I just wondered if people out there know how their particular council deal with dead dogs/cats. as the following appeared on The Brechin Advertiser facebook page.
posted by the Croft Veterinary Surgery.

We found out last week that when the council find a dead pet (CATS AND DOGS) they make no attempt to scan it for a microchip. They only hold it for 24hrs and then throw it in a landfill! We need your help....

I rang to ask the Croft if this was put up by them, I was told a vet nurse had put it up and she should not have put it up. I asked the receptionist if this was fact. she told me she would put me through to her boss. I was put through to one of the vets, i have to say he sounded very embarrased and said that he had removed the post from the Croft facebook page and that he could not comment on it....sorry, he said.

I googled a few councils and found that sheffield appear to be v good in their policy. if it works this way then it is good. i am waiting on angus council getting back to me to say what they acctually do.

I am seeing local councillor on community dog warden scheme in the New year  so I will ask what happens Hereforshire area.

I don't know what the council does, but if the public bring them to us we certainly scan them. If there's no chip we advise the finder to put up posters in the area where the animal was faound, we put a notice in our window, and the body is stored in the the freezer for a week. If nobody claims it then it goes for standard cremation at our expense.

Jeangenie, that sounds like what it should be. thanks for reply.

Not sure what general council policy is. Do know someone who's dog was killed in RTA (involving car it was travelling in ... it escaped in the chaos and subsequently got run over some miles away) ... the highways authority picked up and disposed of dog. They sort of vaguely informed the police but the identification was totally incorrect. At no point was any attempt made to scan the dog for a microchip. Had they of done so then the owner would have been saved the months of agonising searching for his dog, dead or alive :-(

There is a campaign to get vets scanning dogs brought into practices for chipping, but also for police, highways authority and railways authority to routinely scan dogs found. Hopefully one day it will become standard practice.

I cannot fault my council (Rochford District Council) please see link http://www.rochford.gov.uk/environment/animal_welfare/dead_animals

Well that´s good to know Pat.  I wonder if Southend Borough Council are as good?  I shall have to check.

Some years ago when I lived in L.B. Redbridge I had a cat go missing overnight.  As I lived round the corner from the council tip (now known as a recycling centre) I asked the guys there if they had seen him.  I was told one of their men had found a Persian cat dead in the road and they had disposed of it.  OK, so my cat was a Somali but I know it was the same cat.

A few years later another cat of mine was killed by a dog out walking with its owner.  A neighbour witnessed it from the other side of the river so, not knowing what else to do, she called the RSPCA.  They collected the cat and held him until I could be tracked down.  I was told he was not a pretty sight but was offered the option of having him returned to me.  I chose not to.  That way I will always remember him as the beautiful young seal-point Birman that he was. 

Back in those days not a lot of animals were microchipped.  All mine are now and I would hope - in fact, EXPECT - anyone finding any of them to get them scanned before disposal.