His response was to claim he thought he hit a cat -- yeah, right. A cat that jumps up and cracks the heck out of your windshield and leaves a pool of blood on the top of your car? I'm a vet - when a cat gets hit its injuries come from the initial collision - which may knock it out of the path of the car but usually brings it under the frame of the car inducing further trauma. It doesn't get thrown up into the windshield because it isn't big enough relative to the bumper of the car.
Use a little common sense. When you hear hoofbeats, don't think zebras.
My car bucked and skidded sideways a little, too - and its a large sedan (she weighed about 200 lbs).
Of course, unlike His Eminence, I was sober, and stopped.