Animals on Roads

Back in the day - when doing Wildlife work for the govt and in a remote locale with no local FAWNA volunteers to rescue injured wildlife - we would get many the urban tourist rock into the CALM (DEC) Office, to report they had struck a roo and it was thrashing in the bushes at the so and so kilometer peg on such and such road.

Fact.
Most road trauma roos are broken legged and thus unsaveable.

Fact
They are not as yet a threatened species - so hard to justify a vets bill maybe in the many $1000's to attempt a rescue on the dept budget

Fact
After assuring the urban terrorists (oop's tourists) that we would rush straight out to save it (in order to assuage their guilty conscience for travelling too fast near dusk and hitting it in the first place) I would wait for them to depart on their trip - then book the Dept 12 gauge outta the departmental gun safe, pop it in the dept 4wd ute and go put the thing outta its misery in a quick humane way.

Fact.
IMHO - those who travel country roads at a speed sufficient to hit roos etc ought take on the personal responsibility that goes with driving like an idiot and do their own euthanasia, insteada landing the unpleasant job in someone esles lap be it the local vet or wildlife official.

Fact.
Only a month or so back RSPCA charged a couple youths with euthanasing a injured roo roadside with a hammer.

What a screwed up nanny state fulla doo gooders we live in!

Just my 2c from past experience.

Cheers