I hate to ask this, but how'd the dog get hit by the car? I mean... was the dog on a leash, and the car just nailed it, or what? It's cool that the person taking care of the dog was compassionate and everything, but wouldn't it have been better if they'd been careful and not let the dog get run over in the first place?
Maybe the reason they don't want to tell the actual owner is that the owner will be crushed that they let the dog get killed?
@Judah, how do you know whether he was being careful or not? Do you really believe that all you have to do is 'be careful' and you will be able to prevent anyone or anything you love from being harmed? Grow up.
Someone was compassionate enough to come to my door and let me know my cat had been hit by a car. I held him in my arms for the few minutes it took him to die. It was sometime in the mid 80s but I will never forget that.... this totally brought me back. Thanks to the IA writer for being so utterly human as to help that man and the dog out.
RIP Winston....
Aww... typing and weeping simultaneously is harder than one would think.
Thank you for sharing this bittersweet story and thank you for stepping up and helping in a situation most folks would have ignored. Your actions were just as beautifully kind as those you're here praising.
It's such an unbelievably horrifying place to be to know that something you love is slipping away from you forever. Worse when you are bearer of the news to someone else you love. Thank you to the writer of this I anon for acknowledging this man's pain, and for being emotionally intelligent enough to not only help that person, but to share this story and thank him for the connection you shared. Thanks for reconnecting all of us who read it.
@16 - It happens. I saw a dog buck its collar at 2-yrs of age when it had never previously done so (unfortunately I hit that dog with my car, fortunately- the dog was just fine!!!)
Wow. I come to I Anonymous for my weekly dose of bile-laden train-wreck schadenfreude. This was actualy thoughtful, compassionate, amazingly humane and not self-centered. I feel unexpectedly uplifted (and teary - I'm a dog owner). What a nice surprise. Sucks about the dog though:(
this one threw me for a loop. not what i've come to expect from ia. nice. it reminds us how enlightening it is to appreciate something/someone other than ourselves, occasionally.
Yeah, you know, I'd like to get into a whole big thing with you about whether I've "grown up" or not, or whether I believe any of the stupid shit you're attributing to me, but most of that would boil down to the basic message: fuck you. So yeah. That.
The dog owner's reaction was compassionate. The witness admirably related his own compassionate contemplation of the owners compassion. The comments were compassionate. Until they weren't. Yeah, I know that transcendence on this plain always involves grappling with the gravity of the negative. But it must be a drag to be the turd in the punchbowl. Anyway, a beautifully unexpected I,A. Well done.
Dogs are invincible.
I will cry like a big, girly, man.
That was really sweet. Thank you, Anon.
I hate to ask this, but how'd the dog get hit by the car? I mean... was the dog on a leash, and the car just nailed it, or what? It's cool that the person taking care of the dog was compassionate and everything, but wouldn't it have been better if they'd been careful and not let the dog get run over in the first place?
Maybe the reason they don't want to tell the actual owner is that the owner will be crushed that they let the dog get killed?
RIP Winston....
What a heartfelt ANON! Thank you and bless you for sharing.
Thank you for sharing this bittersweet story and thank you for stepping up and helping in a situation most folks would have ignored. Your actions were just as beautifully kind as those you're here praising.
(Also, Science Chick's comments made the tears come twice.)
Yeah, you know, I'd like to get into a whole big thing with you about whether I've "grown up" or not, or whether I believe any of the stupid shit you're attributing to me, but most of that would boil down to the basic message: fuck you. So yeah. That.