Service dog killed in traffic ends up at San Jose rendering plant

[sabies]

That is awful. How did they not notice a collar and cape?

Why is roadkill going into stock feed? I feel sick.

[mike001]

This is a first for me. Where we are it's illegal to leave an animal that you hit, on the road. We have to call the humane society so they can send someone to pick up the animal. Maybe the dog wasn't dead and could have been saved if someone had picked it up. Very unlikely you would miss seeing a cape on a dog. How sad is that.

[Freedom]

There was a LOT about companion animal remains ending up in various foods for livestock and even for our PETS during the pet food recall earlier in the year. Anything which contains "animal renderings" includes roadkill and sometimes even companion animals.

[Lady's Human]

It's illegal for carcasses from roadkill to be rendered in plants which produce food products, and has been for a long time. Rumors to the contrary aside, (and after a web search all I found were rumors, nothing concrete) rendering plants in the US are fairly tightly controlled.

[Lady's Human]

Back to the original topic, if the animal was hit repeatedly, as stated in the article, there's no way to know what condition it was in when the caltrans workers picked it up.

[jackie]

Heartbreaking.