What's the best way to dispose of roadkill if it's by your house?

Call animal control. They should have people that take care of this.

edit :: I wanted to add that if you call the local animal shelter they should be able connect you with the right people. The agency that takes care of this might be named differently in your location.

put it in a garbage bag and toss it in a dumpster.

Thanks, @johnpowell. I contacted city animal control who redirected me to the Streets Dept. who are coming to pick up the carcass.

Awesome for you. Not so awesome for the possum.

Throw a barbeque party, invite your neighbors!

Just kidding!

Never down the sewer. Dumpster only lengthens the rot. I did what JP said. Once, when it was on an area I didn’t live in, I called the nearest vet office and they called the authorities for me. I also had the same funny thought as demo, but to call the local roadkill cafe.

The following story includes twisted humor.

I live in New Jersey where suburban sprawl has encroached on deer territory, so it’s very common to see dead deer on the side of the road. I took a twenty minute trip on weekend and decided to count the carcasses. I counted 23. That’s almost a dead deer per minute. One of my co-workers who lives with her 5 year old son at her parents house told me this story just before Christmas a couple of years ago. She said a deer had been hit but not killed near her house. It was limping horribly, so they called the police department, who sent an officer out with an animal control officer. they shot the deer in her front yard and got in their cars to leave. She asked what they were going to do about the carcass, and she was told to call the road department. she did, and they said it was not in their jurisdiction. this has been a common problem around here, and it can take a very long time for the bureaucrats to decide who is responsible for removing dead animals.

My friend was concerned about her sons feelings about seeing this dead animal in the yard for such a long time. After she put him to bed, her Dad went out and propped the deer up in the yard, and strung Christmas lights from it. When the proper authorities finally showed up a few days later, her son wanted to know why they were taking “Rudolph” away.

Call public works

Cook that stuff up. It’s free, right?

Of you get fresh road kill I have great recipes. So don’t let them go to waste cook them up.

Give it to me. I am a bone hound…..I would skin it, bury it for a couple months….then exhume it and add it to my collection.

Thinking always of students, find out it there is a taxidermy school near you, and offer them first, ok second whack at it. Students of taxidermy can always practice on an unmolested portion of roadkill, and often great skills are developed in this way.