I Hate It When...

You see dogs that have been run over and are left to lay in the road. This morning when I was on the way to class, I was driving through my neighborhood and saw a dog that had been hit. It looked like a black lab, or something similar. It made me really sad because I saw it had a collar on and knew for sure that it was someone's family dog. I just hope the dog didn't belong to whatever family lived in the house that it was in front of, because that would suck. Imagine looking out your window or coming home from school/work to see your dog in the road in front of your house. It would be devastating for me. My family has always had a dog ever since I have been born, and we always get really attached to our pets. My mom treats the dogs like they are her own kids. She doesn't baby them or anything and dress them up; nothing crazy like that. She just really loves them and they love her. I sometimes think they think my mom is their real mom. ha I feel bad because I feel like I should have stopped to check and see if the dog was really gone, or possibly was still hanging on to life. But he looked pretty gone :( I also should have checked the tags and called the owner. I am sure they would not want their dog to stay in the road where it could possibly get hit again. I would want to be able to at least bury my dog, or for those people that prefer cremation. But then I got all paranoid and thought "What if people driving by or the owner thinks I hit the dog?" Plus, how weird would it look to see someone standing over a perished dog? I don't know. I am weird like that. But I will never forget when my dad accidentally backed over our family dog in the driveway. I grew up with that dog, so you can imagine I was severely affected by her being gone. My mom even got her cremated. I don't tell her, but I think it is kind of weird to get a dog cremated.