11-05-2024, 10:30 AM
(11-04-2024, 02:07 PM)Chiefsmom Wrote: I thought it was just me. And I don't drive much. 5 miles to work, then back most days, but there is always a racoon or deer or something dead in the road or on the side. I feel bad for them, since they are just trying to get wherever they are going.
The racoons that are trying to get my chickens and ducks? Well, They don't get any sympathy.
I've seen dozens of critters scurrying/navigating the roads over the past year, and maybe into the hundreds since I've been engaging these scenic drives of mine. I'll be honest though, I've hit a couple myself. I hit a duck once back around 2018, and I wasn't even sure I hit anything because it happened so fast. I thought I saw something in the rearview but not sure about that either. I ended up going back to the place where there was a farmers' stand and enquired as I was making a couple purchases, and the farmer did in fact verify what I had thought. He pointed to a heavily grown thicket on the other side of the road, and I actually even went over to see for myself, but I didn't see anything.
I did feel some remorse for killing one of the farmers' birds and dropped a twenty in his money jar, and even went back there several times to buy more stuff, look at the livestock, or have a seat on the ground and hang out with the peacocks and maybe see them spread their feathers.
I was getting gas one day in a town over and this guy waved and said hello, and I was like: "I'm sorry, do I know you?" and he said who he was – he was that farmer. I only saw him briefly a couple times. Haven't been back there for a few years, and I guess mostly did what I did out of guilt, but maybe I should stop by again sometime and have another visit with the peacocks or something.
