We had an experience a few years ago when a small dog shot out of an entrance and down the pavement, followed by a collie which arced round after it, and swung straight under the wheels of out car. It died about 5 minutes later. I had the job of explaining to the elderly couple it belonged to what had happened. It was the last thing they needed, as they had recently found out that their daughter had terminal cancer. I'm a dog owner, and it cut very deep. The small dog had wandered up from a nearby farm, and the older dog was just seeing it off. It was a quietish road, and it just happened that we were on it.

Last week my daughter's cat was killed on the small housing estate where she lives, early in the morning, just after she let him out.
It looks like he had been lying in the gutter, which he sometimes did on sunny mornings. Somebody ran over his head. Let's just say that her husband said she hadn't to see him, and he had to get the vet to check the microchip to set his own mind at rest that it WAS his cat, as there's a similar one on the same estate.

On a different note, years ago, my son drove down the back lane towards our village, and went through a flock of small birds. For years he had one spreadeagled on his radiator! We get a lot of rabbits on some of the lanes round here, and I have lost count of the times I've swerved trying to avoid them. Pheasants are hard to avoid sometimes too. One night I was nipping home the 3 miles from the pub I was at to fetch something for somebody. It was around this time of year, and was just dark. I thought I saw somebody's kitten on the road, until I saw there were 2, and they had little foxy faces. I had to sit parked in the middle of the road until they decided to move. They couldn't have been more than 2 or 3 weeks old!

Andrea