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

🛑It’s mating season for MANY species.. including Coyotes.Please keep your pets safe! Dogs, farm animals, Cats too! ,
01/25/2025

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It’s mating season for MANY species.. including Coyotes.
Please keep your pets safe!
Dogs, farm animals, Cats too!
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01/24/2025
🤨🐿️ Why so grumpy???
01/18/2025

🤨🐿️ Why so grumpy???

01/18/2025

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Please take note of this very important update re the current avian flu.
This is a share from Cape Wildlife Center, who admits and treat a large number of or MA shore birds, as well (as other species).
Here, they explain some of the factors related to this virus, who and what else is at risk as well as extremely useful advice for keeping you and yours protected. Please share ❤️‍🩹

Hope you are staying warm all ..
01/16/2025

Hope you are staying warm all ..

I wish I’d had this with my fire in 2000. I’d like let you all know the good folks at have released a Pet Help & Rescue...
01/12/2025

I wish I’d had this with my fire in 2000. I’d like let you all know the good folks at have released a Pet Help & Rescue app for those who need help rescuing pets in a natural or personal crisis. (The purple one!)
I have downloaded it and there are definitely some glitches, but it is a wonderful idea and I’m sure they’re going to refine it… If you’re afraid that you may not be able to get home, have pets that might need rescuing from a community that can get to them of folks that you can trust… It seems extremely well thought out… Is the purple app in this photo . Again, a recommendation to a safe free pet evacuation app.
Please be mindful who you share it with because it will ask you ways to help your animal and you can list their needs, how to handle, location of meds, etc.…
See www.PHaR.org
for links.
Setting up PHaR takes 10 minutes, and it’s the best thing you can do to safeguard your beloved animal companions should disaster strike.
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01/12/2025
☺️🐿️Have a peaceful weekend everyone. , , , , , , ,
01/04/2025

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Have a peaceful weekend everyone.
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Happy New Year’s.. I’m sorry… I blew it! (See images.. I meant too….)Actually HAD taken out seasonal cards, art, supplie...
12/31/2024

Happy New Year’s..
I’m sorry…
I blew it! (See images.. I meant too….)
Actually HAD taken out seasonal cards, art, supplies, and the like, be on top of holiday greetings this year after surgery…
Then, my reality got pretty ugly.
SO MANY i wish to thank, am grateful for, who I miss, appreciate, owe a solid to in 2024.
Alas I’m unable to sit (more than a min), reach, twist, lift, enough to write out cards.. even in bed.
I failed you my friends.
Many of the folks I would like to receive thoughts of gratitude are not even online, definitely not on my private pages, but for you who are… I do wish you a peaceful 2025 and that you are in my heart.
Wanted to send individual cards.. truly.
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It’s Here! 🎁🎄🐿️✨ 🇿🇼 🕎🛐🕉️ OM.. mani padmi KwanukkhChrismas.. (or humbug if you prefer!) Graceful for all of these souls.....
12/25/2024

It’s Here! 🎁🎄🐿️✨ 🇿🇼 🕎🛐🕉️ OM.. mani padmi KwanukkhChrismas.. (or humbug if you prefer!)
Graceful for all of these souls.. with me or in my heart. May your day be peaceful with thoughts of those who have opened your heart ♥️

I DO feel their pain. ❤️‍🩹🩻Dear friends & fellow rehabbers, update why I’ve not been as active.. it got more complicated...
12/23/2024

I DO feel their pain. ❤️‍🩹🩻
Dear friends & fellow rehabbers, update why I’ve not been as active.. it got more complicated last week.
After a decade to find a surgeon willing to revise a 2014 a botched hip replacement which ruined the ‘human’ therapist career & supporting the wildlife rehab). It also made rescues and rehabs extremely difficult. This fall I was addressing that and another internal issue, 10/30/24 was orthopedic surgery then a long rehab …for me.
But .. freak accident 12/16 lead to the above ☝🏽
I FEALT, HEARD, SAW my detached leg, internally rotated 180* backwards
No words.. and I’ve had many painful procedures and more. Nothing can verbally describe this.
But my thoughts.. I can tell you where my mind has been …during this, and since.. our REHABS.. the hurt and sick animals whose pain and trauma I try to repair.
- the squirrel (X-rays next to mine!☝🏽), admitted, both arms detached/subluxation after dogs using her as a rag chew toy;
-Opossums & c***s with dislocated jaws after shovel attacks or caught in hockey nets;
-mice, bunny’s, chipmunks, limbs detached, struggling to free themselves off sticky traps;
-fox & bobcats maimed from leg traps.
Beautiful creatures I had to rehab or treat trauma without anesthesia … MA rehabbers prohibited from proper sedatives.
I personally KNOW this extreme pain can kill, and does!
I required double normal local anesthesia dose for 2 surgeons & brute force to reattach.
Yes, we can NOT have anesthetic sedation meds, but expected to clean, stabilize, treat lacerations, debride, tube & more w/basic pain management.
Within 3 hours, uncontrollable screaming, local e.r. lacking fluids I needed for shock, I could feel my heart struggling to keep up.

As horrid as this is, I am eternally grateful to be alive.. I simply want to get back to caring for my patients.. (rehabbing ‘me’ is a drag).
I very well might need another surgery and it’s pretty bad..
but I am healing so I can be ok enough for next baby season.. getting out supplies and hopefully a quarantine shed space.
I’m not dead and still have 2 legs.. for our animals.. always for them.
And yes, I’m triaging phone emergencies.. even being wheeled into the O.R. And that owl made it!

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“What are you talkn’ ‘bout Bidde? Overwintering??? Huh? Can’t you just let out animals go when they get fur? Feel better? Eat by themselves?” The answer is NO! In the news wild stories have been circulating.. most about wildlife in captivity with some issue or the other. Some with accurate information, some not! Although we, (wildlife rehabbers and centers), are only given strict time allowance for animals to be rehabbed, (MA 365 days for Mammals/90 days for birds), many are far from release ready in that timeframe. -Some have injuries needing to heal longer and relearn surviving function -some have not had the benefit of learning from a parent, a colony or conspecific -others the habitat is impossible to survive in at the time/season, (no available food or shelter) -or simply they are slow developing. Quasi-RODO is species of wildlife I am permitted to keep as a pet, but also a prime example of why he WOULD NOT have made it in the 90 days we have for healing or treatment of birds as a MA wildlife rehabber. Injured as a baby and rescued broken in multiple places from the underground subway platform at Chinatown, orange line T-station Boston). He was splinted for months, possibly tortured by liquid as will as blunt force trauma. Frightened of water, it has taken him 2.5 YEARS to bath on his own! Bathing is essential for disease control, maintaining flight worthy feathers etc. they do not have a ‘preen gland’, thus, require water to assist in maintaining a healthy body. Before now, it was bath time with mommy! Here is an open letter to my friend and brilliant biologist, reSAFE HANDS Wildlife Rescue Networke/1SZWG7zCrM/?mibextid=LQQJ4d from Quasi-RODO today. “Dear Aunti Heather, I hope you are well and think of you every day… I’m taking good care of mom after a big operation. I wanted to tell you first! I made a very biggly big-boy move.. and took my very first EVER bath all by Mee-Self!! 🛀🕊️ Mommy wanted you to have film to prove

She’ll be fine now🥰🐥👏🏽🌳
She’ll be fine now🥰🐥👏🏽🌳

👏🏽🐥🥰 These are happy cases.. window strike goldfinch came in from Falmouth from a loving family… The warmth and oxygen perked her up almost right away.Thanks to the quick thinking and compassion of this lovely family, she’s on her way home to be with her family#goldfinch, #wildliferehabilitation,#wildlifer

So This Is Love 💗🐿️🌳🥰
So This Is Love 💗🐿️🌳🥰

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💅🏽🐿️💜 Sunday’s PAWDICURE day!
💅🏽🐿️💜 Sunday’s PAWDICURE day!

Nutt’n wrong with a lil spa day (nontoxic water based Pawdicure!) 💅🏽🐿️💜HAPPY Squirrely Sunday!#nontoxicnails,#Pawdicure,#Happysunday,#instadaily,#instagood,#sciuridea,#wildliferehabber,#squirrel,#wildliferehabberslife,#wildliferescue,#boston,#wildlife501c3,#urbanwildlife,#goldenboughwildlife,#squirrelofinstagram,#capecodwildliferehabber,#marthasvineyard

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Nighty Night Fwenz 🥱💤🍼🐿️🌛🩷🩵💙💜

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Martha’s Vinyard babies are here!! Please welcome Edgartown’s Arthur, Edith and Hazel! 🍼🐿️🐿️🐿️💝

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