Private property, inside the home or out. One on the street goes to Philly 311.
Request removal online ↓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.
Raccoons, squirrels, opossums, skunks, rats and mice, birds — any dead wildlife on your Philadelphia property, found and removed.
All services →Basements, crawl spaces, garages, under porches — located through the odor, removed through the access already there.
Removal from the house →The classic rowhouse problem: something died up in a roof cavity or along the attic edge. Pinned down first, then recovered through the access already there. Finished plaster and drywall are not cut.
Attic removal →You smell it but can’t locate it. We trace the odor to the source, remove the carcass, and treat the spot it was lying on.
Odor & carcass location →A deer down in the yard, driveway, or lot — loaded out cleanly and hauled away. One specialty inside the broader service.
Dead deer removal →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.
Tell us where the animal is (or where the smell is strongest) and what you’ve noticed. You get a quote on the call.
We find the carcass — even inside a wall or under a structure — and recover it wherever it can be reached without cutting into finished plaster or drywall.
The spot the animal was lying on gets disinfected and deodorized so the smell dies with the job instead of lingering for weeks.
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 into plaster is not part of this service. The odor is traced to its strongest point and the carcass recovered through the access the house already has. Twins, trinities, porch-fronts, and airlites included.
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.
Wherever it can be reached without cutting into finished walls or ceilings — attics, basements, crawl spaces, and any existing opening — yes, and that covers most of what we do in Philadelphia. We locate the carcass first, recover it through that access, and treat the spot it was lying on. Where a carcass is sealed inside a finished wall, opening and patching that cavity is a job for a drywaller or general contractor, not part of this service.
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.
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.
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.
The longer a carcass sits, the worse the odor gets and the deeper it soaks in. One call and it’s handled.
Call 215-318-9151