Animals on the Road: Dead or Alive

I saw 'em cleaning a dead deer off the side of the road yesterday and thought to myself, "hey, I oughta just track how many dead animals I see on a single morning's drive to work."

So this morning I did just that. (...counted live ones too)

Road - Distance	Animal	Dead or Alive	Notes
Sandy Point Rd - 2 miles	Deer	Live
	Deer	Live
FM 2325 - 8 miles	Skunk	Dead	Freshly dead - smelled
	?	Dead	unidentifiable
	?	Dead
	Vulture	Live	Turkey Vulture sitting on post
	Raccoon	Dead	Big one... real pretty fur
	Deer	Dead
Highway 290 - 13 miles	?	Dead	Deer ?
	?	Dead	Deer ? ...been dead awhile ...looked like a skin rug
	Deer	Dead	large doe
	Deer	Dead	small doe

There's the chart.

That's a total of 12 wildlife specimans spotted on just my ride to work this morning, and 9 of them dead.

I spotted a deer (which I thought was dead) which was just tangled in the barbed-wire fence a while back and set it free. Awhile back I also saw a small goat stuck in the fence. I turned around and drove back to it - filmed it - then set it free. About 2 days ago, there was a very big cow trotting down the side of the road. About a quarter mile up the road was a Hays County Sheriff officer pulled over. I stopped in front of him and told him about the loose cow. He said, "Why do you think I was pulled over and fixin' to go back there?" He acted like I was a crazy fool to even approach him about it. (Another jerk cop in my humble opinion.)