Longer pieces on the parts of this that do not fit a county page or an FAQ answer: where Washington counties disagree with each other, what the statute does and does not reach, and what actually decides whether an animal can be reached without damaging anything. Every claim about law or agency policy is quoted from the source and dated.
Most of western Washington sits on a vented crawl space rather than a slab or a basement. That decides where an animal ends up, why the smell seems to come from nowhere, and whether the recovery is possible at all.
Looking for the reference pages instead?
The blog is where a subject gets more room than a reference page should give it. If you want the short version, start with who removes a dead animal in Washington, the disposal rules, or your own county page.
Call and describe where it is lying and how close anyone can get to it. The first thing that gets worked out is whether this is a job you should be paying for at all.
