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Volunteer News
In todays volunteer news we would like to Feature Laurie Kubiak. All of our volunteer's do a tremendous job and we would like you all to get to know them alittle bit better....so that is what this page is about. So here is some back ground on Laurie and how she got involved with Tri County Wildlife Care.
Annie, and I got involved with TCWC in 2002. We were happy rehabbing songbirds, squirrels and a couple of raccoons for the first few years and released them back into the wild. During this time, TCWC didn't have the facilities to take in and rehabilitate fawns, so they were transferred to Tahoe Wildlife Rescue or Sierra Wildlife Care in El Dorado county.
In 2004, after the passing of my father, I decided to take a year off of rehabilitating wildlife and spend my summer break doing a little more relaxing and spending time with family. Wouldn't you know it that during this summer an orphaned, injured fawn found me while I was up at our remote cabin in the mountains. The fawn was wandering aimlessly down a logging road near a creek where my dad spent many hours fishing. The fawn's eye was swollen shut and it had many lacerations on its head with possible head trauma. What struck me was the fawn's good eye was the same color as my dad's :blue. Of course, I had to take it in, and did what I could do until I could get it to an experienced deer rehabber. Eventually, it found it's way to "Deer Dave" in El Dorado County with Sierra Wildlife Care. Dave added the fawn to his already large herd of fawns that were rescued.
You may say I was in the wrong place at the wrong time, or maybe even that this was a sign of how I was suppose to devote my time. All I know is that this one encounter touched me in a way that I knew that I needed to look into the resources for the rehabilitation of orphaned fawns in our area.
While talking to Fish and Game and "Deer Dave" about rehabbing fawns, the obvious became really clear. Our counties needed someone who was willing to get on board with fawn rescue in a bigger way than what we were able to do in the past.
During this time, TCWC was undergoing many changes and I was asked by our Director of Animal Care, Susan Manning, if I was willing to take on the task of rehabilitating Amador, Calaveras, and Eastern San Joaquin's orphaned fawns. Through "Deer Dave's" convincing and Susan's coaxing, here I am.
Over the last three years, we have made huge progress in our ability to take in the injured and orphaned wildlife and fawns as well. It has been demonstrated to me that it takes more than one individual person to make rehabbing possible. It takes the people involved in the organization to get the word out that TCWC does indeed rehab fawns and all our native wildlife in our counties. It takes community members to make the calls to get the wildlife to where they need to be in order to give them the best possible chance to survive and be released back into the wild. It takes entities in our counties such as Animal Control, Sheriffs Office, veterinary practices as well as our local feed store. The Feed Barn, to channel those calls to the appropriate rehabber. It takes organizations and individuals who donate to TCWC in order to provide our wildlife with the supplies and care needed in order to get them back out where they belong, It takes veterinarians who donate their time and knowledge to the cause. It takes volunteers offering their time and caring in tasks including the building and setting up of new enclosures, making calls, mixing formulas, preparing foods, cleaning up, bringing in vegetation, donating space, and the list goes on. It truly takes a community of caring individuals to rehab fawns and all of our counties, wildlife. Without all of you, it wouldn't be possible.
As our counties continue to grow, our wildlife continues the struggle to survive without being a nuisance to all of us. Our thanks goes to each and everyone of you who are committed to gving back to our wildlife in order for us all to find the common ground to live and enjoy our surroundings without sacrificing the lives of those that were here before us.
TCWC continues to grow. Thanks to your generous contributions, this year we have been fortunate to set up an even larger enclosure to house our counties fawns, until they are able to be released back into the wild, and are in the process of completing a new song bird flight cage.
Our thanks goes out to all of you that have taken the time to make the call, the entities committed to getting the calls to the appropriate rehabbers, the veterinarians, our generous sponsors and to all our volunteers and rehabbers to be sure the job gets done.
Thank you Laurie Kubiak............
And Thank you Laurie Kubiak for all you do for Tri County Wildlife Care and especially for those baby fawns you Love so much......
