Have Your Say: Animals, automobiles and alternative routes

To the Editors,

Animals are beaten and killed everyday. How fitting it is that dogs seem to enjoy chasing cars often times being a large factor in why they end up underneath them. How inappropriate it feels though to know that a dog who is too elderly to shoot out into a road, and too tired to chase a car, should be killed by one.

Now that I have your attention, our family is one of the unfortunate ones who lost a canine companion due to the poor driving of a motorist on a lowly rural road. If it truly were an accident, you wouldn’t be reading this letter written by me now.

Country roads are not “empty” or “unused”. I don’t want or expect that there should be police on every street corner at every hour. I do expect that the person behind the wheel is a considerate human being with a conscience though.