North Carolina Dead Animal Removal Service Areas
North Carolina Dead Animal Removal routes dead animal removal requests to independent operators across 9 North Carolina metros. Each location page documents the local pickup ordinance, road jurisdiction, and the species most frequently called in for that metro.
Metros We Serve
Raleigh, NC
Wake — metro pop ~2,100,000
Research Triangle (Wake/Durham/Orange counties). Wake County has FIVE separate animal control agencies (Raleigh, Cary, Garner, Holly Springs each run their own; Wake County Animal …
Raleigh details →Durham, NC
Durham — metro pop ~660,000
Durham metro (Durham/Orange counties). Duke Forest + Eno River State Park + the American Tobacco Trail corridor push deer, raccoon, and opossum into in-town neighborhoods. Older ho…
Durham details →Greensboro, NC
Guilford — metro pop ~790,000
Greensboro / Guilford County, eastern Piedmont Triad. Greensboro's watershed lake system (Lake Brandt, Lake Townsend, Lake Higgins) plus the Bog Garden / Guilford Courthouse NMP gr…
Greensboro details →Winston-Salem, NC
Forsyth — metro pop ~700,000
Winston-Salem / Forsyth County, western Triad. Salem Creek + Muddy Creek corridors and the Yadkin River western edge. Older neighborhoods (West End, Ardmore, Buena Vista) have the …
Winston-Salem details →Asheville, NC
Buncombe — metro pop ~475,000
Asheville / Buncombe County, Blue Ridge mountains. This is the state's highest black-bear-conflict area, which makes the NCWRC black bear carcass-reporting line (866-318-2401) a pa…
Asheville details →Fayetteville, NC
Cumberland — metro pop ~525,000
Fayetteville / Cumberland County, Sandhills. Fort Bragg (Fort Liberty) adjacency means an unusually high share of rental + military-transient housing — landlords and property manag…
Fayetteville details →Wilmington, NC
New Hanover — metro pop ~300,000
Wilmington / New Hanover County, Cape Fear coastal. Vented crawlspaces are near-universal in coastal NC construction, and the humid subtropical climate accelerates decomposition — …
Wilmington details →Charlotte, NC
Mecklenburg — metro pop ~2,800,000
Charlotte metro (Mecklenburg + Union/Cabarrus/Gaston/Iredell), NC's largest at ~2.8M. Catawba River / Lake Norman / Lake Wylie shoreline plus the McDowell and Latta Nature Preserve…
Charlotte details →High Point, NC
Guilford — metro pop ~114,000
High Point / Guilford County (city also reaches Davidson, Forsyth and Randolph). The city collects dead household pets under 100 pounds free, bagged in the cart or scheduled throug…
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