WILDLIFE EMERGENCY: Please call 510-421-9897. Please Do Not use Messenger for wildlife emergencies VEG will accept intakes between the hours of 3 p.m. and 6 a.m.
If you are unable to reach us, please leave a text or voicemail message. During business hours, you can call your local animal shelter or wildlife rescue (Lindsay, WildCare, Peninsula Humane, Int'l Bird Rescue). For after hours help please call Veterinary Emergency Group at (925) 718-7771. at their office at 2431 San Ramon Valley Blvd in San Ramon.
Enrichment: are exceptional climbers because their feet can rotate a full 180°. As soon as they're able to focus their eyes and safely start climbing, young raccoons need as many ways as possible to hone their climbing skills and learn to maintain their balance. As they get older, we transition our baby raccoon patients away from man-made objects and towards objects they would find in nature like branches and logs.
Some more footage of the two orphaned baby exhibiting a little bit of their natural stomping behavior! They were transferred to to be raised with other baby skunks.
These orphaned juvenile are getting so big and strong! They are currently in an outdoor ReWild cage. Very soon it will be time to release them back into the wild.
06/02/2026
When we first intake a baby raccoon patient, we begin a 3-week quarantine to observe them for signs of illness, specifically distemper and parvo. Littermates that come together are called a "set" and can be quarantined with one another. 🦝 🦝 🦝
05/31/2026
December 9 is the International Day of Veterinary Medicine, and we want to take the opportunity to express our love for all of the amazing veterinary professionals that we are lucky enough to work with! It can be such a hard, often thankless job, but we see you, and we are so grateful. Thank you for everything that you do for the animals!
Pictured: a squirrel with malocclusion getting a tooth trimming
05/29/2026
Just some little sleeping baby 🦝🦝
Sound on! Baby have lots of opinions.
Om nom nom nom... Getting big and strong!