Private-property dead animal removal — Philadelphia & surrounding counties Call 215-318-9151
Philadelphia Dead Animal Removal
Philadelphia, PA · Private property & inside the home

Dead Animal
Removal in
Philadelphia

Raccoon, squirrel, opossum, skunk, rat, bird — or a deer in the yard. If it died on your property or inside your home, we locate it, remove it, and treat the odor it leaves behind.

  • Inside walls, ceilings, and attics
  • Under porches, decks, and additions
  • Yards, driveways, and lots — including deer
  • Smell but can’t find it? We locate it.
Full-service dead animal removal

What We Remove — And Where From

Why a private service

The City Stops at the Curb

Philadelphia’s sanitation crews will collect a dead animal from the street when it’s reported to 311. But the city does not remove dead animals from private property — and per the city itself, that includes the sidewalk in front of your house. Your yard, your porch, your basement, your walls: on your side of the curb, removal is the property owner’s job.

That’s the gap we cover. You could bag a carcass in the open yourself — but when it’s wedged in a wall void, decomposing under a deck, or it’s a full-grown deer, you want it handled once, properly, by someone with the tools and the stomach for it. Call 215-318-9151 and it’s dealt with.

How it works

Three Steps, Start to Done

  1. Call & Describe

    Tell us where the animal is (or where the smell is strongest), your ZIP, and what you’ve noticed. You get a quote on the call.

  2. Locate & Remove

    We find the carcass — even inside a wall or under a structure — open the smallest access needed, and remove it completely.

  3. Treat & Clear

    The spot the animal was lying on gets disinfected and deodorized so the smell dies with the job instead of lingering for weeks.

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Built for this housing stock

Rowhouse Walls Are Where Animals Die

Philadelphia has more rowhouses than any other big city in America — block after block of older homes that share party walls, with the wall voids, joist bays, and abandoned chimney chases that come with pre-war construction. When a squirrel or rat gets into one of those cavities and dies there, the smell comes through the plaster and it is very hard to tell which wall — sometimes even which floor — it’s coming from.

Working in attached housing is a different job than working in a detached suburban colonial: access is tighter, the carcass can sit along a wall you share with a neighbor, and cutting blind holes in plaster is the wrong way to search. We trace the odor to its strongest point, confirm before we open anything, and keep the access small. Twins, trinities, porch-fronts, and airlites included.

Straight answers

Philadelphia Dead Animal Questions

Will the City of Philadelphia remove a dead animal for me?

Only from the street. Philadelphia’s Department of Sanitation collects dead animals from the public street when you report them to 311 — but the city does not remove animals from private property, and that includes your sidewalk, yard, porch, basement, or anywhere inside your home. On your property, removal is the owner’s responsibility. That is the situation we handle: call 215-318-9151.

Can you get a dead animal out of a wall or ceiling?

Yes. Removal from inside the structure — wall voids, ceilings, attics, basements, crawl spaces, and under porches — is most of what we do in Philadelphia. We locate the carcass first, open the smallest access needed if one is required, remove the animal, and treat the spot it was lying on.

What kinds of animals do you remove?

Squirrels, raccoons, opossums, rats, mice, birds, groundhogs, skunks, and deer on private property. If you don’t know what the animal is — which is common when it’s inside a wall — that’s fine. Describe the smell or sounds you noticed and we’ll take it from there.

What will it cost to get the animal removed?

It depends on where the animal is. A carcass in the open on a lawn is a different job than one sealed inside a rowhouse party wall. We quote on the phone call once we know the location, the access, and roughly how long it’s been there — before anyone comes out.

Do you serve my part of the city?

We take calls from every Philadelphia neighborhood — South Philly to Somerton, Overbrook to Mayfair — plus the immediate suburbs across the county line, like Upper Darby, Cheltenham, and Bala Cynwyd. See the service area page for the full list.

Get It Out of Your House Today

The longer a carcass sits, the worse the odor gets and the deeper it soaks in. One call and it’s handled.

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