Youngstown · Mahoning County
Dead Animal Removal in Youngstown, OH
Something has died on your property and you want it gone. That is the job. Call the number below and the operator covering Mahoning County will work out what it is, where it is, and what it costs to take away.
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.
What gets picked up
Deer on private land
The one this county generates most of, and the one 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.
Smell, but nothing to point at
Half the calls from this area start here. 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, someone can get in and get it. If it leads toward a sealed interior wall with no attic or crawl space connection, it is not retrieved by cutting the wall open. That is construction work and this line does not book it, which 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 die on the private side of the line often enough that it is the shape of most calls from these townships.
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
They price it on the phone, against the job you describe, not a table on a website.
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It gets collected and taken away
Bagged and removed from your property. What is underneath it, if it has been there a while, is worth raising on the call.