I have been ranting to my sister about this all summer. I commute to burnside every day for work and for 2-3 weeks there was a poor dead fox in the middle of the highway entering into burnside. This poor animal started as a visible creature that was hit until weeks later it’s been run over so many times it was turned into pate. It’s gross and sad. I don’t understand why there is no service to clean up road kill, this would be work for some of our unemployed population and make Halifax look just a little nicer. How exactly do parents explain this sight to a small child in the car? I HATE IT! I’ve seen so many animals hit and then repeatedly run over.. MAKES ME SICK! —Irritated animal lover
This article appears in Aug 21-27, 2014.
Have you contacted the city? First item returned when I put a search in http://halifax.ca/
Year round service trucks are provided in each region of the HRM Service Core Area to respond to immediate street related service calls.
These can include clean-up of accident sites, dead animal retrieval, response to general complaints and checking barricade installations. This service operates 24/7 and is one of the first response units for street emergencies.
Don’t wait for someone else to do it. Do it yourself.
Hay, newfs gotta eat when they’re thumbing their way out to Fort Mac.
Concerned parents can make a game of it. “What did the fox say?”
“What did the fox say?”
Ouch?
But really, if it bothered you, why didn’t you call Lands and Forests, the city or the SPCA (they could have told you who to call)?
yeah o.p., you see this all the time. i once saw a cat, laying dead by side of herr. cove rd. for 5 days.
When a small child asks what happened, you tell them it got hit by a car for not being careful when it crossed the street. It’s really not that hard.
stay inside and wrap you children in bubble wrap
LOL – I totally thought that Bastard Fish was going to adapt one of Jack Handey’s Deep Thoughts.
“Why is the fox dead?”
“He’s dead because a car hit him”
“Why did the car hit him?”
“Probably because of something you did.”
I’d have been a great Dad.
“Won’t someone please think of the children?”
How do parents explain it to their kids? Well, I would explain it something like this –
“What’s that honey? Why is that fox lying in the road? He’s just sleeping. Dead? No, nothing ever dies and everything lives forever, that’s just how life is. What’s that honey? Oh, that’s not blood, that’s finger-paint. You know how you like to make pictures for grandma? Well foxes do that for THEIR grandma’s too.”
That way when reality finally sets in, they will be wholly unprepared to deal with the real world and we can sit back and LOL.
I thought the crows were responsible for road kill clean up! Don’t tell me they’ve been shirking their responsibilities again. Maybe they’ve gotten really lazy from eating too many fries and pizza crusts. Apparently, suburban racoons, according to a documentary I saw, have gotten so fat and lazy from eating the food in the suburban green bins that they sleep far more hours than normal and their health is very poor compared to rural racoons. Same thing might be happening to the crows. They just can’t be bothered taking their chances for scrawny fox in the middle of the road when there are burger buns to be had in every city garbage can!
all the crows come to my backyard
if it’s on the highway it’s DOT territory – did you even bother to call anyone to do the cleanup or just wait until you felt justified to complaint that ‘no one’ did anything.
I like that idea more Ivan.
Also, Paingirl the same fucking thing happens to me when trying to sleep. But I don’t do shit about it. Crows can recognize faces for years, last thing we need are crow grudges.
crows are like elephants they don’t forget or forgive
In some US states they have routine natural resources patrols that clean up roadkill. We have nothing like that here. In my area I often see dead deer that have been tossed by the impact into ditches, and just left there to rot.
What bugs me is when I drive through a residential neighbourhood and there is a dead cat or raccoon or porcupine lying on the roadside right in front of someone’s house, and they don’t even bother to scoop the carcass up with a shovel and bury it someplace. The cat might even be tagged; you could have at least have the common decency to check and notify the owner of the sad news.
As for crows, they can be pretty picky. What we need are more eagles, and maybe a vulture population.