What's the rural protocol for domestic roadkill?

[Vernon Windsor]

I took a trip recently and came across at least 75 pets dead by the side of the road. Aside from the causes and care that contributed to their ending up this way, what, if anything, do rural people do about fluffy or fido lying mangled in a heap not four feet from the driveway?

Vultures? (Highway cafe)

Call the rendering truck?

Bury them yourselves?

Let them rot?

What's the consensus?

[Vernon Windsor]

I know not everyone views "farm cats" as pets, but most view dogs that way. I was driving from Colorado to Iowa and often taking state highways instead of interstate. I have never seen so many dead pets on one trip either, which is why the subject came up. I saw everything from a 60 or 70 lb dog with a fluffy red coat to cats and kittens. I assume the dogs were chasing critters. The cats might have been doing the same, but they are usually more careful. In the Midwest, March is the season for striped skunk roadkill. It has to do with their dispersal pattern timing.

Higher density of farms and people, leads to a higher density of pets and a greater frequency of roadkill. I'm sure a lot of dogs are chasing deer.

[Slayer Dug]

"What's the rural protocol for domestic roadkill"?!!!?

YOU KILL IT, YOU GRILL IT

That's how it's done in The South....ROFLMAO...beer in hand!!!!

[Whiny Old Bastard]

Vernon, is urban, he doesn't know the the difference between a cat, dog or a possum, rabbit, squirrel, fox, coyote, raccoon etc .etc. I've driven many thousands, of miles in the rural south for my whole life, and I seriously doubt that I have seen 75 dead PETS in 40 years. Get a grip people.

[Vernon Windsor]

Nice to see you living up to your name. Just how do you get both your feet in your mouth at the same time?

[BethD]

I passed 6 dead animals Monday on RT 33 in NJ, a skunk, a possum, a squirrel, a cat, another possum,
and something I couldn't idenify.

In winter/fall a deer almost every day.
I don't know what they do with it. Let it sit and rot?
The turkey buzzards pick at it.
It is gross.

I never let my cat outside. If I had a dog it would always be on a leash or in a big fenced in yard.