Group Nurses Injured Fawns Back To Health

SONOMA (CBS13) - A local rescue is giving orphaned and injured fawns a second chance at life.

Diane Nicholas hasn't always been a fawn whisperer. She was an interior designer, but one day on a construction site she noticed something.

"Animals were being taken away by trappers and destroyed," said Nicholas. "So I thought I've got to do something."

So she did something. She created the Kindred Spirits Fawn Rescue. Some animals come here in bad shape and others just need some help.

A little, scared fawn was found all alone outside, scared and dehydrated. Nicholas will take the fawn into the one room clinic, give it a medical checkup and this is where it gets tricky. She has to be really careful that the fawns and she don't get too attached.

She even has to avoid feeding them by hand or else they will think she is their new mom. The purpose of this is to get them healthy and strong enough to release them back into the wild where they belong.

"They will all just take off and you will see them running up the hill kicking up their feet, then with big crocodile tears, I'm like, 'have a good life,'" said Nicholas. "This has touched my heart. I will do it until the day I die."

For more information on the rescue visit the website.