Do people really hit an animal and not stop to investigate? Is this normal behavior?

Other than that, how awesome! Poor wittle 'yote.

geekyspice: Do people really hit an animal and not stop to investigate? Is this normal behavior?

Other than that, how awesome! Poor wittle 'yote.

-Some people might disagree...

The drivers are also lucky that coyote didn't wig out on them when they popped the hood. Those are some tough and mean little animals. A friend of mine in Kansas traps them for fur, and his two dogs got their asses whooped by a coyote that was caught in a fence snare. The coyote had one leg bound and was already bleeding from the snare wound, and still farked those dogs up badly. Mean little bastards...

geekyspice: Do people really hit an animal and not stop to investigate? Is this normal behavior?...

Depends on the circumstances. On mountain backroad, or with a large animal, yes. On the Interstate at full speed and no apparent handling damage to the car, not so much.

/ Have hit everything from squirrels to an 800 pound steer.
// And snakes. Lots of snakes.

the driver must have been a true man

/obscure?

and people say hitch-hiking is dangerous.

Biner: geekyspice: Do people really hit an animal and not stop to investigate? Is this normal behavior?...

Depends on the circumstances. On mountain backroad, or with a large animal, yes. On the Interstate at full speed and no apparent handling damage to the car, not so much.

/ Have hit everything from squirrels to an 800 pound steer.
// And snakes. Lots of snakes.

I was genuinely curious. Where I live large animals don't leap in front of your car on a regular basis. If you hit something here, it was likely a bird, toad, mongoose, or someone's beloved pet. You stop and check for the last one.

/never hit an animal
//thank god
///never seen a coyote

Amigajoe: geekyspice: Do people really hit an animal and not stop to investigate? Is this normal behavior?

Other than that, how awesome! Poor wittle 'yote.

-Some people might disagree...

Yah, but it's well known that coyotes only have a taste for folk singers. Even country singers they won't go near...

I was coming home from work the other night, Bam...Splat, WTF was that? Thought I'd hit a dog.

So, I pulled over to check things out, hoping that poor Over/Fido/Fifi was still alive.

Next thought was .....Ahhh shiat, I killed a possum. So I nudged it it to see if it was still alive.

Lil' farker got up and ran off in to the woods.

/99% of you won't give a shiat. But I felt good. Karma and all that.

Uh-oh, I'm pretty sure transporting non-native wildlife into California is a crime.

Hilary T. N. Seuss: Uh-oh, I'm pretty sure transporting non-native wildlife into California is a crime.

I guess they don't have coyotes in California.

Hilary T. N. Seuss: Uh-oh, I'm pretty sure transporting non-native wildlife into California is a crime.

Plenty of coyotes living in California. That's just one more...

/good for the gene pool
//same exact species

Then there was some other coyote that got run over. Guts all over the road. So some chick on flickr decides "I'll wear a dress and lay in the road next to the guts and everything and take pix"

So. Don't be all mad and stuff if you click over and you see exactly what I just told you you'd see.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/yyellowbird/4129127364/

Dork. There's coyotes in San Francisco. Which is in California.

There are Coyotes in Phoenix too. Often seen in close proximity to ice.

fake

I'm sorry baby, I had to crash that Honda

Dirty Hot Linker: fake


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Hilary T. N. Seuss: Uh-oh, I'm pretty sure transporting non-native wildlife into California is a crime.

It would be the first time a person got arrested for sneaking a coyote into California rather than the other way around.

esteban9: There are Coyotes in Phoenix too. Often seen in close proximity to ice.

However tenuously.

I_Can't_Believe_It's_Not_Smegma: I hear you. Had a similar experience with a raccoon who game me the worst look of contempt and disappointment before he wandered off.

My wife hit one here (near Rochester, NY) about three years ago.
Killed the coyote, destroyed the bumper. $1200 destroyed.

/Hyundai Sonata = coyote slayer.
//The new Elantra will probably do as well.
///Here coyote, here coyote.
////Slashies.

Awesome. She saved the critter that is going to eat her cat (or dog) later tonight when she lets it out.

/Coyotes do not judge on what they decide to eat.

This one didn't fare as well. Of course the car was going a bit faster.
/don't clicky if you're all squeamish & stuff

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I say its a fake... No critter is going to be smushed up against the radiator for 600 miles with-out stressing from heat until dead.

Besides, I bet the van would have overheated with the coyote blocking the air flow onto the radiator for that distance at highway speeds.

If you hit something the size of a coyote, wouldn't you have checked for damage at one of the two next gas stops?

what a road runner might look like.

geekyspice: never seen a coyote

Come to Indiana. We have so many coyotes in the woods around my house it's scary. Especially at night when you see their eyes in the wood line when you're walking your dog...or when your bedroom window is open in the summer and you hear them sniffing and shuffling around below it

/Bgnome...Mopar or no car

DingleberryMoose: Bgnome: what a road runner might look like.

Hurr stampa stampa drool drool want!

Galwran: Cartoons must be on to something: coyotes are real tough S.O.Bs

Tough as hell. They thrive out here where there's nothing else but rattlesnakes and jackrabbits and cotton fields. They are bred into Texas Blue Lacys. (new window) I have a friend who breeds Lacys and they're wonderful working dogs. They're also good with kids.

That looks like a great dog. What are they like for non-prairie life?

I am set on a Vizsla at the moment (my wife is Hungarian). They are great dogs but have the energy of a five year old hopped up on coca-cola and rockets.

KOOLmike: The drivers are also lucky that coyote didn't wig out on them when they popped the hood. Those are some tough and mean little animals. A friend of mine in Kansas traps them for fur, and his two dogs got their asses whooped by a coyote that was caught in a fence snare. The coyote had one leg bound and was already bleeding from the snare wound, and still farked those dogs up badly. Mean little bastards...

your friend is an ass

maryjanesbrother
I'm sorry baby, I had to crash that Honda

lol

It's a chopper baby, hop on...

Bgnome 2009-12-02 07:14:34 AM
what a road runner might look like.

Technically, that's a Superbird.

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