Warrumbungle Wildlife Rescue & Rehabilitation Inc

17/02/2025

I couldn't bring her home💔
Poor little one. She was so very broken...
Fractured foot. Fractured leg. De-gloved tail and head trauma.
Too much for a tiny little body to bear.
Back with your beloved mummy. Safe travels..💔🦘

17/02/2025

Off to the zoo via a rescue on the Gilgandra road.
The drive of dread i call it😫

16/02/2025

Morning everyone !
This is the little Eastern Grey girl from yesterday's rescue.
Mum perished from yet another vehicle strike.
This poor little soul has some very concerning injuries and will be going to Taronga Western Plains Zoo Wildlife hospital tomorrow.
There is a severe laceration to her tail. Another on the inside of her ankle. As you can see in the pic she has horrible bruising to her head. She also has lost skin off her foot and I have a suspicion of a fracture to that same foot💔
She was very dehydrated from her ordeal yesterday so I've given fluids. I've cleaned and dressed her wounds and given her pain relief.
Although her prognosis is very guarded, I always live in hope! A little prayer said for her now so that she can come home tomorrow 🙏 🦘

Sorry about the pic but I didn't want to disturb or distress her. She's been through enough of late, Tan🦘❤️

15/02/2025

Another pinkie joey coming in. Mum hit and killed by a vehicle strike . Joey has injuries. Hopefully just grazes🤞

13/02/2025

FIVER FRIDAY!

Morning everyone!
For all our new followers Fiver Friday is our weekly fundraiser to help with feed, fuel, milk formula costs and other expenses.
We have over 9,000 followers now!! How awesome is that!!! 🥰 Welcome and Thank you for liking the page!!❤️🦘
I hope you can all find it in your hearts to make a small donation. The price of a coffee!!
We are volunteers and receive no funding at all- except for the donations from this page. So, please help if you can. I am so busy right now with rescues and caring for 15 joeys of various sizes. After I post this im off to Binnaway to collect an injured Currawong. That's just under 100ks round trip.
Thanks again everyone who donates regularly. I literally couldn't function at all without you.
It's still struggle street here as we need more donations to keep going. I hope you all can find it in your hearts to find a spare Fiver to donate today. Donation details are in the pics. Tan🦘

How handsome are these two big boys!!
Red Kangaroos come in two colours. Red and blue or a mixture of both. Contrary to the belief that all they do is fight, males have strong bonds and friendships with other males. Unless they are defending territory or the mob, or themselves from predators ,they are not aggressive. I just wish with all my heart that people would stop demonising them with lies and misinformation!!
Every animal is entitled to defend itself and its home if threatened. We do- so why are these animals portrayed as aggressive when they do the same thing?

12/02/2025

Just now home from rescuing this tiny little soul. Mum was hit and killed by a vehicle.
Im very grateful though to whomever tied a bright pink tag onto mum. It made the job of finding her quicker , giving her little son a better chance.
The roads out here are long. The Tooraweenah road is 50ks long. Lots of long grass on the roadside. It could have taken hours to find them both had mum not been tagged.
If you have the misfortune of hitting one of our native animals its a good idea to leave a marker of some description near where the animal is. A plastic bag, cloth, anything bright if you have it. I will always remove it after the rescue so as not to leave anything in the bush.
Many more sleepless nights ahead😫
Tan🦘

10/02/2025

Morning everyone!

This delightful little girl is Pixie! Pixie is a Red Necked wallaby joey.
She came into care a couple of days ago. She had been cared for by a couple after her mum had been hit and killed by a vehicle strike.
Pixie is the sweetest little girl who has decided sleeping on the lounge is preferable to her bag!! She has settled in well and has met the other joeys in care here.
There are so many poor souls being hit by vehicles out here at present. I pulled 4 mums and their bubs from the road on Saturday. This morning I had another callout for a euthanasia. Sadly the little Eastern Grey doe had passed away just as i arrived. She still had a mouthful of grass in her mouth...💔
Please, please slow down at dawn and dusk when driving out here on our country roads. The majority of joeys in care here are from vehicle strikes. And they were the lucky ones!! They still have their lives but, sadly not their beloved mums.On Saturday, in one stretch of road there were 8 lives lost!!! Many of these deaths can be prevented by just slowing down a little!
I often wish I could take the drivers of these strikes out with me when I attend a euthanasia. The poor animal still alive but with its body smashed to pieces! Still fighting for its life but knowing there is no coming back from the catastrophic injuries!! The gut wrenching moment when it's life is taken to end the pain and suffering!! I wonder then, with the images burning in their minds, will they slow the hell down!! Like other Wildlife carers, I live with those images every single day!!! The carnage these drivers cause has a ripple effect. To the animals directly impacted, their offspring, their mob, and Wildlife Carers too.
Please think about that whilst driving.
Anyway, I'm off to buy hay this afternoon. We've had some rain and storms out here the last few days, so the hay will be enjoyed until we see grass again. Tan🦘

06/02/2025

Morning everyone!!
A big heartfelt shout out and THANK YOU to everyone who has donated and shared the fund raiser!! There is just over $2,000 in the kitty. Bless you all for your kindness and generosity ❤️🥰

Apologies for the lack of posts.
It's been a challenging week. I've been unwell all week. I have chronic Q fever which returns every so often. It can make me very ill at times requiring a stint in hospital. There is a doctor shortage out here and I've been struggling to get in to see a doctor. I decided to go to Dubbo to see one when the Rescue vehicle started to play up.
Down to the mechanics i went!! And there it stayed!!
It's still there now. Something is wrong with the motor!! So, I'm sitting here now, waiting and worrying on what the cost will be. Can't do rescues or a feed run or go to the doctors without the vehicle. I was hoping the fund raiser would help me get ahead with feed and milk costs as well as other bills . Now this has happened...can't bloody win..

01/02/2025

30/01/2025

FIVER FRIDAY!

Morning everyone!
Today is FIVER FRIDAY.
Our fund-raiser day to help with financial support in order for me to continue to rescue , care and rehabilitate the animals who sadly come into care here.
Many animals are victims of vehicle strikes, some are abandoned by their mum. Some are from illegal shooting etc.
Every animal requires intensive specialised care, which includes transport to and from Western Plains Wildlife Hospital. A 160km round trip. A typical rescue for me is a 3 hour drive or 300km round trip so fuel is costly.
All native animals require specialised diets and milk formulas and various supplements. All expensive but necessary for the animals well being.
I have no time to fundraise apart from FIVER FRIDAY as I'm too time poor with caring and rescues.
I rely solely on today for donations.
If you can find it in your heart to donate just a little towards helping these wonderful creatures and help me to continue to do the work im so deeply passionate about I'd be so humbly grateful.
The donation details are in the pics.
If you are unable to donate can you please share, thanks😁

The pic is of the little female Wallaroo who I rescued the other day after her poor mum was hit and killed by a vehicle. The temperature that day was 45 degrees!! She was so very thirsty and frightened when I collected her. It's taken a while for her to settle but she's doing ok now.
Please check pouches of animals hit on roads. I can't begin to describe the terribly slow and agonising deaths these tiny souls suffer if not found by kind and caring people who took the time to check a mums pouch.
Stay safe in this horrible heat everyone! Tan 🦘

28/01/2025

Just heading home from Cassilis. Rescue.
Little wallaroo

27/01/2025

Morning everyone!
Another scorcher of a day!! We have a few more days of this severe heat until there is a reprieve.
Im off early to buy another soaker hose to put into the yards so everyone can get some relief from the heat. The hose i was using perished from the heat.
Although most Aussie Wildlife has evolved to cope with high temperatures they still suffer from heat stress. Especially when there are days and days of it.
Please leave some shallow bowls of water out. Bird's especially suffer heat stress in temperatures over 37 degrees.
Kangaroo mums do it hard with pouch young. They not only need to cool themselves. They also have the job of regulating the temperature of the joey in her pouch.
In the pic you can see a mum with a joey trying to cool down yesterday in the little pool. Tan🦘

25/01/2025

AUSTRALIA DAY!!

These two mates are having a spar with each other. Although they are different species they don't discriminate. They are just mates enjoying each other's company.
Australians have always been known for their acceptance of others from distant lands. We are known for giving a hand up to a mate doing it hard. We were generous and kind to others less fortunate.

The world has become a scary place of recent times. Australia has drifted from her core values that I was raised in.
So today, Australia Day, I hope we can take a leaf from these two mates book and enjoy each other's company regardless of their origins.
This is Australia Day to me!!

24/01/2025

This guy decided to pay a visit this afternoon.
My Mareema Bella sounded the alarm so I went to investigate. I found this fellow on the outside of her run. He became defensive when I approached so I got Bella out of her run and moved her to another run far away from this fellow.
He is an Eastern Brown snake.
I noticed in one of the pics that there are marks behind his head. Not sure if it's an injury . If it is it may explain his defensive behaviour.
Hopefully he moves on down to the creek. The wood stacked there is will move over the weekend to a more suitable place.

23/01/2025

Morning everyone!
A sad call out late last night.
The local police initially got the call but they were so busy they couldn't go to euthanise this poor girl. She had been hit by a vehicle and was injured. She also had a joey in her pouch.
Off i went at 11.30pm just after I finished my feeds. It was a slow drive too as there were lots of wildlife crossing the road.
When I arrived at the location just out of Dunedoo, I then had to search in the dark , with only my headlights from the ute and a torch. It's pretty dark out here on our country roads. The search was long and tedious, but I eventually found her.
Sadly both had passed away by the time I got there and located them.
Then the very slow drive home.
These rescues are quite common. Sometimes distance and time for travel or animals not being called in right away end in rescues like this. It's what we as carers experience regularly. And we never know until we arrive at the rescue what we will encounter.
By the time I got home I'd been awake for 24 hours!! My day begins at about 2.30am every day when I feed my two tiny pinkies. Then I feed my bigger joeys. After that it's daylight so out i go to feed pre release animals and fill and check water troughs etc.
Today i head to Dubbo for the weekly feed run in between feeds.
I have to say I'm a tad weary this morning!! Looks like another long day!!
If you would kindly care to donate towards feed and fuel I've put the details in the pics
I run the shelter solely on donations from my page and through your kindness and generosity. So THANK YOU to those of you who help to keep us going so I can attend rescues like the one last night, and to also feed and care for the wildlife here.
Have a safe day everyone. I best get cracking for now, Tan🥰🦘