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Now, THAT is a man!!!

He's a HERO. That's so uplifting. Thanks KF

Seriously? Scumbag? Because they hit a dog and didn't turn around on the interstate? You're only correct if you're certain that an able-bodied individual KNEW that they hit the dog AND didn't think it was dead. I've hit animals unintentionally and felt horrible for it, but not returned for the animal. Let's say traffic is heavy, you have a child or children in the car. Are you to pull the car over and leave a child unattended to go check on the animal? Are you to call an ambulance for the dog? Are we, who trumphet for decency to stop eating meat or wearing leather? Scumbag? I love animals. I treat them with a decent and appropriate amount of care, but am still capable of prioritizing as to what should be the next logical step in all cases. Get a life.

3:54, you hit a dog, yes, you go back to see if it can be saved. I can't imagine any circumstance short of a family emergency stopping me from doing so. Traffic? Child in the car? I'd still turn around. If anything it's showing the child respect and concern for a suffering life.

I don't think I could look my dogs in the eye when I got home if I didn't even try.

This story made me hug my beagle a little tighter today. Bless this man and all like him.

5:54, you have a child and you'd leave that child in the vehicle on the side of the interstate to run out to an injured dog?

Let me make myself clear. I am not endangering my child for a dog. Ok? Now, if I can safely pull my car off somewhere that I reasonably go check on the dog, absolutely.

I didn't say abandon my child on a swinging bridge in a tornado warning babysat by scorpions. So don't twist my "yes I'd turn around".

I'm REALLY a pus_y when it comes to injured, or abandoned dogs.

In my next life, I'm going to run a "forever home" for unwanted dogs.

Get well soon Buster !!

stilettoGOP - Before you run out onto an interstate to check on the welfare of an injured dog please make sure your organ donor card is signed. Thank you.

9:19, sounds like you are in need of an organ that works. Call C-Alice!

I've seen a lot of squirrels lately on the road twitching after being hit by a car.

Come to think of it, not once have I seen someone stop and pick the squirrel up and rush him to the vet.

More power to the guy if he wanted to rescue the dog, but foolish to stop on an interstate in my opinion, and not doing so doesn't make anyone a scumbag.

Looks like all you stray dog lovers could be helpful out on the Natchez Trace in Madison County, if you have nothing else going on.

http://www.msnewsnow.com/story/25791439/cyclist-attacked-by-pack-of-dogs-on-natchez-trace-parkway



Cyclist attacked by pack of dogs on Natchez Trace Parkway

"9:19, sounds like you are in need of an organ that works. Call C-Alice! "

Actually, I'm fine, thanks, but I've signed death certificates for several patients who died while waiting for transplants.

Just as obviously, I went over your head (bless your heart) in my post. The real point I was making is that it is foolish to risk one's life by running onto an interstate, where cars are whizzing by at up to 70 mph (legally)to check on the welfare of a dog. I have a dog, but I wouldn't risk my life like that - my kids depend on me, and kids are more important than dogs in any normal person's world.

8:14, for all you admonishing others for their desire to help injured creatures when feasible, how do you feel about the guy in Madison who saw a baby crawling on the highway. He stopped, saved the baby and called police.
Would you have just kept going since you might get hurt yourself?
No, you say? Well, consider that baby may have already been crushed by another car and looked like just another bloody blob of roadkill, and you unintentionally drove over it, too.
Sure, you'd feel bad later when you learned the truth, thinking you should have, could have, would have.
Lesson, try to make sure what you hit even if you are too busy or disengaged to stop. News reports often of bodies found on highways have been run over by multiple vehicles. That is a real shame.

http://www.clarionledger.com/videos/news/2014/06/17/10655239/

Can Kingfish find out whether this young vet will end up with bills for treatment of the dog & how/where someone could contribute $$ ? So glad the doggie is probably going to recover.

9:21 wrote: "Just as obviously, I went over your head (bless your heart) in my post. The real point I was making is that it is foolish to risk one's life by running onto an interstate, where cars are whizzing by at up to 70 mph (legally)to check on the welfare of a dog. I have a dog, but I wouldn't risk my life like that - my kids depend on me, and kids are more important than dogs in any normal person's world."

Thanks for telling folks it is foolish to check on a dog's welfare on an interstate with cars speeding (legally). Would it make a difference if they were speeding illegally?
It is great that you have kids that depend on you. I wonder if you'd risk your life to help a person in trouble if you thought it might jeopardize your role as a parent. I guess it is a good thing you aren't/weren't in the military or any form of protection service.
In a normal person's world heart transplant recipients wouldn't be alive if not for dogs. KIDS didn't give them a new lease on life- dogs did. You would be signing MORE death certificates if it weren't for dogs.

"Heart transplants in dogs
Norman Shumway and Richard Lower in San Francisco, Adrian Kantrowitz in New York and Christiaan Barnard in South Africa all investigated the possibility of heart transplantation through research on dogs. The transplant procedure in dogs was first attempted by Shumway and Lower in 1958, and was fully developed in 1961. By 1967, after ten years of research, many of the dogs could be returned to full health following the surgery, surviving for a year or more."

Because I think it's a little absurd to brave interstate traffic to save a dog I should also feel the same about saving a baby? Dogs should not receive the same priority as babies. And that's a good point about squirrels. Why don't squirrels, turtles, and snakes get the same hero treatment as dogs?

11:13 favors scientific research on helpless animals. Where is PETA when you need them? (Is that how you play, take what someone says and cook up a goofy and unrelated accusation?)

Can we all just settle down and reflect on an important part of this heart warming story?....how HOT is this guy?

It had to be mentioned.

11:28, If you ARE a busy medical professional signing death certificates for several patients who died while waiting for transplants, and a parent to kids who depend on you, how in the world do you find time to hang out posting on a blog?
Must be a slow day at your medical facility and the kids are in summer school.
You asked "Why don't squirrels, turtles, and snakes get the same hero treatment as dogs?"
I guess it's because they aren't useful. What's your guess?

This is 11:28. I'm not the one who posted about signing death certificates. But, I know plenty of physicians. They could likely do their jobs and post this blogs. I'm doing my job. Are we to believe that you can't post here and do your job?

1:32, sorry. I didn't know you were just referencing other folks' words, i.e. death certificates, turtles, snakes and squirrels.
I can post here occasionally and still do my job. I have been retired for a number of years. Some days are longer than others and it is nice to read informative posts from different folks when I find time.
Most of my old friends are long gone. My best friend is my dog. I would CHOOSE to bodily stand on the highway or anywhere else to protect him if he were in trouble for any reason.
Some here disagree, some don't. It doesn't matter.
Have a nice day.

Back to my original point, we can't assume that the driver that hit this dog didn't have a child, let's just say infant for the sake of argument, in the car with them. In that case, I believe it would be reasonable to not park your vehicle on the side of the interstate, leave the child inside the car, and run out into the interstate. The only other option would be to call 911. Then, the driver would either be laughed at, or bear the burden of knowing they placed a first responder in harm's way for an animal. And where would that slippery slope lead us? Dogs are ok to rescue but not cats? Hamsters but not ferrets? And what about the poor armadillos? Possums?

Usefulness equates to worth? You sure you want to go there?

Some people see usefulness as a consideration of worth. That is what I think the person was trying to say when they said they guessed.
Dogs were the focus of this topic, I thought, but a few seem to want to paint the original story with a very broad brush.
They must be bored with nothing else to argue about.
How about Thad and Chris? Tired of that argument?