Dead Animal Removal in Kentucky, by City
Five Kentucky metros, each with its published dead-animal policy quoted from the agency's own page, and the split between a city street, a state-maintained highway and private property. The same number works from every page, and calls route by ZIP where an operator covers the address.
Northern Kentucky
Calls route by ZIP where an operator covers the address. What that operator takes on for a given animal and location is settled on the call.
More Kentucky city pages
These cities publish useful answers about who handles a carcass on their streets. The same number works from each, and calls route by ZIP where an operator covers the address.
Louisville, KY
Louisville publishes a clean three-way split: Metro Public Works handles a dead animal in the city roadway when it is reported through Metro311, Animal Services says outright that it does not remove deceased animals from the roadway, and KYTC keeps only the interstates inside Jefferson County. Nothing published covers a carcass on private property, so a yard, deck or attic job is the owner's to arrange.
Louisville page → Fayette CountyLexington, KY
Lexington's Division of Waste Management collects small carcasses (its examples are cats, dogs, rabbits, squirrels and rats) placed in a garbage bag on the curb, will not take large animals such as cows, horses or sheep, and is not allowed to enter private property. Roadway animals of any size are reported to LexCall. The $45 pickup fee on the page applies to veterinary offices only.
Lexington page → Warren CountyBowling Green, KY
Bowling Green's Public Works Operations Division puts 'dead animal removal' in its list of public rights-of-way maintenance duties and publishes 270-393-3363 for the division. That is the whole policy: nothing on the page covers private property, deer, response time or hours, so anything beyond the right-of-way is the owner's to arrange.
Bowling Green page → Hardin CountyElizabethtown, KY
Elizabethtown itself publishes no dead-animal policy, so the county's page is the authority: Hardin County Animal Care & Control states that it does not pick up deceased animals, sends small animals and pets inside city limits to local city works or the Kentucky Department of Highways at 270-766-5066, sends roadside deer to the Department of Highways, and sends farm animals to the county's Dead Animal Disposal line. Anything on private property is the owner's to arrange.
Elizabethtown page →Cities without a page yet
Florence and Union are in Boone County and are covered by the Covington page until they have their own. Newport, Fort Thomas and the rest of Campbell County use the same number. Owensboro, Georgetown, Richmond, Frankfort, Paducah and the rest of the state are reachable on the same number, and the statewide guide explains the road-class rules that apply everywhere.
Not seeing your city?
Call and say where the animal is. If it is on a public road you get the right agency; if it is on your property you hear whether an operator covers the address.