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We do in fact have such a plan. It involves police officers using their weapons to dispatch animals humanely. Civilians are generally welcome to help as well.
Maybe someday it will be economical or reasonable to take a more controlled approach to such things, but I suspect thats 100+ years away, and then will be decided by AI systems that will either dispatch the animal on site, or rescue it based upon population levels, and injury estimations. And even that assumes that some of our technologies dont advance further. Any sufficiently advanced technology will appear to be magic.
Til then, we will make judgement calls on quality of life and probability of survival for injured creatures. Why is this even a topic?
Yeah, she got all butt hurt when I told her about a deer I found injured, and I had to dispatch it with a hatchet, as it was all I had.
Then she went into this rampage about we as taxpayers should fund animal obamacare (my words, not hers).
I was sleeping, catching up with working the night before, when the moderator shut me down! I thought we were kind of on subject? We still did not see what happened to the fox and the man at Disney World.
"Is a national wild animal emergency rescue plan realistic?"
No. If it's an injured eagle or something people take them to a bird sanctuary. Or an orphaned animal, people will pick them up and stuff. But a deer hit by a car, heck no, you shoot it. These people have to be brain dead.
California law prohibits folks from eating roadkill.
Otherwise you'd be set with some deer jerky.
Has anyone ever been prosecuted under this law?
As far as eating a freshly killed deer, you do have to watch out for gravel and the parts that came into contact with the vehicle are sometimes damaged beyond saving. But even a fawn can provide a couple of meals for four hungry college guys. I know from experience.
As far as eating a freshly killed deer, you do have to watch out for gravel and the parts that came into contact with the vehicle are sometimes damaged beyond saving. But even a fawn can provide a couple of meals for four hungry college guys. I know from experience.
In Michigan the police have a list of people wanting fresh killed deer.
My husband stopped once and gutted a deer for a lady while the police waited for her to pick it up.
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California law prohibits folks from eating roadkill.
Otherwise you'd be set with some deer jerky.
Our Fish and Wildlife will first contact an Indian band, and if one is not close by, may contact known hunters if the roadkill is fresh and not too damaged.
We got an elk for a wildlife supper that way once. In that case we actually put out an 'emergency call' to our fish and wildlife to be on the look out as we were short of elk meat.
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