Your Car Is A Reflection Of ... Something

We're driving to the pool, and I realize that the truck in front of of us has what appears to be a small deer doll impaled on the trailer hitch. The truck is a 4x4 pickup. Didn't trucks used to be 4x4s OR pickups? Anyway, it said 4x4 on it.

We get to the stoplight and the truck stops in front of me, and I see that the little deer is now moving its little hooves up in the air, as if to say "don't shoot" and it has a little red target on its chest. When the light changes, the little deer stops waving its arms.

I told my husband about it and he said "well, some people hate deer as much as you hate mice." I said "yes, but I don't have a mouse mounted on the back of my car." (Should I ???)

The "Don't Shoot" Deer Hitch Critter is frighteningly easy to find via Google, as is its friend the "Flopping Bass Hitch Critter" (for that always attractive "dead fish on your trailer hitch" look.) According to the write-up, "The Hitch Critter will keep your hitch ball and wiring harness clean while not in use for towing." So they aren't just decorative! They have a purpose too!