Our cars are great for catching small to medium animals!

[xArchangelx]

Why Thank You!

[extrashaky]

Originally Posted by omgfrswtf

I pulled apart my bumper this week to try to fix the bumper gap, and I found a dead frog, dried out from the wind, clinging to the grill with a frozen look of terror on its face.

When I lived in Louisiana I frequently had to run up from New Orleans to Baton Rouge on I-10, which runs right through the Maurepas Swamp just a few feet above water level. During mating season, the bullfrogs would come up out of the swamp en masse looking to get lucky and would try to cross the road. They were impossible to avoid. I'd try to miss them with my wheels, but of course they would hop when the car was over them, and I'd hear them thump and tumble down the underside of the car. There would be bullfrog carnage all over the road.

Big bull gators also try to cross that highway during mating season. For a few weeks each year you can see gator carcasses on the shoulders, some of them pretty messy. Luckily I never hit one of those, although I've seen them sitting right on the shoulder as I passed, waiting to try to cross, and had to swerve around some whose luck had run out. I've also seen tourists stop to take pictures of them.

The sad thing is that hawks and eagles will swoop down to the road to eat roadkill and will get hit. It's a wildlife apocalypse zone.

The worst thing that happened to me along there was an insect holocaust. I drove my Jeep into a thick swarm of something and my windshield suddenly went opaque. There's only so much the built-in windshield washer can handle. I had to pull off and clean it.

[xArchangelx]

Originally Posted by extrashaky

When I lived in Louisiana I frequently had to run up from New Orleans to Baton Rouge on I-10, which runs right through the Maurepas Swamp just a few feet above water level. During mating season, the bullfrogs would come up out of the swamp en masse looking to get lucky and would try to cross the road. They were impossible to avoid. I'd try to miss them with my wheels, but of course they would hop when the car was over them, and I'd hear them thump and tumble down the underside of the car. There would be bullfrog carnage all over the road.

Big bull gators also try to cross that highway during mating season. For a few weeks each year you can see gator carcasses on the shoulders, some of them pretty messy. Luckily I never hit one of those, although I've seen them sitting right on the shoulder as I passed, waiting to try to cross, and had to swerve around some whose luck had run out. I've also seen tourists stop to take pictures of them.

The sad thing is that hawks and eagles will swoop down to the road to eat roadkill and will get hit. It's a wildlife apocalypse zone.

The worst thing that happened to me along there was an insect holocaust. I drove my Jeep into a thick swarm of something and my windshield suddenly went opaque. There's only so much the built-in windshield washer can handle. I had to pull off and clean it.

That sounds insane haha! I'll stick to Raccoons and Porcupines!

[CarolWilks]

It's great that everything worked out for you, but your car can get pretty messed up next time, and you'll have to shell out for the parts. I was talking about this with a friend last week. He told me that he had many coyotes around his farm, and he had to check out a guide to get rid of them. As I understood, he used wolf urine to keep them away, and it worked, but when he was returning to the barn in his tractor, he hit a coyote that stuck in his radiator just like your raccoon. He didn't call the SPCA and managed to get the animal out himself. It was alive, too.

[Tcoat]

Originally Posted by CarolWilks

It makes sense to buy such equipment only if you have at least some pest control skills. Unfortunately, this option does not suit me. I am very afraid of wild animals.

Bots are afraid of wild animals?

[KR-S]

We need more wild animals in this forum. Will scare off the bots.

[Sasquachulator]

Originally Posted by Tcoat

Bots are afraid of wild animals?

I think they're afraid of viruses.....

This one's smart though, it somehow got a profile pic.

[Spuds]

Originally Posted by KR-S

We need more wild animals in this forum. Will scare off the bots.

I think this forum has plenty of wild animals as it is...

[pallen]

Crazy. How do they get in there behind the grill? Is you underpanel stuff in place?
Its like one of those puzzles.

EDIT: OK, reread the description again. Sounds like your grill is loose enough to flex back on impact. Still crazy...