Pittsburgh · Allegheny County
Dead animal removal for Pittsburgh homes
Something died in the attic, behind a retaining wall, at the bottom of the yard where the ground drops off. An operator comes out, finds it, takes it away and disposes of it properly, and tells you the price before starting.
Or request a callback with the form. Either way you end up talking to the person doing the work.
What actually comes in from around here
In the yard, behind a wall, off the alley
Pittsburgh's older neighborhoods are built into hillsides, and a lot of yards have a slope, a retaining wall, or a garage that only a back alley reaches. A raccoon behind a wall in Mount Washington, a groundhog by a Bloomfield garage — visible and reachable, the shortest job on this list.
In the attic, crawl space or garage
Rowhouses over a shallow crawl space, older stock with a walkout basement cut into the downhill side. If somebody can physically get into the space, the animal comes out of it — and so does the material underneath it.
A deer on the property
Lots backing onto a hollow, a park edge or a steep wooded slope see deer moving through, and some do not move back out. A deer that dies on your ground is yours to arrange. One lying on a road belongs to whoever maintains that road — a distinction worth getting right before you call anyone.
A smell with no obvious source
Worth a visit when it points at a space someone can actually get into. Not worth one for a mouse sealed inside a finished wall, and that page says so plainly.
From your call to it being gone
Describe the situation
Address, roughly where on the lot it is, and whether somebody could physically get to it. Naming the animal is not required.
Hear a number
Most jobs get priced right there on the phone. If reality on site turns out different, the figure is revised before work carries on, not after.
It leaves the property
Bagged, hauled off and disposed of, usually along with whatever it had been lying against.
Get the rundown
What turned up, the way in if it was obvious, and anything the search came up empty on.
Whose problem is it, exactly
The City of Pittsburgh's Bureau of Animal Care & Control handles dead animal recovery citywide, reachable at 412-255-2036 (weekdays, 7 a.m. to 3 p.m.) or 412-255-2935 after hours. The service runs Monday through Saturday and does not operate Sundays. Nothing the city publishes states whether that reaches a carcass on private property specifically — it is not a distinction their own materials draw either way.
On a state highway or interstate in Allegheny, Beaver or Lawrence County, PennDOT District 11 is the responsible agency; report it to 1-800-FIX-ROAD or through customercare.penndot.gov. That same statewide line routes correctly if the address falls in a neighboring county under a different PennDOT district.
On your own property, Pennsylvania's general nuisance code requires disposal within 24 hours, by burial at least two feet down or another sanitary method. Most people would rather hand a hillside carcass to somebody equipped for it than dig for one.
Outside what this line covers
Open up a finished wall or ceiling chasing a rodent. Catch anything still alive. Take on pets. Stand in for the city's own animal-control line.
When a mouse or rat has died somewhere sealed, with no route in from an attic or crawl space, that wall stays shut. The odor tapers off by itself as the remains dry out.
How far this reaches
Pittsburgh and Allegheny County: Mt. Lebanon, Bethel Park, Monroeville, Penn Hills, Ross Township, McCandless, Robinson Township, Moon Township and more. The list.
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Say where it is, get a number
The address, the spot, and whether somebody can physically get to it. That usually covers it.