About Wildlife Fawn Rescue

About Wildlife Fawn Rescue

Big Mac, April 1996 Wildlife Fawn Rescue operates the only wildlife center in Sonoma County licensed for the long-term care of deer. We specialize in the rehabilitation of ill, injured, or orphaned Black-Tailed fawns, receiving as many as 100 fawns in one season. All Sonoma County fawns must come to Wildlife Fawn Rescue for care. The transport of deer is a public safety issue, therefore, we must respond personally to each call, providing veterinary treatment when needed.

Beyond the scope of practical service provided we respond seven days a week to wildlife concerns of the California Department of Fish and Game, Animal Regulation, the Humane Society, all Sonoma County wildlife centers, animal care agencies, Police and Sheriff Departments, Park Rangers, veterinarians, and the public. Since 1989 Fawn Rescue has provided this unique and much needed service to the community.

Wildlife Fawn Rescue’s Educational Outreach Program provides free wildlife presentations to schools, clubs and other private and public organizations using twelve displays of mounted native wildlife in natural settings.

No formula was available which specifically addressed the rich nutritional needs of the Black-Tailed fawn. Wildlife Fawn Rescue requested an animal nutrition company to manufacture a new, specialized formula using the analysis of the doe’s milk. Now fawns thrive and lives are being saved throughout the entire west coast region.

Wildlife Fawn Rescue works closely with a pathologist in fawn disease research. Our submitted samples of a unique and life-threatening disease enabled the pathologist and diagnostic lab to successfully isolate and identify a genetically distinct, deer specific, viral disease, likely comprising a new genus. A giant step for wildlife!

Founder and Director Emeritus of Wildlife Fawn Rescue, Marjorie Davis, has written and published two wildlife manuals, "Black-tailed Fawns: Care in Captivity" and "Western Gray Squirrels: Care in Captivity." These manuals have been purchased by other wildlife facilities throughout the United States, Canada, and abroad. The California Department of Fish and Game issues a Fawn Care Protocol written by Marjorie Davis to all CA wildlife centers caring for Black-Tailed Fawns. She has written numerous wildlife articles and stories distributed to the public, wildlife centers, and wildlife publications nationwide.

Wildlife Fawn Rescue is a non-profit public benefit 501(c)(3) association, working under a Memorandum of Understanding issued by the State of California Department of Fish and Game. We assume entire responsibility for our own funding. Reports of Wildlife Fawn Rescue’s achievements have been published in national magazines, syndicated newspapers, network and cable television, and public service videos.