Golden Bough Wildlife, Inc

08/06/2025

🗺️🌊🛟🐿️⛱️Life can be a BE-A-CH!It all depends on your perspective!.. (and how you interpret the language of circumstance and how that’s spelled out.. figuratively & literally)Today we take another grueling trip to 2 hospitals many hours painfully commute, but hoping to retrieve a buddy for Ozzie along the way in our travels. Rumor has it a colleague has one just about her size!That would be our positive outlook on this Rossetti.. more of a summer day roadtrip with my baby. , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,

07/27/2025

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And so it begins.. fall baby season ….July!
No Climate Change is not a joke, a hoax, or ‘normal’.
Apologies I have not been on the past week. I’ve been in extreme commuting to human and animal hospitals for weeks.
Part of Rehabilitation and any veterinary care is also experience and trusting your instincts.
Little Ozzie came to us yesterday with the help a dedicated volunteer who drove from the North Shore MA to far South to bring us Ozzie!

To those in another side of wildlife and animal rehab… Those dedicated to creating just the right tools for just the right animals as every mouth, every digestive tract, every dental formation, requiring different delivery to mimic nature … (A kitten bottle is not appropriate to feed a squirrel, or a rabbit, and especially not an opossum).
Thank you for helping us be momma!
Ozzie’s mouth is extremely swollen and bruised, thus the usual squirrel ni***es were preventing her from any oral feeding.
Very new extremely soft, slow flow silicone ni**le has been a miracle for her.
She is still adjusting as she is also in pain from long fall and internally bruised…
Ozzie is on simethicone , pain and inflammation medication, and broad-spectrum antibiotics.

For those who think squirrels are “starter rehab animals“ they are sadly mistaken, and have never seen the extreme complex, veterinary and rehab cases that I have and colleagues who also specialize in sciuridae.

We’ve also had much sadness as our little bunnies passed away late this morning and our little ratty neonate had aspiration pneumonia.😪

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07/24/2025

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Day in the life of this wildlife rehabber.. first another long haul to another test, had to wait till orders were added for contChip & Chloe Squirrel and Wildlife Rescuee time to meet up to rescue bunnies from Danvers, (referral from dear wildlife rehabber in NY chipchloesquirrel), and a tiny rodent found in Kenmore Square Cambridge earlier in the morning.

Both Samaritans met me with the littles outside MGH/Brigham imaging.. how kind!

07/24/2025

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Day in the life of this wildlife rehabber.. first another long haul to another test, had to wait till orders were added for contrast etc, giving me time to meet up to rescue bunnies from Danvers, (referral from dear wildlife rehabber in NY chipchloesquirrel), and a tiny rodent found in Kenmore Square Cambridge earlier in the morning.

Both Samaritans met me with the littles outside MGH/Brigham imaging.. how kind!

07/13/2025

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We’re hoping for a miracle for these tiny little lives, which have been in our care for fifty days. In May, a woman called us demanding that we remove a large snapping turtle who was getting ready to lay eggs in her yard. The mother turtle was in a trance-like state, completely harmless, as she readied to lay her eggs. We told this woman to leave the turtle alone.

She then called multiple other rescues, who told her the same thing: just give the turtle some space. Finding this answer unacceptable, she demanded that her landlord put the mother turtle into the trunk of his car as the poor animal was involuntarily laying eggs. He drove her to the Chattanooga Zoo, which again reiterated that she should have been left alone.

The poor mother turtle must have been scared, confused, and physically and mentally stressed. She should have had a clutch of at least 20, up to 100, but only ten eggs left her body. The Chattanooga Zoo collected them and we rushed over to try to save the eggs.

She may have ultimately become egg-bound and passed away due to this trauma. This majestic, dinosaur-like mother was ultimately driven down the road and dumped in the lake because a woman couldn’t stand the idea of sharing a planet with other life forms.

Survival for snapping turtle eggs is low, and getting lower each year because of human causes, like habitat fragmentation and invasive species, such as feral hogs and black rats, that prey on snapping turtle eggs and hatchlings . Loss of apex predators, like pumas and wolves, has caused smaller predators that eat turtle eggs to overpopulate. It’s all very bad news for these long-lived animals. One study estimated that only one-tenth of one percent of snapping turtle eggs will ever become adult snapping turtles.

This clutch of eggs could have been this mother turtle’s only chance to have surviving young, but instead, she was forced to lay eggs in the trunk of a car. By the time we got to them, all but one of them had collapsed due to the hostile environment and jostling. We tried to save all ten eggs anyway, incubating them carefully in an incubator at the correct temperature and humidity..

The results have been a bit of a surprise. One “chalked”— the first sign of viability— right on time. Two eggs died and began to rot, as we expected of the whole clutch. But, amazingly, seven of the eggs are showing signs of viability despite the fact that they had already collapsed in on themselves. They were late to chalk, but were able to see blood vessels and embryos inside all the eggs when candling them.

If only one of the eggs hatches and produces a viable baby turtle who can go home to the wild, we’ll be thrilled beyond measure. But if the seven collapsed eggs also give us live babies? That will be a true miracle.

Thank you for making our work possible.

06/30/2025

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This lil Tufted Titmouse fledgling , (Baeolophus bicolor), came across some trouble.. as Rehabbers we wish we could ask, but in so many cases, we just can’t know.
Did you fledge to a hard fall?
Did a d***y human mess with your tree?
Did a naught bird or mammal try to eat you?
In any case, lucky you! A lovely lady name Livia saw you, got you out of the road, and brought you here.
You are MAD!
The exam was intrusive and you definitely don’t want me to hydrate you!
Hopefully whatever the injury you have sustained, you can heal from.
Titmice are a symbol of good luck…and resilience!
So back at’cha! Your tough! You can do this kid!
That black crest makes you look like a 50’s greaser! I think we’ll call you Fonzi!

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