Why oh why

Road kill my way tends to be more of the Pheasant, Rabbit or Deer variety

Thanks, I'm sure Dave appreciates your thoughts.

What do humans kill?

Pretty much whatever we want.

Exactly. So unless you're a vegan, STFU and even then STFU.

I'd like to think we humans don't kill indiscriminately as cats do. Unfortunately that's not the case for all.

What bird lovers don’t appreciate is cat lovers can also be bird lovers. I have four types of bird feeders in the garden.

Blackbirds, thrushes, sparrows (house and hedge), starlings, magpies, jays, wrens, robins, greenfinches goldfinches, chaffinches, bullfinches, gold crests, doves, pigeons, woodpeckers, bullfinches, blackcaps and sparrow hawks all feed in my garden.

The way I look at it, a garden with a healthy stock of birds will encourage the cats not to stray too far.

So you attract birds to your garden for your cats?   Some bird lover!

What a very strange thread    

Both possums and rabbits are major pests in NZ.  When my girls were young I used to cart them and their friends around the countryside in an old Land-Rover. At suitable moments they’d all burst out into that most useful (and adaptable) of songs:

There’s a dead possum in the middle of the road

There’s a dead possum in the middle of the road

There’s a dead possum in the middle of the road

’Cos we ran it over

I think you took an enormous risk. You may run out of luck the next time.

Yes, strikes me as the right thing to do  

Apparently it's not unusual for the local police to escort ducklings to water, however last time the story was spread through Facebook and had lots of hits in Palestinian areas. Apparently our problems seems mundane compared to their own struggle. The less humourless in my own country made a moral point of it of course....

Still, I think it's important to care about animals and have the ability to be emphatic.

I think you mean empathetic. 

My sister moved into a newly built estate a few years back. There had been a large pond on the site which was filled in. The ducks still return and nest on a large roundabout island. Luckily the road isn't a busy one and the local residents seem to take care when the ducklings are about. I can't say the same for the local cats though. 

...indeed 

I always attempt stop for animals crossing the road, regardless of species, though I have claimed a few lives in my time.  Never a cat, and never a dog, but a few pheasants (my god they're stupid), and a couple of rabbits, and of particular note a hare.  The hare ran out in front of me on a country lane one evening while I was travelling at precisely 60mph, there was nothing I could do.  There was a significant thump when we made contact, but that was that, it happened.  A mile down the road I went through a small village, and people were looking at me passing by in a strange manner.  I assumed that the impact had damaged the car, and this was attracting the attention.  When I arrived home and went to inspect the damage, I found I'd been driving around with a hare impaled on the tow hook in the front spoiler of the car, like some kind of Mad Max trophy.  Removing it was not a pleasant experience either.

Jugged hare is very tasty SongStream. There's nothing wrong with eating roadkill if you know it's fresh.

Unfortunately I have seen people deliberately target animals on the road.  Here in North Florida it's considered sport to run over turtles crossing the street .. the bigger the truck and the higher it's jacked up the more prone the drivers are to participate in this sport.

They refer to it as "testing the suspension" .. 

Intentionally running over a turtle, now that's truly pathetic, and from one American to another, very 'redneck'

Actually I'm British (Welsh to be specific) but have lived here for 30+ years .. but yes, you're absolutely right, very "redneck" .. usually including the Rebel flag in the rear window along with the gun rack.