Note:

1) we can NOT take in any wildlife from out of state. We can ONLY take wildlife found IN VA.

2) Before you ask for a rehabber to help with a fawn, read this information: https://dwr.virginia.gov/wildlife/diseases

Link to VA's Dept of Game and Inland Fishery Help:

Rehabbers by county/city:

https://dwr.virginia.gov/wildlife/injured/rehabilitators

Species advice:

https://dwr.virginia.gov/wildlife

Note that trapping a relocating is not a good solution; and in many cases, it's illegal. It can leave litters of babies behind to die and it's hard on the animals to be dumped out in a different territory.

So, you have a wild animal coming around making a pest of itself? You just want the problem GONE! Keep this in mind... wildlife are looking for three basic things:

Food, Water and Shelter

If you can eliminate those three things they are getting by being in your house, yard, barn, shed, under your porch or where ever, then your problem with resolve itself. Are you leaving pet food out at night? Are you leaving trash cans out? Do you have a compost pile nearby? Do you keep bird feeders filled and out at night? All those are food sources. We recommend you bring foods in at night (birds don’t eat at night, anyway). Leaving food out and available is an open invitation, so if you don’t want those visitors, don’t invite them with free food!

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To encourage wildlife to move on: play loud music near their dens, anchor helium balloons near their den (to create movement that mimics a predator), put down ammonia or predator urine nearby (to make them think a predator is coming around. You can buy predator urine online and sometimes from plant nurseries. You can even do it yourself --- borrow a male dog to pee nearby. Just make a nuisance of yourself to the nuisance animal and they will move on. A mother with babies will generally move her babies when she feels unsafe. (Except bunnies, which do NOT move their babies.)

Make sure your home and outbuildings are critter-proof: close off all areas where wildlife can get in. (But remember, if you trap an animal, it MAY have babies! So be sure to look for the babies and if possible, capture all of them. Contact us for advice in that case.)

See this link for more hints:

http://www.arkofva.org/nuisance-wildlife.html