Dispatching a wounded animal

[Irving]

When I worked for the county we carried road-kill certificates in our patrol cars. Somebody hit an animal, we arrived, dispatched animal if necessary (many times the driver of the car or someone else did it prior to my arrival) and issued a certificate for possession. More than once I had a buddy come out and harvest an animal which we then shared. Sometimes we called charity organizations who would distribute the meat to needy families.

You used to work in Boulder right?

[cstone]

You used to work in Boulder right?

Stay out of it "Big Boy."

[Bailey Guns]

You used to work in Boulder right?

Nice one!

[hunterhawk]

Once i called a deputy to shoot a deer that got hit and she was shaking so bad she shot at it like 5 times without hitting it...finally got the rifle and put it down.

Another time i used a filet knife (learned not to do the throat ) just go behind the shoulder...

And yet another time i was about to use a huge heavy pipe to dispatch one and some genius lady pulls up with her kids and lets them just watch it suffer... i put the pipe back in the truck and told her if shes just going to sit there and watch it suffer she can call it in and i left it because i couldnt watch it suffer...

I didnt hit any of these personally...yes i have eaten lots of roadkill... not all of it just edible parts ha

[MarkCO]

Wounded animals can be very dangerous. I wouldn't get out of my vehicle near the animal in such a situation (without a good means of protecting myself.) Call CSP

Truth there.

I've hit 3 elk and 4 deer, I shot 4 of those before I called CSP and in not one case did the CSP have any issue with that. I kept 1 of the elk (yes I got a carcass tag). I have shot two other deer that other motorists have hit, and again, LE (one deputy and one City) had no issue with it.

I would never leave a wounded animal. If I could not safely dispatch it, I would wait for an official to arrive.

Also realize that there are laws and such. Leaving an animal, dead or alive, on a highway without taking reasonable steps to safeguard other motorists can get you in trouble. I have done 3 vehicle accident reconstructions involving a secondary vehicle hitting a wounded animal and those were messy cases. One resulted in a fatality and another a young man who ended up being in a vegetative state for the rest of his life. Court cases and verdicts against the driver who initially struck the animals did occur.

[ColoWyo]

The Elbert county sheriffs department won't do crap about it. A couple of years ago, I saw a wounded buck near the road. I gave them a call and they said they'd take care of it. Cool I thought. Then I drove by a few hours later, still there. Turns out my neighbor had called as well. Both times I drove to town and saw the buck, there was a sheriffs car running radar within five minutes of the deer. They just completely ignored it. Pissed me off. It just seemed to me that they would rather write tickets than take five minutes and take care of the wounded buck. I always thought highly of the Elbert County sheriffs department until this experience. Just take the five minutes and do it.

Sometimes it's just best to take care of things...........

[osok-308]

Call local PD. They'll handle it, you can also try to get a claim tag to get the animal too. Most expensive deer you'll ever get coming at the cost of damaging your car.

[yz9890]

My wife hit a deer in KY several years ago. It hit her windshield and flew into a pond in front of a small baptist church. Deputy showed up to kill it since it was badly hurt and floundering in the pond. He shot it with his AR in front of some kind of church activity group. The minister asked him how he was going to get it out of the pond and the deputy just looked at him for a moment and said "turtle food" before giving my wife a report and leaving. That's when I showed up on the scene and saw one of the kids from the church swim out and drag it back to his truck. I expect it was summer sausage instead of turtle food.

Even in rural KY where that happened, the environment was such that I wouldn't have been comfortable shooting it without going out and getting it first. Just too many buildings, blind curves, etc for me. I wouldn't have left it though. My wife and the minister said it was a pretty sad event. If the police wouldn't or couldn't come, we would've figured something out.

[rondog]

The Elbert county sheriffs department won't do crap about it. A couple of years ago, I saw a wounded buck near the road. I gave them a call and they said they'd take care of it. Cool I thought. Then I drove by a few hours later, still there. Turns out my neighbor had called as well. Both times I drove to town and saw the buck, there was a sheriffs car running radar within five minutes of the deer. They just completely ignored it. Pissed me off. It just seemed to me that they would rather write tickets than take five minutes and take care of the wounded buck. I always thought highly of the Elbert County sheriffs department until this experience. Just take the five minutes and do it.

Sometimes it's just best to take care of things...........

Did you stop at the radar trap and tell that officer? Or just assume the dispatcher would?

Honestly, I didn't know there was a law about this. I hit an antelope this summer that sailed off down into a deep ditch, but there was no way to stop or check on it. Couldn't stop to check damage for 1/2 mile. That stretch of road was very narrow with no shoulders and steep banks on both sides. Totally unsafe place to stop. We just kept on going, it was in the middle of nodamnwhere. Sure don't expect to look up and see a speed goat standing in the middle of your lane!

[Bitter Clinger]

If you can carry a knife this should do the trick lol! Lil overkill!

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