Independent measurement · August 2026

The pet waste removal companies ChatGPT actually recommends.

Dog owners don't just search anymore — they ask ChatGPT who to see. So we measured the answer. We asked for the best pet waste removal company in 12 U.S. metros, 4 different ways each — 48 checks in all — and recorded every company it named.

Only 58%

of the 296 U.S. pet waste removal companies we benchmarked ever came up. These are the ones dog owners are told to see.

See your city's list How we measured it

296

U.S. pet waste removal companies checked

ChatGPT questions asked

metros benchmarked

58%

ever get recommended

Measured August 17, 2026 on ChatGPT (gpt-4o, with web search): 12 metros × 4 question phrasings = 48 checks. No other AI system is included in these numbers. How we measured it

One difference from most boards in this network, stated plainly: every question here was asked twice, not once. Only 54% of the company-and-question pairs named on the first ask were named again on the second. Because asking twice finds more names, a company has to be named in at least 3 of the 4 questions — on both asks — to be listed here, where most of our boards list at 2.

The franchises are in every market — but they don't own the answer.

POOP 911, DoodyCalls, Pet Butler and Scoop Soldiers are the four national pooper-scooper franchise networks, and the two biggest were each named in 9 of the 12 metros we measured — no local company comes close to that reach. But between them the franchises took only about 16% of ChatGPT's recommendation slots. The other 84% went to companies that do not carry a franchise brand's name.

The most recommended pet waste removal companies, metro by metro

Every metro below was benchmarked the same way: 4 dog owner-style questions, every answer recorded. Pick your city to see the full measured list.

ChatGPT's answer moves between checks, so we publish how many of the 4 checks named each one instead of a rank that would change if we asked again.

Atlanta

13 of 22

Named in all 4 checks: DoodyCalls of North Atlanta, POOP 911 East Atlanta and Tidy Tails Waste Solutions

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Charlotte

14 of 23

Named in all 4 checks: The Scoop Force

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Chicago

15 of 25

Named in all 4 checks: Chicago Pet Waste

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Dallas

14 of 30

Named in all 4 checks: 101 Scoop and iScoopPoop DFW

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Denver

13 of 24

Named in all 4 checks: Colorado Pooper Scoopers, DoodyCalls® of Castle Rock and Pet Scoop

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Houston

21 of 41

Named in all 4 checks: Tongue & Tail Poo Crew and Waste Bandits

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Nashville

11 of 15

Named in all 4 checks: Clean Yard and Poop Control

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Orlando

13 of 18

Named in all 4 checks: Poop Bandit - Dog Pooper Scooper Pickup and Scoop Doo Crew

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Phoenix

17 of 37

Named in 3 of 4 checks: Clean Paw Dog waste removal and Doodoo Dude

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San Diego

18 of 27

Named in all 4 checks: Potter's Pet Waste Removal and Scoops Up

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Seattle

8 of 13

Named in all 4 checks: Can Doo Pet Waste Service, Ground + Hound and Poop 911 and 2 more

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Tampa

14 of 21

Named in all 4 checks: POOP 911 Tampa Bay and Scoop Moop

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Measured, never sold.

No pet waste removal company can pay to appear on these lists. A company is listed only because ChatGPT actually recommended it when we asked — more than once. We publish how many of the checks named each one, not a place, because the count holds up when we ask again and a place doesn't. That's the whole formula.

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Common questions

How did you measure which U.S. pet waste removal companies ChatGPT recommends?

We asked ChatGPT the questions real dog owners ask — like "Who is the best pet waste removal company near me?" — 4 different ways, and recorded every company recommended. Each company on this list was named in more than one of those answers, and we publish how many named it rather than a place in a ranking — ask ChatGPT again and the top name often changes, but the count holds. We ran 48 checks for this market and compared the answers against the 296 U.S. companies in our dataset.

Can a pet waste removal company pay to be on this list?

No. This list is measured, never sold. A company appears on it only if ChatGPT actually recommended it when we asked. Money cannot buy a place on this list. Sponsored blocks are labeled advertising and sit outside the ranked list.

What does it mean if a company is NOT on this list?

It means that when we asked ChatGPT for a pet waste removal company in U.S., that company never came up. That says nothing about the quality of their work — only that dog owners who ask AI for a recommendation are being sent somewhere else. Most companies haven't shown up in AI answers yet, so the list is short.

How often is this updated?

We re-run the same benchmark quarterly with the same methodology, so companies that improve their AI visibility can appear in the next update. This edition was measured in August 2026.

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