The animals are on the move. I narrowly missed a group of deer and 2 raccoons tonight. The deer were first. I was driving home, taking my usual back roads way. I had stopped taking it for the winter but its back to being a good solid road again. So it was dark out and I was in a ceder swamp. I just made out the shape of their bodies when it seemed they were right in front of me. I hit the brakes and one of them(there were four) Walked into the center of the road. I honked the shit out of the horn She jumped to the west side to join her other two friends. There is still one on the east side who's pacing the truck as I have really slowed down. I look out the passenger window and she's looking right at me I hammered the gas pedal and took off. I've heard of deer running into the sides of cars so I didn't want to be beside her when she decided to cross. The raccoons were a couple of km.'s apart one just made it across in front of me the other retreated to the ditch without even trying. I hate hitting any animal but when I'm doing 100 km/hr on a gravel road I can't really just stop on a dime. I'll do what I can to avoid it but it still happens. Chrissy's brother Ben and I once had a cat run in front of us while we were driving through Hamilton. He used a few of his lives that day. The cat had no sooner made it past us when a dog ran right into us. He hit the drivers side door pretty hard. We looked behind us. The dog was dazed for a second then he picked back up the chase.