Mine starts at $19 per cleanup, and the final number varies by location, yard size and number of dogs. That is the honest answer, and I know it is not quite the answer you wanted — you wanted one number. So let me do the more useful thing and explain what actually moves that number, because once you understand the shape of it you can tell, in about thirty seconds on the phone, whether a quote you are given makes sense.
I am Isaac. I run Horizon Pet Waste Solutions out of Marietta and pet waste removal is the only thing I do. I am not going to put a rate card on this page, because a rate card is a guess about a yard I have not seen, and you would find out it was a bad guess on the first visit. Here is the real version instead.
It is priced per cleanup, not per month
The first thing worth understanding is the unit. This work is priced per visit, and a monthly figure is just that per-visit price multiplied by how many times someone comes. That matters more than it sounds: it is the most common way two quotes get compared wrongly. A weekly plan and a bi-weekly plan can have identical per-visit prices and very different monthly totals, and a cheaper-sounding monthly total can simply mean fewer visits. When you compare, get both numbers — what a visit costs, and how many visits.
It also means frequency is a lever you control. If the monthly total is more than you want to spend, you are not stuck choosing between the full plan and nothing — for one dog in a lightly used yard, bi-weekly is often the right answer.
The things that actually move the price
How many dogs. This is the biggest one, and it is not subtle. Two dogs do not make slightly more mess than one; they make roughly twice as much, and a third makes it three times. More to find, more to collect, more time in the yard. If you are getting quotes, the dog count is the first thing an honest person will ask you.
How much yard there is to walk. Not the deed acreage — the part the dogs actually use. A fenced strip behind the house takes less time than a smaller lot where they have the run of everything, including the flower beds and the far corner behind the shed. Hills, long grass, leaf cover in the fall, mulch beds and a yard full of toys all slow the search down, and time is what is really being priced.
How often I come. Frequency cuts both ways, and this confuses people. Coming more often costs more per month, but usually less per visit, because a yard on a twice-weekly or weekly rhythm never accumulates much. Coming rarely means each individual visit is a bigger job. The yard that costs the most to maintain is the one nobody maintains.
How long it has been since anyone cleaned it. A yard that has been going all winter is not a cleanup, it is an excavation, and it is priced as the larger job it genuinely is. More on this below, because it is the number that surprises people most.
Where the yard is. Drive time is real cost. A yard fifteen minutes from the ones I am already doing that day costs less to serve than one at the far edge of the map, and that is why location is one of my three variables.
The first visit after a long gap is its own job
If it has been months, expect the first visit to be priced above the ongoing rate, and do not read that as a bait and switch. It is genuinely a different job: a full-yard sweep of everything that has accumulated, often in grass that has grown over it, sometimes in more than one pass. The visits after it are maintenance — a walk of a yard that was already clean seven or fourteen days ago.
Think of that first number as a reset rather than a rate. You pay once to get the yard back to zero, then pay the ongoing price to keep it there.
Per visit, or a recurring plan?
A one-time cleanup is the right call in a few real situations — you are hosting on Saturday, the house is going on the market, or the season simply got away from you. The yard gets cleared completely and nothing is scheduled after it. No pressure from me either way.
A recurring plan is cheaper per unit of mess, for the reason above: maintenance visits are smaller than catch-up visits. It also solves what a one-time visit cannot — the yard is clean on a Tuesday in February when you had entirely forgotten about it. That is the actual product. You are not buying scooping, you are buying never thinking about it.
What a free first cleanup is worth
Start any recurring plan with me and your first cleanup is free. Since the first cleanup after a gap is usually the biggest visit on the whole schedule, that is not a token — it is the largest job of the year waived, right at the point where you are still deciding whether this is worth it. The way you find out whether you want a service like this is by seeing your own yard clean, not by reading a page about it.
Questions worth asking anyone who quotes you
- Is that price per visit or per month, and how many visits does the month include?
- Is the first visit priced differently, and by how much?
- What happens if it rains on my day?
- Where does the waste go when you leave?
- Are the tools cleaned between yards? Mine are sanitized between every one.
- What if I need to skip a week?
Any of those getting a vague answer is worth a second thought. None of them should be hard to answer.
Getting an actual number for your yard
The quote is free. Tell me your town, roughly how big the yard is, how many dogs, and how long it has been since it was last cleared properly, and I will get you a real number within the hour — not a range, your price. See the full breakdown of plans and pricing for the shape of what you are comparing against.
Text me at 470-524-2882.
Note on figures in this post: the only price stated anywhere above is Horizon's own published starting point — $19 per cleanup, varying by location, yard size and number of dogs — and the free-first-cleanup offer with its condition (a recurring plan). No market average, price range, competitor rate or industry statistic is quoted, because none has been sourced. Everything else is described as direction of movement, not as a figure.
Why this topic: the Keyword Planner pull of 2026-09-16 on file for this business measures real demand behind the cost question — "pooper scooper service cost" at 90 a month nationally and 10 in the Cobb + Douglas lane, "pet waste removal cost" at 20, and "how much does pet waste removal cost" at 10 and rising — sitting behind a head term, "pooper scooper service near me", at 5,400 nationally and 30 locally with +600% year-on-year growth in the local lane. This is the question people type immediately before they buy.