What do you do when you spot roadkill?

If I saw it get hit or the likes, I'd eat it. Taught myself to skin and tan an animal when I came across a twitching raccoon on the way to practice at 5 am. Didn't eat it though, just wasn't that adventurous.

Came across a dead very large bird a while back too. Past it going one way thinking the feathers would make great fletching. On the way back there was a guy sitting on the side of the highway next to his suv plucking the thing. I kept going.
 
after considerable experience, and a few oops jobs, my nose is now educated into what is a keeper, and what is not. It really doesn't take long to spoil in the sun.
Kills that the police have called me too, and I know are less than an hour old, will have congealed blood under the hide in some cases.
The best are ones where the car that hit it is still on scene. Might even get help lifting the carcass!

Last weekend I passed seven dead deer along Hwy 28 north of Peterborough. None were recoverable. Some were little more than big smears on the road, some looked as though they had died without being touched. But smell....
 
I'd say depending on conditions:

I was driving on Bathurst just around Aurora few months back, and saw a young doe get smashed by a car that was 200 yards ahead of me, long story short :cool: I didn't take the doe, as I got no pickup :Dand my leather seats would be hard to wash off from all that blood :eek:
 
If it's a fresh kill, it goes into the truck (like John Y Cannuck said. It's a keeper if it's a Police call out or the hitting vehicle is still on scene--and driveable). Else, it's coyote bait.

In Ontario, you must notify the MNR for possession. If you can't get a hold of the MNR, call the police and note down the date and time. That way there is a record of report (all police, fire and EMS central call centre lines are taped). If the MNR decides to come after you, you can have the tapes pulled and transcribed for court purposes. For police call outs, the guys around here, just put my name on the report as "taken possession" of it and I write down the report # in my day planner.
 
If the meat is good then why not? Better to put it to good use. We were driving a back road with the fire truck and a huge doe ran out in front of us. The big bumper destroyed the front right shoulder. We had our axes with us and it did the trick (It's just not fun watching an animal suffer). Turned out the whole rear was perfect.
 
Scored this one on the 416 near Fallowfield rd Ottawa.
Pulled over to check the rack and found it was still warm.
Friendly road crew helped load it in the back of my Dad's car (Background)
Tight fit, never did tell him I did that.
Ground most of it up for sausage and Dog food.

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There are a few people saying its illegal in BC in here. However, I have two stuffed owls (a great horned, and a barred) in my living room right now. I never ate them, find the meat a bit mousie. Good in a white wine and soya sauce though I hear. In BC if its not a valued species or on the red list you can take it, freeze it and have it inspected at the Fish and Wildlife office, to make sure you didnt shoot it. If he gives you a permit for you, $60, then you are good to take it to the taxidermist. Both turned out awsome though. I wish I could figure out how to post pictures using likes to photobucket.
 
Here in sask., we enjoy going out for a drive at the time of year when alot of skunks are dead on the highway. We drive slowly until someone in a hurry comes up behind us and drives too close behind us, at that point we run over any dead skunks and the smell and crap hits the car in pursuit. Sometimes we have to hit the shoulder to get 'em especially if their alive, but it's worth it to see the car behind swerve and fall back, way back!!
 
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