I always imagine the best. Honestly, it's better than knowing sometimes. My first cat got paralyzed by a car injury and a good Samaritan brought him in. He was at the vets, for a week, until finally my parents decided to NOT pay 1500 to OPEN him up just to see if he could be repaired. I didn't blame them. If it was a sure thing I bet they would have done it but 1500 bucks for exploratory animal surgery is hard to swallow.
I hit someone's cat once. It ran RIGHT under my tires, there was no way to swerve. It was a beautiful animal, clearly well cared for, and had a collar with a phone number. (This was before cellphone days.) I did some knocking on doors, but no one knew anything. I left it carefully by the side of the road. I hope someone who knew it found it. Or not.
But yeah, I imagine the best. Because honestly, the pet is either fine, or not. So why not imagine fine? To be quite honest, it's usually the owner that suffers the most. So either he's heading "home to Tucson" (the dog he prefers it there) and weirder things have happened. Or, he's dead or eaten or whatever, etc. It is what it is.
Anna
I hit someone's cat once. It ran RIGHT under my tires, there was no way to swerve. It was a beautiful animal, clearly well cared for, and had a collar with a phone number. (This was before cellphone days.) I did some knocking on doors, but no one knew anything. I left it carefully by the side of the road. I hope someone who knew it found it. Or not.
But yeah, I imagine the best. Because honestly, the pet is either fine, or not. So why not imagine fine? To be quite honest, it's usually the owner that suffers the most. So either he's heading "home to Tucson" (the dog he prefers it there) and weirder things have happened. Or, he's dead or eaten or whatever, etc. It is what it is.
Anna
