I have not hit a cow. Many racoon, 'possum, squirrels, rabbits cats and a couple deer. So far in Steve I have only hit birds. Averaging 1 a month or so on birds. Prior to that I seldom ever hit birds. though one time going to Oshkosh in dad's big Dodge Maxi-van we went through a flock of sparrows and hit a dozen all at once. It looked like it was raining birds when I looked in the rear view mirror.
I hit or rather was hit by the two cats (sorry Rick, I know you are a cat lover). One I was leaving mom and dad's house and it ran across the road and jumped spread eagle into the grill of my car. I was so surprised that I didn't have time to react. The other I was following my yet to be wife and the cat looked at her car and then she said it looked like the cat ran out to sniff my tires. It was out of view of the big land barge I was driving and had no idea it left the side of the road.
The first deer I had a 1978 Ramcharger with the frame mounted brush guard and it bounced off that and cleaned the chrome on the left front of the bumper, put a butt print on the passenger door as it folder the mirror in. I had the break away mirrors for going off road.
The second deer was the third in the herd that crossed in front of me and looked the smallest to hit of the group and there was no way to go between any or get stopped in time. Was a relatively light impact but broke the headlight and wrinkled the left front fender. Everything else was OK but still $1800 on our fairly new at the time Durango.
We bought out 5 year old a new bicycle Monday night since he learned to ride without training wheels on his little "Yamaha" 10" beginners bike and it is too small for him. He was so excited he didn't even want to stop at Culvers for supper and that is his favorite place to eat. He likes the chicken strips and fried cheese curds but can't have the cheese right now since he has developed an allergy to milk. Poor kid.
He went from this 12":
To this 16" without the training wheels:
