Despite being a potential tart slashing grim reaper of gophers
I actually try to avoid hitting wildlife for the most part.

This morning I found myself engaging 4 wheel drive to extricate the truck from a small ditch, having narrowly avoided running over a pure white snowshoe hare and slid gracefully off the road.
I see him most mornings in the same spot, daft bugger has turned white so he cannot be seen against the snow yet chooses to wander on the road where he glows like a neon sign. But the thing is, we don't see many rabbits/hares here so I *like* seeing them and wish them no harm. They are not pests like rabbits in the UK are (or gophers here) and that turning white trick makes them extra cool in my book.

So, I nearly killed myself to save him and also noted that although a Leporid never changes his spots, he does turn white in winter.

/edit
And there's a snowy owl on the signpost every day too but he won't let me get close for a photo op, bastard.
( Infidel , shit and wrong, Sat 24 Dec 2011, 18:21, 1 reply)

i like hares. so, um, well done you.

( janet aylia y'all motherfuckers need jesus, Sat 24 Dec 2011, 19:14, closed)