I know it's a bit 'yee har' here but still not what I expected to see when I put my bin out last week!!

Thought it would make a change from the usual Canadian wildlife photos

Cute! Hopefully he eventually got rounded up and sent back home.

Oh wow! Mc Donalds doing home deliveries now?

Thought you would of been quicker then that And got that whiped up sharpish and in your freezer

What does McDonald's have to do with beef? Doubt it's come near a cow in its life.

Bet you could persuade people back home that that's a normal day in your town.

Truer than you'd think actually I remember someone I worked with in Bristol asking me how I was going to manage buying my groceries when I moved to Nanaimo ........ she genuinely wanted to know if there were stores & proper roads etc here!!

And there was me thinking that Calgary was "Cow Town"

Hi Jo ....... No, not 'Cowtown' but maybe Nanaimoo

(I'll get me coat!!)

I like it

I guess you have to be careful when driving around there. My sister came round the corner the day before yesterday, I think she said Departure Bay Road and there was a deer right in front of her. She hit the deer head on and it ran a bit and then died. She said she was hysterical -- I can imagine. I said it wouldn't matter what it was you hit - it would create the same reaction.

probably the same human reaction, yes.
as for the outcome for your car, truck... physics have a say about that. speed, the size of the animal, construction of your vehicle.

one of our installers lives in parksville and commutes up to courtenay an average of three (point something ) times a week. he often tells stories about wildlife - vehicle crashes on the inland highway. about a month ago there was that huge elk, with antlers nearly as wide as the truck it was hit by. the truck was totaled, no idea about the driver though. the week before that there was a bundle of steel, and whatever materials cars are from nowadays, on the shoulder, ready for pickup. it had been a small hatchback car, its exact shape and make not distinctable anymore...

of course, my workmate travels at a time when the wildlife is most active (he is in courtenay by 7am), and at a time the drivers most probably are eager to get from a to b, therefore hardly driving below the speed limit . he figures that there are more accidents with wildlife involved in comparison to the last two seasons though.

even here in town wildlife seems to come closer to civilisation since about mid august... for whatever reason.
well, deer are part of city life in comox. but here, west of the courtenay river they made the headline 3 years ago when going for a family shopping trip to down town courtenay and walking down 5th street as if that would be the most normal thing on earth (to them anyway, and let's face it, for their ancestors some 130 years ago it was)

Yes, they are very dangerous on the highway. There was no damage to my sister's car, which I think is a Pontiac Sunbird, but I knew someone who hit a deer on the Trans Canada Highway outside Moose Jaw. She totalled her jeep and was lucky to live because the deer flew back and went through the windshield - luckily on the passenger side or she would have been totalled as well.

Yep, there are lots of Deer around the Departure Bay Rd area ..... my son goes to school there & I often see them ..... there was one stood on the bus stop there the other day!!