@Leucrotta heading home

fffuck, we're shaking. leaving is the right option.

@Leucrotta I think this is worse emotionally than if we'd found a dead human body

and on top of it, society /doesn't care/
"here's the police non-emergency line, not an animal hospital emergency hotline"

when we were getting ready to call the number, a bus driver came over and made a reference to them getting hit by a car
which would explain the no visible wounds part...
said it must have happened less than half an hour ago since the dog wasn't there before

@Leucrotta fucking

how do you run over someone and then just NOT FUCKING CARE

presumably someone else dragged them onto the sidewalk I guess

@frost There *are* folks who are assholes, but there are also people who just panic when stuff like that happens - are they gonna be in trouble, is their car in good shape to make it back, etc. It's possible they were the ones who got the dog to the sidewalk; it's also possible the dog managed to get to the sidewalk on their own.

@Leucrotta huh. huh.

I hope so.

@Leucrotta *deep breath*

we're home.

ffffh.

holy
fucking

... fuck.

thanks for like, validating how emotionally hard this situation is

because otherwise I would be going "people in fiction deal with dead bodies all the time, why should merely seeing a possibly-dead person shake us up this bad?" and/or telling myself we're actually fine.

@Leucrotta oh and I am a bit worried the cops might not help because like
they're professionals, but they're professionals of /copping/, not medical
then again there's the whole "rescuing kittens from trees" trope? so I hope they do know what they're doing.

...I think I'm more worried they might be like "meh whatever, it's just a dog".

@frost I don't think that'll be too much of a problem; they'll check over the dog, and if the dog really *is* dead, clearing the body away is their job, and if the dog's alive they'll get it to a shelter of some sort because that part *isn't* something they can really do well. Either way once called in, they're going to do something.

@Leucrotta that's good to hear.

@Leucrotta ... my first thought was "oh cute sleeping dog! should take a picture :3"

I don't know where we got the thought that something might be wrong, but I'm really glad we did. because yeah. it was /very/ wrong.

@Leucrotta I should probably have mentioned that they weren't breathing

I was just too relieved at finally getting through to someone that I just said "injured dog"

@Leucrotta I guess this disproves the purported "bystander effect", heh.

though who knows how many other people walked past and didn't do anything (which I think the bus driver mentioned).

[[Topaz] They probably assumed the dog was sleeping.] yeah.

@frost Glad you made it back okay. Again, thanks for taking the hit of checking on them and calling it in.

People in fiction deal are okay dealing with dead bodies all the time because they're *people in fiction*. Trust me on this one, I've seen how many dead people of various species over the years? I'm still not always cool with it.

@Leucrotta *weak snort* good point
and huh..yeah..yeah.

*leans against.*