What??!! No color pictures of a brain-avulsed bunny lying gutted in the roadway, its viscera and sinews splayed and spattered and strewn across the landscape, the carion crows picking at the black holes where its eyes used to be.
It wasn’t roadkill, though: it was still alive. It was thrashing and convulsing violently (though it made absolutely no noise), so the reason I went to tell the bank tellers was so they could prevent it from biting somebody coming to the bank. Who ever killed it and cleaned up the blood apparently washed the grass, as well.
PLease, let’s not go through this again, K?
Thanks you for an absolutely wonderful mental image, and an accompanying laugh.
Yeah, I guess they would give up after a while 
As dwest noted, they also dig burrows in the banks, so the Really Big Dam And Lodge scenario isn’t necessary.
We’ve got urban raccoons that make pests of themselves. A couple of weeks ago I had one pushing a telescope (outside to cool down) around. It seemed quite put out when I came outside to observe (it retreated to the bushes and chittered at me from time to time).
That didn’t disturb me too much, but when it peeled back the turf in spots all over the front yard a few days later (probably hunting for grubs) I got a tad annoyed.
There is a stream (“improved” by the Army Corps of Engineers) a few houses down from us, with convenient storm drains that lead from the stream to grates all along our street. Gives them a convenient underground commuter tunnel right into our front yards.
Annoying at times, but cute rascals. All the same, I keep our cat (and her food) inside at night.
Perhaps I misunderstood the original post …
djm
Of course you did…
Okay, folks - a Kentucky joke using bears. Hopefully no one from KY is offended.
There were two bears going along the Ohio River one day and they decide on eating humans. One would take the Ohio side and other would take the Kentucky side.
After several months, the one the Ohio side was doing quite well eating the typical overweight Americans on the Ohio side. He spotted something that fell into the river on the KY side and barely made it across. When it got within visual range, he discovered that it was the other bear, only much thinner than before. “What happened to you?”, he asked.
The other bear replied, “Some of those on the other side of the river look big but once you get all the hot air and baloney out of them, there is nothing left”.
We have skunks. Whoever cleans up roadkill skunks deserves a huge salary.
Who would want that stinkin job!