Saw a cat run across the road, get hit by a car, bounce back onto the kerb and immediately leap up gyrating and trying to scratch its own face off where the car had hit it square in the head.
I screeched to a halt and whipped off my jacket to scoop it up with while it was wailing and fitting. The impact must have caused a a cranial haemorrhage because one of its eyes started projecting from its socket- gruesome sight anyway, but even more when it's still apparently concious and in agony.

I bundled it up and put it in the boot of my car and went straight to the vets where I legged it in with the (now) quiescent bundle and asked rather brokenly if there was anything they could do. The vetinary nurse dashed to get the vet and they both leaped into the examination room and closed the door.

What was probably only 5 minutes felt like an eternity, then the vet finally came out and gravely informed me that it was beyond help. They were kind enough to put my jacket through their washing/sterilising process but it must have still had some residual cat fear pheromone on it- each time I wore it I felt queasy. Had to bin it.

It wasn't even my cat!

ugh.
( Rotating Wobbly Hat That's not a banana. THIS is a banana., Mon 5 Aug 2013, 19:10, 6 replies)

Ugh indeed
I had to do the same thing for my neighbour (who didn't drive) when we found his cat in the front garden after she'd been savaged by a dog. Not pleasant. The cat did survive, but with only three legs.
( emvee cruor deo cruoris, Mon 5 Aug 2013, 19:50, closed)

Struck a collie once
Moving slowly in traffic on a rainy night, I saw the dog crossing at the last second, and veered. Startled by the impact, the collie, sensibly enough, got up and ran away. Probably OK in the long run.
(Perv With A Dog had his eyes pecked out by scrub jays on, Mon 5 Aug 2013, 20:49, closed)

Wasn't your cat.
But was it your car?
( Ghoti Fingers, Mon 5 Aug 2013, 22:10, closed)

Nah. I was in the car behind.
They just drove on.
( Rotating Wobbly Hat That's not a banana. THIS is a banana., Mon 5 Aug 2013, 22:44, closed)

Well done on stopping and trying to help.
Sadly, most would not.
(SpangoTheWonderBadger is brewing beer, Tue 6 Aug 2013, 10:23, closed)

This suggestion of actual empathy marks you out as some sort of freak.
You won't fit in around here you creepy cat fiddler.
( Infidel , shit and wrong, Tue 6 Aug 2013, 12:29, closed)

well obviously the accident only happened
because it was running away from my amorous advances in the first place.
( Rotating Wobbly Hat That's not a banana. THIS is a banana., Wed 7 Aug 2013, 0:39, closed)