One night a few months ago, my husband and I decided to go and get some beef jerky. We got into the car and drove down the street about 3 houses, and all of a sudden I saw a pit bull dark out towards us. We felt this big thud on the passenger side of the car and then Mark looked in the rear view mirror to see the dog running back into his yard. We backed up as our hubcap was rolling across the street. We honked infront of the dog's yard but no one came out of the house. So we turned around, went home and checked out the damage.
We drive a 2005 Suzuki Aerio and the body's plastic bends really easily. We were scared of what we would find, but it turns out that the dog must have only ran into our tire. The broken hub was the only damage. We went back to the neighbor's yard and Mark was walking up to the door as the dog kept barking. His owner finally came out and Mark told her that her dog had hit us. She looked her dog over and said he looked fine. She also asked if there was any damage to the car, and when he told her about the hub, she said "well that's good". We didn't expect her to offer to pay for it, but wow...she didn't even seem all that concerned that her dog took a pretty good hit to the head.
Everytime I see him, I can't help but think how lucky he was that night, that he didn't end up infront of the car.