No. Black winter night out in the wooded fields of central NY.
I only saw the poor creature for an instant before it ran into me
at roughly half my speed, a black blur on a frozen black winter night.
Didn't even know it was a dog.
The entire experience was surreal.
I slowed down to nothing, looking in the rear view mirrors,
windows down, listening and looking for any kind of sign.
I couldn't get out. And why would I?
Who would imagine a Rottweiler running
head on full speed into them on a back
country road? The only reason I know what
I hit is because the collision knocked off
my front license plate, which the dog's
owner found with his dead dog. He called
the county sheriff, and several hours later,
a deputy was at my door step. When he told
me I'd killed a Rottweiler, I was devastated.
Every roadkill I've driven by this week has been excruciating.
