Since when do wild animals look both ways before crossing the street?

Sometimes they have to cross the road to get to open water to breed. Only thing I can think of why they would have to cross a road. I avoid all animals if I possibly can. I cringe if I end up hitting one that I couldn't avoid. I also will stop the car to see if they are still alive and either kill them if I believe they are beyond saving or help them off the road if they can make it ok. I even stopped traffic on a very busy truck route once for a snapping turtle. Got out and hurried him/her across the road so it didn't become flattened.

Note, Elic, that I mentioned ANOTHER of your cats below.... /o)

I've never seen animals do this before. I must be looking at the dumb ones then.

They are few and far between. I have to admit that I am an animal watcher. If I step outside, and there are people and an animal, I'm more apt to look at the animal.

I'm sure he has, Angel. I can't phantom why ppl would want to kill such beautiful creatures. They are only trying to survive in a world where their habitat is disappearing thanks to us humans. I'll never forget the one day on the bridge that crosses the creek that runs along the back of our property. I was helping my daughter's friend with her headlight on her bike. It was almost dusk and all 3 of us happened to look up at a dog crossing from one side of the creek to the other via the bridge. Well, they thought it was a dog until I said to myself out loud..'What a beautiful coyote'. They both looked at me and said 'WHAT?' I told them they just saw a coyote up front and almost personal. lol I was surprised since we were not 10' from that coyote and it just looked at us and trotted right along. I was calm, my daughter was calm since I've been teaching her about the wildlife/nature around us, but her friend went into hysterics and ran home fast as she could crying to her parents. I had to follow to let them know what happened and that the coyote meant us no harm at all.

I don't think it's odd but very smart indeed and amazing that the coyote knew to do that to be safe. There is a short road I go down on my route every day where there is always feral cats/kittens hanging around at this one house. I've learned to be very careful when I turn onto that road from the highway being it's not a sharp turn, just a slight angle off the main highway so ppl usually don't have to stop unless there is traffic coming from the other direction. I can be going 55 on the highway but once I'm actually on that road, I brake hard down to 15 before I get near that house so as not to hit any of the cats that sometimes like to lie in the middle of the road. Yesterday, there were a couple cute kittens on the road but soon as I stopped, they were gone. Too bad cause I would of liked to pick them up and find loving homes for them. They were only round 7wks. old.

It broke my heart when one thing occurred years and years ago. I used to feed a bunch of stray cats in the backyard type area behind our apt. building. There was "momma" cat and her four babies...the momma cat was super friendly which was unusual for a stray cat. Her kittens were adorable but a lot more timid..but they all enjoyed the little feast I would give them. I had a virtual field day photographing them, and one of their photos of the kittens all together was later published in a Warren Eckstein book (this all took place in the 1980s). The kittens were a black and white one, a light color tabby, an orange tabby, and an all grey kitty One day momma cat disappears...have no idea whatever happened to her but the four kittens, now bigger stayed behind....so continued to feed them. Little by little they began to disappear too save two remained and don't know what happened to the black and white or all grey cat either, then the orange color one disappeared too so all that was left was the light tiger color cat. Well one day I was home and as usual a car came careening down the street then screeched to stop...I heard a commotion going on outside, and left the apt to see what had happened, but I had kind of guessed...yes, it was the one remaining cat. The car had struck it and killed it..People that were all around must have thought I was nuts, since I ran over and scooped up the cat and put it aside on the street, then ran back up to the apt. to get a towel to wrap the cat in then placed it in a bag--there was no real place to bury it, so I unfortunately had to simply put it in the trash. I wanted to kick myself, cause I couldn't help thinking why the hell didn't I take the four kittens and give them a home myself...I mean back then we didn't have that many cats.

My heart skips a beat when I see a cat cross in front of me too.... out of pure excitement as I hit that gas! Lol, totally kidding. I do hate cats though... lol. But no, I would never try to hit one! :P

Yeah, Sab was pretty special.

They must figure that with all the cars/trucks on the road nowadays, they better start watching or they are pancakes.

Lol yes you are right there

Cars are supposed to stop for lil Gissi. It's the law, don't ya know. lol We have to bow to him, not the other way around.

I hit a buck few years ago that ran out in traffic, bounced off an oncoming car right into my lane. I had no choice but to run over it, wrecking havoic with my car. $4000 worth of damage. It was rut season and I saw that buck running full out across a field and knew it wasn't stopping for anything so slowed down.

I see deer standing at the side of the road but only to graze cause soon as I get closer, they hightail it right across the road in front of me. Too many close calls with them.

Some deer will just stand there on the side of the road and watch you drive past as well. Scary cause you just don't know what they are thinking and could just jump right out in front of you. I love watching the squirrels in the winter when I feed the birds. It's a friendly on-going battle on who is going to win with the feeders, me or them. lol

Oh wow! I would of loved to seen that. Don't ya just hate those kodak moments and never seem to have a camera handy?

Maybe they are learning from us humans to watch b4 crossing. Their habitats don't have to shrink IF ppl would just buy the houses up for sale instead of building new ones like crazy. Lots of nice foreclosed houses out there as well. I've learned to live with coyotes being there is a den out in the woods I just discovered last week. Been noticing the same ones in my area for weeks now and noticed a couple of them going back to the same area in the woods. I went hiking and found the den but didn't go near it. I'm happy to have such beautiful and smart creatures as neighbors. Just hope my human neighbors don't find their den or shoot them.

Yeah, coyotes are cool, though I know very little about them and have only ever seen a few. But yeah, people are getting more wary of them now, especially with those coyote attacks on children a couple weeks ago.

Your very much welcome, Maggiepie. It was a tough decision out of 4 so I ended up doing the eenie meenie minny moe bit. lol