A REHABILITATION CENTER TO KNOW ABOUT
D.A.W.G.: Detroit Animal Welfare Group
Kelly LaBonty, Ph.D., Director
We are a large wildlife rehab rehabilitation center in Michigan that includes the rehabilitation of Whitetail fawns. The Michigan DNR requires they be released by October 1 and if they are not ready to be released, then they have to be euthanized. The picture of the fawn you saw is a fawn that we had in 2020 and the DNR ordered that the three of them be euthanized because they were too young to be released. They were born late in the year. We went to court to fight them over the euthanasia order For Healthy fawns, and by the time the judge ruled, we had already rehabilitated and released them. We frequently have issues with the DNR in Michigan ordering to kill Fawns. We just had another one that was non-releasable this year and we transferred it to a facility that can keep fawns for education and the DNR ordered it to be euthanized. There was a public outcry and we had legislators involved and thankfully the fawn’s life was saved.
Contact D.A.W.G.
Tel: 586-354-8500
dawghous.detroit@gmail.com
dawghous.com
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