Private property
What operators take on
Species
Removal by animal
Each of these six animals has its own page. A deer may belong on FWC's disease line first, a raccoon or skunk that a person or pet touched goes to the county health department, and an opossum may still be alive.
Dead deer
Heavy, awkward, and rarely any public body's job once it is off the road. A deer dead of no obvious cause, and any Key deer, is reported to FWC first.
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Dead raccoon
Florida's most often reported rabies carrier, so the first question is whether a person or pet touched it. After that, where it is lying decides the job.
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Dead skunk
Florida has two skunks, and FWC still wants one of them reported when found dead. Rabies contact comes first, then the musk, then the reach under a shed.
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Dead opossum
Florida's only marsupial, and an animal that can look and smell dead while alive. Check for breathing first, then look for live young before anyone bags it.
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Dead squirrel
Usually an attic job. Gray squirrels sometimes move into Florida roof spaces when they find a way in, and a dead one is small and hidden.
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Dead bird
A bird dead in a dryer vent, soffit or pool-cage roof is the job here. A single songbird on the lawn you can usually bag yourself.
What this involves →By situation
Five situations, grouped by where the animal has ended up rather than by what it is.
In the yard
The most common call, and the one where it is worth spending two minutes finding out whether somebody will do it for nothing before you pay.
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Under the house or deck
The animal is usually reachable. The question is what has to be moved, lifted or unscrewed to get to it, and that is what decides whether this is a job at all.
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In the attic
An attic is the one indoor space that is usually enterable without damaging anything, which is why an attic carcass is often solvable and a wall carcass often is not.
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Smell, no source
The hardest version of this problem, and the one most often oversold. This page is about what can genuinely be done and where the line is.
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Commercial property
Every public service we found in Florida is written for residents. Businesses, landlords, community associations and property managers are outside all of them.
What this involves →Photographs on this site are stock or AI-generated images showing conditions and equipment typical of this work. They are not photographs of jobs carried out by this site or by any operator.
Why there are two kinds of page. Most jobs turn on where the carcass is lying, so the situation pages go by access and property type. The six animal pages at the top hold the checks that change with the species.