Ladies, forget young – middle age rocks … especially if you are a penguin! According to a study published on the online open-access scientific journal PLoS One by a team of scientists from Australia and France, middle-aged female penguins were more successful finding food than young and old females. The team was able to reconstruct [...]

The man who rediscovered the Leadbeater’s Possum in 1961 after it was declared extinct for more than 50 years was honoured in ceremony yesterday at the Melbourne Museum exactly 50 years after its rediscovery. Eric Wilkinson was a 22-year-old assistant to the curator of fossils at the Melbourne Museum at the time of his remarkable [...]

This story came from a PetRescue member, an organisation called CatsNDogs. It’s such a great story so we wanted to share it. Luca & Bambi are a pair of Italian Greyhounds whose owner passed away. Her son took on the two dogs but already having three dogs of his own he was unable to accommodate them and [...]

The number of dogs being put up for rehoming could be significantly reduced if owners paid greater attention to ongoing socialisation from an early age, says a leading animal behaviourist. According to Dr Kersti Seksel, a veterinary specialist in behavioural medicine, the number one reason owners surrender their dogs to shelters and pounds can be attributed to [...]

We’ve been so busy lately, we forgot to report on our adventures at the World’s Greatest Dog Wash which raised nearly $14,000 for the Lort Smith Animal Hospital. Hosted by our very own Managing Director Lisa Louden, the World’s Greatest Dog Wash – created by the wonderful team at Neo Tokyo – enabled Lort Smith to [...]

Affecting 75 per cent of the state, the full impact of the Queensland floods are still to be realised. What is known, however, is that recovery will take both resources and time. We are here to help. Our coffee-table book Moments of Connection has helped Victorian animal organisations recover from Black Saturday. With the crisis [...]

Animal rescue efforts this bushfire season will be bolstered after the presentation of a project by the Adore Animals Foundation to Australian Animal Rescue, aptly called Project Bushfire Readiness. Australian Animal Rescue, an organisation created from the rescue efforts of Black Saturday, has been presented with the latest in GPS navigation technology, hand-held radios and DSE approved clothing and [...]

The last article in our Endangered Species series is dedicated to the Barred Galaxias, an extremely rare, threatened fish. Pre-Black Saturday it existed in the small stream at Gallipoli Park in the heart of Marysville and now its future in this town is unknown. Discovered in 1998 at this Marysville stream, from a population of [...]

This is the third article in our four-part series on Endangered Species in the Black Saturday bushfire area. Smoky Mouse The endangered Smoky Mouse is rare for a number of reasons. They are fussy about both their food and their habitat, feed on truffles and prefer ridge sites with specific soil and diverse heath vegetation. [...]

This is the second part of our four-part series on Endangered Species in the Black Saturday bushfire area. Broad-toothed Rat Endangered Australian native ‘guinea-pig’ in appearance and character, the Broad-toothed Rat is a tubby, compact rodent, chubby-cheeked, with a short, wide face and ears, and long, dense, fine fur. The tail is shorter than the [...]