Dogs ar great!!

Do you drive motorcycles Babs and ust not cars?

 I need seom help with Ron even a motorcycle would help,,LOL---kidding Ron

It's human nature to swerve when anything living gets in front of your vehicle, but you really must try and train yourself to ignore the little critters. 

Of course, I've closed my eyes before and run over a squirrel, and I'm thinking that closing the eyes is not good either.

I've had it both ways..on an very busy street in Portland.. at rush hour, this dog ran out in front of me and I hit his back leg also, and I was preparing to stop and this guy behind yells "keep going.. or you'll end up dead yourself in an car pile-up"... since the dog took off to parts unknown, I couldn't even see where to follow him off the road either....and I swerved one time to keep from hitting an dog on the freeway..mind you it's owner let it out of the car on the driver's side. I was going 70 MPH and it was all I could do to bring myself  to not lose control, not hit the guardrail...the guy behind me pulled over and he might of hit him, it's against the law in this state to leave an injured animal, without reporting it and helping to find it some aide. We had the expereince also, going up to Mt. Hood, it was either hit an deer bouncing out in front of us or hit the car beside us, we hit the deer, and it left an really sickening feeling in my stomach doing it also. Everyone stopped, the deer laying by the side of the road, we went up to the ranger station to tell them, by the time we got back it was gone, I understood from others we had merely "knocked it out" and it regained consciousness, got up and pranced away. It's never easy to kill anything, even animals. Yes, my dogs are as loving as this one is for it's mother dog. Their lives are one's of self-sacrific to humans most the time. It takes an good person to treat them decently.