He deserves it for having run it over in the first place. Now, we don't know the particular circumstances that the poster was in, but I personally have never run anything over. Despite many creatures best attempts, I have never hit one. So yeah, poster deserves it because they ran it over in the first place. I do agree that it was humane to go back and run it over again though. Unless the parents were rich as ****, there was no saving that cat. Hell, even taking it to get it put down could run you into the hundreds of dollars...

Alright, listen up Derp (# 181). First off, I don't give a flying f*ck about how you've never run over a dagblasted animal. Congratuf*ckinglations, buy yourself a dang medal. However, if some tiny little animal comes running in front of your car when you are going fifty miles an hour, DON'T EXPECT IT TO NOT GET HIT. Don't try to give you miserly little two cents and say "oh yeah, I've never run over an animal so the poster deserves it." No one gives a crap.

I have hit several cats in my day. I live in an area where there are bushes hanging out in the road. It makes it impossible to see things that aren't taller than the bumper. I felt terrible. A kitten is small and if they did not see it then they didn't see it. I am sure, due to the way the FML is worded, that they did not do it to be a badass and felt bad about it. And they made sure the animal was not suffering. Does not sound like some sort of pet killer out to kill Mother Nature to me. Just because you have never hit an animal does not make you the ******* saint of the world or a good driver, it just means you might live in an area with no animals around. So **** off. It's hard enough knowing you hurt an pet, let alone made two kids watch it.

Avoiding hitting something isn't that difficult, as long as you are paying attention to the road (which you should be if you are driving). I stand by my original comment: The poster deserves it not because the kids were watching, but because they hit the cat in the first place.

This is not true though. You can be watching the road all you want, but when something pops out of a yard two inches from your wheels you can do nothing about it. I have hit squirrels (and I stop when I see them, if its safe) that pop out of bushes that hang into the road or run 30 mph into the road inches from me. It was probably not just chilling in the road waiting to be seen. It probably flew from the yard and Op could do nothing about it.

"flew from the yard"? okay, I can understand if it came out from behind a bush that was growing right next to the road. However, I've yet to see a "kitten" (at least, one that is as small as a squirrel) that has enough coordination to run quickly. Unless the kitten was literally right on the edge of the road before OP saw it, OP should have had PLENTY of time to react. Plus, there obiously wasn't any traffic behind OP to prevent them from stopping, because if there was traffic OP wouldn't have been able to stop, back up, and run over it again. OP did the right thing by putting it out of it's misery, but still deserves it for hitting the kitten to begin with. Until OP comments on the fml with clarification, based on my own experiences there would almost never be a situation where avoiding an animal on the road (especially one that doesn't move very fast) is impossible. Either that, or I just have really good reflexes, because I've had a lot of animals run out in front of me and I've never hit a single one (I'm pretty sure the squirrels out here are suicidal).

One of these days you "I've never hit anything" people are going to swerve to get out of the way and run head-on into another car and kill a person. When an animal runs in front of your car you do not swerve or slam and lock up your breaks.

#218 You're such a self-righteous douche. Op doesn't deserve it for hitting a kitten by accident, what the ****? Don't you think op feels bad enough without some ******* 'Saint' saying they manage to avoid hitting animals so everyone who does deserves it. **** you. I personally have never hit an animal as I can't drive, but I have been in a car where the driver has hit a cat that had ran out from under a parked car. It's not pleasant and it was the worse thing I have ever experienced. Does the driver of the car I was in deserve it because they didn't see the cat? No, so op doesn't deserve it because the circumstances could be completely similar and yeah, we may not know if it is similar, but I doubt op would do this on purpose so I'm happy to believe it was an honest mistake because not everyone is as ******* perfect as you. Dick.

#191, in this particular scenario, OP was clearly in a residential area. Moreover, there were kids playing near the road. OP would not (or at least, definitely should not) have been driving at 50mph. On top of that, OP should have been paying double the usual amount of attention to the roads in case one of the kids ran out. While I agree that putting the poor kitten out of its misery was probably the best reaction, if OP was a responsible driver in the first place, likelihood is that the kitten wouldn't have been hit. However, I also have to wonder what sort of moron allows a kitten (no less, a kitten small enough to be mistaken for a squirrel) to run around in the street, supervised only by two children. Any pet-owner with half a brain knows that if you have a kitten and you live in an area near a road, you either keep it indoors, or you keep a ******* close eye and a tight rein on it. So really, the blame belongs to both the nitwits that owned the kitten, and OP.

I'm extremely short, and will be when I get my license. Even when I sit in the driver's seat (we have a non-working car I use as a fort/panic room) I can barely see over the dashboard, let alone enough to notice an eight inch high kitten. If the animal is small, and it ran out in front of me, chances are I wouldn't see it. Especially if it ran when I was close to it. Kittens are small creatures, and I highly doubt that OP was able to see it.

You obviously should have failed drivers school.

There have been many times where if I hadn't seen something in the road then my parents would have run it over, including a snake.

Imagine if someone pulled out your finger nails and then told you that you could never go outside again. Thats what its like when they declaw cats and keep them indoors... Who's cruel now huh?

Shit like that happens. You could just be playing with your pet, giving it full attention and it could dart away.

They are kids! They don't know what to do!

Yeah, you're meant to keep kittens inside until they're old enough to look after themselves from time to time. I should know this because my family's had 6 cats so far

cats are made to be outside douchbag. no matter how much you try to keep a cat inside, even if it is a house cat, it always will be curious about the outside. so shut up with your "If they really cared.." blah blah

353- That's bullshit. Kids know stuff, they just don't ******* think. The parents might not have ******* told them "don't let the kitten near the street". There is always a danger in getting run over. The kids or the parents are the ones who really deserve it. Why? The parents because they should have told their children not to go near the ******* street or let the kitten in it, and the kids because if they were told to NOT let the kitten near the street and then let it go near the street, they ******* were the ones who handed it the death sentence. So no, don't use the "they're just kids excuse". And the kids could have guessed that cars are dangerous, and that they shouldn't go near the street, so they deserve it. But not the kitten.

Aww, you saw your kitten run over? I'm so sorry.

I got to see that right before christmas, he was 2... we got him to the vet and he lived 11 more years. I would've been devastated if he didn't make it

Yeah, my cat got run over too, I got mad and threatened to track the person down and sue them

Probably didn't get a good look at it before OP completely crushed its skull with his/her car. Honestly, it's very possible for a kitten the size of a squirrel to actually be mistaken as a squirrel if you don't look directly at it.