Last fall I was riding in remote, desert country in SE Washington State when I saw a deer get clobbered by a truck. The truck drove on, but the deer was still alive, lying paralyzed below the front shoulders (broken back). I jumped off the bike and slit the deers throat to put it out of its misery. Two days later I was riding back that way, heading for home, when I passed that same dead deer on the side of the road. As I passed, a fat, dirty, and well fed badger crawled out of the deer's anus. It had eaten its way in through the bung hole and was enjoying a royal feast.

We have a lot of rattlesnakes in our region and a bunch of them end up as additional stripes on the asphalt. Last weekend I was riding with some friends and we were chatting, not paying close attention to what was in front of us, when one rolled over a good size rattler. I was right behind my buddy, so I saw the snake flip up and try to bite whatever had just hit him. The snake ended up getting its head caught in the spokes of the rear wheel and went round and round a couple times before being thrown clear and scuttling off into the sagebrush as fast as it could go. We watched the road a lot closer after that.