It seems the wild creatures are attracted to my tires. Does that mean my car is no longer "environmentally friendly?" I don't know about going "green." Now it's more like "silver with splotches of red mixed with fur."
Aim for them. Animals almost always jink at the last instant......especially the quicker ones like cats and squirrels and wabbits. Many times this results in both of you jinking the same way. Hitting the horn and waggling the lights might also help, but I presume that you're talking about the little guys that dash onto the road about 13 feet in front of your car while you're driving 60. I used to work nights and evenings, and it seemed I was knocking down squirrels and wabbits nearly every night, then I made a practice of trying to hit them, and my weekly scores fell dramatically. *note!* Do not try this with opossums! They're worse than kids with cell phones.....but they're also very easy to avoid. Animal strikes are a non-trivial problem with our Prius-sized company vehicles, even though most of our night workers drive larger vehicles. Cats, dogs, opossums, and armadillos can easily send a Prius to the body shop, and even the itty-bitty dog-sized deer that they have in the SE will probably send YOU to the hospital. This is why when I'm on a call-out at night I usually take a truck.
Don't worry my prius ate a bird, it got stuck inside of the lower grill and didn't realize until a week later in the hot summer heat.
Curious as this just happened to me and can't get the bird out. Did it hurt your radiator/heating system at all? Not sure what to do, as don't want the car to heat up and damage car. Have tried so hard to get the dead bird out.... Not sure what to do. Thanks for any help.
You'll have to pull the front bumper cover off. Not that hard. It's tricky to put it back on if you do it yourself.
