Ran over a bird today- already dead

[gritsar]

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Impy, doesn't it make you feel just awful? When I'm driving and can't avoid running over an animal that's already dead, I get the most icky feeling. I feel bad for hours afterwards.

 

[Imp]

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Impy, doesn't it make you feel just awful? When I'm driving and can't avoid running over an animal that's already dead, I get the most icky feeling. I feel bad for hours afterwards.

Gritty,
Dead animals I'm not so squeamish about. Several of the neighbors will come get me to get rid of any dead wildlife around here. And yes rats will swim up plumbing pipes into toilets. (Keep those lids down)
Now running over live animals ((shudders)) that's a guaranteed no sleep that night.

Terrielacy,
Yes mowing, neighbors on either side of me were mowing as well.
Probably the last mowing for the grass till March, but might still use the lawnmower to clean up leaves. I have a granny smith apple that never loses all its leaves in the winter. Right now it is the ugliest tree ever. The freeze turned all the leaves and a few hundred apples a rotten brown mud color.

Knock Kneed Hen,
It was definately not alive when I hit it. Not 100% it was the chickens (could have been the cats) but it was odd that I saw them going after the little birds earlier. I'd like to think MY chickens are little angels, but...

Impy

 

[chickensducks&agoose]

my brother came over and squashed a poor little songbird in our driveway... it was black and bright yellow, and i don't know if it was dead before the squishing, or not. Once I caught a blue jay inside my coop, put him in a little cage, and when DH came home, asked if we could keep it for laying eggs. He said No, so we let it go. it didn't go in the coop after that