Thread: Road Kill.....

Just got back from the latest Edjit adventure - Numpty doing the multi-state report as we speak. The trip from Wilmington in SA to our finish at the Louth Races saw literally thousands of dead roos and emus and we were travelling on the most least used tracks we could. Some had been there for a while as they were virtually buried on the windward side with sand and dust making for an interesting speed bump in the middle of the road.

The drought has roos standing alongside the track and not even moving as you drive past paddocks which are just dry trees, mulga and dirt. They didn't even hop away as you drove past. The few main type bitumen roads we drove were like a roo and emu feather carpet with a dead one every couple of hundred yards.

On another note, one of our mates told us that a female police officer up Tamworth way is booking a people for picking up road kill roos and taking to to feed their dogs. She claimed it is against the law to use a protected species for pet food. Hopefully the new roo culling laws will at least allow farmers and other authorized persons to make some use of these poor critters during this protracted drought

Originally Posted by Rick1970

Funny you say that, someone has been marking roadkill roos with a painted on cross between home and Tamworth.....

The cross tells other animal rescue groups that the pouch has been checked for babies and they can continue on.