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Advice for everyone: Know who in your area (usually Animal Control in the U.S.) to call when you notice dead or injured animals in the road. Even small roadkill can cause an accident by attracting larger scavengers.
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And remember, in Tennessee you're allowed to take roadkill home and eat it. Make sure it's cooked thoroughly, though. Let's be safe out there.
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Around these here parts there's a status divide. People who think they're better than others put down the others whenever a chance arises, and conversely. Every so often, an editorial commentary will appear online or in print condemning the people on the less privileged side of the community for abandoning pet animals along the roadside that are then run over. No matter that the roadkills are more often opposum and racoons, sometimes it's cats or dogs.
A thoughtful person would realize that roadkill always increases when the nights are exceptionally cold and the days are warm. The animals crawl out onto the road attracted by the residual warmth and fall asleep, and beome prey to the next unwitting driver driving along in the wee early morning hours.
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Unfortunately, deer are the most common roadkill in my area. I would guess that I see a freshly killed deer about every three days. I see them (alive) in my backyard every once in a while, but they usually visit very early in the morning. I've seen as many as ten or fifteen at the same time.
Rich, I lived in Tennessee for eight years. You're right about the roadkill there, but the rule is that it has to still be warm. On a side note, Tennesse had some of my favorite animal crossing signs from your standard "Deer Crossing" to "Cow Crossing" signs. However, my favorite was "Marsupial Crossing". While I lived there, I did not have enough fingers (10) to count how many people I knew who didn't know what a marsupial was.
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I kinda like the way this thread wandered from talking about the Big Three SF mags to road kill. Are they just road kill on the Information Superhighway now?
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In the small SD town in high school I went to, a few people actively sought out roadkill, not for eating (as far as I know) but to sell the fur. These people also tended to swerve TOWARD small animals in the road.
I don't miss that town at all (although mostly for other reasons).
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There's a lot of story material in here. Internet, road kill (real and virtual), mysterious towns and reasons for leaving...
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