List of animals hit while riding my bicycle [bicycling]

[rebeccmeister]

I added to the list first thing Monday morning. I guess it's just going to be one of those weeks. A squirrel did one of those little, spastic-y squirrel moves and left me no time to react. After I hit it, I glanced back and I am pretty sure I saw it running up a tree. So at least it wasn't fatal. This time.

Current list:
-My friend EL's ankles. Tempe, AZ.
-Opossum at night in Nebraska
-Chipmunk on a bike path south of Albany. That one was fatal, sigh.
-Squirrel on Quail St.

I don't know how many animals I've ever hit and killed with a car, and you probably don't know for yourself, either. I can tell you I have passed countless carnage while bicycling over the years.

Comments

[cmcmck]

I don't drive cars so the answer there is zero, although living rural I see all too much- deer, fox, badger, sheep, hedgies, birds aplenty.

It breaks my heart.

[rebeccmeister]

I suspect there are a lot of people who don't realize the full extent of the devastation because they haven't had a chance to walk around enough or bike around enough. There are so many reasons why it is good to move around more slowly.

[bluepapercup]

I hit a cat once, the only domestic animal ever in my hundreds and hundreds of thousands of miles of driving. It was on the highway, with no houses in sight anywhere and it darted out of its invisible spot in the vegetation and across the lanes suddenly. I've wondered for years where that cat was even going to/from, or if it was a stray or feral. There wasn't even an exit nearby where I could have pulled off and asked.

[altamira16]

Now I am wondering who would win, an armadillo or a bicycle. 🤔

[mallorys_camera]

In autumn, the squirrels get downright suicidal.