Yeah, you'll have to get used to it, sadly.

Living in Tampa Bay, I even wrote poems about it, because it was so depressing constantly seeing dead animals on the road, of all sizes.

But it wasn't until I moved to Tennessee that I started seeing far larger animals dead by the road. I haven't seen any hogs as road kill, but I have seen a number of deer, one f which had been ripped in half by the car or truck that hit it.

The largest and most surprising I've seen, to date, was a large male cougar off the shoulder on eastbound I-40, between Nashville and Lebanon.

Considering that Eastern Cougars were recently listed as "extinct," which having worked with wildlife in the field, I consider a complete fallacy, I was surprised that the big guy never even made the news, or the local "sightings" websites.

Guess they only record what they want to, considering that he was on a heavily traveled road, and I saw him in broad daylight.

About a week ago, though, I did see a partially denuded rib cage sticking out of a black plastic garbage bag, roughly a mile from our home. I did check it out, and even took a couple of photos, but from the slant of the rib cage, it was definitely a quadruped, and may well have been a hog.

Whatever it was, it had been butchered and cleaned, which makes it being left at a turnout by our waterfall that much more strange.