He puts about 200 miles on his truck every day, and has stumbled across streets that don't even appear on the map. And he's exposed to the more bizarre elements of city life. On one trip into an alley for a pickup, he startled an oversexed couple who fled the alley with their pants around their ankles. On an average day, DAC bags around 35 critters. The animals are taken to a landfill where there is a mass burial site.
Any identification is saved for three months, but the rest is dumped, bag and body.
Peaty thoroughly cleans his truck with water, bleach and Pine-Sol after every trip to the landfill. You can have a conversation right next to my truck and not know I pick up dead animals for a living. It's not the kind of job you brag about at parties, but Peaty wonders if the public even is aware that such a service exists. He says he gets strange looks from passing motorists when a paw tears through the bag, exposing his macabre trade. The City of Phoenix requires a three-hour response time from DAC, and Peaty strives to keep his crew short of that limit.