A new law about deceased stray pets found.

I have an idea for a new law that should be passed.

Lets say a dog or cat has died on someones property, and for arguments sake the collar fell off so no id. Now I have have seen first hand deceased domestic animals that are small literally put into a trash bag and thrown into the garbage by a neighbor, not even caring if that was someones lost pet.

   A new law should be passed that every deceased domestic animal found on someones property MUST be reported to the local animal shelter, and you place the animal in a bag and someone from the shelter will come by and pick up the animal that day. At the shelter someone will photograph and document the animals description, date, and area/street found. Next the data will posted on the animal shelters "found pet" section for all to see, that way if your animal escaped and did die, you will know about it.

You dont know how many people never find pets hit by cars because people just throw them in the trash and never report it....

Yes, surely a good idea. Workable too. 

The problem is, it will strain a burden on our shelter or the town adminstration.   Probably at least 2 hours extra work. if the shelter gets payed, fine, they prob will want to be in. Thus, it costs.

Another point, if a careless neigbour throws a dead body into the trash, you cant do anything about it, thus nobody cares much.  But if a city official (or its representative at the shelter) does it, there are probably some law AND ethic principle against it.  If the pet owned, you could keep it some way till the owner fetches. Some owners may perhaps even pay a sum.  But if dumped, or homeless...

So here you will get "flak".
 

Just as a passing point, we essentially do this at our shelter now.  Any deceased pet is brought to the shelter, scanned for a microchip, photographed, and logged into our lost pets log.
 

It's a good plan in theory, but in practice it would be very difficult to implement because so many shelters are already overburdened and dependent on overworked volunteers. We have a town ordinance requiring people who find a dead pet to report it to the volunteer animal shelter and/or town hall. A description of the animal is kept, but no photos are taken and any carcasses picked up by town workers are incinerated immediately. The shelter will check for a chip, but our town hall won't. There's really no way of knowing how many incidents are never reported.

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