Hmmmmm..... I am grateful for the four legged child!!!

yup!!

I certainly understand how awful your friend must feel. However, the owner of the dog are also responsible for what happened. Accidents happen but a responsible dog owner is supposed to have their dog under control at all times. It is not your friend"s fault that this little dog was not being properly restrained from running in the road and getting hurt. Your friend cannot afford to buy a new puppy for this family and I feel that him replacing the dog would not add value to the pet. If they have to go out and pay for a new dog perhaps they will be more careful about making sure it is never allowed to run loose and able to get in the road. The road is for cars and not dogs. Your friend was where he was supposed to be and the dog was not. As I said I understand that accidents do happen. We cannot control everything that happens in life but your friend was a victim of circumstances and needs to come to terms with that.

How is the OP "donating senior member" when he just joined March 24, 2012? Is senior his age, or how long he has been on YT?

I am very skeptical of his post. I hope nobody gives him donations or anything unless his story is verified.

Could be that I'm wrong, I just wanted to post my initial reaction to the post.

First - I don't believe the OP was asking for donations.
Second - when I donated to YT, I immediately became a "Donating Senior Member" (Senior in this case would be more privileges/benefits, not age or length of membership) . My guess is that is the same situation here.

asking would be too obvious, and isn't it against the rules? The nature of people on this board is too help out, so a direct ask might not be necessary. I just thought it was a weird post because TO ME it didn't come across as a warning to be careful, as much as a "my poor friend needs help" post.

I could be wrong, and if I am I certainly apologize. If nothing else the story itself should be a caution. My little girl cries like she is being tortured when she sees her daddy's car pull up at the stop sign in front of our house. I do not let her out the door until I see him stopped in the driveway. I don't even crack it open because she might squirt out the crack. Has to be terrible thing to run over your pet. Actually, come to think of it, I think my brother did it years ago. His dog had gotten old and was sleeping behind the truck. I guess he usually had gotten up when Bill came out, or maybe he never usually laid there, and probably his hearing was going or something. It was sad for my brother, he lives alone with his numerous pets and this was one of his first.

agree with the others here as well, nothing is owed because it is not your friends fault. I have two stories here that sort of apply.

I lived in the same sub as a young family with a small duschaund and it was always in the street, I brought it back up to their front door several times and was quite verbal about telling them what might happen, the poor dog was finally killed by a car:(, so what did they do, get another dog, 6 months later same thing happened :mad:Not saying that would be the case but your never know especially with young kids that are constantly in an out of the house and backyard, it is so easy for a dog to get out.

I was 19 and sent out to pick up Chinese food for the whole family. I was almost home and had several bags of the food on the front seat. There was a group of people hanging out by the curb in front of a house down the street from us, there were several cars parked there as well. Because there were so many people I started to slow down and just before I passed them, a large lab type dog ran in front of my car, I hit the breaks and swerved but still clipped the paw of the dog. The bags with food like shrimp with lobster sauce and wonton soup went flying all over the front seat. What a mess especially since the car had cloth seats, just about all the food was ruined and my mom and I had to spend hours trying to scrub the car clean and it took months for the smell to go away. I heard that they thought we should have paid the vet bill, so I visited them with the food bill and told them if they wanted to pay for that as well as a steam cleaning of the car interior I would pay their vet bill or we could just call it even and they could agree to leash their dog when on the side of the street. Most people do not want to hit a dog and will often damage their own car, or spill their Chinese take out:D just to avoid doing so, but if you do it does not mean you are the one to pay, it means NO matter what the excuse is the owner of the dog was not being responsible. Paying for a new dog will not make the kids forget anyway.

DBlain...good stories and I like how you handle the second one. Another lesson to be learned here is to strap in your food and packages so they don't go flying!

I originally bought one of those car seats for maggie that hang from the headrest. We decided that hanging made her feel unstable and it wasn't firm enough for her to put her paws up and look out, so we got her a snoozer which she likes much better. I keep meaning to put the hanging one back in my car because a few times when it was there (without Maggie!) I stuck my purse in it. It was nice to have my purse fly off the seat if I stopped fast. It will be my "stuff holder" now.

Ok I guess this places me in the bad pet owner catagory :(. The little pom I referred to in my other post was my baby. We had some young men stop for water for their car. I was in the other room and she dashed out the door without my teenager noticing. When I came back in the room looking for her a few minutes later we were all in a panic as we lived on a busy street. We ran out the door seconds later only to find her laying dead on the side of the road :(. These things do happen to responsible owners. I would never ever put my babies in harms way. She like the one the op hit was a young puppy and we were working on her training. It does happen.

Charlene all of us make mistakes, and sometimes bad things happen. It happened to me last wk. Went to vet with Zoey, left Razz and Magic free in the house(they are usually crated if I am not home), thought I'd be home before my sister, well she got home a tad early; and what do I see as I drive up but...

Magic our big boy off lead, trying to say hi to the neighbour and his dog, with Judy standing by waving her hands around, and the neighbours wife had picked up Razzle, then when I shouted what is going on here! She let Razzle go, traffic was going by and I was very lucky he ran straight to me and not out into the traffic. I was also lucky that Magic is not aggressive---however it was a dangerous situation; that luckily had a happy ending.

What a horrible and sad situation to have happen.

After my sincerest apologies to the children and the family I would ask what I can possibly do to make things right.

Regardless of whose fault it is, it happened and it's a tragedy. I would want to try and make things better in some way. :(

How so very sad.

Hi :). Just wanted to post this general rule for you. Good luck w/ your search!

"We do not allow threads begging for free puppies or looking for puppies at extreme reduced costs. Yorkies are generally from $500 on up, with most being in the $1000 to $1500 range. Please do not post looking for Yorkies below $500. If your budget for a Yorkie does not allow for $500 or more, you may want to look into Yorkie rescues or adoptions of older Yorkies, as they may be better suited to your price range. Feel free to PM sellers with an offer, but the public forum doesn't allow asking for yorkies less than $500."

Even the rescue orgs cost over $500.00 depending on the pup!! I am in the NYC tri-state area maybe that's why.