Trigger warning attached to this post.
Not sure how to process what I've just seen. To make things worse DD was with me.
Was coming back from collecting DD from contact with dad. In two way moving traffic. A baby deer runs across and is hit by a car. The deer clambers up to the side of the kerb but is clearly hurt as they can't quite pull themselves up but is still alive.
I slow down to get out as I want to help and so does the car opposite to me.. about to get out and an impatient old man beeps and overtakes the stationary traffic.. mounts the kerb and further runs over the baby deer who I can only describe as completely mangled and stands no chance whatsoever...
I am in complete disbelief and the man in the vehicle opposite to me is out of his vehicle and hoists the baby deer up onto the kerb.
It was horrific. I feel sick. DD was asking me what was happening so I felt I couldn't get out and help as I needed to prevent her from seeing.
I think I was blocking DDs view and she didn't see the worst of it.
I drove back home in silence trying to hold back tears.. it was the fact it was a baby deer, all wild animals are so vulnerable but this has hit me particularly hard and I can't stop thinking of the baby deers face and what it looked like. It was clearly dying and it was just horrific.
Has anyone experienced similar? How did you process it as on one hand I feel completely dramatic but on the other I am sure anyone else who witnessed this would feel the same.
I feel so upset and devastated, I am sure the deer could've been saved from the first hit but the second hit was just so horrific.