writing about road kill...again.

Driving to gymnastics setup at 10 PM-ish, I saw something crossing the street. I slowed down...and saw a cat. Right in the middle of the road. And then something in front of it moved. And the cat darted toward it. And I stopped the car completely. It was a mouse.

The cat contemplated....follow the mouse and die? Or stop. While it thought, I slowly moved around Tom and Jerry.

This is the first time that I have ever actually seen a cat chasing a mouse.

In my headlights.

I get a bit of joy out of that.

dogged.

I don't like dogs. I'm not an animal person. But today I was traumatized as I watched a car hit a dog on the freeway.

So question to you:

What is the protocol in this situation?

Do you call animal control?

Or the Humane Society?

If you hit the dog (which I did not), are you required to pull of to the side of the road?

If you see someone else hit the dog, are you supposed to do it as well? You know, like a witness to an accident?