Some of you may think I’m “nutty”, but I thought I’d share this here anyways for those that love animals as much as I do. I follow an account on Instagram, @amandastronza, that removes dead animals from the road, etc. & relocates then to a place where they can rest in peace. Today I saw this little critter on my way home, just a little ways down the road from my apartment. I knew what I had to do. I got home, put on my gloves and walked down the sidewalk until I reached where this squirrel lay in the road. Living in Oklahoma, I’m sure it was odd for passerby’s to see a young woman walking down the side of the road in a bucket hat and flip flops, lifeless squirrel in hand, but not too unusual around these parts. I really hope nobody thought I had plans to eat it.. I carried them past a few of the homes around here until I finally reached a point where I thought they would have some more peace. Here, I covered them with fresh leaves to symbolize a new life. The squirrels after life, whatever that may be like, (most of you know I believe in the possibility of reincarnation), and my oath to remember from now on that every life has a purpose just as big as you and I’s. This little critter did not die in vain. 
🐿 I hope this can bring you all some peace today as it did me 
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Feel free to reply to any comment by clicking the "Reply" button.You have a loving heart! I have always done this myself when I see animals that have been hit by cars here in Texas. I also stop when I see a turtle trying to cross and get it to the other side. It’s not difficult to show compassion for all creatures on our planet. I wish more people would care.
Redheadedgammy
Level 9
Oct 10, 2020
6
I bet loads of us do 
I do that too, and I was just thinking of all the gopher turtles in Florida during mating season - all over the sides of the road. I think quite a lot of people do stop and help. Hard is when this happens on a highway.
@Zoohome I live just outside of Houston in a town called Richmond, and there are a lot of rural areas. I have at least six times this year pulled over to the side of the road when I saw a turtle in the middle of the road, with cars hitting it, and walked out there when the cars slow down and picked it up and took it over to the side of the road. I’ve had a lot of people give me thumbs up for doing this but there are always the jackasses who scream at you out the window. Such is life.
@Redheadedgammy sad! Everytime I move,
I always find the wildlife rescue near by me for future encounters. 
@1EarthLovingGal thankfully my flaming red hair makes them notice me.
I will always stop to help an animal.
Had a "Goodyear"!!
Redneckliberal
Level 7
Oct 9, 2020
5
THE NAME THAT'S KNOWN IS FIRE STONE where the rubber meets the roadKILL
Found a large Mantis (as in, praying) in the middle of some public stairs today; no doubt it would soon have been crushed like a dry leaf.. With gloves on, I took it to safety … as it used it’s substantial mandibles attempting to bite me!
Safe on a bush, it recoiled back, as if it were praying. I breathed on it, to let it know ‘a human’ had saved it, and it relaxed. Felt good
Varn
Level 8
Oct 9, 2020
2
Varn:
@Gwendolyn2018 So, dead? The last dead animal I dealt with I’d shot. Had been watching for it all summer, as it was burrowing under a neighbor’s shed, then his rear deck, he asked that I kill it. Decided long ago, I don’t like to take life from anything, but it was our homes, or it.
We’ve lots of vultures, and skunks. I bucket off such varmints to a place where the scavengers have uninterrupted access. I’ve said ‘I’m sorry,’ before, but realize that’s only a reminder to myself that I’m not a wanton killer.. Better?
So many animals eat carrion...why deprive them of a meal?
LucyLoohoo
Level 9
Oct 9, 2020
3
Around here the Highway Dept removes & cremates them. I believe a lot of states do this.
AnneWimsey
Level 9
Oct 9, 2020
3
"tired" animals
@FearlessFly interesting, thanks. In the UK the Council will often clear them, but we gave special people to contact about livestock or some wildlife.
[wildlifetrusts.org]
Sanity ain't all it is cracked up to be....
Lizard_of_Ahaz
Level 9
Oct 9, 2020
0
Reminds me of a joke. On the East Coast when you are driving along the roadway, there are always rest stops that you can pull into and order a fast meal. On the West coast, you rarely see them. Why is that?
Because on the West Coast, there are vultures to take care of the road kill.
Archeus_Lore
Level 7
Oct 9, 2020
1
Well done. I think you made the world just a bit of a nicer place by doing this.
SkagwayKim
Level 7
Oct 9, 2020
1
Nothing bothers me more than driving down the highway and seeing a dead animal that might have been run over a thousand times. Even if it is deer size you often do not know if it is a deer or a dead dog. If reincarnation is real this dead animals must come back to gain revenge. Also, if you are reincarnated it must mean you were incarnated at least once before.
DenoPenno
Level 9
Oct 9, 2020
1
No worse than the somewhat overweight woman removing her shirt in the middle of the night after blocking the only road out of the cinema I had been at, while picking up a dead possum and detaching her baby from her. The shirt was to wrap the baby in so he/she was comfy on the way home and not running freaking out in my car. They also had to wait until I had placed her safely away from the road while telling her I would look after her baby, and trying to convince the baby that he/she needed to let go. A few cars beeped me I stopped and stared at them while cuddling the baby. They stayed quiet after that. Good thing I wore a good bra to the cinema that night. I have stopped in traffic to help animals many times people can just learn to go around me or wait.
Budgie
Level 8
Oct 12, 2020
0
@1EarthLovingGal I have developed my armour class to deal with these people. My aunt lived next door to some people who were neglecting their cats and the cats kittens we had some come to her place so I scooped them up and we took them to the RSPCA. Then there were two little kittens on the balcony, I threw up some food and when they launched at each other to get to it, I lost it and climbed over gates to get up to the balcony, picked up the kittens and turned to the glass sliding doors (I did not know if the person was home) my aunt nearly had a heart attack but had someone come out I think I would have kicked them back inside as I verbally launched at them for their treatment of the kittens. We called the RSPCA who came to collect them (after we had filled them up with cat food and they fell asleep) they caught one of the other cats and issued an infringement notice on the owners. Freaking awesome.
Move it to the nearest anthill for quickest decomposition.
AtheistInNC
Level 7
Oct 11, 2020
0
in many states like Kansas, Arkansas, etc. people eat roadkill, why?
Mofo1953
Level 9
Oct 9, 2020
0
I once (no chance to miss it) 'shot' a deer with my Ford. 
Paid $5 for an out-of-season tag to keep it -- tasty.
@FearlessFly I got a 14-point buck with a "bow" tie on my 91 Chevy, let the family whose house it was in front of keep it they wanted it.
Tradition.
May I ask where the thought 'every life has a purpose' came from?
ChestRockfield
Level 8
Oct 9, 2020
1
@1EarthLovingGal I wasn't really hinting at Bible stuff. I was just questioning the meaning of purpose. It seems at least cosmic or indicative of intention. For instance, if we look at the purpose of an infant that dies of SIDS, would that purpose be the lasting effect it had on the parents? To suggest as much speaks to a sort of intention, rather than simply cause and effect of complete accidents.
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