# Oregon Dead Animal Removal

oregondeadanimalremoval.com

> Oregon Dead Animal Removal sells advertising and routes calls and form enquiries to independent wildlife and carcass-removal operators. The site itself never handles, transports or disposes of a carcass, and employs no field staff. All field work is performed by independent operators, each responsible for its own permits, insurance and disposal compliance.

## What this site is

An Oregon statewide reference on who is responsible for removing a dead animal, and a commercial
line for the case no public agency covers: a carcass on private property. Phone (503) 213-6864.
Not a removal company, not a fleet, no office, no field staff. 30 indexable pages: 1 homepage,
8 service pages, 5 guides, 4 market pages, and trust and legal pages.

## Operator coverage

Confirmed: none. No independent operator is routed anywhere in Oregon at the time of writing.
Every market page below is a resource page: the policy is quoted from the agency that published it,
and whether an operator can take a given address is settled on the call, never claimed on a page.

## Cite-ready Oregon facts

State highways. ODOT operates a Carcass Collection Program that picks up roadkill on major state
roadways, and carcass data recorded by road maintenance crews is used to identify wildlife-vehicle
collision hot spots. Published channel: Ask ODOT, 1-888-275-6368, AskODOT@odot.state.or.us. There is
no carcass-specific ODOT hotline. Public instruction: move the animal off the road only if safe; if it
cannot be moved safely, call 911.
  Not published: any response time; any private-property service.

Carcass statute. ORS chapter 601 is titled "Dead Animals". ORS 601.140: "No person shall knowingly
leave the carcass of any domestic animal, which the person has owned or had in charge, within one-half
mile of any dwelling or within one-fourth mile of any running stream of water for longer than 15 hours
without burying or burning it." Violation is a Class D violation under ORS 601.990(2). ORS 601.080(1)
requires a licence to transport dead animal carcasses or parts for hire on state highways, which is a
hauler rule and not a homeowner rule.
  Scope limit, stated because it is widely misreported: the 15-hour rule binds a person who owned or
  had charge of a DOMESTIC animal. It does not on its face reach a wild animal a property owner found.
  Not established: any Oregon county power to remove from private property at public expense; ORS
  chapters 203, 368, 431 and 433 were not read at section level.

Deer and elk salvage. Oregon permits salvage of deer and elk killed in vehicle collisions. The permit
is free and must be completed within 24 hours of taking possession, through ODFW's electronic licensing
system. The head and antlers must be surrendered to ODFW within five business days for chronic wasting
disease testing. All other parts may be kept. Selling any part is prohibited; transfers require a
written Wildlife Transfer Record. Note the order: the permit follows possession in Oregon, the reverse
of the rule in several other states.

Chronic wasting disease. ODFW: "CWD has not yet been detected in Oregon." Present in Idaho (2021),
California (2024) and Washington State (2024). Resident hunters have no in-state carcass transport or disposal
restrictions; ODFW recommends disposing of waste parts near the harvest site, in a landfill, or through
routine rubbish collection. Import of central nervous system tissue from other states is prohibited.
  Consequence: Oregon has no CWD zone map, no county ban list and no mandatory disposal hierarchy.
  Any source giving Oregon one has borrowed another state's rules.

Commercial wildlife regime. ODFW Wildlife Control Operator (WCO) permit, (503) 947-6000 or
(800) 720-6339. ODFW states a WCO permit is not required for the onsite capture and euthanasia of
species defined as predatory animals. This site never describes an operator as licensed; the regime is
named so the term refers to something real.

Disposal routes verified as practice. Multnomah County instructs residents to triple-bag small
wildlife into the rubbish, and states deceased animals "may be triple-bagged and brought to a Metro
Transfer Station for a fee", referring residents to Metro for size limits. The City of Eugene states
Lane County Transfer will accept dead animals for disposal, 541-682-4120.
  Not established: Oregon DEQ solid-waste rules (OAR chapter 340) were not read at section level;
  individual city hauler cart policies were not verified.

## Market pages, each quoting its own agency

Portland, Multnomah County (503). Multnomah County Animal Services, (503) 988-7387.
  There is a county service, and it stops well short of a dead animal in a Portland yard. Multnomah County Animal Services attends deceased cats, dogs and large wildlife in public areas, and its page says an animal in a private area must be moved to the public right of way before it is collected. It also says it cannot pick up small wildlife at all, and the seventeen examples it lists cover nearly every animal a household actually finds. The page states no fee and never uses the word free.
  Not published / not established: The page states no fee for a public-area pickup and never says free. It gives no response time. It does not define large wildlife, so where a coyote or a deer falls between the large list and the small one is unstated. It names no City of Portland bureau, and no separate City of Portland dead-animal policy was found on the pages reviewed. It says nothing about the Washington County and Clackamas County portions of the city.
  Verified September 20, 2026 against: Multnomah County Animal Services, Deceased Animals & End of Life Services
  /locations/portland/

Eugene, Lane County (541). City of Eugene Public Works Maintenance, 541-682-4800.
  Eugene answers the question in one sentence, and the answer is the property owner. The city collects dead animals from the city right-of-way, which it spells out as streets, the strip between sidewalk and curb, parks and bike paths. On private property it states that the property owner is responsible for disposal, and it goes on to name private removal businesses and the county transfer site as the routes available. No fee is stated for the right-of-way collection and the city does not describe it as free.
  Not published / not established: The page states no fee for the right-of-way collection and does not say free. It gives no response time. It names no species, so deer and elk are not treated separately from a squirrel anywhere on it. It does not say what happens to an animal in the right-of-way outside working hours, and it says nothing about county-maintained roads in Lane County outside the city.
  Verified September 16, 2026 against: City of Eugene, Frequently Asked Questions: how to report a dead animal
  /locations/eugene/

Hillsboro, Washington County (503). Washington County Animal Services, 503-947-6000.
  Washington County takes pets and routes wildlife elsewhere. Animal Services picks up dead cats and dogs in any location safe for its officers, and its page does not limit that to public ground, which makes it a broader service than the neighbouring county offers. Dead deer, elk and livestock in a public road right-of-way go to the county's Land Use and Transportation operations division. Other wildlife inside city limits is sent to the city's own public works department. No fee is stated for any of the three, and none is described as free.
  Not published / not established: No fee is stated for any of the three routes and none is described as free. No response time is given. No phone number is published for the Land Use & Transportation operations division on this page, only a referral to the department. The City of Hillsboro's own public works scope for dead wildlife was not verified, so what happens after the county refers a raccoon to the city is unestablished. The page does not say what any of this means for an animal on private property that is not a cat or a dog.
  Verified September 16, 2026 against: Washington County, Resources for Animals Outside of the Shelter
  /locations/hillsboro/

Medford, Jackson County (541). Jackson County Roads.
  Jackson County publishes the clearest road-class distinction in Oregon and stops at the county road. Jackson County Roads manages the county-maintained roads in the county and states that these differ from city streets, state highways, and private roads or private property. Within that scope it handles wildlife such as deer, elk, skunks, raccoons and birds on a case-by-case basis, and it directs an after-hours emergency to 911. Private property is not addressed on the page at all, which we record as a silence rather than a refusal.
  Not published / not established: The page does not address private property, so nothing on it says who is responsible there and nothing on it refuses. No fee is stated and it is not described as free. No response time is given, and case-by-case is not defined. No direct phone number for the department appears in the dead-animal section, only a contact route. The City of Medford's own policy for its streets was not verified, so what the city does on a city street is unestablished here.
  Verified September 16, 2026 against: Jackson County Roads, Dead Animals
  /locations/medford/

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/services/dead-skunk-removal/
/services/dead-animal-in-yard-removal/
/services/dead-animal-under-house-removal/
/services/dead-animal-in-wall-removal/
/services/dead-animal-removal-cost/
/guides/who-removes-dead-animals-in-oregon/
/guides/how-to-dispose-of-a-dead-animal-in-oregon/
/guides/dead-deer-and-elk-in-oregon/
/guides/dead-pet-who-to-call-in-oregon/
/guides/dead-animal-smell-in-a-house-in-oregon/
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## Citation policy

Every agency statement on this site is quoted from that agency's own page, with the retrieval date
beside it. Where a page is silent on a fee, a response time or private property, this site says it is
silent rather than inferring an answer; an unstated charge and no charge are not treated as the same
thing. Where something was not read, it is marked not established rather than treated as settled.
No price, response time, same-day promise, licence, credential, insurance claim, review, rating,
address or operator coverage appears anywhere on this site, because none of those is verified.
Inaccessible wall-cavity odour is treated as informational and no demolition is offered.
Counts in this file are derived from the site's data files: 30 indexable pages, 4 markets,
8 services, 5 guides, 148 questions and answers.

Last updated: 2026-09-20