Sad Sight on Morning Walk

[badger]

a co-worker told me she had come across a bit of slow traffic. When she came near what others were avoiding turned out to be a racoon trying to drag his/her friend to the sidewalk after he/she was hit by a car (dead). I never cared much for racoons but when I heard that my heart broke.

I once saw a squirrel being hit by a car and had to pull over as it traumatized me. If I should ever hit an animal, I will be in really bad shape. And to think people purposely go out of their way to hit animals... makes me sick.

oh, and have any of you seen that clip (you can find it on youtube) of a dog in Mexico that got hit on a highway and out of nowhere another dog came in and dragged him to the side. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dgjyh...eature=related

[copperlegend]

I think animals 'feel' far more than we give them credit for sometimes. I live on a huge pond, and it's a daily occurrence a little after 5pm every day to see a line of cars on the busy main road, all stopped to let the geese (and baby geese in the spring!) cross the road. One day someone went around the stopped line of cars and plowed down 4 of them. I saw this from my kitchen window and started crying. Other drivers blared their horns at the horrible excuse for the human being, and the rest of the geese looked frantic. There's a special place in hell for people like that driver.

Also, I rarely see my dad (retired homicide investigator) cry, but one night he accidentally hit a bird with his truck and came home all sniffly. It almost never bothers him when dealing with the deaths of humans, but the death of an innocent animal ALWAYS upsets him. I'm the same way.

[channlluv]

My daughter and I drove cross-country a few weeks ago (and we're about to head back to San Diego this weekend) and on our way here we encountered three birds in three different states who flew into my antenna. The first was in Yuma, AZ, and it was part of a smallish flock that just seemed to be swarming in an disorganized manner over the Interstate. I swerved to miss one, and hit another as it swooped into our path. It was freaky. I know I caught its wing, but it flew on.

The next was in New Mexico, and it was a single bird flying across the highway right into my antenna again. We were amazed that it would happen again so soon - this was the next day from the incident in AZ.

A couple of days later (after a side trip to Carlsbad Caverns), near rural Pecos, TX, a small gray bird and a few others flew up from the grasses by the side of the highway and boomp, right into my antenna again.

I don't know what happened to the birds, but I can't imagine they'd have been able to fly far. I've never had a bird fly into my antenna before, and then to have it happen three times in relatively rapid succession, it was kind of freaky.

Last week on the approach to the Lehigh Trail here in Palm Coast, I saw a full-sized deer carcass in the ditch by the side of the road.


Roxy