I was driving home earlier this evening. It was just dark enough to need the headlights to be on, but not too dark to some color outside. There was a car up the road in front of me. I thought I saw some movement in the road behind the car. It was brown, my first thought was a tumbleweed, wrong part of the country, then a brown plastic bag. NO! IT IS A DOG!
The brown dog was running down the road and by the time I recognized it as a dog we were almost on top of it!
Panic stop! Full-on stand hard on the brakes, thank you ABS. We were able to stop in time to not run the dog over. It was so close I am sure we must have scared a year or two of life out of the dog. The dog looked back at us and veered off the road and headed toward some houses.
I am thankful that we did not hit the dog and that nobody was behind us. We went from 55 to 0 mph in a very short distance!