RoadKill

[Info Freak]

Does any one know who picks up all the dead animals from the road side. One morning there would be some dead animals but the next they would of disappeared. I always wonder who collects them anyone know??

[PurplePixie]

I seem to remember Tartan Wizard once writing that he gets a lot of the animals that he uses for taxidermy off the roadside, so that accounts for some of them. I expect foxes & other scavengers clear the rest up.

Sometimes the pancake rolls in our local chippie are a really funny shape though......

[peanut]

I know there is a truck with a crane on the side of it that picks up the large ones like deer

[brachiopod]

Hugh Fearnly-Wittering-On of River Cottage fame collects them in the early hours of the morning when we are all tucked up in bed.

[Sammy Snake]

Well I live in a town centre and the council pick up things like dead cats.  Don't know what happens elsewhere though.

[tartanwiz]

Purplepixie is right! I am the culprit! For my taxidermy hobby, you see. Well, I account for some of them anyway. The rest are scooped up by the Environmental Health department of the local council.

[dosset]

badger is picked up by ratty & mole

ratty is picked up by mole & badger

mole is picked up by ratty & ......................

[littleoldme]

Mmmm mmmm. Them squirrels 'n' hedgyhogs sure is gooood eatin'.

Hey. Whut y'all lookin at me like that fur? T'aint nuttin unnattrul. Uh-hyuk.

[Otrere]

Well it ain't me that's for sure!!!



Seriously though I'm pretty sure its the council.

[sddsddean]

Crows and Magpies get rid of a lot and I have once seen a Buzzard eating 'roadkill'. I have seen crows etc getting rid of a rabbit in less than an hour. They really are quite efficient.

[Ember]

ss..dean's answer is mine too, I have noticed crows pecking away for dear life eating the road kill, leaving it until the last minute before they fly away, one day they will leave it too late and become victims themselves in other words the eater eaten.

[SteveD]

They go here:

http://users.aol.com/davideo2/roadkill.htm

[cat woman]

Hi Freak, I worked with bloke not so long back who worked for the council, he told me that the council picked up and disposed of the various animals  which are killed on motor ways ect. I never went into the details of what, where or how they disposed the poor mites.

[bruce5755]

MY WIFE!  She's forever picking up dead cats and bringing them home for me to bury in the garden, it's full of them!