Youngstown · Mahoning County
Dead Animal Removal in Youngstown, OH
Your yard, driveway, garage or treeline: private property is what this line is for, and a city street or the curb is the City’s (where the line falls).
Request removal online ↓Something has died on your property and you want it gone. Call the number above and the operator covering Mahoning County will talk through what it is, where it is, whether it can be reached, and what taking it away would cost.
What gets picked up
Deer on private land
The one job the operator has confirmed outright. A deer that came down a ravine and died at the back of a lot in Canfield or Poland is a two-person lift and a vehicle problem, not a shovel problem.
In the yard, out in the open
Raccoon by the fence line, opossum under the deck, groundhog in the flowerbed. Visible, reachable, and worse every warm day it sits there.
Indoors, where you can get to it
Garage, attic you can stand in, crawl space with a hatch, porch void with a broken lattice. Reachable is the word that matters. The odor page covers what happens when it is not.
On a city street or at the curb?
That is the City’s, not a contractor’s. Youngstown Public Works states it plainly: “The City will remove dead animals on City streets or at the curb.” Report it through SeeClickFix or call 330-742-8800 and you should not be paying anyone.
On your own property?
The same page finishes the sentence: “Dead animals on private property are the responsibility of the property owner.” Your yard, your driveway, your garage, your treeline. That is what this line is for.
Smell, but nothing to point at
Something died, you can tell, and you cannot find it. Where it leads decides whether a visit is worth your money.
If it leads toward a garage, an attic hatch, a crawl space or a porch void, that is a space somebody can get into and check. If it leads toward a sealed, finished wall or ceiling and the animal cannot be reached from an attic above, a crawl space or basement below, or an opening that already exists, it is not retrieved under this service: reaching it means cutting into drywall or plaster, which is construction work this line does not book. The odor generally lessens as decomposition runs its course, and that is worth knowing before you pay anyone to look.
Mill Creek and the ravines
The park system and the creek corridors running through Boardman and Austintown put wooded ground directly against back fences across the county. Deer and raccoon move along them, and when one dies on the private side of the line it is the property owner’s to deal with.
A carcass inside the park itself
Public ground, not a private job. Mill Creek MetroParks manages its own land, and the City handles its streets. Neither is something you should be quoted for.
Straight answers
What this is, before you call
This is an advertising and booking line for Youngstown and Mahoning County. It is not a removal company. There is no office here, no crew and no truck. What you send goes to an independent operator who covers the county, and they call you back, set their own price and contract with you directly.
Nothing on this site promises a price, an arrival window, or that anyone is available today. Anyone advertising a flat rate for a carcass they have not seen is guessing at a job that changes with what it is, where it is, and whether a vehicle can get near it.
How it goes
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You call or send the form
What it is if you know, where it is, and how close a vehicle can get.
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The operator calls you back
If it is a job they can take on, they price it against what you describe, on the call where they can or after a look where they need one, not from a table on a website.
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If you go ahead, it is collected and taken away
Where it can be reached and you agree the price, it is bagged and removed from your property. What is underneath it, if it has been there a while, is worth raising on the call.