Patricia Randolph’s Madravenspeak:
“Fellow Mortals is more than a place. It is a living philosophy based on the belief that encouraging compassion in humans toward all life brings out the finest aspects of our humanity.” — Fellow Mortals’ mission
I was driving home last week, from Madison. Six miles from my house, on State Highway 127, I saw a truck stopped in the oncoming lane, and a man standing over a heap in the road. I pulled over.
A fawn had been hit by a car. The man was loudly complaining that the person who hit the fawn “just drove off, treating this baby like trash”.
The man had crutches in his truck, and was suffering from a hernia. He could not help me pick up this large, traumatized, kicking fawn. I estimated her to…
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Exposing the Big Game 
I hate to hear these things too – last night my husband and I were going out, and I saw a deer in the trees browsing by the side of the highway, half hidden. I worried that she would go out into the road, but on the way home I didn’t see anything.
People barreling down the highway, preoccupied with their own goings-on or distracted by cell phones, it’s just a nutty world out there. You can just see that they don’t plan ahead 5 minutes, let alone for any wildlife in the road. That and being told human life is ‘more important’.
Here’s a post I wrote about the issue: https://exposingthebiggame.wordpress.com/2012/04/24/road-hazard-3-2/