Wildlife help
So you found an animal. What next?
Tell us what you see, where the animal is, and whether there is immediate danger. The right details help qualified wildlife contacts respond more safely.
If an animal is injured, orphaned, or displaced, contact licensed or permitted help before feeding or handling. Share what you are seeing so the animal can reach appropriate wildlife care.
Three quick steps
Give the animal space
Keep people and pets back. Do not feed, bathe, medicate, attempt to hydrate, or try to keep the animal.
Share what you can see
Animal type, condition, exact location, photos, and whether the animal is contained or in immediate danger.
Reach qualified help
Use those details to contact a licensed rehabber, wildlife organization, public authority, or reunification resource.
Quick guides
Start with the animal in front of you.
These guides cover the animals people most often find in the 417 area. Tap one to see safe first steps, what not to do, and details a licensed wildlife contact will ask for.
Why this matters
As counterintuitive as it may seem, introducing the wrong food or fluids into a wild animal's sensitive digestive system can cause serious complications that rehabbers then have to treat, or in the worst cases, complications that lead to death.
Found-animal form
This goes to our team, not a live dispatcher.
As soon as you submit, you will see rehabbers and resources that may fit the animal type and county you entered, plus a reference number to save for your records. Our team also reviews every submission behind the scenes. If the situation is urgent, do not wait on a reply: contact a licensed rehabber directly or call the appropriate emergency service.