Animal Emergencies
What to do if you found a sick or injured prairie dog
The Prairie Dog Coalition is not a rehabilitation facility. Therefore, we cannot respond to emergencies or provide services to foster sick or injured prairie dogs, but we can help connect you with people who can!
Caution
Handling a wild animal can be dangerous to you and harmful for the animal.
To protect yourself from disease and injury, never approach or attempt to rescue an animal who is behaving abnormally (circling, staggering, etc.) or shows signs of disease (salivating, discharge from the eyes or nose, etc.) and always wear thick gloves whenever handling wildlife.
Not all wild animals who appear to be orphaned actually are orphaned. Finally, it may be illegal to transport wildlife across state or county lines.
Please exercise caution and good judgment and consult with experts before handling, transporting, or otherwise disturbing a wild animal.
Animal Help Now
A 24/7 resource for wildlife emergencies or conflict
The Animal Help Now service, available at AHNow.org and through free iPhone and Android apps, leverages digital technologies to immediately connect people involved with wildlife emergencies and conflicts with the most appropriate time- and location-specific resources and services. Animal Help Now serves the entire United States.
Greenwood Wildlife
5761 Ute Hwy, Longmont, CO 80503
(303)823-8455
Greenwood Wildlife Rehabilitation Center is a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization devoted to the rehabilitation and release of orphaned, injured, and sick wildlife. Once Greenwood heals rescued prairie dogs to health, they work with PDC to have them released back into the wild!
Wrong kind of rescue?
Wildlife rescue and rehabbers typically specialize in sick, injured, and orphaned wild animals - not relocation or conflict-resolution. If you are looking for resources on how to help an imperiled colony at risk of extermination or development, please open our Activist Toolbox