Koda the Cheesecake Defender Memorial

12/09/2025

Do you remember the mama and baby wallaby from early in August? The mama -unfortunately - had to be euthanised, but baby is doing good!

12/09/2025

Koda would be so proud of his sister in paws!

04/09/2025

While Koda is still very much missed, these two scallywags are working extra attempting to follow in his pawprints!
MacTyr and Freyja. I'm fairly certain Koda is nudging them along the way!

24/08/2025

Meet the newest member of the Menagerie!
Should we name her Cheesecake?

24/08/2025

Little Lorikeet has a broken wing. Luckily, we have access to an avian vet who took the Cheeky little darling off for surgery. We will keep you updated when we know.
And while all that was happening, we answered another call for a mama and joey rescue.

21/04/2025

Koda is often the subject of discussion in our family, and occasionally friends too. A repeated phrase describing him is how well trained he was.

I laugh each time, because a LOT of time, love and attention went into 'training' over the years. In fact, for the first 4 to 5 years, we heard many comments on how poorly trained he was! His behaviour never changed tho. Koda was the same at nearly 15 years as he was at 5 years only slower.

I tell people it's not fair to compare how Koda behaved as an older dog (which is how everyone best remembers him!) to how our current pups (2 year old Irish Wolfhoundx) act now. They haven't got the same seasoning as Koda did.

We miss him still.

12/04/2025

We have worked with this organisation before and they're reputable people. Miss Dixie and the furballs came to us through them.

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22/11/2024

Tawny Frogmouth is a native Australian bird. Usually they are mostly nocturnal birds with a carnivorous diet.

Today's rescue:

25/08/2024

01/07/2024

One of many in our yard!

08/02/2024

The pain of losing Koda has never really gone away. While it had gotten easier to handle, it was still there like a fresh bruise being poked and prodded. Just as it was getting to the point where grief had faded enough to be managed, something else bad happened.

Miss Dixie - who had been struggling with an increasingly painful degenerating eye condition - woke up one morning and chose violence as her life's choice. The result was an emergency visit to the vet for MacTyr and doggie jail for Miss Dixie.

We know that she didn't fully understand what was happening or what she had done. We also know that Dixie couldn't fully control herself. After a few days, Dixie again did something bad and tried to attack Freyja.

Unfortunately, during this incident, one of her humans was between her and Freyja. It was only extreme good luck that there was a metal cage with solid bars between Dixie and the human's face. Not that she was aware - Dixie had bloodlust and there was no mercy or sanity in her at that stage.

After the painful realization that due to circumstances, Dixie wasn't going to be able to safely be around any other dog again, and some serious conversations with the vets, some intense examinations and a lot of hard thinking, the decision was sadly made to say good bye to our Miss Dixie.

It was a very hard thing to do, saying goodbye to Dixie so soon after losing Koda.

After careful consideration, we decided to let the page stay Koda's memorial. Over time we will be uploading our memories of Koda. When it hurts a little bit less.

19/07/2023

Miss Dixie - Southern sass, full of zip and a boundless capacity for love when it came to her people. July 20, 2017 - July 19, 2023. RIP sweet girl.