Jilly's Legacy

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 your help.

Your previous gifts to Fellow Mortals through Global Giving have provided medicine, specialized formulas, housing for education birds, food and care that have benefitted thousands of wild creatures, as well as the caring people who found them, but didn't have the funds to help with the cost of care.

Tomorrow, Wednesday, July 15, your gift to Jilly's Legacy to help other injured and orphaned fawn will be matched by 50%.  You've done so much already--but please consider a special gift, for a very special purpose, to "Jilly's Legacy."

http://www.globalgiving.org/microprojects/give-life-to-a-baby-deer/

With sincere appreciation for all you have made possible,

In tribute to Jilly.

Links:

• Give Life to a Baby Deer