Found a Stray Pet? What To Do:
If the pet IS injured:
Take the pet to a vet or call animal control for the city/county the animal was found in (see numbers below).
If the pet IS NOT injured:
Contact the local animal shelter where the pet was found. Regardless of whether or not the pet has a collar, or whether or not you want to keep it, you must report the pet to the local animal shelter. The pet may have a microchip that needs to be scanned for identification of the pet’s owners.
If it’s after business hours, please contact animal control.
We can only accept stray pets found in the City of Williamsburg, James City County and District 1 of Upper York County, Virginia.
Local numbers for this area:
- Heritage Humane Society 757-221-0150
- James City Animal Control 757-565-0370
- York County Animal Control 757-890-3601
- Peninsula Regional Shelter (Hampton/Newport News) 757-933-9265
- New Kent Animal Control 804-966-9500
- Gloucester Animal Control 804-693-5290
- Charles City Animal Control 804-829-9265
- Peninsula Emergency Vet Clinc 757-874-8115 (Yorktown)
- Animal Emergency Center 757-234-0461 (Yorktown)
Facebook sites to post a picture and information:
- Post on Trash & Treasure
- Post on Lost & Found Pets Hampton Roads
- Contact the Home Owner’s Association for the area the animal was found
- Ask neighbors if they know who the animal belongs to
After normal business hours:
Contact the emergency vet and they will hold animal until animal control can come and retrieve the animal. If the pet is injured, call Animal Emergency Center 757-234-0461 (Yorktown)
Found kittens outside and don’t know what to do? (Double click to enlarge)
If the Animal IS NOT injured or juvenile put it back.
The Heritage Humane Society works with a number of wildlife rescues, and veterinary practices that care for injured wildlife:
Wildlife Rescue Hotline – 757-543-7000 Links you to where to take the wildlife, accepts call about inured and uninjured animals.
Peninsula Emergency Vet Clinic – 757-874-8115 Accepts any wildlife, injured, uninjured, juvenile, and adult
Williamsburg Veterinary Clinic – 757-253-7387 Accepts injured wildlife. No juveniles
Godspeed Vet Clinic – 757-253-0656 Accepts injured wildlife. Works with wildlife rehabbers for injured or sick wildlife.
Anderson’s Corner – 757-566-2224 Accepts birds and bunnies
Department of Game & Inland Fisheries – 804-829-6580 Headquarters – 804-367-1000
