Am I really very strange, or does anyone else ever feel this way? A happy update tonight!

Yes, i dont think youre alone at all. i feel the same about run-over animals etc, and have turned round more than once to check etc.

I could have written this myself, Youre not a fruit loop..... or if you are then so am I. I feel just like you do and Im often caught talking to Erich my Herman teddy bear, as I think he is in need of a chat cos he is lonely. As for animals on the side of the road, I always wonder if theyve left babies behind and I cant look at a cattle truck full of sheep or cattle as it upsets me.

I'm with NickJ and you on the run over animals thing, and always feel very sad about them.

To see if they're any good for dinner? ?

I could have written that

no you cnut ?

well, only if ducks or pheasants ?

Yes, you're very strange, but not about this. I'm having trouble sending G's old toys into the loft because it's dark up there, so they're still on the spare bed together.

Awww, MF, I think it just shows how bloody lovely you are ?

I can't believe this, I usually lurk and come out of hiding to admit this..... I am just the same as you, if a spider gets put outside ( I can't kill it) I worry it is had a family somewhere who are missing it and I can never leave a teddy or doll or any sort of toy upside down just in case they do really come awake in the night and are uncomfortable or in pain. If you are strange, can I join you please??

Yes about the animals, but no about the rest of it. I think that is OK, as at least they were/are living things, unlike teddies and umbrellas ?

I remember my dad once telling me about a magpie that he saw lying dead on the road, and its partner nudging at it with its beak - I still fill up when I think about that and I wasn't even there ?

Mr R hit a pheasant (accidentally) last time we were up north and I wanted him to do an emergency stop and turn back and see it was OK. He didn't. Ba$tard [cry

Thank you - it is good to know I am not the only one.

My mum often takes the piss- which is nice! ?

(though in fairness, she did have to sit up with me one night as I saw some one run over a squirrel and I didn't check it was ok, but swore it had waved at me for help ?

No, I don't think you're mad.

I still have my teddies and I think about my little teddy who fell out of my buggy in Woolworths and I howled all the way home clutching the navy/white stripy sweater my gran knitted for him. I still have that btw!

I hope you get reunited with the missing friend soon.

x

You're not alone!

MrNeo often says I care more about teddy bears, animals and simple inanimate objects than I do about humans, and he is right. I can't stand the sight of a lost or thrown away teddy. My sister is the same. We used to talk about setting up a teddy bear adoption service ?

There's loads of stuff I can't throw away just because I really "can't".

I feel the same about all wild creatures, particularly roadkill. I know that as humans we have sentimentalised things like this, and life for all other lifeforms is very different - brutal and necessary and very potent whilst it lasts. Anyway, I digress. I even felt bad for a dead wasp I found the other day in my flat, because I knew it had been there since the night before, and I imagined it throwing itself at the window all day. Feeling sad about wasps isn't normally my thing ?

Oh, I could have written this post (except I don't have a baby?).

I absolutely do all the things you've mentioned. I guess many people are guilty of anthromorphosising things.

You're not a loopster ?

Oooh lots more people like me.

I feel all warm and fuzzy now!

However, Zebra, I feel so upset for you about the bear, it must have been awful worrying it was cold without its jumper. I hope someone who really really needed a teddy to love found it and still loves it everyday and he has hundreds of jumpers to keep him warm!

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Bears are generally very good at seeking their own fortunes.

Waaah, I'm exactly the same, I can't walk past the teddy bear shelves in shops because I feel so sorry for the ones that don't get bought ?

I think it's perfectly normal and it means you'd make a lovely friend. I remember a young fox coming over to say hello to us when we were parking it's car (about 3am after work) and I insisted we wait at the car until his mum came to get him or he was safely away from the road. If I recall H was less than impressed.

x

I agree totally re animals, road kill and cuddly toys. i hate packing cuddly animals into boxes as it'll be dark and they won't be able to see. bit like when i was little i had to have every cuddly toy in my bed so they didn't feel left out.

umbrellas- no. xx

Ooooh is that the posh name?

how exciting

Mr MF: "what's up MF why are you crying?"

MF: "Shush now Mr MF, I busy anthromorphosising."

Sounds much better than

Mr MF:" whats's up MF, why are you crying?"

MF: " BAWL [:'(]?, SNOT, Poor bear, cold <SNOT> bear!!!!"

I take an instant dislike to those lorry drivers who have a teddy tied to the radiator grille like a figurehead. Poor things must get wet, choked by exhaust fumes, covered in dead bugs, not to mention scared. It's very cruel.

Ok, you're all scaring me now.

Agree re the road kill, I had a car accident when I was 17 avoiding a low flying bird.

Teddies locked away in boxes though, hmmm

No thats ok, dont cry those particular teddies are murderer teddies, teddies that have killed other teddies by knocking the stuffing out of them or smothering them with pillows. The teddies tied to the front of lorries have been sentanced by a teddy Judge to a harsh punishment as they are a danger to other teddies.

I'm the same.

Olly Dolly got lost in Sainsbury's when Isabel was 2 - After the store was closed the night crew & I searched for her - We found her in the freezer near the mini milks.

Then Fred lost Binky Boo in Whitechapel on route to Hospital last month - I arrived in tears, consultant very understanding said they would look out for him - he arrived next day by DHL C/O NHS.

I can't drive over animals in road despite I can see clearly they are flat.

Hmmm, not bothered about leaving single things on the shelve or wondering if teddy bears are lonely..but..definately feel terrible for the poor family of cats, hedgehoges etc killed on the road.

I probably feel more sorry for the human families of cats or dogs killed. My cat is very much a part of our family, and I cant help but think that when you see one killed at the side of the road, some family is looking for it somewhere[:'(]

We had a bird in work that got stuck in the building, we couldnt catch it, it couldnt find its way out, and no animal charities or such like would help. Eventually it was shot...I was so sad, somewhere out there Jerry's (we named him) were looking for him, so sad!

You're a total and utter fruit loop, MF, but one of the absolute nicest sort and I can in a way relate to what you're saying. Remember that regarding the teddy, you'll have (I guess) spent the last few months treating it as a living thing when around the littlun - I'm thinking vocalising thoughts on behalf of it, using its 'feelings' as bribes for the little man and so on. A little bit of that will have got into your head.

Anyway - why don't you see what Pooh Bear says about it -I'm sure he'll have some wisdonm to share xx

Over here we get lots of deer wandering into the roads. It's not uncommon to see dead ones on the side of the road and it really upsets me. I hate when you're driving along and you see one standing in the road, all scared because it's taken a wrong turn and got lost. And you know it'll likely get hit.

We ended up with a second ferret because I couldn't bear the thought of leaving the last one behind all on his own. We then ended up, 3 years later, with a third ferret because the only other 2 at the sanctuary had been booked and he would have been on his own eventually and I coulnd't deal with that. Next week, I pick up the 2 baby guinea pigs which hadn't been rehomed along with the other 5.

In short, MF, you are not alone- if you're a fruit loop, then so am I.

Thank you everyone. It is lovely to read how everyone feels about similar things x

Lovely Lumps, you are right about bear, he had almost become part of the family as we couldn't go anywhere without him and I could make him do a mean dance routine to make ned chortle x

I will refer to Pooh, thank you- he's a sensible fellow and you're fabber than a fab lolly I hope that you know that. xxxx

You're not the only one, I'm a soppy git too. I have a sense of admiration for urban foxes - they only thrive because we humans are so manky and they have a shorter lifespan than rural foxes. Anyhoo, last year Springwatch did a series of films about some urban foxes in Hyndland (Glasgow) - I saw the cubs every day on my train to work and it lightened my day. I was hoping to see some cubs this year, but saw a dead and partially decaying fox by the side of the tracks the other day and got very upset because it was probably one of the little 'uns I saw last year.

Not weird at all... its about to get weirder <cough> ... I cant believe no-one has mentioned the lonely baked bean/sweetcorn left in the tin.

Or is that just me?