Dead Animal Removal in Sheboygan, WI
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Who is responsible for a dead animal in Sheboygan and Sheboygan County, and one number for private property.
Who do I call for a dead animal in Sheboygan, 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 Sheboygan Department of Public Works is the published contact: 920-459-3440 (DPW office, Monday through Friday, 7:30 to 11 a.m. and noon to 4 p.m.); after hours, police non-emergency 920-459-3333. 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 Sheboygan pages we reviewed offers collection from private property. For private property in Sheboygan, Wisconsin Dead Animal Removal connects you with the independent operator covering Sheboygan 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 Sheboygan?
Sheboygan's Department of Public Works says that 'In most cases, the City can pick up dead animals,' only during regular business hours, and its disposal guide scopes that to 'animals in the public right-of-way.' Neither page names a fee, so the table lists the pickup as a city service with no published fee. The city, Sheboygan County and the Humane Society of Sheboygan County publish nothing about collecting a carcass from a yard, a crawl space or a wall, and the humane society says it does not accept wildlife. Anything on private property is the owner's responsibility; an independent operator covers Sheboygan 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 Sheboygan Department of Public Works | 920-459-3440 (DPW office, Monday through Friday, 7:30 to 11 a.m. and noon to 4 p.m.); after hours, police non-emergency 920-459-3333 | City service; no fee published |
| Interstate, US or state highway | WisDOT car-killed deer (CKD) contractor for Sheboygan County, under maintenance manual section 07-15-01 (July 2025) | 911 in the lane; county highway department or sheriff otherwise (no WisDOT hotline) | State service |
| County trunk highway | Sheboygan County Highway Department (Transportation Department) | (920) 459-3822 or highway@sheboygancounty.com; after hours, Sheboygan County Sheriff (920) 459-3111 | Not published; no carcass service is described |
| Private property: yard, deck, attic, crawl space | The owner arranges it; an independent operator covers this county | (414) 519-6688 | Quoted on the call |
βIn most cases, the City can pick up dead animals. However, this only is done during regular business hours.β
βFor animals in the public right-of-way, call 920-459-3440 for collection.β
βIf you have an emergency after hours, please call the non-emergency Police Department at 920-459-3333 Dispatch is in contact with the Department of Public Works, and can direct the response as required.β
βCounties and municipalities are responsible for disposal of deer along county highways and local roads, respectively.β
βWe do not accept wildlife here at Humane Society of Sheboygan County.β
βIf your pet has already passed or if you have a euthanasia appointment with your veterinarian, we can still help you with cremation.β
Quoted verbatim on 2026-10-18 from the City of Sheboygan Public Works FAQ, How Do I Get Rid Of...? guide, Garbage and Recycling FAQ and Contact & Report Issues page; the Sheboygan County Transportation and Highway pages; the Humane Society of Sheboygan County FAQ, Lost & Found, Contact and Euthanasia & Cremation pages; the Town of Wilson home and Contact Public Works pages; WisDOT's Car-Killed Deer page and its maintenance manual section 07-15-01 (July 2025 edition); the DNR sick-and-dead-deer, wildlife health, carcass disposal, deer waste disposal sites, vehicle-killed deer, rehabilitation directory and contact pages, DNR's 'Report car killed deer for pickup' sheriff directory and its CWD sampling and carcass disposal map layer; population is the U.S. Census Bureau Vintage 2025 estimate for Sheboygan city, July 1, 2025.
What the pages do not say: Whether DPW will collect from private property, including an animal a resident carries to the curb or the alley; whether any fee applies; response time and size limits; whether 'regular business hours' means the DPW office hours; whether after-hours dispatch sends a crew for a carcass or holds it for the next business day; whether the city's SeeClickFix Report a Problem portal has a dead-animal request type; whether a bagged small animal may go in the garbage cart (the Garbage and Recycling FAQs and the disposal guide never mention it); who holds WisDOT's car-killed deer contract for Sheboygan County (the manual says contracts go 'to private vendors or counties'); how the Sheboygan County Highway Department wants a dead deer on a county trunk highway reported; any Sheboygan County landfill or deer carcass program (none was found, and the DNR disposal map layer listed no Sheboygan County site on 2026-10-18); the Town of Sheboygan's procedure for a dead animal on its roads, which was not reviewed; whether the Humane Society of Sheboygan County will cremate a pet brought in by someone other than its owner; the City of Sheboygan municipal code on animal carcasses and pet burial, which was not read.
Who not to call: The Humane Society of Sheboygan County for a dead raccoon, skunk, deer or other wild animal. Its lost-and-found page says 'We do not accept wildlife here at Humane Society of Sheboygan County.' What it offers for a pet that has died is cremation, with the pet brought to the Admissions door during open hours, and the shelter publishes no pickup from a home; Wisconsin DNR to haul a carcass away. Its sick-and-dead-deer page says the department generally lacks the resources to remove dead animals, deer included, and its wildlife-health page says 'You do not need to report wildlife killed on a roadway.' The DNR Wildlife Hotline, 608-267-0866, takes reports for disease monitoring, where 'Observations of five or more sick or dead wild birds or three or more sick or dead wild mammals in one area are of particular interest'; City of Sheboygan Public Works for a road outside city limits. WisDOT's manual leaves local roads to the town, village or city that maintains them, so a carcass on a town road in the Black River neighborhood goes to the Town of Wilson, office (920) 208-2390, whose Contact Public Works form lists 'potholes, road sign damage, tree concerns, etc.' and does not mention dead animals.
A live wild animal that is hurt, sick or orphaned needs a licensed wildlife rehabilitator, and none of the numbers above is one. The DNR's rehabilitation directory says to 'Contact a licensed wildlife rehabilitator immediately if you believe a wild animal is sick, injured or truly orphaned,' and lists skunks and adult white-tailed deer among the species rehabilitators cannot accept. The Humane Society of Sheboygan County sends wildlife concerns to Wildlife of Wisconsin (W.O.W.). The DNR call center, 1-888-936-7463, is staffed 7 a.m. to 10 p.m. every day.
For the statewide version of this breakdown, see our guide to who picks up dead animals in Wisconsin.
Why Sheboygan gets the dead-animal calls it does
Sheboygan sits where the Sheboygan River makes its last bend around the Blue Harbor peninsula and empties into Lake Michigan, and the water sets the routes animals take through town. Raccoons, muskrats and opossums travel the river banks below the Pennsylvania Avenue bridge, the stretch where the charter fishing boats tie up near the mouth. On the north side the Pigeon River winds through the Maywood woods, where deer are often seen, and reaches Lakeshore Road at Manor Heights. South of the city, the wooded Black River neighborhood in the Town of Wilson, platted in the 1920s, runs 2.5 miles up the shore from the dunes at Kohler-Andrae State Park, with back yards that end in forest. Inside the original plat between Superior and Georgia Avenues, older houses with porches, crawl spaces and garages along the alleys give skunks and raccoons dry places to den. West of the core, newer blocks run out to I-43, the city's western boundary, and along Kohler Memorial Drive (WIS 23) toward Kohler and WIS 28 toward Sheboygan Falls.
Two City of Sheboygan pages address dead animals, and both describe the street. The Department of Public Works FAQ, under 'There is a dead animal / deer on our street. Will the City pick it up?', answers 'In most cases, the City can pick up dead animals. However, this only is done during regular business hours,' and gives 920-459-3440 or DPW email as the way to report one. The How Do I Get Rid Of...? guide is narrower, saying 'For animals in the public right-of-way, call 920-459-3440 for collection.' The Sheboygan County Highway Department, based at the Transportation Facility on CTH J in Plymouth, publishes nothing on carcasses, and WisDOT puts deer on county highways with the county and deer on local roads with the municipality. No page sets a fee, a response time or a size limit, and none mentions a yard, a crawl space or a wall. That ground is the homeowner's to arrange, through an independent operator when one can take the address, and a carcass inside a wall comes out only if it can be reached without cutting into the wall.
Neighborhoods we serve in Sheboygan: Downtown Sheboygan and the Riverfront, Blue Harbor peninsula, Deland Park lakefront, King Park, Manor Heights (Pigeon River), Maywood and Evergreen Park, Indian Mound Park area (South 9th Street), Taylor Drive corridor, Calumet Drive corridor, Kohler Memorial Drive corridor, Town of Sheboygan, Black River neighborhood (Town of Wilson), Kohler, Sheboygan Falls, Howards Grove, Plymouth, Oostburg, Cedar Grove, Elkhart Lake.
All Sheboygan 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 Sheboygan?
Around Sheboygan, expect raccoon and skunk under porches, decks and alley garages in the older blocks between Superior and Georgia Avenues; opossum and muskrat along the Sheboygan River banks downstream of the Pennsylvania Avenue bridge and along the Pigeon River at Manor Heights and Maywood; squirrel and bat in the attics of older houses near downtown; raccoon and deer in the wooded Black River yards of the Town of Wilson; and deer on I-43, WIS 23, WIS 28, WIS 42, County KK and Lakeshore Road, heaviest in October and November, the two months WisDOT names for most deer-vehicle collisions. Found one in a Sheboygan yard? Start here. Odor, nothing in sight? The five places to check first.
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The only published price list in Sheboygan that involves a dead animal belongs to the Humane Society of Sheboygan County, and it covers cremation of a pet that has already died. HSSC accepts the pet at its Admissions door at 3209 North 21st Street during open hours and charges by weight, in tiers up to 140 lbs, with private cremation (ashes returned) priced above group cremation (ashes not returned). The City of Sheboygan names no fee for the street pickup its FAQ describes, and no Sheboygan County page describes any carcass disposal program. Taking an animal out of a yard, from under a deck, or from a wall where it can be reached without cutting is work for an independent operator, who quotes it on the call from the species, the location and the access. No figure for that work appears here.
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Sheboygan dead animal questions
Will the City of Sheboygan pick up a dead animal or deer on my street?
A deer was hit on a Sheboygan street after DPW closed. Who do I call?
Who handles a deer on I-43, on a county road like County KK, or on a town road outside Sheboygan?
My dog or cat died at home in Sheboygan. What can I do with it?
There's a dead raccoon under my porch in Sheboygan. Will anyone public come for it?
Is there anywhere in Sheboygan County to take a deer carcass?
Is there an independent operator for my Sheboygan address?
Sheboygan Dead Animal Removal
Operator coverage is confirmed for Sheboygan County. What the operator takes on, and the price, are settled on the call.