Our Board Members

Renee Bridich has been passionate about animals as far back as she can remember. She grew up running through the woods rescuing little animals. One of her first memories is pushing a baby carriage around filled with salamanders! Currently she lives in Stoughton with her husband who supports her like crazy and their assortment of pets.

Renee graduated from UW Stevens Point with a BS in Wildlife Management back in 2006. She has worked professionally with animals for almost 20 years in a wide variety of environments such as pet stores, zoos, and wildlife sanctuaries. She currently works at a vet clinic in Madison which she loves. However her true passion is wildlife!

Renee was introduced to WWC in 2017 and was thrilled to join. Her first role was a foster mom for a group of 6 tiny opossums. Opossums are a very tricky baby to raise but she fell madly in love with the species and hasn’t looked back! She looks forward to years of fostering and educating the public about all the beloved Wisconsin animals that WWC rehabilitates and releases. Renee has become the Assistant Opossum Coordinator and Volunteer Coordinator. She is also waiting patiently for the results of her Basic Licensing Exam so she can finish the process of earning her Wisconsin Rehabilitators License.

Holly has been a member of Wisconsin Wildcare since 2018 when the Dane County Humane Society, for which she has been volunteering for 10 years, decided to stop taking baby mammals. Since neonates and juvenile mammals were her particular interest, she joined WWC and has been the Squirrel Coordinator since then. At the Humane Society, where Holly still volunteers, she worked with many species (reptile and amphibians, raptors and many kinds of birds) but the furry guys were always her favorite. She was recognized for her service as an “Unsung Hero” in the Madison Area for volunteering more than 14,000 hours at the Dane County Humane Society, where she gained her experience in raising small mammals, especially when she entered into foster home care and began caring for the little ones in her home.

Her special interest is squirrels (gray, red, fox, flying) and ground squirrels (thirteen-lined ground squirrels and chipmunks). Days can be long ones when, after working at the Humane Society, she comes home to feed her neonates taken in through Wisconsin Wildcare, especially at the beginning of the season when squirrels need to be fed 7 times a day. She also cares for mice, voles, muskrats, woodchucks and bunnies. Holly serves as an intake volunteer, taking in animals directly from the public for stabilization and healing before passing them along to another of our trained fosters when they are healthy. She on-boards all new people interested in doing squirrels, providing one-on-one training on syringe feeding and husbandry and serving as a mentor to our old and new fosters when medical issues arise.

While animal care is her first love, Holly also participates on our Board of Directors and organization fundraising by urging finders who bring animals to us to contribute towards their continued care, which in the case of squirrels is about 4 months from birth. She has 3 large pre-release cages in her yard to get these juveniles conditioned to return to the wild. She utterly enjoys seeing past “graduates” that she has released in her yard come to visit and have their own families!

Jen lives in Dodge County with her husband James, their four sons, dogs and cat. She has been with Wisconsin WildCare since 2020, where she took on 7 baby raccoons her first year. She is always looking to expand her knowledge and gain more experience when it comes to animals.

Jen's love for nature, animals and wildlife started from watching her Grandma who lived on a 120 acre homestead in the mountains of Pennsylvania and her grandma who lived in Grafton, WI. She watched, listened, and helped her grandmas care for these animals; with that she gained a love and respect for animals, nature and wildlife. Jen was exposed to all kinds of animals and wildlife which sparked a passion in her as a young child. She would often find strays and wildlife (or they would find her) that were in need of care and love.

As she got older that didn't change, even while she traveled she still helped animals in need. For the last 24 years she has worked with animals and wildlife in various ways; from pet stores, doggy daycares, horse farm cleaning stalls and caring for the horses, animal groomer/bather to volunteering at Rides & Reins and WWC.

Hannah lives in Cottage Grove, WI. She has two cats and a husky. She grew up on a farm surrounded by dogs, cats, cows and horses. This helped shape her future love for animals and wildlife. Her first real job was working at a large horse boarding facility and she spent some time working at the Dane County Humane Society. She moved onto lots of different careers and is currently a Service Contract Coordinator with Meridian IT.

In 2020 she attended a training to learn the basics and 4 months later she had her first raccoon kits. When 2021 came around, she joined the Board of Directors to help assist with social media posts and she also became Assistant Raccoon Care Coordinator. In 2023 she jumped into the Raccoon Care Director role.

In Hannah’s spare time, she loves to read, hike, kayak, spend time with friends and capture nature and wildlife in photography.

Wendy Lee came to wildlife rehabilitation after working for over a decade in feral cat rescue, fostering, socializing, and working as a volunteer medical assistant to the shelter vet. Her experience with and love for feral cats gave her a strong base for moving into wildlife rehab.

While every life is precious to her, she has found her calling with the opossums. Wendy spends countless hours on research and education, passionate about improvements in nutrition, enrichment, and better preparing our opossums for release. Her biggest challenge currently is improving mortality rates for pinky opossum orphans under 15 grams, something which few rehabbers undertake.

“I honestly wish I could put into words how I felt the day that I saw my first baby opes. Kelly opened the box, and they literally took my breath away. I knew from that moment that I would do anything and everything I could for them.”

She continues research on nutrition and enrichment for opossums in care to better prepare them for their lives in the wild. She's a strong advocate for opossums, never missing an opportunity to share their positive contributions for the environment and helping to dispel old negative misinformation. She is an invaluable resource and hard-working member of our team.

Tammy has been an animal lover her entire life. Everything from cats and dogs to snakes and turtles and everything in between. Growing up she had every kind of critter imaginable and her best friend was a giant Great Dane who took up most of her twin bed. It's no wonder then, that she is completely involved in rescue as an adult!

Tammy is co-founder and Executive Director of Community Cat Inc, a rescue in Whitewater, WI that specializes in cats most in need of rescue. A lot of work is done with feral cats, including trap/neuter/return. Tammy fosters animals for Community Cat also, mostly cats with severe medical and behavioral needs. Dogs are also much loved in Tammy's house! She has three small dogs of her own and fosters dogs for Community Cat and Albert's Dog Lounge.

Running an animal rescue brings lots and lots of calls for other creatures in need! Every year Tammy was taking these calls and finding somewhere for these animals to go. Many calls were made to wildlife organizations and much time spent running injured and abandoned animals to rescue! Four years in a row she ended up with baby raccoons until she could find them care. In 2020 she made it official and became a raccoon foster for Wisconsin Wildcare. Her first intake babies were a challenge, being very small and very dehydrated. She cared for them around the clock and they blossomed and were released and still visit her porch most nights along with the opossum and feral cats. She took in 3 opossums this year too and instantly fell in love with them. What's her favorite to foster? Whoever needs her the most at any given time!

When Tammy heard there was an opening on the board of directors, she jumped at the opportunity to use her experience in rescue to further help the WildCare organization. In 2024, she became Vice President of the board. She looks forward to what the future brings and to find out how else she can assist the wonderful wild creatures of Wisconsin.

Tammy lives in Whitewater, WI. She has two wonderful adult daughters who have blessed her with two wonderful grandsons and a granddaughter. The grandbabies are being brought up to respect and care for wild and domestic animals. Raising a future generation of rescuers!

Jenny lives in Cross Plains, WI with her husband and 2 sons.  In 2019 they bought a place just outside Cross Plains in the country on 30 acres.

She has had a love for animals her entire life and raised and cared for numerous critters growing up.  She officially joined WI Wildcare in 2022. She has been working with raccoons in rehab for the last 5 years. She loves to expand her knowledge and is always looking to gain more experience in caring for and helping wildlife. Raccoons have always had a special place in her heart. Jenny became Assistant Raccoon Coordinator in 2024.

In addition to working with WWC, Jennifer is part owner of a family business.  She enjoys being in the outdoors as much as she can as well as hiking, reading and spending time with friends.

Kelly Osborn, who started the organization, is still involved today. She lived and breathed Wisconsin WildCare while trying to get it off the ground as a viable rescue and rehabilitation organization – spending countless hours to make it a success. She provides support to our network of fosters, while fostering and doing intakes with her husband Chuck.

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