My Prius is a carnivore...

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.