A dead deer on your property is not a shovel-and-trash-bag job. It’s a hundred-plus pounds of carcass that bloats within days, draws scavengers, and — because it’s on private ground — is yours to deal with, not the city’s. We pick it up, haul it off, and dispose of it properly.
Report it to 311. Philadelphia’s sanitation crews collect dead animals from the street — that service exists and it’s free. Use it.
Yard, driveway, lot, behind the fence line — the city does not come onto private ground. Removal is the owner’s responsibility. This is the call we take: 215-318-9151
We tell you this straight because half of doing this job right is knowing whose job it is. If the deer is in the roadway, save your money and call 311. If it’s on your side of the line, that’s what we’re for.
Philadelphia carries a real deer population along its wooded stream corridors — the Wissahickon, Pennypack, Poquessing, and Cobbs Creek. Homes backing onto those corridors in Roxborough, Andorra, Chestnut Hill, Mount Airy, Fox Chase, Bustleton, and Somerton see deer in the yard year-round, and a deer that is struck on a nearby road or sickens will often travel before it goes down — ending up against a fence, under plantings, or alongside a garage.
Yards, driveways, commercial lots, apartment grounds, cemetery edges: if a deer has died on ground you own or manage — anywhere in our Philadelphia-and-surrounding-counties service area — we come to it, load it out cleanly, and haul it away. No dragging it through the house, no negotiating with your trash day, no carcass sitting at the curb.
Not on your side of the property line. Philadelphia collects dead animals from the public street when reported to 311 — but the city does not come onto private property, and it says so explicitly. A deer in your yard, driveway, or on your lot is the property owner’s responsibility to have removed. That’s the job we do: call 215-318-9151.
The carcass is hauled off your property and disposed of properly — not dragged to the curb, not left in your trash. A full-grown white-tail can run well over a hundred pounds; moving one cleanly takes equipment and a vehicle set up for it, which is what we bring.
No — a live, injured deer is a job for the authorities, not a removal service. Report it to the city or the Pennsylvania Game Commission. Once an animal has died on your property, that’s when we take over.
In warm weather, fast — bloating and odor within a day or two, followed by scavengers. A carcass near your house draws vultures, raccoons, rats, and neighborhood dogs. The sooner it’s off the property, the smaller the mess that has to be dealt with.
For other carcass situations — raccoons, squirrels, anything that died in the house or yard — our full dead animal removal in Philadelphia covers it.
Raccoons, squirrels, opossums, skunks, rodents, birds — the full service.
All services →Walls, attics, basements, crawl spaces, under porches.
Removal from the house →We trace it to the source and take it from there.
Odor & carcass location →Tell us where on the property it is. Quote on the call, before anyone rolls out.
Call 215-318-9151