Dead Animal Removal in Oregon, by City
Four Oregon markets, each with its published dead-animal policy quoted from the agency's own page, the split between a city street, a state highway, a county road and private property, and an honest line on whether an independent operator's coverage is confirmed there. There is one line for the whole state, so no page here sends you off to look for a different number.
Every city page built on published policy, not on coverage
No independent operator's coverage is confirmed for any Oregon county yet, so every page below is a resource page. Each city publishes something about who handles a carcass on its streets, or publishes nothing and the page says which pages were reviewed. A caller from any of these counties reaches the same number and hears whether anyone is available for the address.
Portland, OR
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.
Portland page β Resource page Β· Lane CountyEugene, OR
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.
Eugene page β Resource page Β· Washington CountyHillsboro, OR
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.
Hillsboro page β Resource page Β· Jackson CountyMedford, OR
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.
Medford page βWhen there is no page for your city
Salem, Bend, Gresham, Springfield, Corvallis, Albany and every other Oregon municipality fall under the same split by road class, which the road-class guide sets out in full: ODOT's Carcass Collection Program on an Interstate, US route or Oregon state highway, 911 for a carcass in the travel lane, the county highway department on a county-maintained road, and the city on its own streets. A city earns a page here only after its policy has been pulled off the agency's own site and quoted, never on the strength of a guess about what it probably does.
Not seeing your city?
Say what the animal is and what ground it is lying on. A public road gets you the agency that maintains it; your own lot gets you a straight answer on whether anyone is available for the address.