Melbourne Animal Rescue Inc.

11/11/2021

*UPDATE: Hi everyone, for the moment we would like to ask for donations for Oakie to cease, we will update everyone later tonight
Thank you for you patience with updates, your love and understanding and for being an amazing community ❤️ we are all moved and overwhelmed and so grateful to have people by our side that support us supporting Oakie ❤️ xo *

❤ URGENT HELP NEEDED ❤

This is a massive appeal to all our supporters over the years, new supporters, friends, dog lovers, anyone who can help save a life.....

We have had one of our worst nightmares come true, a beautiful little puppy farm rescue who has been in rehabilitation to learn how to love the world has been rushed to emergency.....

Little Oakey is a tiny shell shocked Chihuahua, he came from a place that had a banning order, that had cruelty convictions in place, yet sadly remained unmonitored. We took Oakey in for rehabilitation, as this is what we specialise in, and the darling little boy over months and months has improved beyond sight. He is a cheeky, happy, sassy munchkin when doing the things he loves (running up and down the hallway, stealing socks, breaking into the cat food, hoarding anything he can find and secretly bringing it back to his bed) but very easily becomes overwhelmed and petrified and bolts and hides to escape what ever trigger he thinks is terrifying. Just this week he made new improvements by doing things he was never brave enough to do before, it filled us with joy to see him learn how to be braver bit by bit, day by day....

Right now Oakey is in critical care at the specialists, and as you can imagine its traumatic for him and all involved. A beautiful tender soul who is still learning to trust suddenly in pain surrounded by beeping machines and bright lights....it's gut wrenchingly unfair.... Oakey has sudden onset paralysis.

He has had to have an emergency Cat Scan to try to find the cause of why he suddenly can't use his back legs, he is with the best medical team who we are so grateful to, we know if he has a chance it is through them....

Unfortunately with the level of care that he requires and the diagnostics, and the time needed in order to determine the cause, and give him a fighting chance, the financial load is beyond what we can achieve without the help of our friends and supporters...

We desperately URGENTLY need to raise funds to give this tiny soul a chance at a life. He has been let down so badly in his 3 short years, we thought the last miracle he needed was to be removed from the puppy farm, we thought he'd never have to be at risk again, but now he's in a critical situation once again, and his life could be taken before it's even begun.

We need to raise $5000 asap to get him through, to get him critical care and enough time to try and work out why his body has suddenly failed. He's gone through so much in his life, he never gave up, and we will move heaven and earth to not give up on him....It's the very least he deserves. We can't let him down

If anyone has a few dollars to contribute to saving his life, we would be so grateful, the thought of not throwing everything we can at fixing him when he's been so brave to withstand everything he has is a devastating thought. If you can't contribute, please please share. The more reach we have with Oakey's plea the more chance he has to have his life saved.

Every donation over $2 is tax deductible, please consider donation either directly to the rescue account so we have access asap, or via give now, or the donation button. The details are as follows:

Melbourne Animal Rescue
Westpac
BSB: 033-127
Account number: 401726

GiveNow
https://www.givenow.com.au/melbourneanimalrescueinc

Please donate if you can and share so we can give Oakey another chance at life, he honestly deserve to be able to learn how amazing life can be ❤
Thank you

02/09/2021

!!!!MISSING DOG!!!!

Calling on all our followers to please reach out to anyone in the Taylor Bay, Eildon, Alexandra area - a dog dear to our teams hearts is missing!

Henry is an elderly poodle mix, he has mobility and cognitive issues. He is a medium sized dog, with black/grey fur. He was wearing a green/yellow collar
He was last seen today 2/9/21 near Right Arm Road, Taylor Bay

If you have seen him, may know where he is PLEASE contact ‭0402 664 719‬ ASAP

Please share so we can get this very much loved dog home!!!!

15/08/2021

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11/04/2021

We absolutely love updates from adopters, and one of our favourites to read is hearing of the cute adventures of Harvey, a cat we rescued from death row in Mildura pound 10 years ago. Harvey is a well loved local identity, he loves being a guest at the local primary school (one day they even had a festival to celebrate him!), hanging out at the beach with his mum, and is now even immortalised in street art!
Incredible to think that a cat this wonderful was a few moments away from death. Saving animals like Harvey and getting these updates makes everything we give up to save these guys worth it

23/12/2020

Exciting news!
My Pet Warehouse in Rowville has been collecting donations for us under their Gift Tree!
If you happen to be in area and would like to drop off some pet food or supplies for our homeless dogs and cats this Xmas please head on down and share in the Christmas Spirit 💫 🎄
Thank you ❤️

15/12/2020

❤ Lutana Amanda Update ❤

Our darling little bub went into Southpaws Specialty Surgery for Animals today for her post op X-rays and consult with Dr Sarah Austin who performed her fracture repair two weeks ago 🤗

Two weeks ago Lutana Amanda was a malnourished undersized rubber b***d tiny 6kg waif, but today, she’s made it to over 10kg!!!! We can’t believe it! It’s amazing what good nutrition and proper medical care can achieve, which we have done only thanks to our amazing dog loving communities support!

Dr Sarah was very pleased with how Lutana’s leg is healing - the plates are still in place, no sign of infection, and the break has a good callous forming which is what we want.

Sadly she still has to have strict confinement for another 2 weeks so keeping her happy and entertained is a real struggle, particular because she is soooo clever!

Today she was a very happy girl though, she got to hang out with Koda who is nurse Isabelle’s giant good boy Gsd. Koda can even give Lutana a run for her money when it comes to amazingly cute head tilts! And she got to have a photo shoot with the best reception team, how amazing is the photo they took!

Huge thanks once again to Southpaws for their care and of course to all our supporters for helping to save Lutana Amanda’s life 🙌
We will continue to keep you updated with her progress!
(Secretly hoping that next weigh in she hasn’t gained another 4 kgs, ouch my back 😂)

14/12/2020

We can’t believe this gorgeous girl has had such little interest!
We would love to get her a home in time for Xmas and could really use your help by sharing her profile amongst family and friends and as many dog pages as possible!
She would be the bestest goodest family doggo with older kids, she adores a game of fetch and a belly scratch and has fantastic manners!
Please help us help Shadow by sharing her profile so she can get a home for Xmas 🙏 ❤️
https://www.savour-life.com.au/adopt-a-dog/search-now/view/26449

Together with SavourLife dog food, I’m trying to help Shadow the rescue dog, find a new home. Click this message to learn more about Shadow, &share the link, to help them find a home faster!SavourLife donates 50 % of their profits to help rescue dogs like Shadow

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27/11/2020

Wow.....
Completely lost for words.....
When I posted Lutana Amanda's story I expected to maybe raise a few hundred dollars..... I hoped that maybe by some miracle we would get close to the target.... but never ever did I think we would reach it, and reach it so quickly!!!!!

❤️❤️❤️THANK YOU ❤️❤️❤️

With YOUR help, with all YOUR shares, with all YOUR positive comments, with YOUR engagements and with YOUR donations, Lutana Amanda has been picked up and on route to the specialist for her surgery!!!!!

This is so overwhelming and so amazing, in less than 24hrs our amazing community of like minded animal lovers with giant hearts have helped to save her life and set her up for having the best future possible 🙌

Thanks just aren't enough! For every one who's met me they would know how I'm not easily lost for words.....
I just can't say anything more than "THANK YOU!"

2020 Just had a reprieve, how lucky and Blessed is Lutana Amanda, she has an army behind her 💪

We will update you as soon as we can and once the tears of gratitude have slowed down a bit too, we are all in tears over everyones generosity, we are just so thrilled she can have her surgery and be safe and pain free xoxoxox

❤️❤️❤️THANK YOU ❤️❤️❤️

26/11/2020

💔URGENT CALL TO HELP💔

Last night we received a call from one of our trusted clinics. A tiny little soul had been bought in for euthanasia due to trauma suffered and sustaining a broken leg.

Could we take her and prevent euthanasia? We didn't ask questions, we just said yes.

This beautiful baby has a completely shattered femur. Being so young at around 8 weeks old, and a large breed German Shepherd, having a shattered leg is very serious.

Luckily for her the awesome clinic she came to refused to put her down, and luckily we received the call to help her, and together we saved her life, but now we need help in order to rectify the damage caused in her few short weeks of life.

Our new Beautiful babe needed a strong warrior name and has been named "Lutana Amanda". Lutana, which means Moonlight, is a tribute to one of the strongest dogs we have known, who was rescued from a puppy factory 16 years ago and who travelled over the rainbow bridge yesterday at the glorious age of 21. And Amanda as thanks for the vet who refused to put her down.

A strong name for a strong girl, and right now she needs all the strength she can muster.

Lutana Amanda, being so young, needs urgent specialist orthopedic surgery in order to fix the damage done and to give her the best chance of leading a normal pain free life once older. She has to be operated on tomorrow. She can't wait.

While we know times are tough with the world being turned upside down due to Covid, and Christmas approaching, we are still hoping that the animal loving community out there might rally around this tiny pup and help her get the emergency surgery she needs tomorrow.

We have been quoted around $5000 which right now is a huge financial stretch due to the constant lockdown rescues we've taken on in the last few months, with surrender forms for new cases still coming in every single day. If you think you could dig deep and spare a few dollars to help save Lutana Amanda we would be so so grateful. Every contribution over $2 is tax deductible.

Sadly due to the nature of the injury and the severity, and her young age, we can't wait to raise funds, we need help immediately in order to save her. So please, if you can, every single cent counts. If you can't donate to her care, please please share so we can reach as many people as possible, and every good vibe sent into the universe to help this special girl through are also important! This is urgent and her surgery needs to happen immediately for success.

To donate to Lutana Amandas specialist surgery the details are as follows -

Bank: Westpac
Name: Melbourne Animal Rescue
Acct No.: 401726
BSB: 033 127
(please send an email to [email protected] to get a tax receipt)

Givenow -
https://www.givenow.com.au/melbourneanimalrescueinc

or via the donation button on this post

Thank you so much for reading, and please dig deep if possible, and share like crazy so we can get this beautiful girl the emergency treatment she needs 🙏