My Personal New Mexico Road Kill Score Card -- Wayne: 1, Critters: 0

[thewayne]

As I recall, the first critter that a car driven by me killed was a suicidal pigeon, flew straight into the grill of my '73 Impala 4-door back in the very late 70's/very early 80's. There was a mass migration of suicidal tarantulas (I kidd you not!) across a highway as I was heading home from Sierra Vista one evening while I worked for the State back in the late 80's.

And that was about it, except for an uncountable number of insects.

Until tonight.

Coming home from school, a cat ran across the road and gave me pretty much zero chance of avoiding it. THUMP THUMP. I felt pretty bad about it as a pet owner and cat lover. I don't think we ever lost a cat to a car in the road (though we lost two to my dad driving over them in the driveway, I tend to think they were subconsciously suicidal to sleep under cars directly behind wheels), though I've known lots of people who've lost pets to vehicles.

Russ suggested that it might have been a bobcat, I suppose that's a possibility. It was rather light colored, though, and I don't know how that would fit in with the bobcat's color schemes, not that I'm an wildlife expert.

Still, *sigh*. Guess I'm just going to have to finish off the Breyer's Mint Chocolate Chip sitting in the freezer. ;P

Comments

[deborak]

Luckily my kill record extends only to bugs, birds and snakes. I've narrowly missed turtles and R.O.U.S.es.

[cardigirl.livejournal.com]

Sympathies. I was in high school still when I creamed a slow-moving bird, but my worst was a tiny black kitten that decided to move only after I decided it was a piece of debris in the roadway at night. I gathered it up to take to an emergency vet (it wasn't a clean kill, which was even worse) but it expired by the time I got to the apartment to look up where such a clinic was.