# I think I might have hit a cat with my car. **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [November 17, 2008, 7:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-think-i-might-have-hit-a-cat-with-my-car/473161 "2008-11-17T19:36:46Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Zsofia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/7bcc69/32.png) [@Zsofia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zsofia)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2008, 2:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-think-i-might-have-hit-a-cat-with-my-car/473161/41 "2008-11-18T14:45:38Z")
Thank you, **Quasimodem**. That was very kind. ---
**Author:** ![Santo\_Rugger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e95f7d/32.png) [@Santo\_Rugger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Santo_Rugger)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2008, 5:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-think-i-might-have-hit-a-cat-with-my-car/473161/42 "2008-11-18T17:11:58Z")
I once hit a raccoon on the way up to Denver, on one of the back roads. Holy, shit, that thing must have weighed 35 pounds (I didn’t get a good look at it). I probably would have went of the road if I had been turning, or if my car didn’t have such good traction control. Last time I was on that road, I _almost_ hit an elk. It was probably an 8x8, but, again, I didn’t get a good look. I think I’ll take the interstate next time. ---
**Author:** ![Gangster\_Octopus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a8b319/32.png) [@Gangster\_Octopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gangster_Octopus)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2008, 5:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-think-i-might-have-hit-a-cat-with-my-car/473161/43 "2008-11-18T17:17:58Z")
Probably a plastic bag, but even if it was a cat (and I love cats, we have 4 and we just spent an unhealthy amount of moeny saving one of ours), please don’t concern yourself over it. It’s ok to be sad, but don’t dwell. There was not a single solitary thing you could have done differently. ---
**Author:** ![Shodan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9f8e36/32.png) [@Shodan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shodan)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2008, 5:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-think-i-might-have-hit-a-cat-with-my-car/473161/44 "2008-11-18T17:31:30Z")
> [@Scissorjack](#): > > It was a cat in a plastic bag. But it is meaningless to say whether there was a cat in the bag until after you ran it over. [Cite.](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schrodingers_cat) ---
**Author:** ![Khadaji](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Khadaji](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Khadaji)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2008, 5:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-think-i-might-have-hit-a-cat-with-my-car/473161/45 "2008-11-18T17:55:07Z")
About 7 years ago I was driving home from work and something brown and furry came dashing out of the woods and under my car. Woods on one side, the side of a cliff on the other, I had no where to go. No where even to conveniently stop to see if the animal could be saved. I felt so bad I even had a dream about it that night. (In my dream the cops came to see me to find out why I had just had a hit and run.) ---
**Author:** ![KneadToKnow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kneadtoknow/32/3999_2.png) [@KneadToKnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KneadToKnow)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2008, 7:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-think-i-might-have-hit-a-cat-with-my-car/473161/46 "2008-11-18T19:23:23Z")
Hell, I felt like I’d run over something huge that time I only _almost_ killed Susan Aude. If you’d’ve hit a cat, you’d know it, **Zsofia**. It was a bag. ---
**Author:** ![Inigo\_Montoya](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/inigo_montoya/32/124_2.png) [@Inigo\_Montoya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inigo_Montoya)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2008, 7:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-think-i-might-have-hit-a-cat-with-my-car/473161/47 "2008-11-18T19:47:20Z")
> [@Shodan](#): > > But it is meaningless to say whether there was a cat in the bag until after you ran it over. [Cite.](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schrodingers_cat) And in the category of “Gratuitous Application Of Quantum Theory” we have … **Shodan** for the win! Here’s a box which may and may not have your prize inside. ---
**Author:** ![Zsofia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/7bcc69/32.png) [@Zsofia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zsofia)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2008, 8:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-think-i-might-have-hit-a-cat-with-my-car/473161/48 "2008-11-18T20:29:18Z")
> [@KneadToKnow](#): > > Hell, I felt like I’d run over something huge that time I only _almost_ killed Susan Aude. > > If you’d’ve hit a cat, you’d know it, **Zsofia**. It was a bag. God, if that isn’t an in-joke I don’t know what is. ---
**Author:** ![Scissorjack](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c67d28/32.png) [@Scissorjack](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scissorjack)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2008, 8:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-think-i-might-have-hit-a-cat-with-my-car/473161/49 "2008-11-18T20:54:02Z")
> [@Khadaji](#): > > About 7 years ago I was driving home from work and something brown and furry came dashing out of the woods and under my car. Woods on one side, the side of a cliff on the other, I had no where to go. No where even to conveniently stop to see if the animal could be saved. That’s no way to talk about Ron Jeremy. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Second\_Stone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/bbe5ce/32.png) [@The\_Second\_Stone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Second_Stone)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2008, 9:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-think-i-might-have-hit-a-cat-with-my-car/473161/50 "2008-11-18T21:06:42Z")
If your had smacked a pussy up in your grill you would know about it from the moaning and screaming. ---
**Author:** ![KneadToKnow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kneadtoknow/32/3999_2.png) [@KneadToKnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KneadToKnow)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2008, 9:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-think-i-might-have-hit-a-cat-with-my-car/473161/51 "2008-11-18T21:29:39Z")
> [@Zsofia](#): > > God, if that isn’t an in-joke I don’t know what is. I don’t break out my A-material for just anybody, you know. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Swallowed\_My\_Cellphone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9d8465/32.png) [@Swallowed\_My\_Cellphone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Swallowed_My_Cellphone)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2008, 9:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-think-i-might-have-hit-a-cat-with-my-car/473161/52 "2008-11-18T21:39:38Z")
> [@Scissorjack](#): > > Yes. A bag of kittens. Nah. Bags of kittens don’t move sideways very quickly. They don’t float very well either. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-think-i-might-have-hit-a-cat-with-my-car/473161.md?page=2)