Lindsay Wildlife Experience Creates Fund In Honor Of Animal Champion Gary Bogue

When Gary Bogue died in September, he was well-known and beloved as a nature columnist for the East Bay Times and its predecessors.

Before that, he had been the first curator of the Lindsay Wildlife Museum, now known as the Lindsay Wildlife Experience, and founded the animal hospital there, the first such facility in the U.S.

Now, the Walnut Creek-based Lindsay has established a fund in his honor, the Gary Bogue Memorial Veterinary Fund.

It was set up in November to further veterinary and rehabilitation care, including the cost of providing
stipends for veterinary interns; developing and delivering animal-care training to students and volunteers and purchasing medical supplies and improving hospital technology.

“Basically, it’s continuing the work Gary started so many years ago when he established what is now Lindsay’s wildlife rehabilitation hospital,” Lindsay spokeswoman Jennifer Modenessi said.

Lindsay Wildlife Experience has not, until now, had a fund dedicated to wildlife hospital operations, said Dr. Rosanne Siino, president of Lindsay’s board of directors.

“We treat between 5,600 and 6,000 animals a year, and they don’t come with money, don’t have insurance, don’t have a way to pay us,” Siino said. She herself put in the fund’s first $10,000; she said she hopes that, by July 1, that the fund has $100,000.

Donations to the new fund will be used to fund not only existing veterinary and rehabilitation care, but hopefully new ventures including providing stipends for veterinary interns, developing and delivering training
to students and volunteers on animal care, and supplies and technology to further the ability to treat animals.

To learn more or to donate, people can go to https://lindsaywildlife.org/garyboguefund.