Something died on your property and you would like it gone. This arranges that, across Canton and Stark County, for houses, rentals, businesses and land.
Describe what you have and roughly where it is. That is enough to price it.
If the animal is lying in a road rather than on your land, it may belong to whoever maintains that road, and that could cost you nothing. Ohio splits it by road class: city streets to the municipality, the state highway system to the director of transportation, county roads to the county engineer. Contact the one that maintains the road in question and ask.
Two things worth knowing before you spend the phone call. Canton has no 311 line, and no City of Canton or Stark County page we could find names a department responsible for removing a dead animal or publishes a number for it. The county dog warden, which is the usual guess, lists stray dogs and dangerous-dog complaints among its services and not carcass collection. Who is responsible where sets out what the official sources do and do not say.
Everything below is about the other case: the animal is on your property, and that makes it yours to arrange.
Yard, driveway, under a deck, a shed, a window well. The straightforward half of this work.
A search before it is a removal, and it runs in a particular order.
Attic, crawl space, basement, garage, or somewhere in the framing. What can be reached depends on what opens into it.
Weight and vehicle access decide this one, not the species.
The bin is the first instinct and it is closed off. Canton's Codified Ordinances, Section 975.09(c), state that no person shall place any dead animal or parts thereof in a container for collection, and the same section bars leaving noncontainerized waste out on streets or property. Taking it somewhere else is worse: Section 521.08 makes dumping refuse on public or private property an offence and names dead animals in its definition, a misdemeanor of the third degree on a first offence.
Ohio law then sets out what the lawful methods are. R.C. 941.14(B) requires the owner of premises containing a dead animal to burn it, bury it not less than four feet beneath the surface, dissolve it by alkaline hydrolysis, or remove it in a watertight tank to a rendering establishment. Four feet is deeper than a spade afternoon, which is roughly where most people decide to make a call instead.
The work is carried out by an independent operator covering this area, which how this service works explains in full.
Canton and Stark County are the working area, taking in North Canton, Massillon, Alliance, Louisville, Hartville, Canal Fulton and the townships between them. Coverage reaches into neighbouring counties, and an address out there is worth asking about rather than assuming. The full area is listed separately.
No, and most callers do not. A smell with nothing visible is a normal way for this to start. What helps more than the species is where it is, roughly how long it has been going on, and whether it is inside a building or out on the ground.
You get a figure once the job is described, before anyone travels. It follows from where the animal is, how big it is, how much work it takes to reach, and what the ground underneath needs afterward. Nothing is published here because a number posted without those four would be wrong about half the time.
Not inside Canton. Section 975.09(c) of the city ordinances says no person shall place any dead animal or parts thereof in a container for collection, and moving it elsewhere runs into the dumping section. That is a large part of why people end up calling.
Then it may not be yours at all. Responsibility follows whoever maintains that road, and it is worth a call to them before you pay anybody.
Yes. Those calls get treated differently from the rest of this list, so tell us on the phone what you would prefer and whether you want to be present.
One call settles what the job is and what it costs. If it turns out to belong to the city or the county instead, you will be told that too.
Canton and Stark County · private property