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Animal Carcasses

Includes: Animals, Dead Animals, Deer Carcasses, Farm Animal Carcasses, Livestock Carcasses, Pet Carcasses, Pets, Road Kill, Wildlife Carcasses

Not Accepted At Hennepin County Facilities.

Animal carcasses are not accepted at Hennepin County drop-off facilities.

Pets

Burial

Call your city for local burial ordinance guidelines.

Cremation services

• Check with local veterinary clinics and hospitals.
• Animal Humane Society, Golden Valley, 763-489-2203
• Midwest Cremation Service, Anoka, 763-753-5510
• Paws, Claws and Hooves, Chanhassen, 952-445-6403
• Pet Cremation Services of MN, Edina, 952-925-1234

Pet cemeteries

Animal Inn Pet Cemetery,  Lake Elmo, 651-777-0255

Wildlife

If you have a dead wild animal on your property, call your city’s animal control unit for instructions or assistance on proper disposal.

Road Kill

Call the road authority that has immediate responsibility:

• MnDOT on Interstates and U.S. and state highways
• County highway department on county roads
• Local (city/township) road authorities on local roads and streets.

Deer Carcasses

Remains of carcasses are not accepted as solid waste at our facilities.

The Minnesota Pollution Control Agency has designated the following landfills in the metro area as appropriate disposal facilities:

• Allied Waste Pine Bend Landfill, Inver Grove Heights, 651-450-2146
• Waste Management Burnsville Landfill, Burnsville, 952-890-3248
• Waste Management Elk River Landfill, Elk River, 763-441-2464

Farm Animals

See the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency's Livestock Carcass Disposal factsheet.

For information on livestock carcass composting, see Composting Animal Mortalities from Minnesota Department of Agriculture, Minnesota Board of Animal Health and University of Minnesota Extension.