BS: the roadkill thread

Subject: RE: BS: the roadkill thread
From: keberoxu
Date: 25 Aug 19 - 05:13 PM

I believe that I just drove past
my first dead wild turkey off on the shoulder of the road.
I have seen many a live and ambling-along wild turkey
stopping road traffic,
usually in "rafters" of half-a-dozen.

Somebody in an automobile
did not deign to stop the car for this one.

Subject: RE: BS: the roadkill thread
From: keberoxu
Date: 25 Sep 19 - 04:30 PM

One raccoon and one groundhog, both well-nourished,
on the same highway.

Subject: RE: BS: the roadkill thread
From: robomatic
Date: 26 Sep 19 - 01:13 AM

On the Roads Until They Weren't

Subject: RE: BS: the roadkill thread
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 26 Sep 19 - 09:25 PM

Inaccurate use of the term "redneck," Jack, if you're going for an American usage. But he's right. Keep your cats in the house if you want them to have a long life. Build an enclosure if you want them to go outside (look for directions from Deckman - Bob Nelson. He got tired of cats killed in the street.) Cats are one of the worst predators on songbirds and small reptiles (they're welcome to the rodents.)

Subject: RE: BS: the roadkill thread
From: Jeri
Date: 26 Sep 19 - 09:46 PM

I don't know what Jack was getting at back in June, but "rednecks" would likely be the ones saying cats should run free and unfettered..., AND keep their balls and "cat up" and take their chances with the cars, crazy people, dogs, and other predators. You don't care if your cat dies, you let them outside. Ferals, I get it, but pets, I don't.

Subject: RE: BS: the roadkill thread
From: keberoxu
Date: 26 Dec 19 - 07:52 PM

Lovely fluffy gray squirrel. Not the least bit squashed,
must have broken his wee neck or something.
I didn't squash him either --
I drove with my wheels well to either side, over him, and onward.

Subject: RE: BS: the roadkill thread
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 26 Dec 19 - 11:48 PM

Dead skunk in the middle of the road while driving to town on Christmas Eve.

Did NOT stink to high heaven.

I guess its scent gland didn't get ruptured in the fatal vehicular encounter.

Sang the song later that night anyway.

Subject: RE: BS: the roadkill thread
From: Mossback
Date: 27 Dec 19 - 01:58 PM

You don't care if your cat dies, you let them outside. Ferals, I get it, but pets, I don't.

If you don't care about small furry creatures (like the squirrel, above) or birds (in addition to not giving a crap about the cats in question) by all means DO let them outside.

As for "feral" -a.k.a.Stray- cats, they're an invasive species that causes a great deal of harm to small critters & also carry a cornucopia of diseases (including rabies) transmissible to other critters & humans. They should be extirpated.

Subject: RE: BS: the roadkill thread
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 30 Dec 19 - 05:48 PM

There was what, from a distance, appeared to be yet another dead skunk in the middle of the road today.

It turned out to be a black and white tennis shoe instead.

It may well have stunk to high heaven, but I didn't get close enough to find out.

Subject: RE: BS: the roadkill thread
From: Mrrzy
Date: 02 Jan 20 - 05:18 PM

I am still trying to get my head around Enclosure and Cat.

We belled our cats and let them out. Any bird gets caught by a belled cat does not get my sympathy.

They (the cats) lived long healthy lives. Sure, they eventually died.

And I do believe the data that show they might have lived longer.

Subject: RE: BS: the roadkill thread
From: Mossback
Date: 02 Jan 20 - 07:01 PM

We belled our cats and let them out. Any bird gets caught by a belled cat does not get my sympathy.

Preposterous. "Belling" a cat does nothing whatsoever to protect other wildlife from them.

Some folks'll believe anything, no matter how ridiculous, if it makes them feel better about what they've done.

Subject: RE: BS: the roadkill thread
From: keberoxu
Date: 13 Mar 20 - 03:17 PM

Spring is on the way, the weather is warming above freezing,
and it's seasonal roadkill time!!

Don't know what that was in the middle of the road.
Too big for a cat,
MUCH too big for a squirrel,
too small for a dog,
too gray to be a skunk.
Fat furry gray thing.
Freshly run over and VERY dead
but I'll never know what it used to be.

Subject: RE: BS: the roadkill thread
From: Mossback
Date: 13 Mar 20 - 06:58 PM

Possum?

Subject: RE: BS: the roadkill thread
From: keberoxu
Date: 19 Jul 20 - 08:33 PM

Raccoon, today:
so young that its fur was mostly a pale brown color,
which I'm not used to,
and its tail was not very large or long.
A STOUT little thing, though, by the side of the road,
and anything but flattened -- round and plump, it was.
Out on its back with its legs splayed out at each corner.
Quite a sight, actually.

Subject: RE: BS: the roadkill thread
From: keberoxu
Date: 14 Aug 20 - 12:35 PM

An opossum, today, 'wormtail' and all.

Subject: RE: BS: the roadkill thread
From: Jack Campin
Date: 14 Aug 20 - 02:43 PM

According to a campaigning charity that is trying to do something about it, 230,000 cats are killed by car drivers every year in the UK.

Lots more birds around this summer. Same number of cats, a lot less cars on the road. Habitat degradation with noise and pollutants is a lot more destructive than predation.

Subject: RE: BS: the roadkill thread
From: keberoxu
Date: 25 Oct 20 - 05:00 PM

Fox! On the shoulder of the freeway, this one.
A dead fox on a highway is something I'm used to
seeing on the shoulder, not out in a lane somewhere
(something moved the fox? or it landed over there on impact?)

Rarely do I see an older fox dead on/near a highway.
When I do see an old brown fox, it is alive
and miles from any dangerous high-speed traffic.
The old brown foxes know better.

No, this one had fur that was partly red and partly peachy.
Prominent black ears. Forget about the tail
(the car was moving pretty fast, in my defense).
Full-sized fox, though;
it is in the spring when dead kit foxes get run over.

Subject: RE: BS: the roadkill thread
From: keberoxu
Date: 13 Jul 22 - 04:46 PM

Besides the usual middle-of-the-road skunk
( a youngster, more white stripe than black fur on its back),

I spotted my first killed PORCUPINE.
Hard to mistake that bristly thing for anything else.

Subject: RE: BS: the roadkill thread
From: Senoufou
Date: 14 Jul 22 - 03:16 AM

I've noticed several dead little muntjac deer, badgers and foxes at the side of the road between my village and Fakenham. My husband used to be very puzzled by these dead animals, because in Africa, they'd have been grabbed immediately, skinned and put in the pot for dinner!

Subject: RE: BS: the roadkill thread
From: keberoxu
Date: 28 Jul 22 - 01:28 PM

Another very young raccoon. More beige than black, it was so young.
Even the black rings were thin and faint. Poor little sausage, as they say in England.

Subject: RE: BS: the roadkill thread
From: Mrrzy
Date: 30 Jul 22 - 11:58 AM

Mmmm. Comfort food.