Golden Bough Wildlife, Inc

Golden Bough Wildlife, Inc Non profit 501(c)(3) charity
Permitted Wildlife Rehabilitation of injured, orphaned, and ill wildlife so they may return healthy to the wild.

We specialize in urban wildlife of Boston, Cape Cod & MA call or text for wildlife help 857-770-8709

All years are challenging, yet 2025, with damages & circumstance we could have never anticipated, we are hoping you can ...
12/03/2025

All years are challenging, yet 2025, with damages & circumstance we could have never anticipated, we are hoping you can help us continue another season of rescue, rehabilitation & release for wildlife of Boston, Cape Cod, greater Massachusetts.

A Massachusetts 501(c)(3) charity, we do not receive and state, federal funds, or corporate sponsorship, and solely operate out of pocket with caring generosity from our friends like you.
Many large repairs and replenishment of supplies are needed along with the medical, housing, diets and more for multiple species to continue into 2026. Though Urban wildlife is our specialty, we respond to any call for animals we can assist including sciuridae, avian species, marsupial, lagomorph, canine vectors and more, from triage to long term care.

To be ready for any animal in need, is a tall order indeed!!

If your wondering how you can support us, links to payment options can be found on our webpage:
https://goldenboughwildlife.org/
A tremendous thank you to those of you who have helped us along the way this year… We simply could not have done this without you!

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🙏🏼🕯️🦨🦝🐇🐿️🦢❤️‍🩹Dear friends, this past year, after major vandalism, we have not come close to achieving our goal for a de...
12/03/2025

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Dear friends, this past year, after major vandalism, we have not come close to achieving our goal for a dedicated quarantine enclosure/shed with heat, and light: repair the roof on our small enclosure, or partition and fix the substrate of our large one. As the only individual on Cape Cod taking vectors, we desperately need an area to feed and treat raccoon, skunks, fox, and others requiring quarantine.
At this time, we cannot have them in the small clinic we use for non vectors.
Additionally due to destruction of our fencing, cameras and vehicle, we are behind for even the basics.
If you are in any way able to help us build and repair this giving Tuesday, we will be able to help those we most turn away at this time.
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As auspicous & beautiful surprise gift Yo-Yo Ma’s live performance 24 hrs prior, equally fast shifted to horror.LuLu. M...
11/22/2025

As auspicous & beautiful surprise gift Yo-Yo Ma’s live performance 24 hrs prior, equally fast shifted to horror.

LuLu. My soul mate, my chosen family, daughter, born therapist..

Who’s healed & soothed more ill suffering humans & animal’s with curative powers no one can explane, than any therapy/drug, I know.

Now she needs all the support and prayes I can give back.. she needs me now..

I am terrified with her care team hours away.. & dread what happened to me here, an ER here, in the wrong hands, could happen to her,

20th, her 3rd DVM appt since Sept e.r. pancreatic attack, LuLu’s DVM found 2 large chest/ab masses.

Adopted by Fred & I after the sudden passing of Rudi.. she had no idea her given gifts were a profound dharma.

A forgotten female kitten, nearly used as a surrogate toy.. we said NO..she must be given all opportunities to be loved..
LuLu became 1st EVER adopted CAT of Boston ARL (Animal Rescue League) awarded an animal therapy license.

Then, Delta Society created, & awarded the criteria, her rigorous test given at Tufts Veterinary School.

A wardrobe, rivaling any top model, she delighted, physically, psychologically, and spiritually healed with inexplicable powers.
LuLu’s sheer ability to encourage in-patient & home, many in severe pain and compromise), motivating in all means of theraputic modalities, was simply uncanny.

Her insicts are still in tact. (Sitting Shiva outside incubator with wildlife in advanced aspiration pneumonia, at the clinic door near (not in contact!) with confused and terrified orphans, in my hospital bed, by my side, shadowing 24/7, leaving only to eat or box .. alerting as my health plummets.)

Tests results next week.. 🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼

Maxed out finance: visits, meds, transports, & diet over 5000 since Sept.. not sure I have much left to sell what was ruined in this fatefully awful move.

However, I must will do everything to help the one being who’s done more to keep me & my loved ones alive than any for 17 yrs.

Please send love and hope to LuLu😭🙏🏼❤️‍🩹🐈

Please keep my magical medicine cat in your heart.

11/14/2025

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Content Warning:
The following video shows a deceased animal, sad or upsetting to some.
Tuesday night I received a call from the highway near Bourne MA.
A large bird who seemed “unable to fly, repeatedly walking into roadway”.

After identifying its species, Northern Gannet, like many shorebirds/seabirds/waterfowl, it would not have been able to leave by itself even if well, as they can’t take flight from land.

In glaring headlights & dark skies, it was unclear if this beautiful adult was injured or ill.

These sea birds live in large colonies, often seen on cliffs & in massive feeding aroups.
With recent extremely forceful high winds & storms, likely the Gannet was blown trying to fly to its colony.
If they do get injured while on shore, they are stranded, but this one seemed unwell. (Cape Cod, a peninsula off mainland Massachusetts, surrounded by the Atlantic Ocean), their home.
This incredibly kind and brave Samaritan called a friend to bring a crate, while holding traffic at bay.
It was docile enough to carefully wrap and secure, yet seemed to have some fight.

Due to the sheer size, my current set up including the ‘soft side’ incubator could not accommodate a large seabird.
He agreed keep it safe, warm and quiet overnight, and bring to me next morning to triage take to Wild Care or Cape Wildlife.
As state licensed Wildlife Rehabbers, we can triage, however, migratory birds must be treated by Federally licensed rehabbers or Centers.
Unfortunately, the Gannet had passed away before it arrived.

When I removed it from the carrier, there did appear to be a combination of bodily fluids with some blood.

Climate change increasing extreme weather/storms affects all, especially animals living in the elements.

If you spot a sea bird far from shore, please look up the species and note whether it is one that can leave on its own as many can’t fly/takeoff from land.

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❤️‍🩹🐿️🙏🏼🚑It’s been a hard few weeks. We’ve brought our thriving growing babies to safe & trusted pre-prereleases, (as we...
11/12/2025

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It’s been a hard few weeks.
We’ve brought our thriving growing babies to safe & trusted pre-prereleases, (as we do not release here except under extreme circumstances), we have responded to injured and ill, (squirrel pox, rodenticide poisoning and trauma), and tomorrow we bring a Northern Gannet for diagnosis.

I travel far and away to rescue, obtain the best wildlife veterinary medicine, and sometimes, remove an animal from a perilous situation.

Wildlife rehabbers do this because we must. Are it a calling, dharma, a mission, life’s purpose.

Some are lucky enough to have corporate sponsors, a nest egg, or even a comfortable way to support their work, others barely string enough together for gas, food, or caging.. but we make it work..

My apologies I do not always post during the tougher months.. not many want to see the nitty gritty of first responder cases.

Just know .. it goes on. Every day, every night, every weekend and holiday.. I’m out there when others are needing help.. answering the calls, helping to the best of my ability.

This beautiful squirrel juvenile squirrel succumbed, our mouse too, never made it to care, but hopefully this Northern Gannet will see a brighter future.

Keep us and our patients in your hearts, and in your hopes.

Grateful for all of you, our supporters. our friends, our Samaritan animal rescuers, and all who cherish the lives of animals.
I thank you
-Claudia

❤️‍🩹🐿️🙏🏼🚑It’s been a hard few weeks. We’ve brought our thriving growing babies to safe & trusted pre-prereleases, (as we...
11/12/2025

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It’s been a hard few weeks.
We’ve brought our thriving growing babies to safe & trusted pre-prereleases, (as we do not release here except under extreme circumstances), we have responded to injured and ill, (squirrel pox, rodenticide poisoning and trauma), and tomorrow we bring a Northern Gannet for diagnosis.

I travel far and away to rescue, obtain the best wildlife veterinary medicine, and sometimes, remove an animal from a perilous situation.

Wildlife rehabbers do this because we must. Some say it is a calling, dharma, a mission, life’s purpose. It’s simply life force for me..

Some are lucky enough to have corporate sponsors, a nest egg, or even a comfortable way to support their work, others barely string enough together for gas, food, or caging, (That would be me).. but we make it work….

My apologies I do not always post during the tougher months.. not many want to see the nitty gritty of first responder cases.

Just know .. it goes on. Every day, every night, every weekend and holiday.. I’m out there when others are needing help.. answering the calls, helping to the best of my ability.

This beautiful juvenile squirrel, succumbed, our mouse too never made it to care, but hopefully this Northern Gannet will see a brighter future.

Keep us and our patients in your hearts, and in your hopes.

Grateful for all of you, our supporters. our friends, our Samaritan animal rescuers, and all who cherish the lives of animals.
I thank you
-Claudia

11/08/2025

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Fall /winter wildlife rehab shifts us to exercise different skills:
-human-wildlife conflicts
(as animals may look for warm places to nest safely)
-hit by car animals disoriented from drivers & headlights speeding along dark trafficked roads
-wintering orphans blown out of nests in winter winds and storms
-orphaned juveniles searching for a mother who’s fallen victim to a car, poison, or predator

Yesterday was a typical mixture from sweetness to sadness.
Morning; mitigation/early intervention to prevent flying squirrels from taking up residence in a Cape Cod home. Afternoon into late night, Cape > Boston > Cape day 2, fighting Friday traffic to rescue a baby mouse .
The baby was not kept warm for many hours, & the night ended sadly, knowing hypothermia ended any chance to safe it.

PSA: If you find wildlife, provide warmth.
99% of the time hurt, I’ll, and especially orphaned wildlife require ‘supplemental contact heat’..think a warm body hugging a cold child.
i.e. hot water bottle, rice or store bought hand warmer, heated seats, a heating pad. When bodies are in shock, blood flow is restricted, orphans (even with fur), can not be warmed with a cloth or fabric only. A hot day or room will not warm a cold wild animal in distress.

1,500 later, the personal funds I use to run the rehab are gone combined with repair the destroyed camera & fence/vandalism, & critical foundation issue.

We desperately need help for winter rescue & baby season coming soon.

Alas, ability to rescue and rehabilitate requires transportation too.
I try to help every animal.
If you can support Golden Bough Wildlife, Inc FundMe, Venmo or PayPal listed on our webpage:
https://goldenboughwildlife.org/

Gratefully,
Claudia ❤️‍🩹

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10/30/2025

Sometimes you just have to protect your ‘cob’
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10/28/2025

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A few of my favorite things…
Visits from Scout in the roses..

Though human cruelty knows no bounds, especially now, it is each experience..each extraordinary micro-moment that I share with the animals I’ve had the honor of healing or simply knowing that is by far, the greatest gift I m given.
Scout, Ranger, & Old Man live another day. Grace me with their presence, another visit.
Thank you for your gift my beloved friends.
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