Dead Animal Removal in Fond du Lac, WI
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Who is responsible for a dead animal in Fond du Lac and Fond du Lac County, and one number for private property.
Who do I call for a dead animal in Fond du Lac, WI?
What decides it is the road the animal is lying on, or the fact that it is not lying on one. On a public street, City of Fond du Lac Department of Public Works, Construction & Maintenance (530 Doty Street) is the published contact: 920-322-3540 (Public Works office, Monday to Friday 7:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m.; no dead-animal line is published). On an Interstate, US or state highway, WisDOT's car-killed deer contractor clears the shoulder; a carcass in the travel lane is a 911 call. On a county trunk highway it is the county highway department's. On private property, a yard, attic, deck or crawl space, it is the owner's to arrange; none of the Fond du Lac pages we reviewed offers collection from private property. For private property in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin Dead Animal Removal connects you with the independent operator covering Fond du Lac County: call (414) 519-6688. What that operator takes on for your situation, and the price, are confirmed on the call.
Is dead animal removal free in Fond du Lac?
The City of Fond du Lac publishes no dead-animal pickup in any form, with no web page, no service-request category and no phone line for one. WisDOT's Car-Killed Deer page tells drivers to contact the municipality about a local road, and Fond du Lac's street crews sit in Public Works at 530 Doty Street (920-322-3540), which names no fee, scope or crew for an animal. Deer beside I-41, US 151, US 45 or WIS 23 are reported to the Fond du Lac County Sheriff's Office non-emergency number, (920) 929-3390, and a county trunk highway belongs to the Fond du Lac County Highway Department, (920) 929-3485, whose pages never mention carcasses. On private ground, the city's nuisance code makes an unburied carcass the property's problem. Anything on private property is the owner's responsibility; an independent operator covers Fond du Lac County, and what they take on is confirmed on the call.
| Where the animal is | Who is responsible | Phone | Cost |
|---|---|---|---|
| Public street or city property | City of Fond du Lac Department of Public Works, Construction & Maintenance (530 Doty Street) | 920-322-3540 (Public Works office, Monday to Friday 7:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m.; no dead-animal line is published) | Not published |
| Interstate, US or state highway | WisDOT (Wisconsin Department of Transportation), car-killed deer program | 911 when remains block a traveled lane; otherwise the Fond du Lac County Sheriff's Office non-emergency number, (920) 929-3390 (the WisDOT page lists no phone of its own) | State service |
| County trunk highway | Fond du Lac County Highway Department (Highway and Public Works), 1820 S. Hickory Street | (920) 929-3485 per the county telephone list; the office keeps 7 a.m. until 3 p.m. Monday through Friday outside summer, and 6 a.m. until 4 p.m. Monday through Thursday in summer | Not published; the department pages describe no carcass service |
| Private property: yard, deck, attic, crawl space | The owner arranges it; an independent operator covers this county | (414) 519-6688 | Quoted on the call |
βUnburied carcasses. Carcasses of animals, birds or fowl not intended for human consumption or food which are not buried or otherwise disposed of in a sanitary manner within 24 hours after death.β
βAny person who, while operating a motor vehicle, strikes or causes injury to cats, dogs, horses, cattle or other domestic animals shall stop at once, ascertain the extent of the injury and as soon as possible notify the animal's owner or an appropriate law enforcement officer of such striking or injury and the location of the animal.β
βThis addresses issues within the public right-of-way: potholes, joint sealing, repair of utility cuts, street sweeping, curb and gutter repairs, storm sewer catch basin repairs, sanitary sewer lateral and main repairs, leaf collection, installation of snow fence, weed and grass control, snow removal and operation of the yard waste facility.β
βSecondly, under the direction of the Wisconsin Department of Transportation, we provide cost-effective, high quality professional maintenance and construction services for over 614 lane miles (approximately 200 centerline miles) of state highways within Fond du Lac County.β
βDeer crashes have been one of the highest crash types on county highways in recent years.β
Quoted verbatim on 2026-10-18 from City of Fond du Lac Public Works pages (Construction & Maintenance and Solid Waste contact pages, Street Maintenance, Garbage/Solid Waste Collection, Where to Dispose of Items), the Engineering service-request form, the city Contact Us, Pet Licensing and Parks pages, City Code Chapters 216 (Animals) and 476 (Nuisances) on eCode360, the Fond du Lac County Highway Department page, Policies page, 2018 Deer Crossing Signing policy and projects page, the county telephone list, Animal Bites/Rabies page and municipalities list, the Fond du Lac County Sheriff's Office contact page, the Fond du Lac Humane Society website, the WisDOT Car-Killed Deer page, DNR pages on deer waste disposal sites (plus the map's underlying data), carcass handling, wildlife health, sick or dead deer, wildlife-vehicle collisions and the rehabilitation directory, DNR's staff directory listing for reporting car-killed deer, DATCP's Laudolff Ledge Conservation Area impact statement, and U.S. Census Bureau QuickFacts (population estimate for July 1, 2025, V2025).
What the pages do not say: Whether a city crew collects carcasses from streets, terraces or alleys at all, and if so which Public Works division; whether a fee applies; whether a resident may set a carcass at the curb or put a bagged one in the green/teal garbage cart (the collection and disposal pages never mention animals); who handles a carcass where a state or US route runs on city streets; which contractor WisDOT uses for car-killed deer in Fond du Lac County, and whether the County Highway Department, which maintains state highways for WisDOT, is that contractor; any county reporting channel for a deer on a county trunk highway; who clears a carcass from Lakeside Park or other city parkland; whether the Fond du Lac Humane Society accepts a deceased pet, and at what charge; whether DNR's 2019 listing for the Eden transfer station and its per-carcass fee still hold; species or size limits and after-hours coverage for any of these.
Who not to call: Wisconsin DNR, 1-888-936-7463, to haul away a carcass, because the department writes that it usually does not have the means to take dead animals away, deer among them; The DNR Wildlife Hotline, 608-267-0866, about one traffic-killed deer, since DNR says roadside deer need no health report and keeps that line for sick deer and clusters of dead ones; WisDOT directly about a state-highway deer, because its Car-Killed Deer page gives no WisDOT phone number and routes shoulder reports to the county sheriff, (920) 929-3390 here; The Fond du Lac Humane Society, 920-922-8873, for a wild animal's remains, as its website covers adoptions, stray reclaims and surrenders and lists no deceased-animal service.
Live wildlife that is hurt or sick belongs with a wildlife rehabilitator from DNR's directory map, and DNR's customer service number, 1-888-936-7463, is answered between 7 a.m. and 10 p.m. A driver who has just struck a deer should, in WisDOT's words, 'Get your vehicle safely off the road, if possible, and call law enforcement,' and leave an injured deer alone. A bat found in a bedroom where someone was asleep is treated as a rabies exposure by the Fond du Lac County Health Department, which takes those calls at 920-929-3085, with a nurse on call after hours on the same number.
For the statewide version of this breakdown, see our guide to who picks up dead animals in Wisconsin.
Why Fond du Lac gets the dead-animal calls it does
I-41, which still carries US 41, meets US 151 at an interchange on the edge of Fond du Lac, at the south end of Lake Winnebago, and US 45, WIS 23 and county letter routes such as K, T and V fan out from the same corner of the county. Commuters on those roads meet deer every fall. WisDOT puts most of the state's deer-vehicle collisions in October and November, and the Fond du Lac County Highway Department's 2018 deer-signing policy ranks deer crashes among the most frequent crash types on its own highways. East of town, US 151 climbs the Niagara Escarpment, the Ledge, through the Town of Taycheedah, and to the south the farmland runs toward Horicon Marsh. Inside the city, animals travel by water, along both branches of the Fond du Lac River, De Nevue Creek past Brookfield Park, the small marsh at Adelaide Park and the lagoons of 145.9-acre Lakeside Park off North Main Street. Raccoons, skunks and opossums den under porches, decks and garages around downtown, the River Park neighborhood and the Brooke Street corridor, and newer subdivisions in North Fond du Lac and the Towns of Fond du Lac, Empire and Friendship back onto open fields. For a carcass on any of those lots, the city publishes no pickup.
Fond du Lac's city website carries no dead-animal page, no pickup request and no phone line for one. The online service-request form sorts problems into Light/Signal, Property, Terrace Tree, Sidewalk, Sign, Street and Water Service, with no animal category, and the Where to Dispose of Items guide covers pet waste and cat litter but never a carcass. What the city does put in writing is a duty on whoever holds the ground. Chapter 476 of the municipal code puts 'Unburied carcasses' on its list of public health nuisances and gives 24 hours from death for the remains to be buried or hygienically disposed of. The same chapter forbids putting 'dead animals' into the Fond du Lac River 'or either of its branches' or onto any public grounds or lot. The Fond du Lac County Highway Department's pages say nothing about carcasses, and WisDOT's Car-Killed Deer page leaves county highways with the county and local roads with the municipality. Anything on private land, whether a yard, a deck, a crawl space or a wall void an operator can get into without opening drywall, stays with the owner, who can handle it under DNR's advice or call to learn whether any independent operator is available for the property.
Neighborhoods we serve in Fond du Lac: Downtown Fond du Lac, Lakeside Park and North Main Street, River Park neighborhood, Brooke Street corridor, Adelaide Park area, Buttermilk Creek Park area, North Fond du Lac, Town of Fond du Lac, Town of Taycheedah, Town of Empire, Town of Friendship, Eden, Rosendale, Oakfield, Mount Calvary, Eldorado.
All Fond du Lac field work is done by an independent operator, and disposal is that operator's to arrange under the rule covering that species in that county. DNR's guidance for handling dead wildlife is gloves or an inverted bag, never bare hands. A raccoon, skunk, bat or fox that a person or pet has been in contact with is a question for the local health department.
What do people call about in Fond du Lac?
Around Fond du Lac, expect raccoon, skunk and opossum under the porches, decks and detached garages near downtown, the River Park neighborhood and the Brooke Street corridor; squirrel and bat in attics, where the county health department treats any bat found in a room someone slept in as a possible rabies exposure; geese and ducks along the Lakeside Park lagoons and the Lake Winnebago shore; animals working the banks of both Fond du Lac River branches and De Nevue Creek; and deer on I-41, US 151, US 45, WIS 23 and County K, T and V, worst in October and November and busy again in May and June, when DNR says yearling deer are seeking new home ranges. Found one in a Fond du Lac yard? Start here. Odor, nothing in sight? The five places to check first.
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Open this page βWhat does dead animal removal cost in Fond du Lac?
No city, county or state page reviewed for Fond du Lac states a fee for dead-animal removal. The one disposal fee on an official source comes from DNR's deer waste disposal map, whose data lists Guelig Waste Removal & Demolition at N4456 Hwy 45 in Eden as a transfer station that takes bagged carcasses from the public for a per-carcass fee. DNR says the listings come from a voluntary survey of the businesses, and this one was first entered in August 2019, so call 920-477-2068 for the current charge before loading anything. Fond du Lac's garbage pages never say whether a bagged small animal may ride in the green/teal cart; the Solid Waste line, 920-322-3544, is the place to ask. Removal by an independent operator, where one can take the address, is priced on the call according to the animal, its spot on the lot and the access. No operator price appears anywhere on this page.
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Fond du Lac dead animal questions
Is there a number for a dead animal on a Fond du Lac city street?
A deer was hit on I-41 or US 151 near Fond du Lac. Who removes it?
What about a deer on County K, County T or another letter route?
An animal died in my Fond du Lac yard. Is it mine to deal with?
Where can a whole deer go for disposal around Fond du Lac?
A cat or dog was hit by a car on my Fond du Lac street. What does the city code require?
Dead geese or ducks keep turning up at Lakeside Park or along the lakeshore. Who should hear about it?
Fond du Lac Dead Animal Removal
Operator coverage is confirmed for Fond du Lac County. What the operator takes on, and the price, are settled on the call.