Pet waste removal near me: how to find a pooper scooper who really comes to you in South Florida

If you are searching for pet waste removal near you in South Florida, the service you want is a recurring pooper scooper visit to your own yard: a technician comes on a set schedule — most often weekly — walks the yard, removes all the dog waste, and leaves you a clean lawn you do not have to think about between visits. You do not need to be home, there is usually no contract, and published local prices start in the teens per visit. The catch is the same one behind every 'near me' search here: coverage is by exact address and route, not by how close a company looks on a map, so the first real question is always whether your home is inside a service's actual area.

What a visit looks like is deliberately simple, and the good services describe it the same way. POOP 911's Miami branch says its technicians arrive on schedule, clean up all pet waste from the yard, send an on-the-way message before they arrive and a completion message afterward, and send a photo of your secured gate after each service — so you know the gate was closed behind them, which matters if your dogs use the yard on their own. Dacker's Pet Waste Removal, serving Coral Springs, Parkland, Coconut Creek, Tamarac, and Margate in Broward, describes the same rhythm — a heads-up text, a grid walk of every corner, waste double-bagged and hauled away by default, and a gate photo when the visit is done — and adds kennel-grade sanitizing and enzyme deodorizing on its Fresh plans, aimed at the odor and residue South Florida heat makes worse. Waste Warden, which says it serves all of Miami-Dade and Broward, also works around text alerts, automatic billing, and a client portal where you manage your schedule. In plain terms: scoop, proof the gate is latched, and a message that it happened — that is the standard to hold any service to.

Costs are published by several local services, and frequency is what moves the price most, so compare the same schedule when you compare quotes. POOP 911 Miami lists weekly service for $16.95, with the first cleanup free when you sign up for regular scheduled service, and schedules of one, two, or three times per week or every other week. Waste Warden lists dog waste removal as low as $15.99 per visit, and its FAQ puts plans starting as low as $20 per week for one dog, with the final price varying by number of dogs, yard size, and visit frequency. Dacker's offers new customers a first clean for $20, waives the initial cleanup fee on weekly plans, and shows an example price of $109 per month in its online plan builder depending on dog count and frequency. Services that do not publish a rate — several on this site quote by ZIP code only — are not necessarily more expensive, but get the per-visit or monthly figure, what the first cleanup costs if your yard needs a catch-up clean, and whether sanitizing or deodorizing is included or an add-on, all in writing before the first visit. Prices above are the services' own published rates, re-checked on their websites on November 6, 2026, and can change; every listing on this site links to the business so you can confirm the current price directly.

Service-area fine print decides whether 'near me' is really near you. POOP 911 Miami publishes its full list of Miami-area ZIP codes on its own page — a long Miami-Dade list, not all of South Florida. Dacker's named Broward cities are Coral Springs, Parkland, Coconut Creek, Tamarac, and Margate; its site also lists Boca Raton and Delray Beach, which are in Palm Beach County and outside this directory's coverage. Waste Warden states its area plainly as all of Miami-Dade and Broward counties, naming Miami, Miami Beach, Coral Gables, Fort Lauderdale, Hollywood, and Pembroke Pines among them, and invites a ZIP-code check if you are unsure. Two South Florida specifics belong in that first conversation: gate and access details — code, lock, dogs in the yard during the visit, and how the technician should leave the gate — because you will usually not be home; and storm-season expectations. Dacker's states its policy directly: light rain, they scoop anyway; if a storm makes it unsafe, they come the next dry day and the schedule picks back up. Ask any service what heavy rain does to your route day before hurricane season tests it, not after.

Before you book, confirm five things: that your exact address or ZIP is inside the service area and which day your route runs; what the price is for YOUR dogs, yard, and frequency — including the first or catch-up cleanup, and whether sanitizing or deodorizing costs extra; whether waste is hauled away or left double-bagged in your outdoor bin (services differ — Dacker's hauls away by default, Waste Warden typically places the bag in your bin if one is accessible and takes it off-site otherwise, so say which you prefer); how you will know a visit happened — on-the-way and completion messages and a secured-gate photo are the local standard; and the pause, skip, and cancellation terms in writing — the services above are contract-free, and Waste Warden asks 24 hours' notice to skip or reschedule. Then start weekly if your dogs use the yard daily — most local customers do, per the services' own FAQs — judge the first month on the basics (visits on the promised day, gate latched every time, no missed corners near the back door, patio, and fence line where dogs circle back), and adjust frequency once you see how your yard actually holds up between visits.