By Yvonne Wallace Blane | Director of Rehabilitation
Jilly was found near death, cold to point where only warm intravenous fluids over 48 hours brought her body back to normal temperature--emaciated, she was too weak to stand or suckle, so we fed her by stomach tube for several days.
We celebrated every milestone, every morning she was still alive. When she finally took a bottle on her own, it was the best day ever.
If Fellow Mortals had been unable to help Jilly, she would have died. Instead, she grew strong and was given a new family where hers had been lost.
Fellow Mortals provided care for deer from 1989 to 2003, when a policy change by our state agency made it illegal for us to help. As part of an advisory group to the Wisconsin DNR, I helped to create a policy that would allow licensed wildlife rehabilitators to again care for injured and orphaned fawns.
Fellow Mortals is just one of a handful of facilities equipped and willing to take on the financial burden of rehabilitating injured and orphaned deer. It is an expensive endeavor. The cost to rehabilitate one fawn to release is $1,000.
We want to help all the deer who need us, but we need to complete a larger deer habitat in order to that date.
We have gone forward on faith and the one-acre enclosure is complete! At a cost of $30,000, we still have to raise $10,000 to pay the contractor. Thanks to gifts made on bonus day, we have raised nearly $4,000 toward the this expense, but are still $4,000 shy of what is needed.
This beautiful habitat is located on 52 acres of private property where there is no hunting and where the deer can be released on site.
Please consider being a part of a future of healing through a special gift to Jilly's Legacy, our microproject on Global Giving, to make a gift that will keep helping orphaned and injured deer for years to come.
http://www.globalgiving.org/microprojects/give-life-to-a-baby-deer/
Thank you for what you have given in the past, and thank you for considering this special need, in tribute to Jilly.
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