New Life For Animals Rehoming Centre Inc.

30/12/2024

We are currently CLOSED to all intakes.

14/12/2024

Welcome Bright Heart ❤️

As animal rescuers, we are no strangers to death. We unfortunately witness it often. But this year has been a whole other level as we have witnessed the death of animals and people who we hold very close to our hearts.

In the grief though, a little spark of healing has emerged in the form of a tiny rooster named Bright Heart.

Bright Heart was living his life at until his 4 am crows set off a rooster chain reaction. So he came to us just over a month ago so he can crow his heart out all he likes at 4am. Both Nicole and I have our suspicions on the reason why he was sent our ways.

He instantly settled in, forming a friendship with Turkey the house chicken. By friendship I mean he basically follows her around and forced her to like him. He even does a little dance to show her and share the blueberry that he ‘found’ (the blueberry I hand fed to him… 😑)

Bright Heart brings so much joy to everyone who meets him, including Santa. Santa was obsessed with him yesterday. He has such a big personality for such a tiny dude.

And he is healing my heart ❤️

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11/12/2024

❗️❗️IMPORTANT❗️❗️

Start preparing now for the incoming H5N1 strain of bird flu to protect your companion animals by microchipping them.

This strain will likely see many lost birds euthanised.

Please don’t try to surrender or release your birds but instead do your best to protect them.

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06/08/2024

Please come along and support this if you can.

Come join us for a night of comedy featuring comedians from Sydney & Melbourne International Comedy Festivals. Your tickets will help us raise much needed funds for vet bills and our future goal of building a sanctuary.

The comedy night will be held at the beautiful Yarra Valley Lodge. Drinks will be available for purchase. You can also make a night of it by booking lodging and dinner at the Yarra Valley Lodge. They will be offering vegan options in dining at Lodge Bar. To make dinner and lodging bookings, visit Yarra Valley Lodge website.

Book your comedy show tickets at:

http://comedyforacause.net/KNL

Thank you for supporting Kiwi’s New Life Bird Rescue!!

23/07/2024

Grug 💕

Though she is very cute, breeding pigeons like this is very much not cute! Her feathers make her life more difficult because they grow over her eyes and her walking is an awkward. Add that to the fact that she has most likely been so in**ed because people want an aesthetic, that she is unable to fly well and struggles socially with other pigeons.

17/07/2024

A big THANK YOU to Happier Pets for this beautiful package of her printed photos, chocolates and a USB with some photos I’ve never seen before of my boy on the day he went to the beach with his buddy and Nicole 💕 I appreciate this so much.

15/07/2024

Turkey, a girl from the egg industry, has a couple of important questions for you to consider while she raids our shopping.

13/07/2024

Medusa has been at the vets for a second time in the past week. We are trying to manage her heart condition and check if there are any other underlying issues which may be reducing her appetite. Fingers crossed we can get her feeling better soon 🤞

10/07/2024

Now entirely liberated from his body, my boy has come home to me 💕

07/07/2024

I’ve been very vulnerable in sharing about my experience of Bravey’s death which is a very scary thing to be in a world so lacking of empathy but in all honesty I hope it helps people recognise how truly incredible chickens are.

And one thing I really want to share which feels very very vulnerable, is how amazing Turquoise, the mostly blind house chicken has been in comforting me in my rawest grief. For the last few days, being around Bravey’s space has felt impossible but that’s where the animals are so I’ve had little choice but to be in there. Each time I would move his things, find his feathers or clean some of his area, I would fall to bits.

In my howls of grief, Turkey would come over to me and just sit by me. Sometimes she would sit quietly at my feet. Other times she would stare at my face. She really doesn’t enjoy being touched or held but she would happily sit with me, hold space for me and let me know she was there with little beak taps.

Our species needs to learn how incredible these animals truly are and I feel sorry for anyone who chooses not to understand it. While we lock up billions and billions of complex and intelligent creatures in tiny cages or sheds to take what we want from them, one of them is showing more empathy and comfort towards me than the majority of the human race.

Humans lose out when they choose not to engage with animals on a deeper level.

I keep saying it but I am eternally grateful for those who saw Bravey for who he was though and those who have reached out.

I should also mention that in my grief, Atty has also been a big comfort. At one point he ran from the other end of the house and opened a sliding door, just to sit with me. But he’s always been good at emotionally supporting me.

Animals are incredible.

06/07/2024

I appreciate the comments, messages, phone calls and voice messages from everyone. Thank you to those who have cried with me.

I also am feeling so supported by those who know how much this boy meant to me.

Thank you so much to Tash, Duckman, Nat, Cynthia, Helen and Bree for the beautiful native flowers.

Thank you so much to Nicole and the spirit of Tilt for sending the beautiful roses.

Thank you Carolyn for physically holding me in my rawest grief yesterday.

I also appreciate those who have checked in to see how the other chickens are coping, particularly Hop is since they have been together for 3 years. She was distressed to see his body but she is doing okay.

It is wonderful to hear how he touched the lives of people through his journey.

I miss my boy so much.

03/07/2024

Bravey 🐔💔

Arrived: 11th April 2021
Departed: 2nd July 2024

It is with the absolute greatest sadness in my heart that I announce the passing of my sweetest boy, Bravey.

Bravey passed away in my arms at approximately 11:30pm on 2nd July with Dave and I telling him just how loved he is.

He’s now free from his physical body, a body that put limitations on his life but also a body that meant he was destined to cross my path and allowed the two of us to form such a strong bond.

I have so much to write about him but right now I just can’t.

30/06/2024

❌ Probably best I put a WARNING up about this post. If you don’t like seeing dead toes that have fallen off, DON’T scroll through the photos. ❌

Three weeks after being rescued, Bramble’s toe has finally fallen off. This is the result of being entangled in thread. One of his other toes has been impacted by the thread and in the effort to help it and to make sure he stands more comfortably, I have been able to splint it.

When he arrived, he was soaking wet, unable to walk and we weren’t convinced he was going to survive. But he had a will to live. The other day I saw him perch for the first time and he has been preening himself. He also has a lot more attitude with me, telling me off when I get close. He’s come along way in the past few weeks and eventually will join our flock where he will live a safe and comfortable life.

I included a photo of the toe for all you weirdos who enjoy looking at that stuff 😅😵‍💫

25/06/2024

Hop has been pretty spoilt this last week. Happier Pets made her a new sling for her chair since she destroyed her previous one and brought her a 20kg bag of sorghum because she only likes the red seedies.

Many thanks to those wonderful humans. From Hop.