Bolduc's Wildlife Rescue

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We take in injured and orphaned wildlife and rehabilitate them. 501c3 nonprofit EIN: 88-2423745

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Buddy the Cat Update!šŸˆā€ā¬›šŸ’•Buddy will have an evaluation appointment at Pineview Veterinary Hospital either Monday or Thur...
05/31/2026

Buddy the Cat Update!šŸˆā€ā¬›šŸ’•

Buddy will have an evaluation appointment at Pineview Veterinary Hospital either Monday or Thursday to get him started on antibiotics. If he is cleared for surgery and does not need supportive care beforehand, his surgery should be June 9.

We are hoping to get an estimate for his surgery at this evaluation appointment, and will post it (and the receipt from the evaluation appointment) as soon as we have it.

I want to extend a huge thank you to everyone who donated, shared, and otherwise made this appointment possible. I am blown away by your support, and am so grateful to have been(and still be!) part of such a caring community. You guys are truly amazing. šŸ„°

I will be posting all future updates to this page or my personal profile Anna Naef Bolduc, to simplify things.

05/30/2026

Meet Buddy. šŸˆā€ā¬›

This kitty cat showed up at a kind woman's home, hungry, sweet, and looking for love.

Despite being on a fixed income and already having pets of her own to look out for, she made room in her home and budget to feed and provide flea medication for Buddy.

This past winter, Buddy came home with most of his eye missing. Desperate calls were placed to all the cat rescues, but were met with no response. She asked all the veterinarians in the surrounding areas if payment plans were available, but none could accommodate that(understandably, given that most have in the past, only to never be paid for their work).

Over time, Buddy's eye would start to close up, only to be torn back open when he rubbed up against something or scratched it. Now she is concerned that the infection is spreading to his mouth.

Months later and at her wit's end, her neighbor found my page and reached out to me, on the off chance I may be able to help.

And I can...but I can't do it on my own. Buddy's neighbor has agreed to chip in, which is a huge help.

This is going to be an expensive surgery, so I'm asking for help, which I rarely do. If you have it in your heart and budget to give Buddy a chance at life, we would be extremely grateful.

As always, I will be posting any and all quotes, receipts, etc so that you can see exactly what the cost is and where the money will be going.

Our good samaritan will begin calling vets again on monday to see who may be able to take on sweet Buddy's case.

Thank you for being part of our army of kindness. šŸ’•

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05/22/2026

Close to Nature Wildlife Rehabilitation Center
Flystrike or myiasis(technical medical term), is very common during the summer & should be considered an emergency.

What is flystrike?

Flystrike is when a fly lays its eggs on to another animal or human. This can be painful & fatal once the fly eggs hatch or open.

PLEASE, DO NOT USE WATER TO REMOVE!!!!

Adding water to fly eggs allows the maggots to awaken & they will begin to feed on the animal while it is alive.

You can remove external fly eggs yourself but it is critical that you find a licensed wildlife rehabilitator to help properly remove all of the eggs especially if they are in the ear canal, nostrils or nares, mouth or if maggots are already present.

Use your state's wildlife commission website or AnimalHelpNow.org to find a licensed wildlife rehabilitator or facility near you.

In Massachusetts, please refer https://www.mass.gov/info-details/find-a-wildlife-rehabilitator.

Motherā€™s Day can be beautiful, joyful, painful, complicated...or all of those things at once. Many of us know what it is...
05/10/2026

Motherā€™s Day can be beautiful, joyful, painful, complicated...or all of those things at once. Many of us know what it is like to miss our mothers, grieve them, love them deeply, or long for the chance to be held by them one more time.

Every spring, wildlife rehabilitators care for hundreds of orphaned wild babies who have lost their mothers far too soon. Tiny squirrels crying for a mother who never comes back. Opossums searching for warmth and comfort. Babies who, through no fault of their own, suddenly have to navigate the world alone.

Although I am closed for intakes during our move, the remaining rehabbers in our area are absolutely slammed with babies right now. So today, Iā€™d love to use this platform to help support two people I work closely with who are still deep in the trenches of baby season: Shari Britt Avery with Hampstead Wildlife Rehabilitation and Jeremy Bivins with Coastal Wildlife Alliance.

While theyā€™re busy being surrogate mothers to countless orphaned wild babies, I can at least help rally support behind them.

If youā€™d like to honor your mother today (or the memory of one)please consider making a donation to help them continue caring for these orphans. Your support becomes formula, heat, medication, caging, and second chances for babies who have lost everything.

From the bottom of my heart: thank you for helping us be there for them when their mothers no longer can be. šŸ’•

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To all the moms out there today: thank you.To the mothers raising children, the grandmothers, the stepmoms, the foster m...
05/10/2026

To all the moms out there today: thank you.

To the mothers raising children, the grandmothers, the stepmoms, the foster moms, thank you for your dedication, compassion, and fierce love. You are often the glue of the family, keeping everything together behind the scenes.

And to the wildlife rehabbers bottle-feeding orphaned babies at 2 a.m., carrying the weight of every little life that crosses their path, know that you are filling a unique motherhood role that many do not have the tenacity for...and you are greatly appreciated.

Thank you for the sleepless nights, the patience, the sacrifices, and the endless love you give so freely. The world keeps turning because of moms like you.

Happy Motherā€™s Day. šŸ’•

05/02/2026

I've said it before and I'll say it again: please do not use poison. It never only affects the intended species, and it is a horrific way for any living being to have to go. šŸ’”

Before there's any confusion, Bolduc's Wildlife Rescue is still closed for intakes due to my upcoming move. This was a special circumstance that could not wait.

Please keep this mama in your thoughts and prayers, because she needs all the love she can get.

EDIT:

I gave her pain medications, subcutaneous fluids, and stabilized her body temperature. Unfortunately, she was just too far gone and passed within 45 minutes of arriving.

Those of us who do this work make euthanasia decisions regularly, and we donā€™t take suffering lightly.

What many donā€™t realize is that instant euthanasia isnā€™t always accessible in wildlife rehab.

I canā€™t legally discharge a firearm where I am, and I donā€™t have access to euthanasia drugs outside of a veterinary setting. By the time she arrived, the vet was closed, and she was already in the final stages of anticoagulant rodenticide poisoning.

In this case, my role was to keep her comfortable as she passed, because instant euthanasia was not an option..

Alot of people don't understand that poison never kills just the intended species: any animal that eats the carcass of the poisoned rat gets secondary rodeocide poisoning, which is what we are seeing here. Cat, dogs, foxes, opossums, raccoons, coyotes, hawks, owls, the list goes on. šŸ„ŗ

I know it is heartbreaking to watch, but unfortunately, if we do not draw attention to this, nothing will change.

Let your heart be broken. Let yourself be enraged.

And speak UP about what this poison does, take a stand against it, and help us spread the word so that this does not continue to happen.šŸ’”

Poppy, Sophie, and Angel are getting so big!
04/29/2026

Poppy, Sophie, and Angel are getting so big!

One of the phrases that I hate the most. ā€œLet nature take its course.ā€If there ever was an absolutely asinine, passive, ...
04/26/2026

One of the phrases that I hate the most.

ā€œLet nature take its course.ā€

If there ever was an absolutely asinine, passive, responsibility-shirking phrase, this would be it.

99% of the injured and orphaned wildlife that we take in as wildlife rehabilitators are not due to ā€œnatural causes.ā€

Most are a direct response to human overdevelopment, encroachment on natural habitats, irresponsible ignorance pertaining to the patterns of native wildlife, pets being loose and catching unsuspecting victims, poisoning, vehicular strikes, irresponsible tree trimming, inadvertent kidnappings (specifically pertaining to white-tailed deer fawns), and the list goes on.

In and of itself, apart from human interference, nature does a pretty good job of regulating itself.

If squirrels become over-abundant in one area, hawks will move in and hunt them. If a rat colony takes up residence in a chicken coop and their population booms, a rat snake will soon become privy to the situation.

But that balance falls apart when the scales are tipped by us.

When an opossum is hit by a car, thatā€™s not ā€œnature taking its course.ā€

When a litter of raccoon kits is pulled from an attic during baby season and discarded without a second thought, thatā€™s not nature " taking its course".

When a fledgling songbird is snatched by an outdoor cat, or a nest is shredded by a landscaping crew who didnā€™t bother to check, or a turtle is crushed trying to cross a road we built straight through its habitatā€¦none of that is natural selection at work.

Thatā€™s human impact, plain and simple.

We see it in every species.

Fawns brought in because well-meaning people assumed they were abandoned.

Squirrels with skull fractures after falling from trees that were cut mid-nesting season.

Opossums full of buckshot or secondary rodenticide poisoning.

Rabbits whose nests were destroyed by mowers, domestic cats or domestic dogs.

Even our precious predators (hawks, owls, foxes) coming in emaciated or injured because the ecosystems they rely on have been chipped away piece by piece.

ā€œLetting nature take its courseā€ would mean stepping back BEFORE the harm is done.

It would mean preserving habitats, keeping cats indoors, leashing dogs, checking for nests before cutting trees, slowing down on roads where wildlife is active, and educating ourselves about the animals we share this space with.

Because once the damage is done (once that animal is injured, orphaned, poisoned, or displaced by something we caused) walking away and calling it ā€œnatureā€ isnā€™t respect for the wild. It is irrefutable avoidance of responsibility. šŸ’”

Address

2020 Albemarle Road
Boiling Spring Lakes, NC
28461

Telephone

+19105471545

Website

https://gofund.me/a984a9c9, https://www.paypal.com/nc

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