Report a dead animal on your property

Last updated June 16, 2025
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If you see a dead pet or wild animal on your property, here is how to report it.

In Quebec, it’s illegal to bury an animal in your yard or in any other unauthorized place. You are required to report it for pick-up.

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If you find a dead animal, never touch it with your bare hands.

Pets

Call 311 to report a dead pet, such as a dog or cat.

If the dead animal is your pet, you are required to contact us and to place the animal in a bag or a box on the sidewalk for pick-up by our teams.

You then have 15 days to cancel your cat or dog license.

Wild animals

Report the sighting of a dead coyote, wild turkey, deer or of a group of dead animals of the same species at Ministère des Forêts, de la Faune et des Parcs at 1 877 346-6763.

If you find a dead animal, never touch it with your bare hands.

Pets

Whether it is your own pet or a pet you don’t know, contact the SPCA: 514 735-2711.

If it’s your pet, you then have 15 days to cancel your cat or dog license.

Wild animals

If it’s a wild animal of a non-protected species, contact the SPCA : 514 735-2711.

If the animal is a protected species, contact:

  • The Ministère des Forêts, de la Faune et des Parcs for a coyote, turkey, deer or a group of dead animals of the same species: 1 877 346-6763.

If you find a dead animal, never touch it with your bare hands.

Dead animals are not picked up for waste collections.

Pets

Report the sighting of a dead pet contact the SPCA: 514-735-2711.

If the dead animal is your pet, you have 15 days to cancel your cat or dog license.

Wild animals

Report the sighting of a dead coyote, wild turkey, deer or of a group of dead animals of the same species: Ministère des Forêts, de la Faune et des Parcs at 1-877-346-6763.

If you find a dead animal, never touch it with your bare hands.

Pets

If the dead animal is your pet, you must dispose of it, the borough does not intervene.

If the dead animal is your pet, you then have 15 days to cancel your cat or dog license.

Wild animals

Report the sighting of a dead coyote, wild turkey, deer or of a group of dead animals of the same species at Ministère des Forêts, de la Faune et des Parcs at 1-877-346-6763.

For any other dead wild animal not mentioned, you must dispose of it, the borough does not intervene.

If you find a dead animal, never touch it with your bare hands.

Pets

Call 311 to report a dead pet, such as a dog or cat.
There are fees for the pickup of the animal.

If the dead animal is your pet, you have 15 days to cancel your cat or dog license.

You do not have to pay when you report the dead animal. You will receive an invoice which will be payable at the Accès Montréal office – LaSalle.

Animal patrol fees (pick-up)

Amounts

Dog with valid tag

$50

Dog without valid tag

$80

Cat with valid tag

$40

Cat without valid tag

60 $

Other domestic animal

$60

You can go to the SPCA to dispose of the animal’s body. 

SPCA 
5215 Rue Jean-Talon Ouest 
Montréal, QC H4P 1X4 

Wild animals

Report the sighting of a dead coyote, wild turkey, deer or of a group of dead animals of the same species at Ministère des Forêts, de la Faune et des Parcs at 1 877 346-6763.

If you find a dead animal, never touch it with your bare hands.

Pets

Call 311 to report a dead pet, such as a dog or cat.

If the dead animal is your pet, you are required to contact us and to place the animal in a bag or a box on the sidewalk for pick-up by our teams.

You then have 15 days to cancel your cat or dog license.

Wild animals

Report the sighting of a dead coyote, wild turkey, deer or of a group of dead animals of the same species at Ministère des Forêts, de la Faune et des Parcs at 1 877 346-6763.

If you find a dead animal, never touch it with your bare hands.

Pets

Call 311 to report a dead pet, such as a dog or cat.

If the dead animal is your pet, you are required to contact us and to place the animal in a bag or a box on the sidewalk for pick-up by our teams.

You then have 15 days to cancel your cat or dog license.

Wild animals

Report the sighting of a dead coyote, wild turkey, deer or of a group of dead animals of the same species: Ministère des Forêts, de la Faune et des Parcs at 1 877 346-6763.

If you find a dead animal, never touch it with your bare hands.

Pets

Call 311 to report a dead pet, such as a dog or cat.

If the dead animal is your pet, you are required to contact us and to place the animal in a bag or a box on the sidewalk for pick-up by our teams.

You then have 15 days to cancel your cat or dog license.

Wild animals

Report the sighting of a dead coyote, wild turkey, deer or of a group of dead animals of the same species: Ministère des Forêts, de la Faune et des Parcs at 1 877 346-6763.

If you find a dead animal, never touch it with your bare hands.

Pets

Call 311 to report a dead pet, such as a dog or cat.

If the dead animal is your pet, you are required to contact us and to place the animal in a bag or a box on the sidewalk for pick-up by our teams.

You then have 15 days to cancel your cat or dog license.

Wild animals

Report the sighting of a dead coyote, wild turkey, deer or of a group of dead animals of the same species at Ministère des Forêts, de la Faune et des Parcs at 1 877 346-6763.

If you find a dead animal, never touch it with your bare hands.

Pets

Report the sighting of a dead pet contact the SPCA: 514-735-2711.

You then have 15 days to cancel your cat or dog license.

Wild animals

Report the sighting of a dead coyote, wild turkey, deer or of a group of dead animals of the same species at Ministère des Forêts, de la Faune et des Parcs at 1 877 346-6763.

If you find a dead animal, never touch it with your bare hands.

Pets

Report the sighting of a dead pet contact the SPCA: 514-735-2711.

You then have 15 days to cancel your cat or dog license.

Wild animals

Report the sighting of a dead coyote, wild turkey, deer or of a group of dead animals of the same species at Ministère des Forêts, de la Faune et des Parcs at 1 877 346-6763.

If you find a dead animal, never touch it with your bare hands. 

Pets

Call 311 to report a dead pet, such as a dog or cat.

If it is your pet, place the animal in a bag or a box on the sidewalk for pick-up by our teams.

You then have 15 days to cancel your cat or dog license.

Wild animals

Report the sighting of a dead coyote, wild turkey, deer or of a group of dead animals of the same species at Ministère des Forêts, de la Faune et des Parcs at 1-877-346-6763.

If you find a dead animal, never touch it with your bare hands.

Dead animals are not picked up for waste collections.

Report the sighting of a pet or wild animal

Contact the SPCA Lanaudière Basses-Laurentides: 450-222-1112.

If the dead animal is your pet, place the corpse in a bag or box on the sidewalk and contact the SPCA to find out how to dispose of it.

You then have 15 days to cancel your cat or dog license.

If you find a dead animal, never touch it with your bare hands.

Pets

Report the sighting of a dead pet contact the SPCA: 514-735-2711.

You then have 15 days to cancel your cat or dog license.

Wild animals

Report the sighting of a dead coyote, wild turkey, deer or of a group of dead animals of the same species at Ministère des Forêts, de la Faune et des Parcs at 1 877 346-6763.

If you find a dead animal, never touch it with your bare hands.

Pets

Report the sighting of a dead pet contact the SPCA: 514-735-2711.

You then have 15 days to cancel your cat or dog license.

Wild animals

Report the sighting of a dead coyote, wild turkey, deer or of a group of dead animals of the same species at Ministère des Forêts, de la Faune et des Parcs at 1 877 346-6763.

Do not approach a dead animal or touch it with your bare hands, unless it is your animal. A team will take charge of collecting it.

Pet

To report the sighting of a dead pet, contact Le Berger Blanc at 514-494-2002

If it is your own pet, you then have 15 days to cancel your cat or dog license.

Wild animal

Report the sighting of a dead coyote, wild turkey, deer or of a group of dead animals of the same species: ministère des Forêts, de la Faune et des Parcs at 1 877 346-6763

To report any other dead wild animal not mentioned, e.g., a squirrel, please contact Le Berger Blanc at 514-494-2002.

If you find a dead animal, never touch it with your bare hands.

Pets

Call 311 to report a dead pet, such as a dog or cat.

If the dead animal is your pet, you are required to contact us and to place the animal in a bag or a box on the sidewalk for pick-up by our teams.

You then have 15 days to cancel your cat or dog license.

Wild animals

Report the sighting of a dead coyote, wild turkey, deer or of a group of dead animals of the same species at Ministère des Forêts, de la Faune et des Parcs at 1 877 346-6763.

If you find a dead animal, never touch it with your bare hands.

Pets

Call 311 to report a dead pet, such as a dog or cat.

If the dead animal is your pet, you are required to contact us and to place the animal in a bag or a box on the sidewalk for pick-up by our teams.

You then have 15 days to cancel your cat or dog license.

Wild animals

Report the sighting of a dead coyote, wild turkey, deer or of a group of dead animals of the same species at Ministère des Forêts, de la Faune et des Parcs at 1 877 346-6763.

If you find a dead animal, never touch it with your bare hands.

Pets

Report the sighting of a dead pet contact the SPCA: 514-735-2711.

If the dead animal is your pet, you then have 15 days to cancel your cat or dog license.

Wild animals

Report the sighting of a dead coyote, wild turkey, deer or of a group of dead animals of the same species: Ministère des Forêts, de la Faune et des Parcs at 1 877 346-6763.