I tell you, Liz, I don't even read the news anymore because every single little thing on them depresses me -and I am NOT a person prone to depression! Quite the contrary, I am very upbeat - under normal circumstances, that is, but we are not living under 'normal circumstances' right now...
And, yes, you are right! So many animals killed for no good reason! Now, sometimes, it's almost impossible to avoid hitting a deer because they have the habit of jumping onto the road seemingly out of nowhere. That happened to us once when we were living in Pa, we were driving home on a road that cut through a large forest at sunset and I had just told my husband to drive very slowly because this is the hour when it's dangerous for them as they come out to eat and drink and, sure enough, a doe jumped right in front of our car! Thankfully, we were not driving fast at all and my husband quickly turned the car so we just bumped her a bit on the side but she didn't even fall or anything, she safely umped to the other side of the road. But I almost had a heart attack!