Whats the Protocol .Fox got a smack of a car on Upper Leason Street .not killed but bolloxed .Four tourists came to its help as it lay in the bus lane .I pulled in to see what happened as they had it covered with a coat and I thought it might be a child .They rang the Gards who said it was nothing to do with them and the corpo had no body from animal control contactable neither did the DSPCA .I told them to leave it as the next car down the bus lane would take care of it .I suggested that was the most humaine thing to do In fact I offered to drive around and finish it .I know if I had of picked up the Fox and dropped in in the Chamber on the canal I could get charged with animal cruelty but hitting it with the car and I was Ok .What is the correct protocol if you come upon a part worn animal that needs help to die as it is not going to survive you are putting it out of its pain .
@ John, you are right, the most humane thing to do would be to kill the animal.
The P.C. thing to do would be bring it to a vet, the vet would Love you and treat the animal and put all the broken bones in plaster of paris, Etc, but animals don't understand how to rest and the bones would never settle unless it was kept under anesthetic fer months.
Even if the vet did manage to heal the animal (looking at 10K +) and the P.C. brigade had a big camera shoot to show off the healed animal being released in to the wild where it was first hit, most likely with the scent of human on the animals body, it's own kin would either reject it or kill it.
