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. We lift it out, haul it off, and dispose of it the way the county’s disposal guidance directs. Your part is one phone call.
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.
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
Half of doing this job well is telling you honestly whose job it is. When it’s the city’s, we say so and you save the money.
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 mechanics are the same: proper lifting equipment, a vehicle set up to carry it, and a trip to a designated facility — handled start to finish. No dragging it through the gate for the city to maybe take, no negotiating with a 200-pound problem on a Saturday.
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 precisely the job we do — legally, in one trip, without it touching your vehicle.
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.
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 handles it, instead of a staff member improvising with a tarp.
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 winter it will keep quietly until the next thaw, then announce itself. Either way, sooner is smaller.
Raccoons to rats — the whole Minneapolis dead animal removal service, one number.
Start at the overview →Walls, attics, chimneys, crawl spaces — located and removed.
Removal from the house →Coverage runs past the border into the surrounding metro.
Service area →Say where on the property it went down — it gets priced up front, before any work starts.
Call 612-662-5070