The figure was shown from the Alice Springs regional waste management centre report for October.
The deceased pet you asked the vet to dispose of will wind up buried in landfill, in most areas throughout the country, and Alice Springs is not any different.
“It’s a combination of horses, dogs, cats, pigs, some other animal that dies,” said Alice Springs council technical services manager Greg Buxton. “Road kill, kangaroos and the rangers select them up, and you’ve got to dispose of them someplace hygienic. So we put them in the rear of landfill.”
The center is on track to surpass last year’s total, with 3.7 tonnes deposited at the first quarter of this year.
Mr Buxton said most regional councils throughout the country dispose of dead animals in landfill.
“In the bigger cities they’ve an incinerator kind setting where they cremate themwhereas we don’t have an incinerator here,” he said.