I feel sick to my stomach and here’s why… I left my place for a quick appointment at noon. As I walked past the front of my car to get to the driver’s side door, I nearly stepped on a smashed squirrel, smooshed right next to where I needed to stand to open my car door.
Save for the fact that I had skipped breakfast and had an empty tummy, I would have totally lost my last meal. Probably all over the poor, dead thing, too. I sat in my car and whigged out for a good five minutes, trying to figure out how I could leave my parking spot without running it over again. Then I called Yoshi, whose response was, “Yeah, well squirrel vs. car… the car’s going to win.” I managed to successfully get my car out of the spot, but I could barely drive (no asian woman driver jokes, please).
Maybe I should know the answer to this, but I don’t. My question is: Who do I call to get rid of the roadkill? *I* certainly am not getting anywhere near it again. When I got home, I parked 2 blocks over and walked all the way around to avoid seeing the carcass again. Isn’t there some city department that will clean it up? Thanks in advance.
Hey Joz, you can call the City of L.A. Dept. of Sanitation at 800/773-2489 for dead animal pick-up; or the City of L.A. Dept. of Animal Regulation at 888/452-7381.
Will Campbell always knows the answers to my questions. He was even nice enough to sign the comment with my name! :)
Thanks again!
Heh… Yeah, I’m not sure how that happened. Always happy to help!