[jetsmom]

My trainer just told me this story of what happened to her today, and I found it hysterical, in a morbid way.

So my trainer was driving out to the barn today when a little black kitty runs out in front of her car narrowly missing getting run over. But then the kitty doubles back and gets hit. So my trainer stops and gets out of the car and sees the little dead kitty body in the street. She's an animal lover, like me, and doesn't want to just leave the body there, so she puts it in a dry cleaning bag and lays it in the bed of her trunk. She gets to the barn and plans on throwing it in the dumpster and sees the bag move. The cat is still alive, in spite of being hit by a car and nearly suffocated in a bag.

So she rushes to the vet and figures that vet will say, it needs to be euthanized. Nope. Vet says, "You know...I think it will be ok". So kitty is at the vet's on antibiotics and should be released tomorrow.

We've decided to name the cat "Lazarus".

[lcw579]

Wow! What a story! So do you think that counts as two lives or just one used up?

Perfect Name! Hope little Lazarus has a speedy recovery and a long and happy life with you guys.

[NoDQhere]

Wow. Poor, but lucky, kitty. Hopefully she learned not to get in the street!

[MistyBlue]

That was only one life...of course the kitten's fine!
Love the name too.
I do have to caution about picking up "dead" run over animals and placing them in your car. Try the trunk or in a box...having it "rise from the dead" and freak out in the vehicle while you're driving is NOT fun.
Tried that with a hawk once.
Once.

FWIW...hawk was fine after a couple weeks at the Audoban...I had a nervous facial twitch for a good month.
Ever see the second Ace Ventura movie when he had to carry the white bat? That's pretty much what I looked like trying to get the very upset hawk from the truck to the door of the Audoban.

[jetsmom]

MB- Oh crap! I can't imagine having a Hawk come back to life in a car while you're driving!!! Too funny!!

[paohatch]

I had a friend who hit a deer, it's rack and head went into the front window, went unconscious for a minute or two, then woke up and while it was still stuck in the car ( she had climbed out of the car by then) started thrashing the inside of the car, really trashed the inside!. luckily it managed to eventually get out but the car was totaled!

[Jaegermonster]

I had that happen with a canebrake rattlesnake once. Thank God we had taped it's mouth shut before we threw it in the back seat (of the police car). I was helping a game warden serve a warrant and ran across this snake and he killed it with his baton. (OMG)

I got this bright idea I was going to take it home, skin it and make a belt. The snake didn't think that was a good idea at all. Although he did look pretty funny all reared up looking at me through the cage in the rearview mirror.

[NoDQhere]

This is a true story. Years ago, 3 guys were headed to their hunting cabin the evening before opening morning of deer season.

As luck would have it they hit a deer, not just any deer but the biggest buck they had ever seen. You guessed it. These guys figured they would put the "dead" buck in the back of their station wagon, take it to camp and at sunrise, "shoot" it and have the winner of the big buck contest .

WELL, about 5 miles into their now resumed journey, the deer wakes up. Oh yeah, it wasn't pretty and it really got ugly when these hunters shot the deer inside the car. Apparently a 30.06 makes a big mess in close quarters.

The car ended up with every window broken out, the seats shredded and the deer dead. But of course since season hadn't opened, the three of them all got a big fat fine AND the deer got confiscated.

[regeventer]

That is exactly how we got our barn kitty - well, maybe not exactly, but a close enought story.
She had a deformed lip/nose, fractured skull, broken tail, and fractured pelvis. She is all black - we call her Skidmark
To date she runs around the barn like a banshee - maybe not the brightest tool in the shed, but certainly the sweetest!!!!

[summerhorse]

I had that happen with a canebrake rattlesnake once. Thank God we had taped it's mouth shut before we threw it in the back seat (of the police car). I was helping a game warden serve a warrant and ran across this snake and he killed it with his baton. (OMG)

I got this bright idea I was going to take it home, skin it and make a belt. The snake didn't think that was a good idea at all. Although he did look pretty funny all reared up looking at me through the cage in the rearview mirror.

LOL that happened to a friend of mine except it was an eastern diamondback and it was in a box in back of her seat (stationwagon with the back seat folded down) and about halfway over the bridge she heard... rattlerattle.

[tikihorse2]

OMG!!! Jingling for the kitty!

[Barnfairy]

'Don't know what kind of area your trainer was driving through, but, any chance little black kitty has an owner that wants her back? What if she had escaped from a window or something and got lost and that's why she was running in the street?- I know I'd be worried sick if any of my cats went missing.

I'm not trying to be a stick in the mud - honest! I'm glad your barn is willing to give her a home.

[Foxtrot's]

First things first - good luck little Lazarus, you landed in a great home but it would have been nice if you had picked a different form of arrival.

My husband and I were driving along when the vehicle in front of us hit a pheasant.
My husband jumped out and picked it up, thinking of dinner. We drove on and suddenly there was an explosion in a mattress factory when it woke up, shedding feathers everywhere. We chnged directions and took it to the wildlife refuge where the game warden looked it over, held it up and off it flew, apparently none the worse for wear.

Another time a car hit our Jack Russell and there she was, lying in the road. We dug a hole, wrapped it in a towel and just before we put her in the hole, she moved! OMG - poor thing, nearly got buried alive. A vet check and she was pronounced good to carry on her little Jack Russell life.

[jetsmom]

'Don't know what kind of area your trainer was driving through, but, any chance little black kitty has an owner that wants her back? What if she had escaped from a window or something and got lost and that's why she was running in the street?- I know I'd be worried sick if any of my cats went missing.

I'm not trying to be a stick in the mud - honest! I'm glad your barn is willing to give her a home.

No worries... My trainer is going to put some flyers up near where he was found. We'll be keeping him in the lounge (at barn) for a week or so to give him time to learn where he lives, and let any possible owners have time to claim him.

[EqTrainer]

When I was a little Miss EqT, my kitten got in the engine of the car one cold night and...

you get the idea.

My dad buried him.

7 days later - I am NOT KIDDING, 7 days later -

he walked up to the house. We were eating breakfast.

The entire top of his head was chopped off. Quit reading if you have a weak stomach.

It was full of maggots.

My mother, who was the one who had started the car, felt guilty and we rushed him off to the vet.

He cleaned out his head and advised me that he probably would not live.

He did - his head eventually healed up although for a few days afterwards, maggots dropped out of his ears. He was really slow for a few months.

He did have seizures (no surprise there!) and eventually died a few years later after having one.

My father swears he buried him at least four feet down, to be sure nothing dug him up.

[twofatponies]

Wow, snakes?? Yikes.

The only thing I've rescued roadside is songbirds.

[Kinney]

Driving to a dinner at a friends house my SO and I saw a white cat that was hit in the road. I made him turn around so I could go back and at least get this cat out of the road so he didn't get mushed even further. Ironically we turned around in a Vet's office. Anyway SO pulled over to let me out and scoop the kitty when a semi passed us, I thought this is going to be gross but it turns out the semi strattled the cat missing it! I ran around the front of the car and scooped and OMG!!!! It was still alive!!!! He was pretty much out of it, wheezing and had a bit of blood coming out of nose but he was alive!!

We turned around again and went back to the vets office and the lights were on... on a Sunday night mind you.... Well we knocked on the door and a young girl who was cleaning the office came to the door, let us in and called the vet who was at home, he came down to treat the poor injured kitty. How is that for luck!!

As the Kitty recouperated at the vets, (no broken bones just a good hit to his head) I went door to door in this rural area to see who was missing the little guy with no luck. The Vets office even took out a ad but got no hits. Kitty took a bit to get to his feet and had some motor function deficiencies getting around but he was improving and I went visit him a few times and fell in love with his wobbly self. I ended up adopting him and the Vet significantly reduced his hospital charges and did his nuetering for free!!!! His name..... Speed Bump!

Speedy has been with us now for 10 years. He holds his tail kind of funny but other that that you wouldn't know he almost got his block knocked off. He is snuggled in my lap purring while I type this, I'll never forget the moment I scooped him up and realized he was still alive....

[twofatponies]

Eee. I did drag a cat off the road once. I didn't want to see it get all squashed - it was right near some houses, and I could imagine some kids going to find kitty in the morning and seeing kitty all smashed on the road. I was so afraid it might "wake up" when I touched it!! Sadly it really was dead.

[Rodeio]

A friend of my brothers found a female garden snake full of baby snakes close to giving birth. Thought it would be cool to take home and have the kids see it give birth. He put it in a cardboard box to transport it. Apparently this stressed the snake and she gave birth in the cardboard box in the car. Dude thought he got them all out, never told his wife what happened, she was driving the car and some of the snakes came out on the floor when she was driving. They had to trade in the car she was so freaked of the snakes reoccurring.

[philosoraptor]

WELL, about 5 miles into their now resumed journey, the deer wakes up. Oh yeah, it wasn't pretty and it really got ugly when these hunters shot the deer inside the car. Apparently a 30.06 makes a big mess in close quarters.

The car ended up with every window broken out, the seats shredded and the deer dead. But of course since season hadn't opened, the three of them all got a big fat fine AND the deer got confiscated.

oh that's too funny !!! thanks for sharing this great story.

Never hunt IN your car.