Dead Animal Removal in Kentucky, by City
Five Kentucky metros, each with its published dead-animal policy quoted from the agency's own page, the split between a city street, a state-maintained highway and private property, and an honest line on whether an independent operator's coverage is confirmed there. The same number works from every page.
Confirmed operator coverage
An independent operator's coverage is confirmed for these counties. What that operator takes on for a given animal and location is settled on the call.
Resource pages: policy verified, operator not confirmed
These cities publish useful answers about who handles a carcass on their streets. No operator's coverage is confirmed for them through this site; a caller from these counties reaches the same number and hears whether anyone is available for 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 → Resource 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 → Resource 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 → Resource 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, where operator coverage is confirmed; they are covered by the Covington page until they have their own. Newport, Fort Thomas and the rest of Campbell County have no confirmed operator. 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.