds got out of my mom's fenced in yard a while back. By the time I was able to run around the corner of the house, she was already three houses down at my uncle's house.

All of our dogs are tried to come back to a squaker, which is really a turkey call that sounds like a dying rabbit. But that only works to a certain distance. We always carry one in the car, just in case, but I'm not sure if it would even work given the distractions of all of the cars, and the fact that of being in an unknown area. We always try to keep safe by keeping the dog's leashes on in the car, and in some cases, even clipping extra leashes to the handholds of the vehicle to keep the dogs from being able to bolt.

I doubt I would run in front of a semi though, I'd rather have greyhound jerky then lose my life over it.

I'd have probably chased after the dog. Given the choice between saving a stranger and saving a dog, I'd probably choose the dog. Unless it was a child, then the dog is screwed.

I seem to recall a story about a woman in Toronto who crossed the 401 6 lane hiway to get a Tim Hortons coffee and was killed (kids left in the car on the shoulder) IFRC.

So is a blade of grass, a cricket, a frog and don't forget the mosquitos and bugs that end up as front grill ornaments on a warm summer's night.

I do not brake for animals. Driving school teaches this common sense. Sure, I won't go out of my way to aim at them, but if they get in front of my car they go splat. I will attempt to stop for a grown up, and I will risk my life for a child. That's the hierarchy.

Never take your dog on a roadtrip without a tennis ball and/or a steak bone for just these type of occurrences.

Edited, Feb 22nd 2007 3:46pm by fhrugby