Northern Neck Wildlife Rescue

10/03/2026

🎨🖍️ I cannot WAIT for everyone to see these adorable handmade crayons at the Kilmarnock Fall Festival! 🍂

These are seriously SO cute and make the perfect unique Christmas gift for the little artist in your life! 🎁❤️ From dinosaurs and sharks to construction trucks, ocean creatures, fall leaves, and more, there’s something for every little creative!

✨ Handmade • Unique • Kid-approved • Perfect for gifting ✨

And fair warning… these are going to go QUICK! 👀
🛍️ If there’s a particular set you have your eye on and you want to guarantee you get it, send me a PM, and let me know which one and I can send you an invoice then you can pick up your order from us Saturday or Sunday at the Kilmarnock Fall Festival! 🎪🍁

Come see us, shop the crayons, and check out all the other fun nature & wildlife-themed goodies we’ll have available!

💚 All proceeds benefit Northern Neck Wildlife Rescue! 🦊🐾

10/02/2026

🦊🌿 COME SEE US! NNWR HAS TWO EVENTS NEXT WEEK! 🌿🦊

We’re hitting the road for TWO awesome community events next week, and we’d love to see you! 🥰

📍 Kilmarnock National Night Out
📅 Tuesday, October 6th
🎉 Stop by and see us! We’ll have some fun goodies to hand out and plenty of wildlife love to share. 🦇🦊

🍂 Kilmarnock Fall Festival
📅 Saturday & Sunday, October 10th & 11th
🍁 We’ll have our NNWR booth set up all weekend!
Come grab some goodies, learn more about the wildlife we help, and check out our nature & wildlife-themed gifts for adults and kids! 🦊🌿
We’ll also have squishies and sensory-friendly items for for sale for the kiddos! 🥰

🎁 Every purchase helps support Northern Neck Wildlife Rescue and the wildlife in our community. All proceeds benefit NNWR and help us continue our work caring for local wildlife. 🐾

Come say hi, shop small, and help preserve the NNK! 🌿🦇🦊

Can’t wait to see you! ❤️

09/30/2026

🦊 THE NNWR SUPPORTER STICKERS ARE HERE! 🦊

And LOOK HOW GORGEOUS THEY ARE! 😍

These are BIG, beautiful, high-quality stickers featuring some of the wildlife we work to protect here in the Northern Neck.

✨ Waterproof
✨ Dishwasher safe
✨ Weather resistant
✨ Perfect for your car, water bottle, laptop, cooler & more!

💚 Only $5 each!

Every sticker helps support Northern Neck Wildlife Rescue and the wildlife in our care.

They'll be available at NorthernNeckWildlifeRescue.com today, AND you can grab one from us in person at our booth at the Kilmarnock Fall Festival! 🍂🦊

Who wants to be an NNWR Supporter? 👀💚

09/27/2026

🦝 Did you know that adult raccoons are currently the ONLY mammal species that Northern Neck Wildlife Rescue does not accept for rehabilitation?

And yes, there’s a reason!

We do accept neonate raccoons (baby raccoons) when necessary, but only as a temporary placement until another licensed rehabber is able to take them.

So why the limitation?

Raccoons can carry a number of viruses, parasites, and other pathogens that may have little or no effect on a healthy raccoon but can pose serious risks to other wildlife species. Because of that, raccoons really need dedicated caging, equipment, cleaning supplies, and ideally a separate rehabilitation area.

Right now, as a one-woman operation, I simply don't have the resources to dedicate an entire space to one species. And I would rather be honest about that than accept an animal I cannot safely house and care for properly.

But I'm hoping that's going to change. 🦝❤️

This fall and winter, I'm hoping to completely rebuild and expand our wildlife rehabilitation area. If we're able to accomplish the project as planned, it will eventually include a dedicated outdoor raccoon enclosure, allowing NNWR to accept a limited number of adult raccoons.

That said, the raccoon enclosure will be last on the list.
The animals we currently have the ability to safely care for come first. Our priority is making sure the species already within our program have the space, housing, and resources they need before we expand.

And that's where you can help. 🥰
We're looking for:
🪵 Leftover lumber and usable building materials
🔨 Building supplies
🎁 Lowe's gift cards
🎁 Home Depot gift cards
🎁 Tractor Supply gift cards
🦝 Items on our Amazon Wishlist for caging and construction

You can find our Amazon Wishlist under Ways to Support at NorthernNeckWildlifeRescue.com or on our gofundme. https://gofund.me/82c52d97a

We're also purchasing usable leftover building materials from locals, so if you've got lumber or other supplies sitting around that you don't know what to do with, please see our previous post for information!

Every board, every gift card, every donated supply gets us a little closer to building a rehabilitation space that can serve even more of the wildlife in our region.

Together, we can help keep the Northern Neck wild. 🌿🦊🦝

: Northern Neck Wildlife Rescue Intake Form, Permitted Wildlife Rehabilitators. Email signup available.

09/23/2026

🦊 NORTHERN NECK WILDLIFE RESCUE
NEEDS OUR COMMUNITY! 🦊

This fall and winter, we’re completely redoing our outdoor wildlife enclosure area! Y’all are gonna think, “This rehabber has done gone and plum lost her mind…” 😂 What can I say? I have big dreams. And thankfully, I also have a VERY supportive husband who is willing to turn my crazy sketches into reality. 🤣
So really, we need materials… and maybe a couple beers for the builder. 🤭🍻

💰 And just to give you an idea of the scale of this project: if we went out and bought everything at retail, I estimate the entire project would cost NNWR around $30,000. (Thats before the toys, enrichment and goodies!)😳
That’s exactly why I’m asking our community first! If we can find leftover materials, used supplies, donations, and good deals, we can hopefully bring that number WAY down. Every piece helps!

🔨 WE NEED:
• 6-ft wooden fence pickets — cedar preferred, treated okay
• Treated 4x4s — 6 or 12 ft
• Treated 2x4s & 2x6s
• Sheet metal / roofing panels
• Hardware cloth
• Chicken wire
• Outdoor dog kennels
• Privacy screen
• Shade cloth

🐴 HORSE STALL MATS
These make great flooring for many of our enclosures, but they get expensive FAST when you need a bunch. If you have old or leftover mats from a barn project, PLEASE think of us! We’d love to give them a second life.

💧 PLUMBING & DRAINAGE
• PVC pipe & fittings
• Gutters & downspouts
• Drainage supplies
• Valves, connectors, etc.
My dream is to eventually have automatic waterers, a faucet in every enclosure, AND a proper drainage system. 😂 Is that a little ambitious? Probably. Am I still going to try? Absolutely.

If you have leftover materials from a project, we are happy to purchase them. If you’d like to donate supplies, NNWR is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit, so qualifying donations may be tax-deductible and we can provide documentation.

Have something you think we could use that isn't on this list? Message me! You never know what might be useful.

And if you’d rather help financially, please visit:
🌿 northernneckwildliferescue.com → Ways to Support to find our donation links & Amazon Building Wishlist!

This is a BIG project for a little one-woman rescue, and I’m going to need my community on this one. ❤️

🚜 BONUS WISH LIST ITEM:
And if anybody happens to know where we can find a mini excavator at the cheap end of the spectrum… my husband would probably kiss you. 😂 We have A LOT of digging, drainage, and enclosure work ahead of us, and having access to one would make this project approximately 847 times easier. 🤣

What can I say? I have big dreams. He has a shovel. We need a mini excavator, and a lot of help! 😂

09/21/2026

🦌🌿 Baby season is coming to an end! 🌿🦌

That means things will be a little quieter around here for the next few months, which gives me a chance to catch my breath, prepare for next season, and focus on fundraising during the off-season! 💚

I’m already starting to plan for our fall festivals and community events, and today our first little fundraising goodies arrived!

✨ Moss Ball Pets with gemstone substrate! ✨

These little guys are SO cute, and they’re incredibly easy to care for! 🥹🌱 They’ll make a fun little addition to our fall event tables and are perfect for anyone who wants a tiny, low-maintenance bit of nature to take home.

More fun things are coming as we get ready for festival season! 🦊🦝🦌🦇

Every purchase helps support Northern Neck Wildlife Rescue and the wildlife that comes through our doors. 💚

Rescue • Rehabilitate • Release
🌿 Supporting local wildlife, one second chance at a time.

09/13/2026

Just like that our first item is live!!

09/13/2026

🦊🌿 INTRODUCING NNWR WILD GOODS! 🌿🦊

We’re excited to announce something new for Northern Neck Wildlife Rescue! 🎉

We now have our very own shop page where you’ll find 3D prints, handmade crafts, gifts, sensory items, and wildlife & nature-themed goodies! 🛍️✨

And the best part? 100% of the proceeds from the shop go to Northern Neck Wildlife Rescue to help us care for wildlife in need. ❤️🦌

We created a separate page specifically for the shop so we can share new products, sales, and shop updates without clogging up the official NNWR page with advertising. That means our main page can stay focused on rescues, wildlife updates, education, and the work we do, while the shop has its own little space to grow. 🌿

👉 Head over and give the NNWR Wild Shop a follow!

We’re just getting started, and we have lots of fun things planned. 🦊💚

Every purchase helps wildlife. Every follow helps us grow.

🌿 Shop small. Support wildlife. 🌿

https://www.facebook.com/share/1FmGz6AVAk/

Crafts • Gifts • Sensory Items • Wildlife & Nature Goodies �
100% supporting Northern Neck Wildlife

09/09/2026

🦊 A little bit of the reality behind NNWR… ❤️

Right now, NNWR is closed to intakes of squirrels, opossums, and fawns.

And I want people to understand why.
I wish I could save them all.
I really, really do.

If I had unlimited time, unlimited space, unlimited money, and unlimited energy, I would probably have a building full of wildlife. 😂

But the truth is… NNWR is one woman.

Just me.

I’m a mom. I’m a wife. I have a job. I have a home and animals and responsibilities outside of rescue. There are only so many hours in a day, and only so much one person can physically, mentally, and financially take on.

Sometimes that means saying “I can’t.”

And honestly? That sucks.

Because when someone calls about a tiny squirrel, a baby opossum, or a fawn that needs help, my first instinct is to say bring it to me.

But rescue isn’t just about wanting to help. It’s about being able to provide the space, care, time, resources, and attention that animal deserves.

I would rather say no than say yes and stretch myself so thin that I can’t give the animals already in my care what they need.

That doesn’t mean I’ve given up on the bigger dream, though. ❤️
I’m slowly keeping one eye open for that perfect piece of land.

Someday, I want NNWR to have a real facility. A place with proper enclosures, room to grow, volunteers who want to help, and the ability to take in more animals than I ever could alone.

I want to build something that can be bigger than me.
But land costs money. Building costs money. Wildlife rehabilitation costs money.

So for now, it’s a dream.
And that’s okay.
For now, I’ll keep doing what I can, with what I have, when I can.

I may not be able to save every animal, But the ones I can help?
They matter.

And maybe someday, with enough support and a whole lot of hard work, NNWR will grow into the place I dream it can be.

Until then, thank you for understanding that sometimes loving wildlife means knowing when you’ve reached your limit. 🦊❤️🌿

One woman. One rescue. One animal at a time.

09/03/2026

🌿 Happy National Wilderness Day! 🦊🦉🦇

Today is a reminder that wildlife needs more than just a safe place to recover, they need wild places to return to.

Every forest, marsh, field, creek, and stretch of undeveloped land provides something essential to the wildlife that calls the Northern Neck home.

These spaces provide food, shelter, nesting sites, places to raise young, and safe corridors to move through their territory.

At Northern Neck Wildlife Rescue, our goal isn't simply to help an injured or orphaned wild animal survive. It's to give them the opportunity to go home back where they belong. 🐾

But that only works if there is still a home to return to.

🌲 Protect native habitat.
💧 Keep our waterways clean.
🌱 Plant for wildlife.
🦋 Leave wild spaces wild.
🐢 Slow down and watch for wildlife on our roads.
❤️ And when you find wildlife in need, contact a licensed wildlife rehabilitator.

Wilderness doesn't have to mean a place untouched by humans. Sometimes it means simply making room for the wild things that were here first.

Protect wildlife. Preserve the Northern Neck. 🌿