Dead deer removal for
Minneapolis properties
A full-grown deer is not a shovel job, and in Hennepin County it’s not a trash-cart job either — carcasses that size belong at a designated disposal facility. The operator lifts it out, hauls it off, and disposes of it the way the county’s disposal guidance directs. It starts with one phone call — the same number that reaches the operator for carcass removal across Minneapolis.
Street, or your side of the line?
In the public street
Report it to Minneapolis 311. Carcasses in the roadway are the city’s to collect, at no cost to you. If that’s your situation, use it — genuinely.
On your side of the line
Yard, driveway, lot edge, business grounds — on your side of the line, removal is yours to arrange, and the county’s disposal guidance expects it done properly. This is the call we take: 612-662-5070
Part of a straight answer is telling you whose job it is. When it’s the city’s, we say so and you save the money.
Park-corridor properties see this most
Minneapolis deer live along its green seams — Theodore Wirth’s woods, the Mississippi river gorge, the bluffs near Fort Snelling, and the creek corridors that thread the south side. A deer that’s been struck or sickened travels before it goes down, which is how one ends up against a garage in a yard three blocks from the parkland, or under the fence line of a cemetery or business lot at the wooded edge.
Wherever it landed on your ground, the job is the same: lifting it, carrying it, and a trip to a designated facility — the operator’s work, not yours. No dragging it through the gate for the city to maybe take, no wrestling a 200-pound problem yourself.
Deer-call questions
A deer died in our yard — can it go in the trash?
No. Hennepin County’s disposal guidance is explicit that a deer carcass belongs at a designated disposal facility, not in your cart. Getting two hundred pounds of carcass off your property and to the right facility is the operator’s job, not yours — and it never has to touch your vehicle.
Does the city remove deer from private property?
Report a deer in the public street to Minneapolis 311 — that’s the city’s side of the line. On your side of the property line, removal is the owner’s to arrange. If you’re not sure which side of the line the deer is on, call us and we’ll tell you honestly — including when the free 311 route is the right answer.
What if it’s at a business, church, or apartment building?
Same service. Commercial lots, church grounds, apartment lawns, and cemetery edges are private land — a wildlife carcass there is the owner’s to have removed, not a city work order. For a property manager that means one call to the operator, instead of a staff member improvising with a tarp.
The deer has been there a few days. Does that change anything?
It raises the urgency. A carcass in warm weather bloats and draws scavengers — raccoons, coyotes, vultures, neighborhood dogs — which turns one problem into several. In deep cold it can stay quiet until a thaw, then announce itself. Either way, sooner is smaller.
Deer is one job on a longer list
Smaller animals too
Raccoons to rats — the whole Minneapolis dead animal removal service, one number.
Start at the overview →Dead inside the house?
Walls, attics, chimneys, crawl spaces — traced, and removed where it can be reached without cutting.
Removal from the house →Outside the city line?
Coverage runs past the border into the surrounding metro.
Service area →Don’t wrestle a deer. Call.
Say where on the property it went down — any price is agreed before work starts.
Call 612-662-5070